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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 5h

I laughed out loud. Thanks!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 13h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 6h

“You are lucky, Ed Gruberman. Few see so much of Tai Kwan Leap so quickly.”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 2d

Portland-area folks: attended this yesterday & it was good. They’re willing to tailor trainings to your setting & are doing several more general trainings in the coming weeks, too.

Oregon Justice Resource Center @ojrcenter.bsky.social · 5d

🧊Know Your Rights Training!

This year, our attorneys have conducted numerous Know Your Rights trainings to prepare Oregonians for potential encounters with ICE. We want to help as many people as possible prepare so we're offering an online training.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Know your rights online training. What to do in encounters with law-enforcement or ice. Thursday, October 9 at noon. RSVP for a Zoom link.

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 2d

Are they also using Chinese spy weather balloons to create chemtrails to control our weather?

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 3d

The reason they can’t replace Obamacare is because the ACA is THEIR PLAN. Obama got the Republican plan passed thinking, erroneously, that they would accept their own plan. We should have done single payer. This is and will always be absolutely ridiculous.

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 3d

Jury nullification is powerful. I’ve seen it happen, it’s always kind of a surprise as the defense attorney when it actually works. The downside is that juries can also nullify for awful reasons.

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 3d

It was going to get done right after Infrastructure Week.

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. This isn’t just unusual, it is almost unheard of.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (1)

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d

If you wanna know why Miller and Vought and Vance are speedrunning the playbook it's because they know when he goes they no longer have the juice to finish the plan. No one is gonna listen to them and there will be a power vacuum.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 4d

A lot of """"creatives"""" have seemingly accepted generative AI as part of art and filmmaking and I'm hear to say you're all big stinky phonies and I hate you

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 4d

Some good news

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 4d

The Austin Lounge Lizards.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 4d

This is the solution to “prime day.” Nothing for Bezos. Support your local bookstores while buying online!

Buy Preeti’s books! And mine!

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4d

SO bookshop.org is doing free shipping and you should buy some of my books from bookshop.org <3

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 4d

So much of the WWII footage of Nazis doing evil things is archival footage the Nazis filmed of their own crimes to memorialize their “triumphs”. ICE is working from the same playbook.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

We all wanted Trump to be more pro-woman; we just didn't expect that woman to be Ghislaine Maxwell

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 4d

If that was deliberate symbolism it’s amazing. If it wasn’t deliberate it is merely cool.

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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 5d

Pritzker on Consider This earlier:

"There's some sort of dementia going on, and he just keeps repeating things from years gone by."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 5d

But they will find something they CALL a Leftist Terror Cell. And people who get their news from Fox will believe in them. The same way those folks think WMDs were found after Gulf War II. They live in a fact free world of delusion and make believe.

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 5d

A thread worth reading.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 5d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 5d

It is altogether possible that they are a bunch of random Texas sheriff’s deputies. I met an awful lot of former MPs in police uniform as a defense attorney in Florida, I can’t imagine that Texas is that much different in that particular regard.

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Dennis Watson @denniswatson.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, he hired a great comms person to troll the autocrat. Hooray, whatever. He’s still a horrible person; anti-union, anti-trans, deliberately cruel to the helpless and homeless. By all means enjoy the good he does but don’t let it blind you to the fact that the lesser of two evils is still evil.

Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.social · 5d

He was exactly who everyone was telling you he was.

EXACTLY.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 5d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Memos From Lofwyr @lofwyrmemos.bsky.social · 5d

MEMO:

Jackbooted goons have their place, employees, but over-reliance on them only exposes their limitations. (And yours.) -L

#Shadowrun

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