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Jeff Fecke
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effinvicta.bsky.social
"Some people deserve to be bullied" is always wild to see because it's so deliberately childish as to make it difficult to imagine the person saying it has the moral capacity of an adult human being.
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
jkfecke.bsky.social
The Dem-leaning names belong to immigrants. The GOP ones are crimes against the English language.
tristanbridges.bsky.social TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 1d
To zoom in on the partisan names, here, we're looking only at names used >100 times (in 2023) and only 50 names on the outskirts of the partisan divide, labelling the 5 outliers on each side and the 5 most commonly used on each side. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/p...
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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linimentcake.bsky.social
Yes, in the sense that the media works for the GOP, but also no, in the sense that this wouldn't even be happening if the Dems were in power...
jkarsh.bsky.social Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 10h
I’m sorry, but if Democrats were in power, would this not be in the headlines every single day?
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
Average electricity cost increase since Jan:

Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%

NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%

Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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amberwavesofflame.bsky.social
Thinking of how many journalists who have been laid off year after year, while this vapid opportunist was speedrunning ethical violations.
melodyschreiber.com Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 12h
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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akalhan.bsky.social
Impeachment confession
juliedicaro.bsky.social Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 5h
NEW:

The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
juliedicaro.bsky.social Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 5h
BREAKING:

“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
jkfecke.bsky.social
That's goddamn right.
gpetersen.bsky.social Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 8h
I think immigration makes this country great and I don't care what anyone else thinks.
mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 1d
This is also a place being rhetorically pro-immigration could be good. "I think immigration makes this country great and I don't care what anyone else thinks."
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
It’s not the issue here but can they get Greg Gutfeld a booster seat or a phone book or something?
Four adults and what looks like a very ugly child sitting at a table
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
Unbelievable.

Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
we're going to win
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
jkfecke.bsky.social
Witkoff is very clearly a Russian asset.
maks23.bsky.social MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10h
🤬 A leaked recording reveals that Steve Witkoff held a short call with top Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov on Oct. 14, urging Russia to coordinate with the US on a Ukraine peace plan and suggesting Putin raise the idea directly with Trump, - Bloomberg
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
jkfecke.bsky.social
Co-op: The Musical: The Movie
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 13h
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
jkfecke.bsky.social
Once again, Bluesky is wrong about politics.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Enten: "Trump's net approval rating is at -15 -- the lowest it has been during his entire second term... the Democratic lead on the generic ballot has widened. Trump's political position has worsened. I don't think how you can look at both and conclude anything other than that Dems won the shutdown"
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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eleanor.lockhart.contact
oh, is the wittle republican whining that dems finally played the kind of hardball Republicans have been playing in Wisconsin for decades? is the widdle Republican (in the screenshot, not MJS) triggered? awwwwwww
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10h
When liberals secured a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2023, they changed internal procedures—over the objection of the conservative chief justice, who claimed they were taking away her power. Today the justices released MESSY details about the affair...
www.wicourts.gov/sc/rulhear/D...
BRIAN HAGEDORN, J. (concurring). The Wisconsin Supreme Court is composed of seven justices who are supposed to be members of the same team. Unlike trial courts, when we act, we do so collectively. To accomplish this, over the last 175 years, this court has established various practices and traditions, both formal and informal. These practices ensure all voices are heard, create clear lines of decision-making authority, and establish consistent and neutral processes to govern our case-deciding and administrative work. Some of these are reflected in formally adopted Supreme Court Rules, and some in our Internal Operating Procedures. But the true currency of a court like ours is trust. When trust is broken like it has been here, every aspect of our work suffers. ¶2 This all began in the summer of 2023 when four justices wished to make significant changes to how this court functions. Fair enough. These modifications could have been pursued through a process built on collegiality and mutual respect. Instead, my colleagues pursued a more destructive path. ¶3 The morning our then-newest justice was sworn into office——August 1, 2023——my four colleagues at that time set off to reshape our court and the operation of the court system. They had apparently engaged in significant discussions in the months prior and decided to force through these changes during our summer recess, and to do so via email with or without the input of their other colleagues. They issued a press release triumphantly announcing that these changes were all about transparency, accountability, and inclusivity. This was true in the same way Pearl Harbor was a strike for peace in the Pacific. I will not rehash every detail (Justice Ziegler's excellent writing recounts much of the history), but the reader deserves a taste. ¶4 The first shot sounded when my four colleagues fired the Director of State Courts, who functions as the CEO of administrative matters for the entire judicial branch. Without following any established process, one of my colleagues sent an email proposing that we fire our Director and install a new, preselected interim Director in his place. This happened through email, over the course of two business days, while the Director was out of town on state business, during our summer recess. He never received a performance review indicating concerns; he was simply told his employment was over. This came just months after some of these same colleagues emphasized the importance of having all justices participate in hiring key staff. ¶5 Later that same week, my colleagues proposed dramatic changes via email affecting both our case-deciding and administrative responsibilities. The email invited justices to attend a new, unscheduled meeting of the court later that week to discuss the proposals. One justice said she could not be there; another objected to the meeting as outside our court calendar. The meeting would go forward no matter what, we were told. I implored my colleagues to reconsider, to treat their fellow colleagues with the respect they would want if circumstances were reversed. They refused. The meeting went on as expected, and with only four members present, they voted to fundamentally remake our court. ¶7 Among their changes, my colleagues radically altered the role of the chief justice. They created a new, three-person administrative committee (on which the chief justice would ostensibly sit) to take over nearly all of the chief justice's most important administrative duties. And they did so in the face of serious objections that these changes violated the Wisconsin Constitution, which says the chief justice "shall be the administrative head of the judicial system." Wis. Const. art. VII, § 4. One justice who in the past championed the constitutional role of the chief justice suddenly changed course. Again, these actions stripping the chief justice of powers she had exercised for as long as anyone could remember were proposed via email, and were voted on a few days later during an unscheduled meeting of just four justices during our summer recess. Not exactly transparent, accountable, and inclusive. ¶8 Another significant series of amendments to our internal rules involved modifying the way we consider certain kinds of cases, essentially making it much easier for this court to expedite cases coming to us outside the normal appeals process. Why the change? As everyone understood, my colleagues had the not-sosecret goal of swiftly hearing particular politically charged cases. This was all by design. ¶9 And how did this experiment go? Not well. Administratively, it was not clear who was in charge. We experienced significant breakdowns in communication amidst a lack of clarity about who was doing what. Our staff was often caught in the middle of a court that did not have established lines of communication and authority. And when the Director of State Courts was unceremoniously fired for what many perceived as political reasons, it sent a shockwave through the system. Furthermore, my colleagues' changes were not one and done. Throughout the past two years, they continued to modify the court's procedures in a similar ad-hoc fashion, often after realizing problems with their earlier ill-considered changes. This only added to the confusion. ¶10 Finally, at one of the court's internal conferences this past June, my colleagues shifted course. One of the four announced she was "withdrawing" her prior votes from the past two years (which, by the way, is not a thing) with the idea that every disputed change was now, all of a sudden, reversed. What changed? Again, it was no mystery. My colleagues wanted to take power away from then-Chief Justice Annette Ziegler. Such a move ensured that my colleagues would run the court through the administrative committee. Following the April 2025 election, they concluded they would have the votes to elect a chief justice of their choosing and have a block of votes to support her, so they no longer needed to seize those powers. This is not a cynical take. It is exactly what happened. ¶11 What's past is past, however. I have no desire to hold this against my colleagues, and I am grateful they have changed course. In fact, I was happy to work collaboratively on many operational changes reflected in this order, most of which I
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
jkfecke.bsky.social
I will counter that AI can probably think better than a dust mite can. I don't think it's up to a mouse's level of cognition, but it's in the territory of a lot of insects. Now, is that really thinking? I don't know. Neither does anyone else.
adinayoffie.bsky.social Adina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social · 13h
The New Yorker had an article recently about whether AI is “thinking,” and they interviewed a bunch of neuroscientists, but the whole time, I was like, “bro, you really don’t want to define thinking down to what AI can do right now.”
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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scalzi.com
I don't believe "AI" can think but I do know that I regularly make Claude appear to have an existential crisis about whether or not it can think
adinayoffie.bsky.social Adina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social · 13h
The New Yorker had an article recently about whether AI is “thinking,” and they interviewed a bunch of neuroscientists, but the whole time, I was like, “bro, you really don’t want to define thinking down to what AI can do right now.”
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
jkfecke.bsky.social
So Trump is gonna pay like $75 million/year for insurance, right?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Markwayne Mullin on healthcare: "What the president would like to do is say, hey, if you take care of yourself -- you don't smoke, you don't dip, you're not drinking, you're not overweight, you're working out -- then you should pay less than the guy that obviously is not taking care of himself."
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
jkfecke.bsky.social
Anyone attacking pie has never had my mom's pie crust and I feel sorry for you.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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capitolhunters.bsky.social
What happened last week is that Putin ran out of money. All this diplomatic chaos, unofficial actors trying to set foreign policy, started the week Russia began selling off its gold reserves. What we're seeing is weakness, and influence: Putin has called in his US assets to stave off catastrophe. 8/
Russia’s Central Bank Starts Selling Physical Gold From Reserves - The Moscow Times
Russia’s Central Bank has for the first time begun selling physical gold from its reserves as part of Finance Ministry operations to fund the state budget, the Bank said on Wednesday.
www.themoscowtimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d
No, I do not “pick on” trans people, I have never done anything like this. And frankly, I think the willingness of some people to completely invent accusations of transphobia in the desperate search for a cudgel against ideological opponents suggests they don’t really care about transphobia
happymemeco.bsky.social Pickles - Thankful for my moots edition @happymemeco.bsky.social · 1d
Listen dude, you can try and ride for this guy all you want, but the trans userbase of this platform fucking hates him because he picks on them. I'm going to listen to the trans people I know who are telling me he's bad. Plus I've been in these threads and seen it
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
jkfecke.bsky.social
I've said before, my dad was in his teens before his house had running water. That was the early 1960s.
aaronvandorn.bsky.social Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 16h
People feel less wealthy now than people in the 1950s/1960s did because the material conditions of you and the people around you is roughly on par, unlike the 50s/60s when a twenty minute drive out of town might return you to the 19th Century if not further back.
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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aaronvandorn.bsky.social
People feel less wealthy now than people in the 1950s/1960s did because the material conditions of you and the people around you is roughly on par, unlike the 50s/60s when a twenty minute drive out of town might return you to the 19th Century if not further back.
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Worst retail sales print since May.
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 17h
US RETAIL SALES (MOM) (SEP) ACTUAL: 0.2% VS 0.6% PREVIOUS; EST 0.4%
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
jkfecke.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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sodrock.bsky.social
Live look of the infantrydort:
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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rianjohnson.bsky.social
We are in theaters TOMORROW!! See my pinned post for a theater finder link ❤️❤️💀⏰ #WakeUpDeadMan
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM