jess banks
@profbanks.bsky.social
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Hypercompetent polyglot know-it-all. Unrepentant SJW troublemaker. Neuroqueer teacher, mom, partner, Official Auntie, best friend, co-conspirator. An American in Aotearoa New Zealand. Always noncompliant. She/her/elle/ia
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you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ...
*opens manilla envelope*
... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...
*slides 8x10 photo across table*
... you wore the tutti frutti
*opens manilla envelope*
... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...
*slides 8x10 photo across table*
... you wore the tutti frutti
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So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.
The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...
The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...
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Dissenting Judge Graber, on 9th Cir, calls on public to "retain faith in judicial system" while she begs full court to overturn the panel ruling permitting federalization of National Guard in Portland. Full court asks for briefs on whether to rehear case en banc by Wed midnight
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learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
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The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
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A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...
www.propublica.org
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The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
Breaking news: A federal appeals court said that it would allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, blocking a judge’s previous ruling that forbade his administration from sending troops into the city.
Trump can send troops to Portland, appeals court says
A federal judge had blocked President Donald Trump from dispatching the National Guard to Portland.
www.washingtonpost.com
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All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.
www.liberalcurrents.com
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If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.