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Repugnant to the Constitution
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"Twenty years of fast living—there's just not much left, and my kids are all screwed up. Don't do what I have done." -NC
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
My man looks like an Elf on the Shelf on a first date
December 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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shannondrake.bsky.social
This is why I’ve said before;

Believing #Russia on *anything* at face value is about as smart as setting yourself on fire.

They’re desperate and they need excuses.

#Putin #Ukraine #Trump #Zelenskyy
December 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
letmebefell.bsky.social
I was walking in the centre of Dublin with my father on a Saturday morning and he stopped Tip O’Neill, the long-time Speaker of the US House of Congress, with a “Welcome to Dublin, Mr. Speaker” - who responded in a Sunderland accent “Thanks very much but I’m not him.”
rhodri.biz Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10h
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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shannondrake.bsky.social
Reminded me of this:
Science Dr. Jessica McCarty @mccarty_geo At a NASA Earth meeting 10 years ago, a white male post doc interrupted me to tell me that I didn't understand human drivers of fire, that I def needed to read McCarty et al. Looked him in the eye, pulled my long hair back so he could read my name tag. "I'm McCarty et al." Cold JJ @J_Dot_J• 1d In honor of Valentine's Day, what's the most obvious thing you've ever been mansplained about? Mine was once mentioning a 30(b) (6) depo for... 2:11 am • 16/2/21 • Twitter for iPhone
December 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Matt Taibbi is someone who deserves to get legal advice from Caitlin Flanagan.
keptsimple.bsky.social m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1d
a lot of dumb dumbs at the Atlantic, but man, Caitlin Flanagan is on another level
flanagan suggesting to matt taibbi that eoin higgins has also "triggered additional kinds of liability" because "consumers are being misled" by a book title
December 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Are white people aware that Trump won twice BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO VOTED PUT HIM IN OFFICE?????????? Why is this consistently elided???? Stop being ridiculous.
December 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
The wsj is owned by famous leftist Rupert Murdoch
December 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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edzitron.com
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December 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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matthewbest.bsky.social
Wait till you read how he was fucking hired
A book page: "As soon as Mosley took a seat, Karp began reciting a fiery speech that Oswald Mosley gave in 1939 demanding that Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. ("Our generation shall not die like rats in Polish holes. They shall not die but shall live to see above their heads the English sky, to feel beneath their feet the English soil, and to enjoy the fair English countryside....") Karp didn't just repeat a few sentences; he went on for minutes, reproducing the speech from memory. Mosley sat in stunned silence. When Karp finished, he executed a few tai chi moves and walked out of the room without saying goodbye. A shaken Mosley figured that his family's dark past had torpedoed him again. But it hadn't: he was hired and ended up running Palantir's UK business."
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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xavierdleau.com
what a sneaky way to evoke voter suppression.
abbij1961.bsky.social Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 1d
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
abbij1961.bsky.social Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 1d
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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out5p0ken.bsky.social
Trump commuted the sentence of Philip Esformes, behind a $1.3B Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Florida Senator Rick Scott led a company that paid $1.7B for Medicare fraud. This is the party pretending to care about Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
December 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Chappell Roan:
wint o @dril X.com issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding famous racist Brigitte Bardot. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
December 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
My question is why is it not a violation of "objective journalism" to allow a high-profile man caught in a scandal to profile another high-profile man caught in a scandal.
jaywillis.net Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d
There is a LOT going on in Jeffrey Toobin’s weird soft-focus profile of Tom Goldstein, but my favorite recurring bit is all the people who know poker finding creative ways to politely make clear that Tom Goldstein is not good at poker www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
Goldstein's style of play reflected his swaggering, risk-friendly approach to litigation. "Very often lawyers, or people in general, want to make every conceivable argument, and you get in the situation where, by making every point, you essentially make no points," he told me. "I'm a big believer that you have to figure out what your winning argument is. It is a poker thing, and that is being willing to say: This is not working. And if I just sit here and hedge my bets and argue both, I'm not going to accomplish anything." As Bill Perkins, an Austin, Texas-based hedge fund manager, put it: "Tom is extremely wild and crazy, like a lunatic at the poker table. He's fearless, an overbluffing kind of a player, what we call a chip bully. He tried to run people over at the table. You want controlled aggression, and he had unbridled aggression." For better or worse, in poker and elsewhere, Goldstein believed in going all-in. The first major turning point in Goldstein's poker career came in 2008, when he put up the $10,000 fee to enter the World Series of Poker, a multiday extravaganza in Las Vegas. On the first night, after the tournament had ended for the day, Goldstein sat down at a table at the Bellagio. "I end up playing without looking at my cards," Goldstein said. That, to put it mildly, was an unconventional strategy. He bet wildly and recklessly, but his opponents were flummoxed by his blind aggression. Goldstein told me he ultimately played that way for 18 hours and won some $400,000. That night was also significant because it's when Goldstein met Dan Bilzerian. An heir to a family fortune, Bilzerian became famous for his extravagant and louche lifestyle as a professional poker player in Las Vegas, and later for being a social media influencer whose posts often featured guns and women in bikinis. Bilzerian recalled Goldstein's antics that night: "People were all watching the game and talking about what a [expletive] maniac he was." After getting the loan from Resnick, Goldstein promptly lost $9 million playing ring games. "Playing ring poker against a bunch of people requires enormous discipline, enormous patience, and those are just not things in poker that I have," Goldstein said. "If you're playing against eight people, just mathematically, the odds that somebody has a hand that's better than yours are quite high. If you're playing against one person, you don't have to be nearly as patient. What's rewarded is being very aggressive. So heads-up, in essence, is built for me." Goldstein started taking on investors in his heads-up contests, who would share in his wins and losses.
December 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Trump and truth rarely belong in the same sentence.
Trump Mocked For Accidentally Telling The Truth About His Second Term In Unintentionally On-Point Rant
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December 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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darach.bsky.social
If you are a straight man in Ireland and a bit shy and awkward about breaking the ice with a gal you'd like to talk to, here's a tip. Every woman in Ireland is an amateur pharmacist (except for the actual pharmacists), a sommelier of painkillers. Ask her about painkillers and she will talk to you.
December 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
yes trump voters are dumb but this mindset isnt very different from the people who keep insisting people like pelosi/schumer/jeffries have a master plan in hand when they give in to the right.
ofsevit.bsky.social Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 1d
“Think about how stupid the average American is, and then realize that half of the people are dumber than that.”

RIP George Carlin.
December 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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amflynn.bsky.social
This made me laugh more than any book I've read in years.
The cover of Spirit Level by Richie Craven It's pale blue with an illustration of a car drowning, bonnet first, in a glass of whiskey and green smoke emanating from the rear. Underneath the title is in strong black font, all lower case and the author's name is in small green text, all caps.
December 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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mtsw.bsky.social
The Plot to Enslave America
brennancenter.org Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 2d
Private prison company GEO Group allegedly made immigration detainees work for no pay. Now it's at the Supreme Court trying to prevent the detainees from suing. bit.ly/4pfafj2
Supreme Court Considers Private Prison Case
A private prison company seeks a ruling that could help all government contractors evade liability.
www.brennancenter.org
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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oldmatecans.bsky.social
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance

Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn

Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
December 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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mikebarthelauthor.com
My chaotic neutral fix for the US electoral system is to still have geographic-based voting, but each zip code is randomly aggregated with other zip codes from across the country until you get roughly one district or state’s population.
December 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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noahshachtman.bsky.social
MAGA may be trying to buy up -- or kill -- the culture. But it pushed back against the regime in all sorts of ways. I wrote about some of them for the @nytimes.com, including the epic return of @theonion.com ...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
Onion returns
December 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Half of our news stories these days are "Rich Asshole Doesn't Want to Follow the Rules" or "Rich Asshole Doesn't Like Something" or "Rich Asshole Makes Ominous Threat"

Instead of kowtowing to these spoiled toddlers, I want to stand outside their mansion like Lloyd Dobler blaring this on a boom box:
The Coup - "The Guillotine"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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December 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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oalexanderdk.bsky.social
Putin spending all week screaming from the rooftops that he does not want peace and has no intentions of backing down from his maximalist aims in Ukraine.

Meanwhile world’s most perceptive, people-savvy empath:
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump says he thinks Putin is serious about peace
December 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM