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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1h

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L @lbligh.bsky.social · 2h

He does not read with fluency and expression. He also split an infinitive.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19h

Margolin previously served as the security chief at Marine Base Quantico but was dismissed from that role after accidentally firing his weapon into the floor of his office.

www.justice.gov

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L @lbligh.bsky.social · 1d

What an asshole.

L @lbligh.bsky.social · 1d

TL;DR.

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Kat Shadowstar 🇨🇦 @shadowstarkanada.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else 'member when Elon Musk claimed he'd fix world hunger if only someone would tell him how his billions of dollars could possibly help?

And then he did a Nazi salute and joined with the Trump regime to cut food aid around the world?

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L @lbligh.bsky.social · 1d

Great description! Poetic! I usually just say, the original tune was dreary and repetitive but Eva improved it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

This.

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L @lbligh.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure this was done by a recent political appointee, not the real foresters!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Trump just threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to block court rulings against him.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva won her election two weeks ago. Republicans refuse to seat her in Congress.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"“If the deputy director wants to do something and needs a legal opinion about whether or not he can do it, he can’t advise himself...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

www.nytimes.com

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L @lbligh.bsky.social · 2d

One, who wants to do it.

L @lbligh.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight on All Things Considered (NPR) will be a story about the impact of the Trump takeover of the Kennedy Center on the arts scene in DC. (Monday night.)

L @lbligh.bsky.social · 2d

I guess the grammar was a "mission critical function" but not the flagrantly illegal partisan verbiage.

L @lbligh.bsky.social · 2d

The US Forest Service still has the illegal (under the Hatch Act) shutdown notice on their website, BUT they DID correct the grammatical error. Fascinating.

@altusfs.altgov.info @maddow.msnbc.com
@maddowblog.msnbc.com
@sethabramson.bsky.social @dreamweasel.bsky.social
@lincolnproject.us

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2d

Blue states like California are not powerless.

This piece by @clarajeffery.bsky.social makes a compelling case that they should exact retribution against less populous Red states with less cultural sway and economic firepower.

Fight the Trump administration through direct harm to its allies.

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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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...