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Michael F. Lopez, Enemy of the State 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇱🇧🇰🇷
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Pro-choice, anti-deist, democratic socialist, pro-science, feminist, anti-fascist, WoHo supporting curmudgeon He/Him/His
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andycraig.bsky.social
She has it exactly backwards. The domestic deployments to date are a much weaker case for being so manifestly illegal as to justify refusal; that's a high bar. The boat strikes are outright unambiguous murder, everyone in that chain down to the one pulling the trigger has had a clear duty to refuse.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16d
Sen. Slotkin said today—to my surprise—that she's unaware of any illegal orders *so far*.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wee...
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Two things can be true:

You should not take off your shoes and put your feet on the chair ahead of you.

The Secretary of Transportation is not a serious person
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The "peace president."
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15d
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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glaad.bsky.social
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. 🏳️‍⚧️
Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
A week before he voted to cut Medicaid, Republican Congressman Rob Bresnahan dumped up to $130,000 worth of stock in four companies that manage nearly half of all Medicaid enrollees in the country.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Rep. Rob Bresnahan sold stock in several Medicaid providers before voting for cuts
The Pennsylvania Republican is one of several members who have come under scrutiny for stock trading as Congress eyes a potential ban.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
The world’s 3 biggest music companies have all licensed their works to an AI music startup.

The company, called Klay, is building a streaming service where users to remake songs using AI.

Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Music have all signed on.
Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service
The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.

We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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noh8campaign.bsky.social
BREAKING: Supreme Court declines challenge to landmark 2015 same-sex marriage ruling #NOH8
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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frankconniff.bsky.social
Darth Vader has assured Lando Calrissian that Princess Liea and Chewbacca will be left under his supervision in Cloud City and that's good enough for Chuck Schumer.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
I am fascinated by the growing number of conservatives who claim I should be ‘denaturalized & deported’ because I am apparently anti-American (based on what?); these same folks who hate many of the core freedoms & rights in the American Constitution, including the 1st & 14th Amendments. The irony.
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Layoffs are reaching their highest levels since the pandemic, but America's corporate elite have never been doing better.

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
CONCLUSION For the above reasons, this Court concludes that Plaintiffs have demonstrated that Defendants violated 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and the Tenth Amendment and satisfy the requirements for a permanent injunction. Therefore, this Court PERMANENTLY ENJOINS Defendants24 Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Department of Defense, Kristi Noem, and the U.S. Department of 24 As this Court may lack jurisdiction to enjoin President Trump in the performance of his official duties, see Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 802–03 (1992) (plurality opinion); Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 475, 501 (1866), this injunction applies only against the other Defendants. PAGE 105 – FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051; Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051; 2. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 5, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Texas National Guard, to the extent that it deploys members of the Texas National Guard in Oregon, Ex. 6; 3. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 16, 2025 Memorandum to the extent that it authorizes the deployment of federalized members of the California and Texas National Guards to Oregon, Ex. 2; and 4. any memoranda deploying members of any other State’s National Guard to Oregon based on the same predicate conditions that were relied upon to authorize the above orders. This Court retains jurisdiction pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, to enforce the terms of this permanent injunction against any party.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Judges Amul Thapar and John Nalbandian, both Trump appointees, co-authored a concurring opinion. Their opinion — with it's "the school is only allowing *some* pronouns for trans students (the accurate ones), but not others (the inaccurate ones)" — is a good contender for the worst opinion as well.
CONCURRENCE THAPAR and NALBANDIAN, Circuit Judges, concurring. We join the majority's excellent and thoughtful opinion. But we would go further and rule that the School District's policies are invalid because they discriminate based on viewpoint against one side of an ongoing political debate. If there's one thing that everyone agrees on here, it's that pronouns matter. "Pronouns can and do convey a powerful message implicating a sensitive topic of public concern." Meriwether v. Hartop, 992 F.3d 492, 508 (6th Cir. 2021); see also Janus v. AFSCME, 585 U.S. 878, 913-14 (2018) ("[S]exual orientation and gender identity... are sensitive political topics, and they are undoubtedly matters of profound value and concern to the public." (cleaned up)). The battle of the pronouns is a matter of serious political and social concern. Such speech is "at the heart of the First Amendment's protection." Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443, 451-52 (2011) (citation omitted). So, in nearly any other setting, this would be an open-and-shut case. The government "has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content." Police Dep't of Chi. v. Mosley, 408 U.S. 92, 95 (1972). Supreme Court precedent shows that the School District discriminated against the viewpoint that sex and gender are immutable characteristics. How so? The policies permit some pronouns (those that "affirm" gender transition) to be used for transgender students, but not other Case: 23-3630 Document: 253-2 Filed: 11/06/2025 Page: 47 No. 23-3630 Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al. Page 47 pronouns (those reflecting the view that sex and gender are immutable). The School District didn't ban the use of all pronouns. It just prohibited using ones that reflect a viewpoint it didn't like.
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
oosmuppet.bsky.social
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness apparently don’t count if that happiness means being your true self
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Nov 7
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.

Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
OPINION MURPHY, Circuit Judge. An Ohio public school district bars its students from referring to transgender and nonbinary classmates using the pronouns that match their biological sex if the classmates prefer to go by different pronouns. The plaintiff in this case has parent and student members who believe that a person's sex is immutable. The members want to express this view by using biological pronouns. And they believe that they would convey a falsehood —that a person's gender is fluid—if they use preferred pronouns. So the plaintiff challenged the school district's speech ban on behalf of its members under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause. This case about pronouns pits two important interests against each other. On the one hand, the school district has prohibited speech (biological pronouns) that expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern. And because the district requires other speech (preferred pronouns) that expresses a competing view, it has discriminated based on its students' viewpoints. Its approach thus raises serious free-speech concerns. On the other hand, the school district rightly responds that it has a duty to protect all students- including transgender and nonbinary students— from bullying and harassment. And this protection, while necessarily restricting speech, does not violate the Free Speech Clause. So which of these competing concerns should prevail in this case? The Supreme Court's cases provide a clear answer. A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities or infringe the legal "rights of others" in the school community. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). In this case's current posture, the school district has fallen far short of meeting this demanding standard. It introduced no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights. The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view. We thus reverse and remand Case: 23-3630 Document: 253-2 Filed: 11/06/2025 Page: 4 No. 23-3630 Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al. Page 4 for the entry of an appropriately tailored preliminary injunction barring the district from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns. Yet nothing we say here forecloses the district from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against the abuse of transgender students just as it enforces those policies against the abuse of all other students.
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Ryan Grim like:
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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aclu.org
Trans people don't need the government's permission to be ourselves.
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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nyclu.org
"I'm a troublemaker and I've always been a troublemaker. And I ask you to become a troublemaker, to not accept what's being done to our country, to always stand up for what's right." ⁠
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Keep making good trouble @johnleguizamo.bsky.social, and thank you for being our Freedom Award honoree this year!
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
oosmuppet.bsky.social
Good Fuck him and all landlords
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Nov 7
 Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
He should thank Zohran for winning bc that new slogan would have gotten his ass beat
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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jael.bsky.social
someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral

i will not share the video

but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
oosmuppet.bsky.social
I hope they all get salmonella & violently ill
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Nov 7
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court for an emergency block on a judge’s order that it fully pay 42 million Americans' SNAP benefits for November.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Just realized that TIME magazine is probably going to do something dumb and name AI as the Person of the Year, isn't it?
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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garius.bsky.social
Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"

They want people to assume this means game info or assets.

But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:

'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM