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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 8h

The doctors will give him an A for being 90% alive.

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 8h

White House says Trump will visit Walter Reed on Friday for a routine check up

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 9h

Charlie Chaplin could have watched SNL.

Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Igor Stravinsky was a contemporary of Richard Wagner and Jay-Z.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Bertrand Russell was a contemporary of Hans Christian Andersen and J. K. Rowling. Winston Churchill got close to that, but died a few months too early for the latter.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, Scorsese, DeNiro and Foster still make movies and Taxi Driver is way older than Citizen Kane was when Taxi Driver was made.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

You mock him, but how many meanings of covfefe can you define?

Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

But this is what every sane politician would have publicly said between the elections and inauguration. Uninformative then, totally irrelevant now.

Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 4d

Also, every single word is a projection.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 5d

A tattoo of an origami unicorn from “Blade Runner” with text “like tears in rain”

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 6d

Curious layperson question: how much does the Laken Riley Act contribute to these situations? Making just being charged with a crime (no matter how bullshit a charge) grounds for deportation? Or does it not matter because ICE is now “deport them all and let God sort them out” anyway?

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 7d

How would that work? What mechanism could be used to effectuate such a strike? States are not involved in federal tax collection.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 8d

“Some legal experts” might call this “levying war against the United States”

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 8d

The President of the United States tells assembled US top brass that he wants to use the US military to kill US citizens on US soil.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 8d

Sure you can; it’s a continuum. The point is opposing every small spoon while it’s still diluted enough.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 10d

In fairness, it would be quite natural for Adams to endorse a snake and a liar.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d

Eric Adams, man of principle! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

In a copy of his prepared remarks shared with The New York Times shortly before the video's release, Mr. Adams also vented about former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, another third-party candidate whom he has called "a snake and a liar." In the prepared remarks, he said that politicians who waffled on key issues and sought to push others aside in their quest for power "cannot be trusted."
But the comments appear to have been cut from the final video without explanation, stoking questions about whether Mr. Adams might eventually endorse Mr. Cuomo.

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 10d

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

79. American citizen.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11d

Area man, who decided George W. Bush being President was more important than counting everyone’s votes, has concerns about the survival of democracy in 🇺🇸

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 11d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 13d

Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 15d

You forgot to say “Sir”

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 16d

He was told it’s illegal to lie to Fox Bullshit Inundators.

Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 17d

If Biden had said that:

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Monty Python and Holy Grail, bring out the dead

YouTube video by holmleighnyd

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18d

Snopes has always had a conservative bias.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18d

A trifecta for 4 years *would* solve a lot of problems, but only if it didn’t depend on people unwilling to solve problems, like the last trifecta (when the problems were smaller) depended on Manchin and Sinema. The next trifecta must expand SCOTUS to 15 members on day one or it will be a bandaid.

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 18d

It's like watching a bear try to ride a bicycle.

In general, a good strategy for Democrats is to run more moderate candidates in swing states. Yes. But the system's problems will not be solved by Dems winning a Senate majority for a 2-year cycle. Or even the Dems getting a trifecta for 4 years.

Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18d

Also unclear what it even means that “the left went full cancel culture”. Under any logically consistent definition, there was never a time when cancel culture was primarily a phenomenon on the left.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 20d

That’s because Tesla doesn’t sell cars; they sell carbon permits. But if they can’t sell as many cars, they’ll also have less permits to sell.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 21d

If Romans listened to Mark Anthony with these people’s comprehension, “Julius Caesar” would be a short and pointless play.