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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 2h

Not if you’re the kind of guy who has trouble caring about even one thing

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 6h

Accidentally or "accidentally"

Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 7h

Admittedly, sentences 1 and 3 are ambiguously in conflict and don't lend themselves to clean resolution. The amorphous difference is, "families should be left together because it's good for everyone, not because the child is private property".

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 7h

I truly don't think "parental rights" are a thing. There's "parental responsibilities". And there's a wide zone around the parent-child relationship the state has no business in. But if child abuse is happening, the fact that the abuser is a parent doesn't somehow make it OK.

And yes I am a parent.

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Ida Clemens @idaclemens.bsky.social · 8h

how do I live in a world where thinking the KKK are the baddies is too woke for mass marketed art

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 10h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 8h

The Gish Gallop Made Flesh.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 9h

Being real, I never really expected to find IJ on the right side of anything, but here they are. Same with FIRE.

It's comforting to see orgs with the courage and seriousness to stand by their principles, even when it means finding themselves part of a new coalition.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 10h

This is craven and shameful. For the company that prides itself on subpoena-proof privacy on iMessage. Truly, shame on Apple.

I'm sure Timmy's comforting himself that acquienscence is in the best interest of the shareholder. It will not be.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 12h

Goddamn, somebody ate his Wheaties

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 1d

I once read a chef's comment that "most people don't understand that American cheese is supposed to be a cheese *sauce*, and just happens to be solid at room temperature."

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 1d

I had a bacon cheeseburger on Passover once. So.

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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

Trump airlines? Shut down.
Trump casinos? Shut down.
Trump steaks? Shut down.
Trump vodka? Shut down.
Trump university? Shut down.

Donald Trump has kept his promise to run our government like he ran his companies: shut down, with unpaid workers & blaming everyone but himself.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 1d

NO. BAD PETER.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 1d

This anarchy is no *true* Scotsman, sir

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

It's black letter, can't get more explicit, printed in US code you ignoramus. 31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2)

*JOHNSON: SOME LEGAL ANAYLYSTS DON'T BELIEVE IN SHUTDOWN BACKPAY

(2)Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 2d

Ro Khanna (Look at Me!-CA)

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 2d

I know a dude who moved *from* Los Angeles *to* Portland OR to start an acting career. And he did it, too.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2d

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 2d

As we in Corporate America know, the only people who do anything that matters are the CEO and his golf buddies.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 2d

But did we Nuke The Whales? If you're not Nuking The Whales, you're not doing Big War.

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marcy and the banshees🦇 @beneprism.rip · 2d

There is a problem with people confusing procedural (bipartisanship etc.), policy, and aesthetic moderation. Buttigieg is an aesthetic moderate but a pretty consistent partisan, while someone like Sanders is a policy and aesthetic radical (within US politics) but a procedural moderate

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