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Wish I’d known I had ADD back then. Part of the problem but doing my best to limit the damage and help when I can. Can tell a hawk from a handsaw in most (many?) environmental conditions. he/him/his

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Jeff @jefffreyspies.bsky.social · Aug 7

Until the revolution. And when the revolution comes, all I can say is that I except I’ll be in the vicinity of a wall

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

I used to really look forward to oral arguments. I can't imagine being a constitutional law professor trying to teach current law students about this fucking Court and the rule of law.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

"We all know that only 1 protest was needed to stop the Vietnam War"

Said nobody ever

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 4d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

ICE about to be paid in Burger King coupons

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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Jeff @jefffreyspies.bsky.social · 5d

Working towards it one day myself

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

seriously, rigorously learning over time to not be the Well Actually Guy - which was 100% my natural inclination as a kid - has made such a difference in my life

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

But I also had to learn via much trial and error to NOT come off as condescending to others (and I sure did come off that way to others as a kid). This has greatly improved my life.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 8d

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Each day, I recognize (to paraphrase Lincoln again) that
the brave men and women, living and dead, who have struggled in
our Nation's service have hallowed our Constitutional freedom
far above my (or anyone’s) poor power to add or detract. The
only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we
extend to the weakest and most reviled among us.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 8d

i think the point i often want to make is not that people shouldn’t be alarmed or scared, fear is a very reasonable response to what’s happening.

more, i want folks to see fascist pronouncements as they are: battle plans, not accomplished facts, and as such reveal opportunities for resistance.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨ @astridindigo.bsky.social · 8d

Malicious compliance with HOAs is the only known way to defeat them. 🪦

Spencer Koelle @spencerkoelle.bsky.social · 8d

Remember kids, the HOAs (Home Owners Associations) are Always Lawful Evil.

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Sanjukta Kwame Paul LT @sanjukta.bsky.social · 8d

Minor note: traditional unequal pay for women and men based on "breadwinner" status is textbook example of pricing practices that violate the laws of supply n demand and attempt to do coordinated cost-based pricing instead

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

Did you know ICE is holding a disabled advocate and whistleblower who helped shut down one of their detention centres?

Alma Bowman is a 58 year old woman from Georgia who spent 30 months in ICE custody during the first Trump regime.

When released she became a fearless advocate for detainees 🧵

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 9d

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 10d

Google deletes history:

Google just erased 7 years of our political history

Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for countless elections across 27 countries - is all gone. We had been told

www.thebriefing.ie

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Jeff @jefffreyspies.bsky.social · 9d

The Motel 6 on the outskirts of Albany where I stayed while taking the NY Bar Exam?

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 9d

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9d

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9d

Just want to add that reproductive rights are an economic issue and for many women a survival issue. If you can't control your body, you can't control your life.

Abortion is a bread-and-butter economic issue. We need to treat it that way | Rebecca Solnit

Parenthood, criminality or death: these are now the all-too-expensive options for many women in the wake of the Dobbs decision

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff @jefffreyspies.bsky.social · 9d

In your defense, the titans of industry thought so too, then got very scared

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 9d

And if you did accurately foresee most of this, you sounded like a maniac

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9d

The Coates-Klein debate (and meta-debate) just reinforces my belief that we elevated the wrong MLK passage.

Not the optimistic “content of their character” I Have A Dream speech.

But the “white moderate … [who] advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season’” Letter From Birmingham Jail.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 9d

This is not a complaint; this is the least I have ever hated NFL media as a genre

@WesSteinberg
#Giants QB Jason Dart staggered out of the showers, water still dripping down his chest, steam clinging to his skin after winning his first NFL start.
His legs trembled, his voice was husky, his eyes half-lidded. He'd been pounded into the turf all afternoon, hit again and again, and every ache showed.
But his lips curled into a sly grin.
Then Brian Daboll strode over, grabbed him by the neck, and pulled the rookie QB into a sweaty, lingering embrace - steam rising around them

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Jeff @jefffreyspies.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, I realized the timing issue after I responded, but I assumed the 25th would simply override any prior directives. At least in a world with a Rule of Law.

Jeff @jefffreyspies.bsky.social · 9d

In the absence of the President, why wouldn't it just follow the 25th Amendment?

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Jeff @jefffreyspies.bsky.social · 9d

Personally I feel defining the appropriate voting polity would be nearly impossible, and the question of if the rest of the country should have any say on the question of maintaining the status quo surprisingly difficult.

Jeff @jefffreyspies.bsky.social · 10d

Agreed, no disrespect meant.

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · May 21

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