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Evidence, logic, and reason before partisanship. Also, puns and dirty jokes. You’ll never find the right answers if you don’t ask the right questions. Interests include: ⚖️⚾️🥁🍣🏀✡️🐟🪴

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · Aug 24

a penguin is sticking out of a hole next to a piece of paper that says it was a joke

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 4h

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 1h

Murder. Plain and simple.

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1h

They expect you to die www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/they...

They expect you to die - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is insane destruction even by the standards of the Trump administration [gift link]: Dozens of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — including “disease detectives,” high-r...

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1h

All this illustrates the considerable extent to which the six right wingers on the SCOTUS are much bigger ideological hacks than the average GOP-appointed, and even Trump-appointed, federal judge. That’s both the good and bad news www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The shadow docket and the judicial legitimacy crisis - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Current federal judges are for obvious reasons extremely hesitant to criticize the Supreme Court, so this NYT survey (gift link) of more than 400 of them has some remarkable results. The survey asked ...

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Fozofthedead @fozofthedead.bsky.social · 3h

Levels of corruption that would have given Caligula pause

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

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Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 10h

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 10h

I mean, yeah I was pulling for the Mariners but I’m a Dodgers die hard (since the Garvey Lopes Russel Cey days TYVM).

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 10h

My “I Survived Game 5” shirt with that meme on the back is on the way.

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 15h

Schrodinger’s Internet post

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 15h

Is now. The good guys won.

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 15h

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

a cartoon of homer simpson covering his face with his hands and saying " jesus allah buddha i love you all "

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

I just added it to my list. I will not be missing the remainder of this insane baseball game to watch it presently.

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

Done

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

Not particularly

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

Oh man. This is gnarly.

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

AYFKM

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

You are sage

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

Well, shit.

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

Clearly, not a strike

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 16h

That seems pretty plainly the wrong call. I’m quite confused.

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 17h

a man with a mustache is sitting at a desk with the words great success

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 17h

The ups and downs. This friggin game.

The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 17h

18 innings is the record, FYI.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 17h

The party of death

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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