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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Eben Novy-Williams @ebennovywilliams.bsky.social · 17h

Of interest here, the contract was finalized and executed by the league's four-person executive committee, without a final vote from all owners.

Some source said that the committee was given that mandate earlier this summer. Others said they believed all owners should still vote

Eben Novy-Williams @ebennovywilliams.bsky.social · 17h

SCOOP: NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman has a new three-year contract, per sources. Under her guidance the league has seen large commercial growth and undergone multiple expansions. #NWSL

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NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman Receives 3-Year Contract Extension

Jessica Berman received a 3-year extension as NWSL commissioner. The deal was executed by the league's four-person executive committee.

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K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 17h

Under her guidance it has a large commercial growth that disrespects the product, several player safety issues, and more than a few investigations that seem geared towards protecting the commercial growth and not the people who make it great (a pool that does not include Jessica, fyi)

Eben Novy-Williams @ebennovywilliams.bsky.social · 17h

SCOOP: NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman has a new three-year contract, per sources. Under her guidance the league has seen large commercial growth and undergone multiple expansions. #NWSL

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NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman Receives 3-Year Contract Extension

Jessica Berman received a 3-year extension as NWSL commissioner. The deal was executed by the league's four-person executive committee.

www.sportico.com

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K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 17h

a cartoon character is sitting on a bed and the words memory unlocked are above him

ALT: a cartoon character is sitting on a bed and the words memory unlocked are above him

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Danielle, spooky Current fan ︽✵︽ @likethe309.bsky.social · 19h

Mocking fascists is the greatest resistance tool we have. This makes ice look weak and pathetic. It's showing people that it's not scary in Portland. It's a good move and it's working

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Danny Page @danny.page · 21h

i'm so serious, give the peace prize to ms rachel www.instagram.com/p/DPosLeoAMYu/

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love, Ms Rachel

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K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 21h

I was trying to decide if I thought it was intentionally antisemitic or just accidental antisemitism in service of MANLINESS

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23h

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22h

Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people.

"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

MUNGIA, J. (concurring)—I concur with the majority’s opinion.1
And yet I
dissent. Not from the majority’s opinion, but I dissent from the racism embedded in the
federal case law that applies to this dispute.
FEDERAL INDIAN LAW IS A PRODUCT OF THE RACIST BELIEFS ENDEMIC IN OUR SOCIETY
AND OUR LEGAL SYSTEM
While it is certainly necessary to follow federal case law on issues involving
Native American tribes and their members, at the same time it is important to call out that
the very foundations of those opinions were based on racism and white supremacy. By
doing this, readers of our opinions will have no doubt that the current court disavows, and
condemns, those racist sentiments, beliefs, and statements.

Since the founding of our country, the federal government has characterized
Native Americans as “savages”: They were “uncivilized.” They had little claim to the
land upon which they lived. At times, the federal government attempted to eradicate
Native Americans through genocidal policies. At other times, the federal government
employed ethnic cleansing by forcibly removing children from their parents’ homes to
strip them from their culture, their language, and their beings.2
Federal Indian case law arises from those racist underpinnings.
The majority correctly cites to Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1, 8
L. Ed. 25 (1831), which is one of the foundational cases involving tribal sovereignty.
That opinion is rife with racist attitudes toward Native Americans. Chief Justice John
Marshall, writing for the majority, describes a tribe’s relationship to the federal
government as one of “ward to his guardian.” Id. at 17. In effect, the opinion presents
tribal members as children, and the federal government as the adult. That theme would
follow in later opinions by the United States Supreme Court—as would the theme of
white supremacy.
Cherokee Nation began with the premise that Native American tribes, once strong
and powerful, were no match for the white race and so found themselves “gradually
sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts and our arms.” Id. at 15. The white man
was considered the teacher, the Native Americans the pupils:

Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United
States resembles that of a ward to his guardian.
Id. at 17.
This characterization of superior to inferior, teacher to student, guardian to ward,
was repeated in later United States Supreme Court opinions.
In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553, 23 S. Ct. 216, 47 L. Ed. 299 (1903),
often characterized as the “American Indian Dred Scott,”
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the Court used that rationale to
justify ruling that the United States could break its treaties with Native American tribes.
These Indian tribes are the wards of the nation. They are communities
dependent on the United States. Dependent largely for their daily food.
Dependent for their political rights. . . . From their very weakness and
helplessness . . . there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power.
Id. at 567 (quoting United States v. Kagama, 118 U.S. 375, 383-84, 6 S. Ct. 1109, 30 L.
Ed. 228 (1886)).
Our court also carries the shame of denigrating Native Americans by using that
same characterization: “The Indian was a child, and a dangerous child, of nature, to be
both protected and restrained.” State v. Towessnute, 89 Wash. 478, 482, 154 P. 805
(1916), judgment vacated and opinion repudiated by 197 Wn.2d 574, 486 P.3d 111
(2020).
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Returning to Cherokee Nation, Justice William Johnson’s separate opinion was
less tempered in how he considered the various Native American tribes:
I cannot but think that there are strong reasons for doubting the
applicability of the epithet state, to a people so low in the grade of
organized society as our Indian tribes most generally are.
Cherokee Nation, 30 U.S. at 21. Native Americans were not to be treated as “equals to
equals” but, instead, the United States was the conqueror and Native Americans the
conquered. Id. at 23.
In discussing Native Americans, Justice Johnson employed another racist trope
used by judges both before and after him: Native Americans were uncivilized savages.
[W]e have extended to them the means and inducement to become
agricultural and civilized. . . . Independently of the general influence of
humanity, these people were restless, warlike, and signally cruel.
. . . .
But I think it very clear that the constitution neither speaks of them as states
or foreign states, but as just what they were, Indian tribes . . . which the law
of nations would regard as nothing more than wandering hordes, held
together only by ties of blood and habit, and having neither laws or
government, beyond what is required in a savage state.
Id. at 23, 27-28.
This same characterization was used by Justice Stanley Matthews in Ex parte KanGi-Shun-Ca (otherwise known as Crow Dog), 109 U.S. 556, 3 S. Ct. 396, 27 L. Ed. 1030
(1883). Justice Matthews described Native Americans as leading a savage life.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 23h

"With alarming regularity, the Trump administration points to imaginary extraordinary conditions as a predicate for extraordinary powers."

I wrote that in June

might be one of the most evergreen things I've ever written

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · Aug 11

since Trump is instructing federal law enforcement to besiege D.C. bc of purported crime reasons, let's review this piece I wrote in June about how he keeps trying to legally justify his fascist bullshit by pointing to nonexistent 'emergencies'

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Trump Is Inventing Legal Emergencies to Make Himself More Powerful

The White House’s response to protests of ICE raids in Los Angeles is stretching statutory language to the breaking point.

ballsandstrikes.org

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K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 23h

Low key UNC should probably have a forensic audit done. How is someone who refuses to use a computer on a contract for 4.5 m?

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 23h

lolll Michael Lombardi is an idiot www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...

Bill Belichick pledged an NFL approach at North Carolina. Program insiders call it flawed

Inside the decisions that have led to North Carolina's on-field dysfunction.

www.nytimes.com

K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 1d

Elon musking a news organization with terrible writing is so embarrassing. What is she going to do with all those memos? Feed them into an AI? She’s not gonna fucking read them

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen miller who said into a microphone and a camera that the theory they’re riding on is plenary authority and then realized he fucked up so he pretended to freeze but kept blinking and CNN allowed the charade.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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andré @838carlisle.bsky.social · 1d

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K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 1d

I need the coaching staff to stop huffing their own farts what are these play calls again and again

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 2d

At least you can shake ass to hot to go

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 2d

From the memory hole: There was a hostage release and ceasefire deal in place by the Biden administration 10 months ago. It was allowed to expire in March, under Donald Trump, and now it's been revived and rebranded, with Donald taking full credit like always.

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K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 2d

They’ve gone full “you will praise dear leader every second” and are trying to pretend that’s normal patriotism. Do we usually stand during god bless America??? They don’t even say please rise and take off your hat until the anthem??? Tf?

Danielle, spooky Current fan ︽✵︽ @likethe309.bsky.social · 2d

Saw that the right is mad Bad Bunny didn't stand during God Bless America (lol wat) and its so clear that the right is trying to manufacture post-9/11 level "patriotism" because the country itself went so far right, but I don't think they realize people don't fucking care anymore. It sucked

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K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 2d

I live in NEPA and the commercials are torturous.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, the NJ gubernatorial election is less than a month away.

If the Democrats here want to start rolling out any kind of ad campaign that tells voters what Mikie Sherrill will do, that'd be super.

And no, "I can fly a helicopter" doesn't count.

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emily ke finch @emilykefinch.bsky.social · 2d

the ads have been terrible so far.
taxes,
taxes,
taxes.
even the republican opponent's commercials are just about taxes.
the helicopter ad is one of the only outliers and it's terrible.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, the NJ gubernatorial election is less than a month away.

If the Democrats here want to start rolling out any kind of ad campaign that tells voters what Mikie Sherrill will do, that'd be super.

And no, "I can fly a helicopter" doesn't count.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 3d

amazing fact check from yesterday's senate oversight hearing

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