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David Colborne

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Opinion columnist for The Nevada Independent. Anarcho-Blueskyist. @wendycolborne.bsky.social wife guy. Manages IT people on the side (full time). 🧵: davidcolbornenv 🐘: @[email protected] 📖🪱: @[email protected] 🚦: dcolborne.64

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 8h

Exec3: What if, while we targeted our advertising towards lanyard-class staffers with an occasionally overdeveloped sense of noblesse oblige, we argued that the NLRB was unconstitutional?

Exec1 and Exec2: Okay, now it's starting to get warm in here.

Trader Joe’s Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional

Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 13h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 17h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social · 14h

parody of a WW2 propaganda poster that showed US soldiers images of soldiers from other countries who were allies. It has a purple bar at the top and bottom of the poster that has text inside that reads "This man is your FRIEND. He fights for FREEDOM"

in the middle is a black and white photo of the Portland frog, and it is labeled "Frog"

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 14h

Truly a bold and impactful quantum leap.

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 1d

Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 15d

"Class" dismissed.
@theonion.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

we cannot reopen the government until the leaders of antifa agree to return the thousands of POW/MIAs lost in portland

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 1d

Effective Altruism was *this close* to moving the needle on this before it turned into yet another Bay Area tech grift.

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it

ALT: a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 1d

Great head shot, love.

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 1d

It's true. I was in an urban coffee shop where I overheard several liberal Millennials bragging about how much money they raised for antifa by raising rent and fighting new housing construction in their "gayborhoods."

Then they reskeeted a post opposing gentrification and everyone clapped.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 1d

Few hundred here, few hundred there, and you start talking about a real pattern of violations.

The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 1d

Nevada regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of nearly 800 environmental violations in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.”

Via ProPublica: thenevadaindependent.com/article/elon...

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos of nothing:

youtu.be/IozYbWIiycQ?...

The Midwife - Pig With The Face Of A Boy

YouTube video by moonhitler

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 2d

"I think circumcision should largely only be done out of medical necessity."

Reply 1: Oh, so you're an antisemite. 😡

Reply 2: Oh! So you're an antisemite! 😃

Reply 3, scanning like Kermit the Frog smoking unfiltered menthols for some reason: cIrCuMcIsIoN cAuSeS aUtIsM. 🐸

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure some Chicagoans wouldn't mind too much if "something" happened to the Brewers right about now.

But otherwise no, I think they're good.

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 2d

The existence of K-Pop suggests the existence of K-Pop Tarts.

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Will Carless, USA TODAY @willcarless.bsky.social · 2d

As federal troops act almost without impunity in America’s cities, it’s worth noting that, not long ago, many conservatives claimed that sheriffs and local police chiefs should have ultimate legal jurisdiction — not the US government.

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 2d

They also started cults and had very problematic relationships with women.

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 2d

I mean this mostly earnestly, even if I have the chronological order wrong. Both loved to create works that functioned as integrated wholes (good luck replacing any individual part) and both failed to accept flaws in their designs (Wright's designs leaked and had major maintenance issues).

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Lloyd Wright was the Steve Jobs of architecture.

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 3d

I love the burros in Beatty as much as anyone, but they're every bit as feral as any "wild" horse in Nevada.

Las Vegas Review-Journal @reviewjournal.com · 3d

Burros outnumber people in a Southern Nevada town about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, where the BLM hosted an emergency roundup to remove about 250 of the desert animals.

In this Southern Nevada town, burros outnumber people — for now

Burros outnumber people in the Southern Nevada town of Beatty, where the Bureau of Land Management hosted an emergency roundup to remove about 250 of the desert animals.

www.reviewjournal.com

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 3d

I can look away because I'm built different.

David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely not. Blood isn't vegan.

It's probably just smoked paprika-infused date syrup.

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 3d

"Bourbon is only the beginning" Is that a threat?

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 3d

A man sets up slabs of increasing size, which will be knocked over like a set of dominoes. On the smaller side, white text reads, "A '60s sitcom about a talking horse". On the larger side, white text reads, "This poast".

The implication being made in this meme is that "Mister Ed", an American television sitcom about an eponymous talking horse that aired from 1961-1966, normalized the idea of animals mimicking human behavior. This, in turn, created the social context and permission structure that permitted the existence of the original cartoon featuring a pro-Zionist German Shepherd speaking in 2010s-era Tumblr-Yiff Uwu-English.

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David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social · 4d

The trouble with the Charles I scenario is Charles I expected to live more than 2-4 more years after he started overstepping his authority.

I'm not sure how you hold someone accountable whose mental timespan is incapable of exceeding five minutes.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 4d

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 4d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT