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Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 6h

Plenary? More like delegated and pending approval.

Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 7h

If it's in project 2025, then it's not a distraction, it's a plank.

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Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 10h

looks like loitering, likely

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G A Lenker @galenker.bsky.social · 1d

If drugs are weapons, don't Americans have a Second Amendment right to have them?

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

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Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 1d

I have a big long theory about how Changes is an album which beautifully summarizes (my weak understanding of) impermanence and the five aggregates.

Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 1d

If any music theorists want to explain this song to me, I will listen with my chin in my hands on the edge of my seat.

Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 1d

vote with your feet
make company
form a military of peace...

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 1d

Death squads have started. Dem leadership needs to be screaming from the rooftops to get those responsible arrested and put on trial for justice immediately before these numbnuts consolidate further.

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

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Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 1d

vote with your feet
make company
form a military of peace...

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Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 1d

Voice is still too active, Oliver, go back and do it again until you've used "to whom"

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 1d

This is orders of magnitude worse than the Kent state massacre.

This was was an execution.

Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 1d

This was a death squad.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

"Parente said the video shows an agent turn a federal vehicle left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, 'Do something b----.' The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez."

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

We are in a golden age of morons failing upward. Even inbred hapsburgs weren’t doing it like this

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

Suppose masked people who identify themselves as federal agents, but show no warrant or other forms of ID, show up at the governor’s house with guns and say they plan to execute the governor right there for treason.

Should security not shoot those people?

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Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 2d

"attachment is the source of suffering and there is a way out," or something

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3d

The question of “how many fascist government actions make a country a fascist country?” is a semantics distraction.

The real question is “Is the country doing fascist things?”

If the answer to that is yes, we need to be focusing on how to stop them.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Jordan 🦚 @floatalongfyl.bsky.social · 4d

Polygondwanaland

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 4d

In defense of Taylor Swift...what's the best 12th album anyone has ever made?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Brandon Goodell @bggoodell.bsky.social · 3d

If a permutation changes a stereotyping statement to apply to another stereotyped group (change "men" to "black people" and "not doing dishes" with "being lazy") then don't shout it into a public forum. And look in the mirror. Fix yourself.

Unless the stereotyped group is billionaires.