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I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
Just before the town hall, a reporter asked Ellison about the difficulty states faced in prosecuting federal agents like the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. “The idea that they’re absolutely immune is a misstatement of the law, and it is a dangerous misstatement of the law, because I don’t want any ICE agent or Border Patrol agent or any agent to think that they can just kill people and then that’s it,” Ellison told the group of reporters. Then he asked rhetorically: “What about Ruby Ridge? You ever heard of that one?” Years after an FBI sniper shot Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the state of Idaho prosecuted the federal agent. The federal government went to bat for the agent, claiming that he was immune under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Idaho was allowed to prosecute the sniper — similarly, Minnesota is also entitled to investigate and potentially prosecute the officer who shot Renee Good. But a different example loomed larger in Ellison’s mind: the Boston Massacre of 1770, where British soldiers shot into a crowd, ultimately killing five people. “It’s not exactly analogous, but we are talking about local authorities in Boston, prosecuting imperial agents of the colonial power, the central government, in England. And they were prosecuted. Two of them were convicted. John Adams actually represented a few of the imperial officers.” The Boston Massacre, said Ellison, was obviously “in the mind of the framers of the Constitution” at the time the document was written. “They were thinking about this event, and they would have never conceded the state’s authority to prosecute a federal officer,” said Ellison, going on to add, “The states of the United States pre-date the United States. It is federal courts that are limited. Not state courts. State courts have plenary power.” He finished with a dramatic flourish: “It’s true that the feds are denying us access to the investigative file. It’s also true that there’s no statute of limitations on murder.”
January 22, 2026 at 7:58 PM
randyflagg.bsky.social
Thinks he's the motherfucking Joker
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d
WATCH: Bovino uses green chemical gas on Minnesotans because he got his tiny feelings hurt

(H/T @mnicewatch)
January 22, 2026 at 2:41 AM
randyflagg.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
randyflagg.bsky.social
Some real Lovecraftian, "unreadable text" shit. Children playing with matches.
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
randyflagg.bsky.social
Searching for Black Friday deals at the sad store
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
randyflagg.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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joles.bsky.social
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
randyflagg.bsky.social
Is "Offal Office" or "Awful Office" anything?
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Nov 5
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
randyflagg.bsky.social
According to noted historian, DJT....
mattmitovich.bsky.social Matt Mitovich @mattmitovich.bsky.social · Oct 21
Trump keeps claiming that presidents "for 150 years!" have wanted this XXL White House ballroom.

How come we'd never ever heard of this unrealized presidential want before...? 🧐
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
randyflagg.bsky.social
This metaphor is too on the nose. Subtlety has died with irony.
jonathanreports.bsky.social Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · Oct 20
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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hopcliff.heathcliff.cat
based nancy
two panels of a Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller. Nancy sees a NOTICE board and then blacks out the T with a pencil so the board reads NO ICE. Nancy smiles.
October 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
randyflagg.bsky.social
Movie of the year
briancgrubb.bsky.social Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · Oct 3
cc: academy awards
October 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
‘Candyman Candyman Candyman Candyman Candyman’
September 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
randyflagg.bsky.social
Hell yeah
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 15
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
randyflagg.bsky.social
This is the juice.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 13
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
randyflagg.bsky.social
Wait, what?
September 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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ajmacready.bsky.social
🎶worst part of wakin' up
is an Alien in your gut🎶
a screenshot of Kane, crewman on the Nostromo, experiencing what appears to be some very severe gastric distress
September 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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lulamaybelle.bsky.social
Why I’m hyped for #TronAres
September 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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September 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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miketaddow.bsky.social
tim robinson leaning out of a car window at a drive thru
August 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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@ghudd.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
[writing the constitution]

Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
randyflagg.bsky.social
What could go wrong?
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 8
Seventeen years after the financial crisis, the Trump administration is looking to sell shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in what could be a step toward freeing the mortgage finance firms from full federal control.
Trump Seeks to Sell Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Shares to Public Investors
More than a decade after the government bailed out the mortgage giants, the Trump administration is looking for a partial stock-market exit.
nyti.ms
August 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM