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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 11h

The precursor to the Insurrection Act, which President Washington invoked to call up militia during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, required concurrence of a Supreme Court Justice that an insurrection was occurring.

Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 11h

DOJ is basically arguing in Court that if the President "determines" that literal martians have landed from Mars and are attacking the United States, Trump can invoke any emergency power he wants and the judiciary can't question it.

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Anas Basil🍉 @annas--help.bsky.social · 5d

Every day feels like the last. Explosions rip through homes, streets turn into graves, children carry trauma too heavy for their little hearts. My family is trapped in this nightmare. Please, extend your hand before we are buried in silence. donate please, save us 🙏🏻💔
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 6h

It will soon come ashore looking for the manager.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h

Subtropical Storm Karen forms far from land in the north Atlantic Ocean.

Tropical Storm Raymond, third system now off the coast of Mexico, forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean

Tropical Storm Raymond has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the third system now off the western coast of Mexico. The U.S.

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Loyola University Chicago @loyolachicago.bsky.social · 7h

Loyola University Chicago is greatly saddened to confirm the death of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM. This is a tremendous loss of someone who touched the lives of so many people. We appreciate everyone’s thoughts & prayers during this difficult time. For more information: https://bit.ly/4o7eIUk

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 9h

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 7h

Update

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 8h

Additional frogs have arrived at the ICE building, this is not a drill.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 18d

bit nervous for my presentation tomorrow at weyland-yutani hq, going to present my research that our interstellar ships would greatly benefit from utilizing some primitive earth ship designs

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 7h

When you're hot, you're hot ...

Fake Nobel Peace Prize announcement for Bad Bunny

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 8h

New era of shanties has arrived @erinbiba.bsky.social

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 6h

Chad Dunn, an attorney for the plaintiffs, asked King, “Are you familiar with the concept of willful blindness?”

King said, “No.”

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h

NEW: In federal court Thursday, some information about Texas’ secretive redistricting process started to come into focus as Republican leadership took the stand.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 7h

Corrupt AF. Just like Trump.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 6h

Kids, for a brief moment in July 1994, it looked like CBS and QVC were going to merge, with Barry Diller (who helped launch Fox in the 80s) taking over as head of CBS.

But then came a plot twist: Comcast decided it wanted QVC. With the help of another cable giant, it got it.

CBS Inc. and QVC Network Inc. confirmed yesterday that they were close to fashioning a merger that would bring together the network of Walter Cronkite and "Murphy Brown" and the company that put round-the-clock shopping into the nation's living rooms.
CBS's controlling shareholder and chairman, billionaire investor Laurence A. Tisch, declared that he was committed to completing a cash-and-stock deal with QVC that would be valued at $7.5 billion.
CBS "will not be shopped" to other bidders, Tisch said, in an unwitting pun on his intended partner. Many Wall Street analysts, however, predicted that other suitors for CBS would emerge.
The merged CBS-QVC would be run by Barry Diller, currently QVC's chief executive and a man widely considered one of the shrewdest creative minds in television history.

The Washington post

COMCAST'S BID TO BUY QVC DERAILS MERGER WITH CBS
CABLE FIRM MAKES SURPRISE $2.2 BILLION
OFFER

July 12, 1994
More than 31 years ago

By Paul Farhi
CBS Inc. last night said it has dropped its plan to merge with cable shopping network
QVC Inc. after a second cable company, Comcast Corp., made a surprise $2.2 billion bid for QVC.
Comcast's offer came on the eve of votes by the boards of QVC and CBS that would have likely approved their merger. But Comcast's offer of cash and stock valued at $44 per share was deemed more attractive than the complex package that CBS was offering QVC shareholders.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 6h

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 8h

Secretary PuppySnuffer is on the grift?

I'm shoc...

ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 6h

Mom Mom Mom Mom are you watching MOM MOM MOM watch

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10 out of 10 👏 #mars #pygmyhippo #babyhippo #kansas #animalencounters

YouTube video by Tanganyika Wildlife Park

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kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 17h

there is an epidemic of plastic surgery among white women in hollywood and i need the perpetrators brought to justice. that's what kash patel needs to be working on with my tax dollars.

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kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 9h

i am too poor to ever look like this and thank g*d for that

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 6h

Gosh silence is lovely too

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 7h

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7h

[Prof. Mark Bray and family finally made it out of the U.S. tonight. 🙏🏼. Gift link!]

NYT: Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

By Sharon Otterman

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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