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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 8h

A government fucking document

Christ almighty

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

this is one of the sweatiest and most desperate documents the the united states government has ever produced

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 8h

Trump just said, on air, that he and the GOP "took" a Constitutional right away because the Judicial Branch said something he disliked was allowed and he disagreed.

Ask every single Republican, sitting or running, from dogcatcher on up if they support that. Every day. Forever.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

i can’t believe we got another woke pope after all

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 10h

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 12h

Autocorrect decided to sprinkle whichever version of “it’s” or “its” it felt like so if the grammar got away from my sleep-deprived mind know it doesn’t detract from the point, you pedants

when autocorrect changes a word i spelled correctly a woman is holding a fork in her hand .

Alt: A woman looks frustratedly as text reads “when autocorrect changes a word I spelled correctly”

media.tenor.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 12h

In rejecting precedent & embracing outright partisanship in its rulings, the Supreme Court is invalidating both itself & the very core of our national contract - an *incredibly* dangerous act

What happens when a nation or society has no faith in its institutions or the very “rule of law?”

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 12h

The founding of our nation, the very keystone from it’s inception, is rule of law. The idea that these social contracts - for that’s all law is; agreements which only work when we agree they have weight & enforce them - are an inexorable bedrock of our nation & government

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 12h

A keystone holds an arch aloft, locking the structure firm. Remove it & the structure falls

Ancient stone/wax tablets of Greek & Roman antiquity bore laws - cementing intangible concepts into physicality, reality

July 4th - the date we celebrate our independence

Now let’s add it all up:

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 12h

I teach about this at work - that is, the foundation of law being mutual agreement in it’s “concreteness”

It’s best summed up in the symbolism of the tablet in the
Statue of Liberty’s arm, a keystone-shaped tablet reading “July 4th 1776”

There’s good reason for why it looks like that:

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Detail of the Statue of Liberty’s left arm, her hand cradling a keystone-shaped tablet in the same familiar green weathered copper patina reading “July IV MDCCLXXVI”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 13h

Some would argue we’re already there the way shadow dockets & blatantly partisan rulings have been used of late…

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 13h

What’s insane is this is an admission that fundamentally destroys the legislative branch

If precedent has no meaning neither does the law - & of course the Supreme Court becomes utterly meaningless

jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Reich on possible reversal of same sex marriage. "Clarence Thomas made the stunning claim that he and the other justices have no obligation to follow past precedents of the Court, which he dismissed as “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.” Interracial marriage next?

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know who needs to hear this, but most of the time when you purport to be the "devil's advocate" in an argument, you're just being an asshole

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15h

People keep saying “feudalism,” but it actually just company towns.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16h

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 17h

Stand for the flag etc etc

Ending screen for 1993’s adventure point & click game “Day of the Tentacle” showing a rooftop overlooking a purple tinted sunset & an American flag - the flag is shaped like a windsock (or tentacle) w/ red & white stripes & three blue circular openings

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 17h

You can’t fool me - someone’s a fan of the 1993 LucasArts classic “Day of the Tentacle”

Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 1d

“You can always recognize a place in which no one is feeling much or any grief for a lost loved one & death, dying, & everyone you love decomposing to bones is just a joke.” Joyce Carol Oates

Photo of a two-story house with two gigantic inflatable purple octopus arms emerging from windows.

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

Complete non-sequitur but I should’a been a mid-century columnist - my time as a college newspaper editor really comes out w/ alliteratives like this & lord knows I love me a typewriter, a Linotype machine, & a good hat while talking like a background mug from Dick Tracy

Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

He also vetoed a raise for wildland firefighters

From threatening people’s lives to dropping support for those who save them, Newsom continues to rack up a wretched record

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Gavin Newsom fucking sucks, part MCXVII

he still has until the end of the week for the rest of the bills so unfortunately it’s time to suck it up, call his office, and politely ask this living hairpiece to do the bare minimum to protect the most vulnerable among us

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah sure great his team posts on socials & riles up Trump

That’s great

But you cannot square the circle of the harm he’s endorsed

We do not abandon others just for a more palatable harm b/c it “doesn’t harm ME”

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 27d

It’s farcical to plan candidates for 2028 when the Republic might not make it past the end of this year, let alone midterms; it’s an equal act of betrayal to push someone as the presumptive nominee b/c their “milder” evil comes robed in blue instead of red

It’s still worse than we could do

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

He also vetoed a raise for wildland firefighters

From threatening people’s lives to dropping support for those who save them, Newsom continues to rack up a wretched record

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Gavin Newsom fucking sucks, part MCXVII

he still has until the end of the week for the rest of the bills so unfortunately it’s time to suck it up, call his office, and politely ask this living hairpiece to do the bare minimum to protect the most vulnerable among us

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

Sending the Texas National Guard to Illinois is a loyalty test.

They went.
They passed.

Legality doesn't matter.
Need doesn't matter.
Crime doesn't matter.
Humanity doesn't matter.
Logic doesn't matter.

Loyalty to DJT matters.
That is all.

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

This is exceedingly unfair

Tulips at least aren’t a complete crock of shite

Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

Ai companies be like “the price of tulips bulbs will rise ever higher!”

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