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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 2h

The Office Michael Scott GIF

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 2h

KBJ rightly called it Calvin Ball.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 2h

This Washington Post would have burned the Pentagon Papers and buried Watergate.

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 5h

In which the editorial board of the Washington Post effectively endorses President Nixon's claim that "when the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Jennifear de Ghoulsman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 14h

I say this as a quiet woman of color: There are white woman who will simply steamroll over anything someone like me has to offer in a conversation, and that’s the kind of woman I suspect she is.

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 18h

Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 18h

He's having Stephen Miller surgically removed from his rectum.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h

Didn't Trump already have his annual check up in April?

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 19h

My milkshake runs Andy Ngo out my yard. Damn right, he better run far.

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 19h

It's still a staple diet for New Yorkers, though.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 20h

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 1d

I loved Another! I discovered it by accident and ended up binging the whole thing.

Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 1d

States can limit abortion access but not quack conversion.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

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The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 1d

Steve Buscemi meme. How do you do, fellow leftists?

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

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

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just old enough to remember "Welfare Queen" discourse.

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

“Everyone has to suffer because someone might take advantage” is the lie every American tells themselves about social safety nets, so we might as well extend that delusion to everything.

Blue Bear @321steve.bsky.social · 1d

Well, without some sort of record keeping Anyone could get loans, lie about what they owe and con pretty much anyone they wanted to.
I also don't like the idea of people who are a totally bad credit risk pushing up responsible people's interest rates to cover the asses of irresponsibly people.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

“Everyone has to suffer because someone might take advantage” is the lie every American tells themselves about social safety nets, so we might as well extend that delusion to everything.

Blue Bear @321steve.bsky.social · 1d

Well, without some sort of record keeping Anyone could get loans, lie about what they owe and con pretty much anyone they wanted to.
I also don't like the idea of people who are a totally bad credit risk pushing up responsible people's interest rates to cover the asses of irresponsibly people.

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 1d

The right is hoping for dirt on Bill Clinton. They're under the delusion that we feel for him what they feel for Trump.

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

it's hard to know what this is about. Kennedy could be getting pressure from the right on this. and/or he could be really worried what's going to come out and wants to be on the right side of it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Kennedy with another set of probing questions about Epstein 👇

KENNEDY: Have you interviewed Secretary Lutnick?

BONDI: No senator

K: Do you plan to?

B: If he wants to talk to the FBI--

K: Don't you think you ought to talk to him after this interview? Maybe we ought to get Lutnick in here

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure Johnson's Bible has some words about bearing false witness.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 1d

a woman with foil on her hair is looking at herself in a mirror and says gracie lou freebush .

Alt: a woman with foil on her hair is looking at herself in a mirror and says gracie lou freebush .

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 2d

The Mad Libs president is mad at the libs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 2d

What's particularly sick is that they don't consider domestic violence to be a crime.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Y'all really used a photo from the 1992 riots in LA. What the smothered and covered fuck.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

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Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 2d

It's also only 121 years old.

Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · May 6

Robin stands with a chalkboard behind him, pointing with a piece of chalk what he’s written on the board. He’s written the name Wendy, and he has drawn a rectangle around a word within the name. As he looks forward, he says to anyone off panel, “See? WENDY is an unusual name because the END comes in the MIDDLE!“

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