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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22h

the foreign policy of the united states during the gaza war should have been to cause the collapse of netanyahu's government by any means which were expedient

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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Another face in the crowd @hraedon.com · 20h

I honestly find it hard not to believe that Biden was motivated by malice given how obvious this was at the time

I do think the celebration and crowning of our new Peace President are extremely premature, but there's no question that Biden was (at best!) historically incompetent with respect to I/P

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 20h

Bibi: i am in a partisan alliance with republicans and gonna play to the clock to fuck you over

Biden: sounds good

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 21h

Ben Shapiro: "You guys won't believe what this fucking scorpion just did to me."

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 3d

Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media

Ben Shapiro is warning that the Jewish people are being regarded as a "conspiratorial force" by a certain faction of right-wing conservatives. The post Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

politico’s owner must have put in a call to the editors over the weekend, because their top articles on shutdown are comically one-sided against dems after reporting over the weekend that house republicans are starting to crumble

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

More broadly, the idea of “knowledge that makes you morally good” is ridiculous and, if anything, would just have us asking why we need continuing study in the humanities when we have that

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's wild that Netanyahu completely controls our domestic discourse with willing participants not just on the right, but also apparently on the left

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely don’t think our political discourse is capable of talking about how Donald Trump—*Donald Trump*—just halted an ongoing genocide.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

I have strong doubts that the 'ceasefire' will hold and lead to an actual peace deal, but it seems like, maybe, somehow, Trump kinda learned a lesson here...?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

“The Israeli govt has committed several war crimes over the past two years and also at the same a non-trivial portion of criticism of “Israel” is also just antisemitism” is just an extremely bad discursive problem to have, and I don’t see any way that it doesn’t get worse. Pretty bad!

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

I sit down in my BlueSky captain's chair and furrow my brow authoritatively.

"Damage report, Mister Scott."

"Ma'am, the Nazi gumbo meme has breached containment and..."

"I've heard enough. Load the torpedoes, set phasers to kill, and burn the planet. No survivors."

"Aye, captain."

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 22h

"Students who...oppose Israel’s war in Gaza...rarely have to worry that their campus speakers will be disrupted by protesters or generate security concerns"

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Students who object to policies of the Trump administration or oppose Israel’s war in Gaza or who advocate abortion rights rarely have to worry that their campus speakers will be disrupted by protesters or generate security concerns related to the backlash of a student mob. Security concerns, real or fabricated, arise when a

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1d

A lesser discussed aspect of how the press has approached Biden and Trump's health is that it's priming a large number of people to believe in insane conspiracy theories about Trump's demise

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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Another face in the crowd @hraedon.com · 1d

It’s…funny? that all the QTs are just flat denials that this ever happened.

You had big accounts lauding the idea of knocking the walls down and embracing the idea that victory was imminent! Flat denials that Hamas killed anyone specific (all friendly fire or a Jewish Plot to discredit Hamas)!

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

Periodically I remember what this website was like when it collectively thought Hamas was going to win and crush Israel or whatever it thought for the month or so after October 7th and anytime anyone on here bitches about Biden, I remember that

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

wow guys I am starting to think tariffs are not useful tools to force down China's trade surplus

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

🇨🇳CHINA’S SEPTEMBER EXPORT GROWTH HITS 6-MONTH HIGH Y/Y IMPORT GROWTH HIT A 17-MONTH HIGH. CHINA SOYBEAN IMPORTS HIT RECORD HIGH FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AT 12.87 MILLION METRIC TONS. SEPTEMBER COAL IMPORTS AT NINE-MONTH HIGH OF 46 MLN METRIC TONS. #CHINA #SOYBEAN #COAL

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

i do think the revolt of the bosses has caught the car and they're not actually gonna like what they get

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

i would not be surprised if business types, particular family business tyrants, are starting to sweat things as their cravings for ~labor discipline ~ have given way to fears of labor shortage

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d

Negative

For starters as a logical matter there is no universe in which this meets the intended purpose of reprogramming language

But as a legal matter you've got to have a valid appropriation to transfer the monies into

Congress appropriates some things on a multi-year basis and others annual

eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 2d

The DoD is allowed to transfer this money per statute apparently (though this is outside of my area). The CR in March upped it to 8 billion.

Of course it has. It always does. Sec 8005 of DOD Appropriations, for starters…

That one provision now allows for $8b in transfers, per March’s full year CR:

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

The conservative 'legal' project, to the extent that it is an anti-liberal project, necessarily must be to enshrine arbitrary rule, as the rule of law as we know it is a liberal project.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 3d

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 2d

andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat... oh thank god someone finally wrote this and did so competently:

The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

andymasley.substack.com

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

Hi, judge expert here! Judges only do this when they’re VERY distressed!

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 3d

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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