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Former NYC political hack. Did some climate stuff once (and still do, now and again). Also occasional Liverpool FC posts. 📍Long Island

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · Jun 9

“America was never America to me.

And yet I swear this oath: America will be!” - Langston Hughes

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 8h

Tactical clothfighter

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 8h

This is getting wild.

The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

The States of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and 14 additional States
respectfully move for leave to submit the attached amicus curiae brief in support of Defendants
and their opposition to Plaintiffs’ requested temporary restraining order and preliminary
injunction. Proposed amici are States with a vested interest in federalism, the relationship between
States and the federal government, and deploying the National Guard. We also each have a vital
interest in supporting the President and Congress in enacting and enforcing valid immigration
laws. Every State has a responsibility to protect our citizens.
The federalization of States’ National Guard units is a matter of profound public
importance, as it directly implicates the delicate balance of power between state and federal
governments—a true cornerstone of Federalism. States generally maintain authority over their
National Guard units, allowing governors to deploy them for state-specific needs, such as disaster
response or public safety. Federalization of state National Guard units without gubernatorial

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 8h

I have frogs everywhere

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 9h

It's ok, he knows Steiner is coming to the rescue

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

I heard they screened SAVING PRIVATE RYAN at the White House and Trump cried over all those poor soldiers who sacrificed their lives defending Normandy Beach.

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 9h

sickos yes dot jpg

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 9h

Na zdrowie

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 9h

CRISIS AVERTED: I didn’t miss out on National Pierogi Day

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 11h

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 12h

On behalf of those of us who haven’t been west of Colorado I appreciate you taking the time to explain it

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 12h

🤔

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"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

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 12h

Honestly, since you mention it, what is the Oregonian way of saying Oregon?

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 12h

Upstate: Skaneateles or Chili
Downstate: Houston Street

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 12h

a ferris bueller 's day off poster with a woman in the foreground

ALT: a ferris bueller 's day off poster with a woman in the foreground

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 13h

Killing enslavers in the pirate one made for some good times, I must say

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 13h

That's too bad. The most fun I ever had playing Assassin's Creed was the pirate one where you got to liberate sugar plantations in between plundering booty.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 13h

Warriors remake but in Chicago

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 13h

🚨A quarter of all FBI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 14h

Nah you coulda kept it that way

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 14h

Change in Headline

Before: Cuomo Calls for Rebuilding Rikers Island and Keeping the Jails Open
After: Cuomo Calls for Rebuilding Rikers Island and Keeping the Complex Open

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 14h

Can't get the article to load on my end, alas - but I wonder if any of them had ancestors who witnessed this incident from 1901: "ITALIANS TRY TO MOB CHAUFFEUR. He Had Run Over a Baby Playing in the Street"

CONFESSED TO SAVE OTHERS; Ex-Convict Told How He Stole $1,031 Worth of Jewels. Freed Two Servants Who Were on Trial for the Theft -- Recorder Gave Him a Light Sentence. (Published 1901)

www.nytimes.com

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 14h

WPC has initiated Key Messages for an impending coastal storm that will look to generate strong wind gusts, heavy rainfall, and significant coastal impacts that include coastal flooding, rip currents, and beach erosion along portions of the East Coast over the upcoming weekend.

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 15h

I, um… is this what is meant by “transgender for everybody”?

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 15h

Mostly goofy. They probably wouldn’t have lynched AOC that night if they had the chance, right? That fully constructed gallows was just satirical, yeah

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 15h

He can try to be with it by doing a terrible cover of “Your Idol” from K-Pop Demon Hunters

Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 15h

Rule by Agnes:

The customer's always right | The Simpsons

YouTube video by Andy Latino

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16h

The reason the right thinks DEI involves enormous lowering of standards to hire unqualified hacks is partly because they're racist and partly because their version of DEI does exactly this

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17h

Last year the Secretary of Defense was a black general and now the Secretary of Defense is a washed up National Guard major who the military considered a white supremacist insider threat and said white supremacist is also an alcoholic accused of spousal abuse.

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