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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 6h

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 6h

Several vindictive prosecution cases with good chances of winning will do that to an AG.

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El Jefe De Security @eljefe.social · 8h

They are now cleared hot.
Prepare for escalations.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 7h

Total CYA garbage. Trump demanded it, Bondi knows, just like she knows the case is doomed. As is the Comey case.

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 8h

CYA. Trump demanded it, Bondi knows, just like she knows the case is doomed.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 9h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 10h

Kid Rock judging aesthetic and sartorial decisions was not something I expected to see today. It’s kind of like letting Godard decide whether a film is worth watching.

(Don’t bother commenting: he was easily the least talented director to come out of the Cahiers du Cinema stable.)

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 10h

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 9h

The Death Star, from the 1977 film Star Wars.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 10h

Mighty Odysseus - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/287mecr

The most visually striking feature on Saturn’s icy moon Tethys is Odysseus crater. An enormous impact created the crater, which is about 280 miles (450 kilometers) across, with its ring of steep cliffs and the mountains that rise at its center. Odysseus is on the leading hemisphere of Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across). In this image, north on Tethys is up.

This view is a composite of several images taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 17, 2015, at a distance of about 28,000 miles (44,500 kilometers) from Tethys.

The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 9h

Suspect number one:

a man in a suit and tie is being touched by a woman in a bob ross costume

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is being touched by a woman in a bob ross costume

media.tenor.com

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Frank @frankvaladez.bsky.social · 10h

Tim Onion is right!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Pagecraft 🔛 Stowe Story Lab @cameowood.com · 10h

Sitting with my neighbors in the Dance Palace- looking forward to going home when the place looks like this:

Golden light leaking out into a foggy forest

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10h

Never had a trans student disrupt my class in even the smallest way. Had plenty of very-gender-conforming Overly-Assertive-Main-Character students be disruptive - monopolizing discussion, talking out of turn, that sort of thing.

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 11h

In just one day, @thebulwark.com posted pieces on both Charles Beaumont and Ramsey Campbell. I didn’t think that would be the publication that gave me my day’s readings in the uncanny, but color me pleasantly surprised. @fangoria.bsky.social and @ruemorguemag.bsky.social better watch their backs.

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 11h

What on earth would Qatar need an air base in Idaho for?! They can train their forces in any number of places. Is this some kind of quid pro quo? Is it more nefarious? Holly’s right, the mind explodes with questions.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 11h

So we're letting a frenemy foreign power build a military base on US soil NBD
So the Guatemalan grandma whose been living here 30 years has to go ASAP but Qatar's Air Force can just camp out
WTAF WTAF WTAF

www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.

www.cbsnews.com

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John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social · 11h

who/what is filling his head with this bullshit?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 11h

a man in a suit and tie is being touched by a woman in a bob ross costume

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is being touched by a woman in a bob ross costume

media.tenor.com

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 11h

First up on tonight's quirky #FridayNightZillow is a "Mini-Graceland" in Northridge, California for $2.65M. One thing I've learned from looking at tens of thousands of Zillow houses: People are weird! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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Nero Wolfe @nero-wolfe.bsky.social · 10d

The raid in South Shore last night feels like an escalation, especially in light of today’s “enemies within” speech. ICE is now breaking down/chainsawing through doors of private homes at night. Did they even have a warrant?

abc7chicago.com/amp/post/ice...

ICE in Chicago news: Agents raid South Shore apartment building; Donald Trump says city could become military training ground | abc7chicago.com

A%20downtown%20Chicago%20protest%20against%20ICE%20got%20underway%20on%20Tuesday%20night%20as%20the%20city%20braces%20for%20a%20possible%20National%20Guard%20deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 12h

Man if only SCOTUS would let that happen before ruling.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 13h

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 12h

“Mine!”

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