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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 22h

Their record is damning
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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · Jul 20

Holy shit this is clarifying
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Graph illustrating the ideological extremism of SCOTUS vs district and appeals courts

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu wouldn't have accepted this deal from Trump 9 months ago, and in all likelihood won't abide by it now, either. His political future is incompatible with peace. And, yes, Biden's failure to recognize this reality was infuriating.

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 3d

Should have been in Jakarta last night #JesusMolina
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Jesus molina live @ Java Jazz festival 2025

YouTube video by Jesús Molina Music

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 4d

how else do we understand cartoon

Far Side cartoon of a guy standing in his front yard with a dripping paint brush in hand, having painted labels on everything in sight: the door, the house, the dog, the cat, shirt, pants, the tree, garbage can

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 4d

"Their evidence of Israel’s crimes is literally footage of the crimes committed against us."

Totally, bruv. All the literal footage of Israel committing war crimes has been debunked by this literal photo. Well done!

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 5d

'We need to stop the clown show', said the clown on the clown show.

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. All the discourse here was about Klein moving 'the line', and how his privilege affords it. But I found it jarring that Coates pushed back hard (twice) against the deplorable label. I wish they'd dug in a bit more on that.

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 6d

I didn't get Coates' repeated recoiling from the word "deplorable", first with respect to 2016 Clinton, and again when Klein used it. Like, 'some people are over the line, but don't you dare call them that'. Maybe I need to listen again.

Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds like just another iteration of the same game Netanyahu has played with both of them. His political future requires the war to continue.

Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 7d

Miller was the bully (starting at 2:00)
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What Stephen Miller Was Like in High School - Charles Gould

YouTube video by Comedy Central Stand-Up

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 7d

FYI Miller was the bully
youtu.be/XJdSEehsZiY?...

What Stephen Miller Was Like in High School - Charles Gould

YouTube video by Comedy Central Stand-Up

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9d

Chris Murphy and I also discussed the need for more Democrats to say loudly and clearly, right now, that many Trump accomplices may be carrying out illegal orders, and if so they should prepare to face consequences later.

Murphy offers a good way to do this here. 6/

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 8d

Odd choice not to include his name (Robert Morris) in the headline that everyone sees here.

Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 10d

Writers missed the moment on this one.

Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 14d

My town is great but your city is a crime infested hell-hole

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 16d

With a grin on his face

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 18d

Looks like a remotely operated (grounded) smart plug to me

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 23d

...to get their bailout

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29d

A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, undermining the Fed.

Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign.

If merit still matters, he should be fired.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 29d

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.

Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.

These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show

A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 29d

You're doing quotation marks wrong. There's plenty to criticize here, but misquoting him isn't it.

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · 29d

Especially jarring given the role of the Anti-Christ in their End Times fetish.

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Pumpkinloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social · Jul 23

Venture Capital, Hedge Funds, Private Equity Firms, all different but similar. The owners of these have consolidated around Trump, despite his threats, because they're business models are broken. They relied on low interest rates and infinite growth.

Marc Andreeson knows his assets are rotten. 22/

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jul 23

So sick of this Orwellian nonsense. Everyone knows that "objective and free from top-down ideological bias" means "biased towards maga views and against anything we suddenly declare is 'woke'"

Upholding Free Speech in Frontier Models: Updating Federal procurement guidelines to ensure that the government only contracts with frontier large language model developers who ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias.

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Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · Sep 6

The pleading liar

Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · Sep 4

Lady justice peeked. Many such cases

Jackson Harris @jacksonharris.bsky.social · Aug 31

defacing the manhole cover and the other signs is allowed or they'd have more signs for that

Far Side cartoon where the subject has just finished painting labels on everything in the frame, e.g. "the house", "the dog", "the tree", etc.

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