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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 6h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 6h

Canadian enthusiasm knows no bounds.

Two very bland “Go Jays” posts. (But both dudes are great people)

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 8h

Behold the mastermind playing 6 dimensional snakes and ladders

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 10h

Does no one in the media find it odd that in the middle of what the president calls insurrectionary violence a playoff baseball game is taking place at beautiful Wrigley and malort sales are surging

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 12h

What happened next Jack?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 14h

Agent Side Grinder

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 19h

"The most obvious goal of historical scholarship, for its authors as well as its readers, is to generate a better understanding of the past—in order, as the saying goes, to avoid repeating it. At the same time, historians must constantly confront the glib aspiration in that aphorism."

Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 19h

"Taken together, the five books I discuss here have come close to predicting a future almost as bleak as the one we now face."

Project MUSE - The New Carceral Colossus: Historicizing the Exclusion, Detention, and Criminalization of Immigrants in the United States

muse.jhu.edu

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 16h

So the shtick is that the president says wildly dangerous shit and this coward laughs it off as the president being 'entertaining,' then lies with the same dangerous shit in less trolly ways. All the while stripping people of rights & keeping the government shut down.

This is republican governance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 17h

So are we all...

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 17h

Waiting for Schumer

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 20h

lol that was me 2 minutes ago

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 20h

On this day in 2015, Jürgen Klopp was appointed manager of Liverpool Football Club. #dankeJürgen

a man wearing a red jacket that says cha on it

ALT: a man wearing a red jacket that says cha on it

media.tenor.com

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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 16d

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Uncivil Democracy

How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities

press.princeton.edu

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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Last night, historians weighed in with SCOTUS to set the record straight: Since the beginning, everyone understood that voters can use Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to challenge discriminatory maps.

Their brief: www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...
@alexkeyssar.bsky.social @brennancenter.org

www.brennancenter.org

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

Very nice piece from my colleague @stevevladeck.bsky.social in today's Times on the illegality of Trump's troop deployments to American cities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants

www.nytimes.com

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1d

All fun and games until someone loses a republic

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Cruz: I hope I test negative for stupid

Kennedy: I talk in the book about the tattoo of the backstreet boys on your back.

Cruz: Look, I can't help that you don't want to reach young people. I think young people are the future

Bondi: That would be on VP Vance's playlist

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

LOL the Boston Globe gets its hands on Pete Hegseth’s 2013 Master’s thesis at Harvard KSG, in which he was a bit of a woke DEI lover.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1d

And he's got literally nothing else to do at the moment

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1d

Alpha speakers would be concerned about their majority...

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1d

"I don't know the details, I just saw a headline" is exactly what you expect to hear from the Speaker of the House of Representatives during a government shutdown.

"there are some legal analysts"--great job Mr. Speaker

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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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1d

Also he blushes when he lies...

Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that the White House is forcing Johnson to run point on the comms. Judging by the numbers doesn't seem like he's doing so well.

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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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that the White House is forcing Johnson to run point on the comms. Judging by the numbers doesn't seem like he's doing so well.

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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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2d

He’s handing out commemorative coins with his FBI director title on them! We live in the stupidest time.😩

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 2d

Lice comb is an interesting marketing choice

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2d

He’s handing out commemorative coins with his FBI director title on them! We live in the stupidest time.😩

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 2d

Read the speech in Hacksaw Jim Duggan’s voice and it makes more sense

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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