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Yes, take us 5x faster towards bankruptcy trying to realize my stupid vision in which social and commercial interactions will take place in some imaginary construct with hokey avatars.

Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 9h

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 9h

I always found men wearing cowboy hats and large sunglasses indoors pretty stupid.

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 9h

I wonder how he'd feel if the Guard harassed attendees at Dreamforce.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 9h

Stink-eye

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 10h

TBH we should just move to a simple majority system in the Senate. It's not clear how the Dems benefit from the current arrangement

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ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 14h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 10h

Um, news to me that the filibuster is in the Constitution

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 10h

Solicitor General be like: no sweat my boys in the SC got his back

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 11h

Growing up in Nigeria my family took in Ibo people fleeing the North in the weeks before the Biafra war. Not a good time.

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 12h

Someone should ask him In a press conference: who's in charge of immigration policy, you or Miller?

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12h

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 12h

Send them to South Korea?

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 13h

I'm surprised Mr Dykema doesn't have a job in a senior position at DoJ. He'd be with his peers.

BTW, how many serious law firms have a logo that looks like someone doodled it in a few minutes?

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

I have a couple of comments about Paul Ingrassia's lawyer, who sounds like a lawyer who would be hired by Paul Ingrassia.

First, vagueness in legal threats is the hallmark of legal thuggery. Notice the letter does not identify a single allegedly false statement of fact in the Politico story.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h

Paul Ingrassia is now threatening to sue Politico:

“This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.”

October 10, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Re: Statement on behalf of my client Paul Ingrassia regarding last night's story, Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment, POLITICO (Oct. 9, 2025), https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/ingrassia-trump-harassment-dhs-
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POLITICO's hit piece about Mr. Ingrassia is calculated to cause maximum harm to his promising career — and torpedo his nomination for Special Counsel. This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.
To be 100% crystal clear, so that there is zero room for doubt: Mr. Ingrassia did not engage in any wrongdoing in connection with the matters reported. As POLITICO itself reported: "The woman, whom POLITICO is not naming, said in a statement that she 'never felt uncomfortable' about Ingrassia's behavior and said she had never made a complaint." This is one of the only accurate parts of POLITICO's otherwise fantastical and fictional partisan fairy tale.
Accordingly, one last time, I call upon POLITICO to publicly apologize and issue a full retraction of this disgraceful and partisan sludge.
/s/ Edward Andrew Paltzik
taylordykema.com

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 16h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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