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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 23h

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Tweet about the third amendment allowing businesses to refuse to grant ICE access to bathrooms

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

Tweets from the 2001 NFL draft

Pack2010 @pack2010.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's a reason why the cardinals chose Leo

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

given how bad this admin are at optics they're going to get into a fight with the catholics at some point i fear

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

There are ways to challenge the design and funding burden of foreign aid that don’t involve suddenly pulling the rug out from under starving people.

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Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · Oct 26

What an amazing showcase for contemporary Major League Baseball, and here to tell you all about it is the man who hates it most, John Smoltz

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 2d

This doesn't mean that I was wrong about the left. It just means that everything totally sucks

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 2d

Kind of sucks tbh

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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Saoirse Like Inaoirse @headasploding.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure what the objection is regarding Senators being part of a criminal investigation when there is reasonable cause. It speaks to the integrity of the investigation that, as far as I know, nothing politically damaging or materially irrelevant to the Jan 6 case was leaked about any Senator.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 5d

Baseball on the radio is still sublime, almost co-equal with television (in the right hands, er, voice), and almost every MLB team has a great radio booth

Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 5d

caught the end of the tigers win old-school style: on am radio on the way back from a wedding

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 7d

I have a solution

Winnie the Pooh meme. Slob Winnie is “Gifted and Talented”
Tuxedo Winnie is “Differentiated Instruction”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

This whole aesthetic is disgusting and disturbing.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

Impeachment is the constitutional remedy, but strong party loyalty has destroyed it as a viable path.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7d

They're bulldozing through the Hatch Act. But they're doing that with a lot of laws. Because they know that no one will hold them accountable.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

At the end of the day, the voters are sovereign, and they tolerate this. They *should* be much more punitive, but they're not. It's a genuine problem.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7d

I appreciate how this article highlights this is illegal, that nobody is holding the administration accountable to the fact that it is committing crimes, and that in committing crimes they're lying in other people's names.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 7d

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown

@natashakorecki.bsky.social + @aterkel.bsky.social + Monica Alba + Matt Dixon:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

And then it becomes, "Well, what autonomy *can* I give them, under the circumstances? Can they decide WHERE we cross the street? Or which way we go to a place?"

Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

Example: I won't let my kids cross the street by themselves, because they might get run over by a car. That's a strong basis.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

Strong party loyalty plus weak parties is the toxic sauce.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 7d

Jesus Fucking Christ

This is the goddamn Senate Majority Republican Leader being like "please just give him what he wants we can't stop him from destroying everything"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

“.. This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought,” the Senate majority leader said ..

@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

My baseline for parenting (and most interactions with children): if I treated a colleague or adult this way, would I be being fair to them? If I have to treat them differently, do I have a *really* strong basis for it?

Wasting 30 hours a week of a kid's time isn't something I would do to an adult.

River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7d

I don't care about studies on outcomes tbh (all studies are fake), the fact is that it's incredibly wasteful and disrespectful to everyone's time to force kids to sit in class and not learn anything.

There will always be *some* kids like that, but if it's more than one or two, let them run ahead.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 7d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 7d

I don't care about studies on outcomes tbh (all studies are fake), the fact is that it's incredibly wasteful and disrespectful to everyone's time to force kids to sit in class and not learn anything.

There will always be *some* kids like that, but if it's more than one or two, let them run ahead.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 7d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

www.nytimes.com

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 7d

Not the worst sin of the Trump era, but certainly among them.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 9d

Gift link wapo.st/46GSwcv

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 9d

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Posse Comitatus Act - Wikipedia

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 9d

Trump chortling about poor fishermen not being able to make a living is just totally execrable. Biblical symbolism everywhere.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · Jun 7

In Term 1, Trump was itching to turn the military against the American people. Thankfully there were people like Esper, Milley, and Mattis. Now, we’ve got Homan, Miller, Noem, and Hegseth. Guardrails down.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 7

Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 9d

10 years of hoping people come to their senses. They will not.

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Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 9d

Honestly.... If we're talking about "decline" it was very clear that Biden had declined. Trump has been rambling for over a decade.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 9d

This is correct.

If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care.

No kidding.

And every officer in the room has to realize it.

Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 9d

If Joe Biden were giving this rambling speech, itd be treated as a four alarm fire in every newsroom in the country about his very obvious physical and mental decline. But because its Trump, they'll all mostly just shrug and move past it.