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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 3h

Came up with something in my sleep. Rye pizza dough with caraway.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14h

I am not sure at this point if Dems at the federal level have a better near term strategic option than “let Trump wreck the economy and hope voters blame him for it”. There are more options at the state level but they are really screwed given how the media has lined up behind Trump.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 1d

One Brandon After Another

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 1d

Rick Caruso is probably going to win.

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Lard

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 2d

the pine tree flag?

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 2d

I should buy a california flag.

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 2d

New lib signaling phenomenon in my neighborhood: taking down their stars & stripes, and putting up the California Republic flag.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 2d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 2d

I get a bit doleful when a dryer ball starts to fall apart and I have to retire it.

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 3d

Vote Blue No Matter Who Jays

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 3d

On the Marble Cliffs

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 4d

great birds

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

Your moment of calm this morning, in totally unwartorn Portland. Cedar waxwings lit by the sun, preening on branches.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 4d

"This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. ...

"This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law."

Furthermore, this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. “That tradition has deep roots in our history and found early expression, for example, in . . . the constitutional provisions for civilian control of the military.” Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 15 (1972); see also James Madison, Address to the Constitutional Convention (1787), reprinted in 1 Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, at 465 (Max Farrand ed., 1911) (“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”). This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4d

Why is BigTech criticising the military industrial complex suddenly?

They want a new breed of “smart weapons” and a big slice of what will likely be a 1000 billion dollar defence bill from Trump GOP

Read this brilliant analysis by @susglickman.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

www.nybooks.com

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 5d

Japan’s new PM is gonna touch the money.

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 5d

Ernst Jünger is great, refreshing reading if you have a conservative temperament and are completely disgusted by this administration.

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 5d

nobel cheese prize. for significant contributions to cheese.

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Rachel @sofr.bsky.social · 5d

The stupids turning on Trump is a good sign imo. American democracy isn’t irredeemable.

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 6d

Note to my Republican colleagues: hitching your political futures to an abrasive guy who makes his supporter's lives worse is bad politics. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...