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Hugh @shxnhugh.bsky.social · 3h

1993 called it wants its coalition back

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lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social · 6h

not only is she lying about the substance and procedure here, she is a sitting justice commenting on the active and past caseload of the Court. on an obviously political program. grounds for impeachment by anyone who isn't a moral coward

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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🍉👻Jeeshadow ᐰ🍉 @jeeshadow1.bsky.social · 7h

happy birthday!

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Evil Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 7h

The entire political regime for 40 years agreed on varying degrees of neoliberalism. We don’t have that anymore. But that’s fine because that shit got us here.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h

And who also waited until Trump got into power to retire.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

whole thing is even worse than the headline when you think about what 'play' means here

“I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”"

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

Fascinating, the right wing leader of the World Jewish Congress attempted to convince Israel to release Marwan Barghouti and Israel refused

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15h

⛓️‍💥 New: World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder – heir to the Estée Lauder empire – offered to travel to Egypt last week to lobby for the release of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti as part of the upcoming hostage deal, Times of Israel reports. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office...

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 15h

reminder that the atlantic, which is run by a former israeli military prison guard, tried to acquire the free press but couldn't provide bari a big enough payday and that literally everyone on staff at the atlantic except for adam serwer has absolute trash opinions

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 15h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Entire Precinct Made Up Of Loose Cannons https://theonion.com/entire-precinct-made-up-of-loose-cannons-1819569414/

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17h

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 19h

If democrats weren’t also so married to nakedly corrupt insider trading like the stuff done by Pelosi they could run on anti-corruption and win in landslides.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 17h

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 17h

The federal courts have degenerated into places for far-right charlatans to bypass democracy, and democratic reforms must start there.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 19h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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🍉👻Jeeshadow ᐰ🍉 @jeeshadow1.bsky.social · 1d

gotta keep some traditions

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

RESULT: New Orleans has a new mayor. Helena Moreno, a Democrat known as a progressive member of the city council, easily won today’s mayoral race and cleared the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff. She’ll replace the retiring Democratic Mayor, Cantrell.

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Captain Revo @captainrevo.bsky.social · 2d

Share a TV series from the 2000's you love. 📺

The characters from the Battlestar Galactica reboot for a promo shoot

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Marty McKee @martymckeeofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Share a TV series from the 2000's you love. 📺

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🍉👻Jeeshadow ᐰ🍉 @jeeshadow1.bsky.social · 1d

Will be interesting to see if Fed HQ is still the capital

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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🍉👻Jeeshadow ᐰ🍉 @jeeshadow1.bsky.social · 1d

Well they had a full wing in Waltz, and I suppose the help of the dominion to improve. Galaxys do seem to still be chewing up Galors at the height of the Dominion War so I really have never seen them as a peer to the Federation. They are dangerous but they never truly strike me as a true threat

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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