Paul D
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Paul D
@paulmd199.bsky.social
Suffers fools ungladly.
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I don’t want to see “experts say Trump can’t pardon a state conviction.”

That’s like “experts say sun rises in east, and some scientists claim water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom.”

It’s just a fact.

He CANNOT do this.

And the media DAMN well better get their coverage right.
Trump says he's pardoned Tina Peters, but that may not save her from prison
Trump has no jurisdiction over state-level cases to offer the pardon.
www.axios.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
Couple of things here:

1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently

2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"

3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"

4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Why does this look like amateur gay porn
The current FDA is indistinguishable from wellness influencer Instagram because that’s exactly what they want to be
This story of Marty Makary in a cold tub was posted on Gary Brecka's (wellness influencers) Instagram less than a day ago. Contrasts oddly with today's FDA leadership news.
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I was not aware till today there was a Godzilla Christmas Song officially sanctioned by Toho called Kaiju Christmas:

youtu.be/Bk1H4Gg7YxE
怪獣のクリスマス (ゴジラ)『あつまれ!ガーベージ音楽部』(幻の迷盤・トンデモ音源) 雷門ケン坊・ミニラ・モスラ・ヘドラ・キングギドラ・メカゴジラ
YouTube video by GARBAGE
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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You don't have to choose sides. You can dislike everybody. A true hater knows this.
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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"Oh, you want to see *those* files. Yeah, we can't show you those ones because they are now part of an active investigation into Bill Clinton."
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Stephen Hawking.
who is the person plausibly in the Epstein emails who you would be saddest to discover in the Epstein emails?
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Feels like things are going really well for Trump
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Enough US Senate Democrats have now voted in favor of a government funding measure for it to advance.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.

The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Trump's incoherent answers to Norah O'Donnell raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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after months of focus on Biden’s autopen pardons:
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The thing about these grindset lifestyle posts is that they're all fake. None of it is real.
October 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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New from @agreenberg.bsky.social and me: For three years, security researchers pointed a satellite at the sky and found highly sensitive data being sent unencrypted

They found: calls and texts on T-Mobile’s network; military info from the US and Mexico; in-flight Wi-Fi browsing, and a lot more
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Portland is so peaceful Republicans had to go all the way to South America to find photos from years ago for their bad memes.
The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now
October 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I thought that was an AI edit at first, but no, he really said that.
Ted Cruz: “How about we all come together and say let's stop attacking p*dophiles." 🤔
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
September 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I say this in seriousness and not at all lightly, the entire rainbow is under extreme threat. Consider asylum abroad if you are able. Really and truly. Prepare while it is still possible to do so.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
FBI Readies New War on Trans People
“We’re looking at the entire spider web”
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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This leads to posts like this where faces dreamed up by the LLM are used to match the FBI's photos to trans people.
September 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM