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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · Jul 2

Nothing makes sense unless you look at what they're doing as a deliberate attempt to destroy the health, safety, economy, and future of the United States. It's too destructive and too irrational to be stupidity or craziness or libtears or whatever. Occam be damned, this is enemy action.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 8m

*with the same result.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 18m

First pitch of the bottom of the 10th would’ve ended this game (complimentary)

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 35m

This game would’ve ended on the first pitch of the bottom of the 10th if they kept the ghost runner.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 3h

No they aren’t. District judges are federal, they are appointed for life. You might be thinking about state judges.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 5h

Oh. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck You!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 11h

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23h

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 10h

Yakov Smirnoff Voice: "In Fascist America, Congress dissolves Itself!"

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 12h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is a very solvable problem. If you own a house you live in, your property tax is 1%. If you own a house you do not live in, your property tax is 10%.

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 1d

I booked a photo session tonight bc I have very few pictures of my family together, but while I’m smiling & holding my children, I know I will hear this mother’s screams.

I don’t want my tax dollars supporting ICE agents dragging parents away from car line. And most moms in the US agree with me.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 1d

He should have sent this to the group text before posting on main.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

He's a pedo lover,
Don's got a hold on him, believe it.
Like no other,
It's not for Jesus that he's on his knees.

He's a pedo lover,
Take your freedom and you'll sure feel it.
Like no other,
We're just trying to make you see.

adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 2d

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

Actually impressed they're are skipping the rounds like they are supposed to for once.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

🫡

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Lucy Anderson @lucyluuuuuu.bsky.social · 2d

No shoes, no soul, no service

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d

Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

Do you think she knows Miller is probably using her as bait? They are DESPERATE for someone to go after her and get it on camera. I'm worried that if no one does organically, they'll just fake it and blame it on the left. They can use Mr. "Former member of ANTIFA"

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2d

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

Not be all, you know, but it really is a vast right-wing conspiracy. The oligarch class is consolidating power in both media and politics and they're never, ever going to willingly let go. Because unmasked, they've shown what a threat they are and we cannot coexist in a liberal democracy w/ them.

Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit we're a petro-state now. We're turning into Russia in more ways than one.

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 2d

Ah. Police have no duty to protect the people, but the people should be jailed for failing to protect the police.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Darrel @dlaw51.bsky.social · 3d

This dynamic is just amazing. The GOP is pressuring Democrats by threatening to make the shutdown hurt more. Conceding that they DO NOT GIVE A SHIT about people and they know that the Democrats do.

Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 3d

Mike Johnson says Republicans may not pay back federal workers after Trump’s shutdown.

They stand with billionaires and turn their backs on the workers who keep this country running. 😡

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3d

Even if Democrats end up back in the White House they will start babbling about unity and moving forward and no one will go to jail for any of this shit. So yeah. She doesn't fear any consequences because Democrats have given her no reason to

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 3d

You should click through, I wouldn’t lie to you

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