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Nick C.
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Trans guy from Boston. Opinionated. Has immature moments. Enter at your own risk.
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We are BACK tonight! We'll be premiering our #TheWheelOfTime interview with Madeleine Madden, talking the new S3 clip dropped by Entertainment Tonight and Shohreh's fun clip with Kae, and @unraveling.bsky.social's drop, too! & More!

Be there! 9pm ET! #WoTSkies!

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(Live) FINAL WHEEL OF TIME S3 News, Rumors, & Theories before S3 E1 Premieres at Global Fan Event!
YouTube video by The Dusty Wheel
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March 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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stephenking.bsky.social
Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist
February 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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zezvaz.bsky.social
‘Cybertruck Man’
a cartoon in defiance of Musk
#political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen
February 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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kc6.bsky.social
The Rich keep getting more corrupt.

Russia reportedly sent a whopping $5 billion through banking giants JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup in a scheme to skirt US sanctions

These big corporations will sell their childrens' souls for a buck

#FUCKJPMORGAN
#corruptbanks

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Russia Sent $5,000,000,000 Through JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup in Alleged Scheme To Evade Sanctions: Report - The Daily Hodl
Russia reportedly sent a whopping $5 billion through banking giants JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup in a scheme to skirt US sanctions.
dailyhodl.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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jamnyc94.bsky.social
Holy shit Lauryn Hill
#SNL #SNL50
a young girl in a school uniform is sitting at a table with her hands in the air .
Alt: a young girl in a school uniform is sitting at a table with her hands in the air . Lauryn Hill in Sister Act 2
media.tenor.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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yadele.blacksky.app
Lauryn Hill was on the SNL concert with the Fugees, and it's not trending on BlueSky or my timeline? We need to do better people!
February 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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incompetusrex.bsky.social
OMG, Bove did the Trump thing.
February 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
"Moreover, dismissing the case will amplify, rather than abate, concerns about weaponization of the Department."
Moreover, dismissing the case will amplify, rather than abate, concerns about weaponization ofthe Department. Despite Mr. Bove's observation that the directive to dismissthe case has been reached without assessing the strength of the evidence against Adams, Adams has already seized on the memo to publicly assert that he is innocent and that the accusations against him were unsupported by the evidence and based only on “ fanfare and sensational claims.” Confidence in the Department would best be restored by means well short of a dismissal. As you know, our office is prepared to seek a superseding indictment from a new grand jury under my leadership. We have proposed a superseding indictment that would add an obstruction conspiracy count based on evidence that Adams destroyed and instructed others to destroy evidence and provide false information to the FBI, and that would add further factual allegations regarding his participation in a fraudulent straw donor scheme.
February 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
"Mr. Bove rightly has never called into question that the case team conducted this investigation with integrity and that the charges against Adams are serious and supported by fact and law."
On February 10, 2025, I received a memorandum from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, directing me to dismiss the indictment against Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, which would require leave of court. I do not repeat here the evidence against Adams that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes; Mr. Bove rightly has never called into question that the case team conducted this investigation with integrity and that the charges against Adams are serious and supported by fact and law. Mr. Bove's memo, however, which directs me to dismiss an indictment returned by a duly constituted grand jury for reasons having nothing to do with the strength of the case, raises serious concerns that render the contemplated dismissal inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts.
February 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
"It is a breathtaking and dangerous precedent to reward Adams's opportunistic and shifting commitments on immigration and other policy matters with dismissal of a criminal indictment. Nor will a court likely find that such an improper exchange is consistent with the public interest."
The comparison to the Bout exchange is particularly alarming. That prisoner swap was an exchange of official acts between separate sovereigns (the United States and Russia), neither of which had any claim that the other should obey its laws. By contrast, Adams is an American citizen, and a local elected official, who is seeking a personal benefit—immunity from federal laws to which he is undoubtedly subject—in exchange for an act-enforcement offederal law?he has no right to refuse. Moreover, the Bout exchange was a widely criticized sacrifice of a valid American interest (the punishment of an infamous arms dealer) which Russia was able to extract only through a patently selective prosecution of a famous American athlete.² It is difficult to imagine that the Department wishes to emulate that episode by granting Adams leverage over it akin to Russia's influence in international affairs. It is a breathtaking and dangerous precedent to rewardAdams's opportunistic and shifting commitments on immigration and other policy matters with dismissal of a criminal indictment. Nor will a court likely find thatsuch an improper exchange is consistent with the public interest. See United States v. N.V. Nederlandsche Combinatie Voor Chemische Industrie ("Nederlandsche Combinatie " ), 428 F. Supp. 114 , 116-17 (S.D.N.Y. 1977) (denying Government's motion to dismiss where Government had agreed to dismiss charges against certain defendants in exchange for guilty pleas by others); cf. In re United States, 345 F.3d 450, 453 (7th Cir. 2003) (describing a prosecutor's acceptance of a bribe as a clear example of a dismissal that should not be granted as contrary to the public interest)
February 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com:

"Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
Dear Attorney General Bondi: On February 10, 2025, I received a memorandum from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, directing me to dismiss the indictment against Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, which would require leave of court. I do not repeat here the evidence against Adams that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes; Mr. Bove rightly has never called into question that the case team conducted this investigation with integrity and that the charges against Adams are serious and supported by fact and law. Mr. Bove's memo, however, which directs me to dismiss an indictment returned by a duly constituted grand jury for reasons having nothing to do with the strength of the case, raises serious concerns that render the contemplated dismissal inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts. When I took my oath of office three weeks ago, I vowed to well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I was about to enter. In carrying out that responsibility, I am guided by, among other things, the Principles of Federal Prosecution set forth in the Justice Manual and your recent memoranda instructing attorneys for the Department of Justice to make only good-faith arguments and not to use the criminal enforcement authority of the United States to achieve political objectives or other improper aims. I am also guided by the values that have defined my over ten years of public service. You and I have yet to meet, let alone discuss this case. But as you may know, I clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Both men instilled in me a sense of duty to contribute to the public good and uphold the rule of law, and a commitment to reasoned and thorough analysis. I have always considered it my o…
February 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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neonchinchilla.bsky.social
when I bump into my mutuals in the replies
February 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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dril.bsky.social
My 100th birthday... in prison? - This is abuse.
February 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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rachelgoes262.bsky.social
Happy 13th Birthday, Jude!

Today is also Jude’s Gotcha Day. He has been with me for 11 years.

Jude will always be my Valentine.

We love you, Jude!
#cats #CatsOfBluesky #gato #birthday
Jude is a tabby cat with white. He is laying on a purple blanket looking at the camera.
February 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
Thanks to @mrhenrymorris.bsky.social, I’ve seen the next incisive issue of The PNG Courier
February 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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scalzi.com
Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.
February 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
Of course the Democrats will be going to Houston to find and interview voters who were laid off , to ask them what their expectations of the new administration were and how they feel they are doing at the moment. And posting here and everywhere. Right ?
artcandee.bsky.social Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · Feb 13
On Fox Business this morning, Chevron Chair and CEO Mike Wirth discusses all of the records that the company has broken last year.

"Record" production, record distributions to shareholders, etc...

Yet they're laying off 15%-20% of their workforce.

Vile.
February 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
WSJ tops Page One with its piece about Amazon — “a company that prides itself on frugality” — bidding $40m for Melaina’s doc, “nearly three times the next-closest offer,” after dinner with Bezos.

$AMZN
February 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
“Why don’t they play popular music at the Super Bowl anymore.”

— Man who thinks 1996 was 10 years ago.
February 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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that’s right.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Feb 10
Fabulous 🇺🇸💥
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM