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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 1d

Rev. David Black who was shot multiple times by ICE with rubber bullets speaks.

the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 4h

Ah. Did not see that she was a sitting council member.

That apartments vs pickle ball statement alone tells me enough to know how I’d vote.

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 4h

Nm. Looked her up.

Still laughing at that comment though. “State-of-the-art pickle ball courts,” 😂

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 4h

Oh lord. Who is she? I’ve not been following the Sandy Springs races. Just a bit further south, myself.

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 4h

This guy has no clue what war is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump to Israeli Knesset: "We have settled 8 wars in 8 months. I'm now including this one, by the way. They may say, 'Well, that was quick,' but yesterday I was saying 7 but now I can say 8. The hostages are back."

the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 16h

Shoulda known they were cops, ‘cause the faces were concealed.

S’posed to act scared.

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 17h

Seems like maybe they’re disempowering the lower courts intentionally.

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Adam B. Bear 🇨🇦 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @adambear.bsky.social · 1d

Just when many people throughout the nation weren't paying attention, New Orleans, Louisiana, just elected Helena Moreno, to be its first Latina Mayor, without so much as a need for a runoff.

www.wwno.org/politics/202...

Helena Moreno to be next mayor of New Orleans: 'The work starts tomorrow morning'

City Councilmember Helena Moreno is heading back to City Hall after a resounding win in the Oct. 11 primary election, securing 55% of the vote.

www.wwno.org

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 18h

He was just answering the question he was asked. Silly to read any more into it.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 20h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 21h

Yep. Maddening. It’s like being under Communications Assault, all the time. Which is why I end up ignoring entire channels of information / correspondence.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21h

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 22h

Oh my goodness. This SCOTUS is so lost, and not doing its job.

No Court truly focused on the law should be weighing issues of PR, the “impressions” it might give, or invitations to Sunday morning talk programming.

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 22h

Ooo… chills!

the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 22h

But what about the impression SCOTUS might give?

the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 23h

(But actually, it’s not really an accident. We just prefer to confuse the situation, and we feel powerful when nobody knows who’s getting fired and who’s being rehired.)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23h

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 23h

Wow. This is insane. Why would a SCOTUS Justice do tv interviews?

Get off TV, and do your job. Write actual opinions. Screw the PR.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 1d

been thinking lately about how much of the gospel is contained in "I was a stranger and you welcomed me"

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

When the output of the highest court in the land wouldn't pass muster coming from first-year law students, it discredits the institutional legitimacy of the entire legal system. Nobody can pretend they are at the apex of the profession, intellectually credible even when you disagree with them.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

They're delegitimizing themselves in substance by subverting the Constitution and aiding the establishment of a lawless autocracy. But they're further delegitimizing themselves because they really don't understand, and can't even halfway convincingly mimic, how the Court is supposed to function.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

In ways above and beyond simply having a conservative GOP majority (which after all had already been the case for decades), they're just outright bad at the job. They're thoroughly unimpressive, even incompetent, as jurists, in ways that are not historically normal for the Supreme Court.

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 1d

The Dangerous Criminals
on our streets
Are the ICE Agents

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 2d

This is why there we’re seeing the frantic, sweaty push to “insert AI* into everything”—those who have made enormous bets on this industry are increasingly desperate to induce profits in whatever way they can.

futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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the Lorso @thelorso.bsky.social · 2d

That place is only open on Fridays.

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