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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 4h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 7h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 17h

If Benioff is MAGA now that’s a huge signal that the Silicon Valley big money donor base is basically gone for Dems (it’s a signal of other things, too, obviously)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 15h

^There must be a long ass German word
For when you've destroyed something good
Something you used to love
But had to let go of
You don't believe me when I say
I could've had it either way
Every good & bad
Thing will have to pass
What a blur it's been
The way my head spins
What a mess I'm in

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 17h

The constant struggle between my anti-carceral beliefs and this country’s need to chase down white collar crime like CBS cops chasing a straggly serial killer who leaves rhyming clues and just offed beloved number 4 on the call sheet.

The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 18h

Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Via ProPublica: thenevadaindependent.com/article/elon...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

This is fine.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone, I’m just <sniffs> I’m just so proud of us all.

We finally did it.

LibsOfTikTok finally targeted me.

<single tear rolls down cheek>

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long <unfolds acceptance speech> and first I want to thank everyone who made it possible: Harambe, Kony2012, my fa

A post from failed real estate agent and local ghoul Chaya Raichik aka LibsOfTikTok targeting me. Text of the post reads:

“Leftist CA State Assembly candidate Chris Kluwe, who promotes the harassment of ICE online, was ARRESTED at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting earlier this year.

Chris was protesting a proposed library plaque that featured a phrase similar to ‘Make America Great Again’

Chris called MAGA a ‘Nazi movement’ before leaving the podium and approaching the council member, where he was grabbed by police and carried out.

This unhinged lunatic wants to be an elected official…”

Thanks for the free advertising, Chaya!

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 20h

You would think the Nobel Peace Prize was made out of 13 year-old girls the way Trump wants one so bad.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 23h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20h

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market.

This is a move that will only further screw over American soybean farmers, who're being priced out of their own market.

A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers

Here’s the geopolitical beans.

www.motherjones.com

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 21h

$85 million. I could rent some U-Hauls and move the homeless to a different part of the city 1000x over for a fraction of that

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 22h

Over the past 4 years, Seattle has dramatically increased its sweeps of homeless encampments, spending $85 m on this. Now Mayor Harrell is facing Katie Wilson in the election this fall; she’s opposing this policy.

boltsmag.org/seattle-mayo...

Sweeps of homeless people and their camps have risen steadily in recent years in Seattle.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty insane stuff from DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara:

www.thehandbasket.co/p/dhs-fps-me...

Accordingly, if an individual across the street from a federal building throws a rock or bottle at FPS officers on federal property, as many of these rioters are wont to do, FPS can leave federal property and either arrest the malefactors or take other appropriate action in line with FPS's continuum of force policies. FPS could even enter a private residence containing an identified sniper blocks away from a federal facility in order to eliminate that exigent threat. There is simply no legal barrier to FPS taking action off federal property where a reasonable nexus to protecting that property exists.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · Jul 16

If the cops are asking questions, “I don’t know.” 👏🏻👏🏻

If ICE is asking questions, “I don’t know” 👏🏻👏🏻

If the warrant isn’t there,
The game they’re playing isn’t fair

If the police ask you questions, “I don’t know.” 👏🏻👏🏻

Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · Jul 16

Database administrators

🎼
If you're asked to pull data, no you can't👏👏

If you're asked to provide access, no you can't 👏👏

Make up any excuse, the tickets lost, or the bugs got loose,

If you're asked facilitate access to data, no you can't 👏👏🎵

aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · Mar 21

Colleagues:
🎼 If you have a trans patient, no you don’t 👏🏻👏🏻

If you have a migrant patient, no you don’t 👏🏻👏🏻

If you really really care, your minority patients are not there

If you have a vulnerable patient, NO you DON’T 👏🏻👏🏻 🎶

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 23h

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 20h

The Court, blocking Trump's deployment of Texas NG to Illinois: "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." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Todd Enders @tenders.bsky.social · 20h

Closed at $1.39 a gallon today.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 20h

This is six nuclear power plants of solar energy, which would have been cheap, and ready in almost no time--and now we can't have it because of the Trump administration's crusade against clean energy.
You'd think they were vampires, scared of the sun (Hi Stephen Miller)
bsky.app/profile/jael...

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 22h

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22h

This is Eric Adams attacking @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social for reporting that Jasmine Ray claims in her new self-published book that she first slept with Adams in his office at Brooklyn Borough Hall. (Adams yesterday praised Ray's integrity on Twitter/X and encouraged people to read the book.)

Adams endorses steamy City Hall tell-all on tryst with woman he later appointed to $170k job

Mayor Adams said Thursday that he “enjoyed reading” a book Jasmine Ray recently published about their romantic relationship, which played out before he appointed her to a senior role in…

www.nydailynews.com

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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