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Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · 1d

Fall trend watch 👀

Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · 6d

Seems irresponsible to quote this without pointing out that these are not @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social positions archive.is/rQNmG

Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · 8d

Nobody show Stephen miller this video

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 9d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · 10d

Shoutout to all the CJA lawyers who have been working without pay from the federal government since July

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11d

If you want to see how much a single local official can change things, look no further than Chicago,

where the new prosecutor this year has ground exonerations to a halt by hindering the work of the commission that reviews wrongful convictions boltsmag.org/chicago-cook...

Exonerations Grind to a Halt Under Chicago’s New Prosecutor - Bolts

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has weakened her office’s already broken system for freeing the innocent, even as allegations of coercion mount against a former Chicago detective.

boltsmag.org

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Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · 13d

It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your president is?

(In his jammies, posting)

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 13d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 23d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 23d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23d

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 24d

A department within New York’s attorney general’s office is tasked with reviewing wrongful conviction claims. But for the most part, the bureau is a toothless initiative, @nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Investigations found.
nysfocus.com/2025/09/16/a...

Inside the AG’s Conviction Review Bureau: 5 Takeaways

A once-touted statewide conviction review unit lacks independence, authority, and transparency — and Albany hasn’t moved to fix it.

nysfocus.com

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26d

There were like eight Black writers at national pubs and journalism schools and like seven of us have been fired for taking stands against genocide abroad and racism at home lolsob

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 26d

SCOOP: Pentagon Barred Senior House Staffers From Briefing on Venezuela Boat Strike

A former Pentagon official says “U.S. forces went out and committed murder" in the drone strike off the coast of Venezuela.

theintercept.com/2025/09/15/v...

Pentagon Barred Senior House Staffers From Briefing on Venezuela Boat Strike

A former Pentagon official says “U.S. forces went out and committed murder" in the drone strike off the coast of Venezuela.

theintercept.com

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 26d

The media doesn't want you to know that like 92% of Americans died last year from illegal drugs. But we're not going to let them conceal the truth any longer.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26d

Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal

Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26d

Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal

Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Sep 11

No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Sep 11

What Elon Musk bought for $44 billion was the ability to fill the brains of people like Ezra Klein with this kind of bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com

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Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · Sep 10

Bout to bake some potatoes

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · Sep 10

Anthony DiPippo spent 17 years in prison fighting a wrongful conviction until finally, the New York AG’s conviction review bureau found evidence.

But in the aftermath of a local election, the reinvestigation collapsed, and he waited another 10 months to overturn his conviction in court.

New York's AG Wanted to Review Innocence Claims. Politics Got in the…

The attorney general's conviction review bureau has investigated just a handful of innocence claims of the hundreds it's received since 2012.

nysfocus.com

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · Sep 9

#BREAKING - Major development in #StopCopCity case

Unicorn Riot Live @unicornriotlive.bsky.social · Sep 9

Judge Farmer: At this time I do not find the Attorney General had the authority to bring this RICO case

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 9

ATLANTA (AP) — Judge says he'll toss the racketeering case against 61 people tied to protests over a training center called “Cop City.”

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · Sep 9

NEW: Some police officers in New York State drove drunk. They crashed their official vehicles and hit other motorists. They arrived at work reeking of alcohol.

And yet, they sometimes evaded criminal punishment, an investigation by The New York Times and New York Focus found.

‘No Arrests’: In New York, Some Police Can Drink, Drive and Avoid…

Officers in New York State crashed their official vehicles, hit other motorists and arrived to work reeking of alcohol. And yet, they sometimes evaded…

nysfocus.com

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Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · Sep 3

DHS agents currently in the main hall of Grand Central

Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · Aug 30

How bleak that it’s illegal for Florida teachers to open a classroom window when the AC breaks because of school shootings inthesetimes.com/article/flor...

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · Aug 20

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

www.thecity.nyc

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Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · Aug 9

Same video

Nathan Tempey @nathanbreakfast.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is also happening in Serbia

The Art of Asty @theartofasty.bsky.social · Aug 9

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Aug 8

An undercovered subplot of the inability of the Powers That Be in the city to decide on either Adams, Cuomo or Sliwa as the Anti-Mamdani is that the landlords (a huge PTB constituency) are all still fucking furious at Cuomo for the 2019 Rent Stabilization law passed while he was governor

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Aug 8

ALSO! HALF of the city's rental housing is rent stabilized. I think Cuomo is betting on people conflating it with rent controlled, which is less than 1% of the rental housing stock, and you have to have been living in your apartment since at least 1971 to qualify.

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