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bradduplessis.bsky.social
Anyone who treats violence perpetrated by the state as a joke should be nowhere near decisions regarding the use of force.
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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pbump.com
I should probably have just published this in the morning, but I had some thoughts about the East Wing — particularly given something Trump said during his 2020 speech accepting the GOP nomination. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...
The president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t his
Even if only intuitively, Donald Trump knows that the White House is a storehouse of power. He understands that, like the government itself, it is an institution that our impartial democratic system h...
www.pbump.net
October 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
darwinroberts.bsky.social
@sickoscommittee.org throwback Benny Beaver sadly appropriate for a team heading to 0-7
October 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
darwinroberts.bsky.social
Naylor gutting it out even with a severe case of pinkarm
October 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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sciam.bsky.social
Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods
Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another 'Planetary Boundary'
Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods
www.scientificamerican.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
darwinroberts.bsky.social
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social Donald of Orange?
October 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Nice pull, Carl.

Seriously, read this statement they launched on day one of the administration and see how long you can make it before you feel like you're going insane.
RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP The White House January 20, 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, an amendment essential to the success of our Republic, enshrines the right of the American people to speak freely in the public square without Government interference. Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve. Under the guise of combatting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.
September 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Nancy Mace tweet: Time to bring back the death penalty superimposed on an image of Mr. Burns tenting his fingers as he talks to a crowd Smithers whispers in Mr. Burns's ear Mr. Burns pushes Smithers away Nancy Mace tweet: We truly belive if Tyler Robinson had ever sat down across from Charlie, the great debater, the man of faith and grace he was Tyler wouldn't have pulled the trigger superimposed on an image of a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd about a different subject
September 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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stevenmazie.bsky.social
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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mclem.org
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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paulecohen.bsky.social
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education

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August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
darwinroberts.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/r...

When a dentist builds a mansion and the color scheme is "tooth with filling"
In Brooklyn, a Palatial House on the Market for $25 Million
www.nytimes.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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@dbeekman.bsky.social
Thanks for covering the driver crashing their SUV into Mioposto. Any chance the Times could get SPD on the record about why the driver was not arrested for anything?
@seattlebikeblog.com @theurbanist.org
app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default....
July 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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joepatrice.bsky.social
It's only a universal injunction if it's sourced from the Amarillo courthouse region. Otherwise it's just sparkling authority exceeding.
June 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
look who learned what 86 means
A screenshot from Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime It's a wide shot of Jesse Watters and his guest sitting at some ugly ass, long ass desk The chyron reads "Terry Moran gets 86d by ABC"
June 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
TRUMP 2024: Stocks are up because people know I will be president in 2025

TRUMP 2025: Stocks are down because people know Biden was president in 2024
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump This is Biden's Stock Market, not Trump's. I didn't take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden "Overhang." This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!! 163 ReTruths 591 Likes Apr 30, 2025, 9:13 AM
April 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
gleefreshing
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Apr 2
What’s the opposite of doom scrolling?
April 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
2/ This does not instill confidence that the Government has accurately or properly identified individuals under the Alien Enemies Act:

Government declaration:

"[T]he lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."

Full context:
March 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 11
Leavitt: "Secretary Rubio reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khali. Under the immigration and nationality act, the secretary of state has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the USA."
March 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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howdypolitics.bsky.social
All the people attending town halls across the country didn’t make national news because they quietly held up signs
March 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
A specific thing I'd like to see: our leaders going beyond pointing out the illegality/destruction of what Musk is doing -- which is, of course, necessary -- and making the affirmative case FOR government.

I talk about that at length in today's newsletter. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Government is not the enemy People have been asking Democrats to stand up to Elon Musk's illegal takeover and ongoing dismantling of the federal government. Scores of lawsuits have been filed in an effort to do that, but we also need some rhetorical leadership as well. We have had some of that – I was greatly impressed by the speech given by Illinois governor JB Prtizker earlier this week – but we could certainly use more. One specific thing I'd like to see more of are our leaders going beyond merely pointing out the illegality of what Musk is doing and making the affirmative case for government. I'd like to hear a full-throated defense of government. I'd like to hear more talk about the good and necessary – and in many cases essential – things government does. I'd like to hear more from people pointing out the dangers that will befall us if governmental capacity is hobbled, as it is well on its way toward being. I'd like to hear a clear statement of principles which holds that, contrary to what Republicans have been saying for the past 50 years, government is not our enemy. Government is, by definition, us. An instrument of the people and a manifestation of our will. I want our leaders make a clear and cogent case in defense of government as the means to a host of valuable ends: I want to hear them talk about how the purpose of government is to help ensure the well-being of the nation and the well-being of its citizens; About how government action is the best and in many cases the only way we can work toward ensuring that the environment is healthy and clean; About how it's the only entity truly capable of ensuring that people will not go hungry in the richest country in the world and that people will not die because they cannot afford necessary medical treatment; About how government is essential if we want our children to be educated and our workforce prepared for the challenges of the present and the future; About how it's the only way we can ensure that our workplaces are safe; About how it plays an essential role in working to keep our economy strong and vibrant; and About how government is the only thing that can hope to stop the rich from taking advantage of the poor and the strong from taking advantage of the weak. There are many, both Republicans and Democrats, who say that none of those things are the responsibility of the government. Rather, they argue, those things are the responsibility of individual citizens, who must pull themselves up by their bootstraps, or businesses who they believe can be counted on to deliver those goods out of either the profit motive or the goodness of their hearts. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of history, however, knows that that is ideological nonsense. We’ve tried such an approach before — think of the 19th century and the free market dominated run-up to the Great Depression — and it simply did not work. The bootstraps, the charities, the churches, the foundations and the good hearts of business and the wealthy, taken together, proved to be an abject failure in the face of the challenges of the industrialized world and an utter disaster once the calamity of the Depression struck. With the private sector and the philanthropy of industrialists and churches as the bulwark we had child labor, abhorrent levels of infant mortality, and polluted waterways, streets and skies. We had poorhouses and debtors prisons. We had public health crises and wholesale crop failures. We had a brand of unfettered capitalism that led to depressions, recessions and corruption. Conservatives often accuse liberals of being starry-eyed idealists, but the level of fantasy and delusion it takes to believe that we can address the problems faced by a nation of 340 million people by returning to the approach we took with respect to such matters at the turn of the 20th century, when our population was far smaller and our economy and our challenges far less complex, is off the charts. We still must deliver prosperity, health, safety and all of the other desirable ends upon which civilized people agree. We cannot, however, depend on some fantasy version of a government-free society to provide it. We’ve tried that before. It did not work then and it will not work now. Individual people and businesses, when given a choice, will not be charitable enough en masse to address our societal problems. To meet the challenges that impact an entire nation it takes the mobilization of an entire nation. It’s simply a matter of motivation, complexity, and scale. The private sector lacks the motivation to address societal ills. But even if it was motivated to address them, the problems are too complex and too big for it to handle. It's time to stop pretending that government is the enemy. It's time to acknowledge that government is the most effective means of delivering the ends we all desire. The hard turn to toward the private sector we’ve taken as a country since 1980 has already led to suffering and inequality on a level not seen since before the New Deal. With Elon Musk and Donald Trump systematically dismantling the government things are going to get far worse in that regard in very, very short order. It is time to restore some of the balance we saw when America was, without question, the leader of the world in prosperity and freedom. To do that we must stop Elon Musk and Donald Trump's nihilistic destruction of governmental capacity immediately, yes. But we also must work to rebuild the power of the American people, exercised through a democratic government, to meet the challenges they face. And to do that our leaders must make that case, in clear and unambiguous terms, to the American people. If a dumb blogger can write that up in a Friday newsletter I think that someone who wants to lead this country out of the darkness can make that case to the public. I sure as hell want to see one of 'em try.
February 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
darwinroberts.bsky.social
Yes indeed, we are all here today because of Rupert Murdoch
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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airwolf.bsky.social
A very good friend of mine who is stationed at a US embassy just shared this. This is heart-wrenching to read and just so fucking evil.
February 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
In a functioning democracy, a President who pardoned a mob that assaulted the Capitol while trying to overturn the election, and who then fired the prosecutors who put them behind bars, would be removed from power.
February 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM