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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 48m

The Garland DoJ bent over backwards to be extra fair to Trump, who committed heinous, unambiguous crimes.

That has no relationship whatsoever to these attempts to prosecute James or Comey out of thin air.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 54m

This piece is utterly shameful, full of lies no editor should let get printed

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 13m

Won't anyone think of the suffering of poor...Tom Nichols

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30m

No, I'm tired of the silence over 5,000 trans service members and their families being kicked out. I'm tired of the silence over the demonization of the trans community. I'm tired of trans youth being attacked. If you want stack up your Democratic campaign record against mine, I'm here. Go ahead.

DemtotheBone @demtothebone.bsky.social · 1h

This is an example of why Progressives cost Democrats elections. Tom gets to choose what he writes about and you rip him for not discussing something unrelated and off his topic. This is a sad but persistent habit of certain liberals. It is a losing play. Pontificate elsewhere. Dear God, indeed.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22m

every experiment re basic income shows that people are *more* productive and more fulfilled. which isn't that surprising; if you have no place to live and are starving, all your effort goes to basic survival, and you're likely to sink into despair.

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 18m

I wasn't crazy about every moment of it when I was watching it but gosh did they wrap it all up together wonderfully, pieces connecting as it went on

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 35m

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28m

Love this. “NATO for nonprofits.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

'NATO for nonprofits': Groups organize to band together if targeted by Trump

Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation after finding themselves in the administration's crosshairs.

www.nbcnews.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 25m

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 47m

The president is literally a mob associated, formally mob-funded fraudster and money launderer, so, yeah, it's great time for organized crime, and I'm including especially the various cop 'unions' which are the most prominent mafia most people see.

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 1h

This is probably the best time to be in organized crime since before the repeal of prohibition in 1933. I mean if you wanted to commit high level non-immigrant related crime, now is the time to go hog wild.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 1h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Winona Ryder, covered in ash and dragging on a cigarette at the end of “Heathers”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1h

John Fetterman shouldn't be a Senator he should be a guy that sells heavy duty farm equipment and every July is Fettermania where it's steep discounts on augers

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 50m

When it happens I'll let you know

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote legal editorials for the Post for a hot minute many years ago, and I was constantly anxious about making sure I got the details right. This editorial is just humiliating for everyone involved

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

All the sour patch kids are non-binary now

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

Just got back from the Antifa leadership council meeting and it was really great, some big stuff coming up soon. We're making Golden Corral woke in time for Thanksgiving

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 1h

Surely THIS will be the sign of Trump delusion that gets the press as excited to harp on it non-stop as they did about Biden being old!

Ha ha no they never will.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe Trump gets to do drone strikes on antifa directly in the United States and I'm sure our press will follow up with headlines about how this presses the boundaries of law-enforcement

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1h

Texas has invaded Illinois and Dick Durbin can’t be assed.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1h

Needless to say, it's wildly inappropriate. But Wray didn't have to resign! Unlike so many people this administration has targeted, he literally enabled his own prosecution.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1h

Wray meekly resigned when Trump took office, paving the way for a grifter as head of the FBI, and is still being targeted by the administration. Leopards, faces, etc.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h

I understand some of these people but I forgive none of them.

Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs

At a recent DHS career expo in Provo, Utah, many attendees hoped to get hired to help with the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

www.npr.org

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