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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine these being your values: I think disabled children have it too easy, they should have less stuff. That's the global right atm, those are the people we're dealing with.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 13h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 14h

It only makes sense that Mike Johnson would destroy the House to protect pedophiles in his party. He is only Speaker because his predecessor refused to end an ethics investigation into Matt Gaetz for having relations with a minor. This is Mike Johnson’s raison d’être.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 3d

"We took the freedom of speech away"

Jack Nicholson meltdown from the conclusion of "A Few Good Men"

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 4d

Charles I watching Trump speed run personal rule without consequence

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 5d

Pelosi: “how can we as a party transcend ourselves without a Republican Party that will determinately negate us.”

Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe Weiss should have spent time in college learning how to write instead of trying to get her professors fired

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 5d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 5d

Pretend you’re 65 & act accordingly: save your pennies, visit friends, enjoy slow walks in your neighborhood, shrug your shoulders at old beef between family & friends, grow a garden, forgive people because they’re “still young” even if they’re not but hold all politicians accountable. Get a cat.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 8d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 8d

If you're issuing decrees, you're not exercising judgment (Fed 78).

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 8d

Is there a running total of the number of times this year that ICE has deliberately broken the law in arresting or assaulting elected officials?

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 8d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 8d

The rule of law means that civilians who commit crimes are prosecuted in courts of law with benefit of due process. Extrajudicial executions in international waters are an affront to our Constitution and the law of nations. It isn’t national defense. It’s murder.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 9d

It would be nice if we, as a society, stopped rewarding incompetent trolls.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 9d

It would be nice if we, as a society, stopped rewarding incompetent trolls.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 9d

One thing that I will say about classical political philosophy: a society that elevates people who reward friends and punish their enemies really does suck big time. No flourishing at all. Would not recommend.

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 9d

Please send this request directly to my discipline

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Julie Parsonnet @julieparsonnet.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you, UPenn AAUP, for your powerful response to the administration's "invitation" (correctly renamed "threat") to join their academic compact. #academicfreedom #defendhighered @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 10d

wint @dril

Plato

i think that if mensa started getting involved in gang violence, they would easily Win

5:48 AM - 20 Oct 2018

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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty standard Catholicism

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