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I'm not on his side, but I'm not on yours either.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Simple peace plan. Step one: Russia withdraws to its 2021 boundaries. Step two: There is no step two.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Stop talking, start litigating. Sue the pants off the bodgers. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
propublica.org
Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT
Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
You can be a Catholic or you can be MAGA but you cannot be both. newrepublic.com/article/1978...
newrepublic.com
The Young GOPer Behind “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Dark Future of MAGA
Sunshine State Attorney General James Uthmeier is the real brains behind this notorious migrant detention camp in the Everglades. The more barbarities that emerge, the brighter his star will no doubt ...
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The next logical trend in the #hiring AI arms race will be companies offering applicants a "premium" option: Pay to put your application in front of the hiring manager, bypassing the AI filters. Soon thereafter, only paid applications will be considered seriously—and eventually, accepted.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Presented without comment.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What a revoltingly glib way to talk about killing a human being—even an enemy. Regardless of what the administration does on Iran (regardless even of what it should do), this is not how it should be speaking. www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...
npr.org
Trump threatens Iran's supreme leader, escalating his rhetoric about the conflict
President Trump called Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei an "easy target" but said, "We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now."
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Arbitrary executive power wielded for personal enrichment and retribution. State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim. Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates. Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This is *bonkers*. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...
mississippifreepress.org
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Welp. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtrG...
youtube.com
These New Chinese Ships Could Bring a D-Day-Style Invasion to Taiwan | WSJ Equipped
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Good. Don't install it, thanks. #AppleIntelligence
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Craig was right. AI is garbage. The problem is that the other execs were also right: AI is very popular, revolutionary even, and it has yielded a rising flood of garbage. How we turn off the garbage spigot is the next challenge. 9to5mac.com/2025/05/18/s...
9to5mac.com
Gurman: Siri upgrades 'unlikely to be discussed much' at WWDC next month, more - 9to5Mac
In a new, lengthy report regarding Apple’s AI strategy, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has detailed a number of strategic failures for...
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Men who will die for a cause will kill for it. #Andor
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Our Long Collective Nightmare is Over
Earlier today, another sign that, no matter what happens, at least a sense of Catholic normalcy is returning to the Vatican.
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The so-called "SAVE Act," like the government's (illegal) onslaught on migrants legal and otherwise, is the result of elites ignoring the concerns of the hoi polloi for years. Pressure must be released safely and responsibly or it will build until it reaches a point of catastrophic rupture.
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Ana Braga🦋💙 🌊 @theanabraga.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Right? 👇🏽🤢
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The irony is that I'm no more welcome in trad parishes. Large parts of SSPX would regard me as a heretic, because large parts of tradworld conflate a certain aesthetic preference (one I don't share) and certain theologies and ecclesiologies (of which I'm skeptical) with the adamantine faith.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pope Francis leaves, for me, a legacy of disillusionment and dysregulation. But he did permission me to take up space in NO parishes unapologetically: If (per TC) trads can't do trad things at trad Masses in trad parishes, NOs are just going to have to put up with us doing trad things at NO Masses.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Let his epitaph be "Rudera relinquo, quam marmoream accepi." If that Augustan barb is overstatement, it is so only by omission: The marble he found was covered in sewage and weeds, and instead of draining the sewage and removing the weeds, he dynamited the marble.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
So that's not going how you expected, huh? www.reuters.com/world/us-rea...
reuters.com
US ready to abandon efforts to broker Russia-Ukraine peace deal, Rubio says
The United States will stop trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs that a deal can be done, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/04/2025
A federal judge mostly sided with the Justice Department in a case about online advertising that could reshape the basic economics of running a modern website. via @kqednews.kqed.org
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Google’s Ad Dominance Is Illegal, Federal Judge Rules | KQED
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Google is operating an illegal monopoly in online advertising technology.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/04/2025
NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, with whom KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, join:
Upon review of the government's motion, the court denies the motion for an
emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is
requesting is both extraordinary and premature. While we fully respect the Executive's
robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine
district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is your periodic reminder that everything that is happening is the fault of one man: Merrick Garland chose to do nothing for more than a year and a half. Everything that happens is downstream of that choice.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The tragedy of it all is, politics is supposed to regulate public policy which in turn is supposed to resolve public problems, and we have no shortage of public problems in need of resolution—none of which we can resolve while our politics are consumed by a tribalistic, sadistic firestorm.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I'd hope that even the most ardent opponents of illegal immigration and the most ardent proponents of deportation would agree that it's not a capital crime. So it's common ground that there are proportional limits on consequences. The question on which to press them is—"how's this proportional?"
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
You'll be tempted to ask, "How, after days of insisting that falling markets mean nothing, can they possibly have the chutzpah to insist that rising markets mean something?" But you'll be missing the point. They just *say stuff*. It doesn't matter to them whether it's true. They speak and forget.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The stupid man did a stupid thing and now all his stupid surrogates are trying (stupidly) and failing (stupidly) to rationalize the stupidity.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Ready to Rock is impressive. Zen was meh, so this is a return to form. Misa dominates and the harmonic motion's interesting. The guitars aside, which are in line with Mincho's current approach—which does she love more, Saiki or that harmonizer?—I could see this being on Conqueror or UW. #Band-Maid
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unfortunately these are Gemini creations not a Funko Pop announcement. But shouldn't they be real? #Band-Maid
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Change or die. www.axios.com/2025/03/24/d...
axios.com
Behind the Curtain: Dems' dark, deep hole
Both parties suffer and search for salvation. But rarely does healing seem so hard and redemption so distant.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
While newrepublic.com/article/1927... has some expository power, I'm more inclined to Vlad Vexler's: youtu.be/cmTeg0B9tH8?.... Either way, the answer is the same: This ends only when he does.
newrepublic.com
There Is No Method to Trump’s Madness. He’s Simply Insane.
His defenders try to apply reason to his erratic, nonsensical decisions. That’s a fool’s errand—but fools abound in this administration.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Taking a phone call in a meeting is rude. Decline the call, text them and say "I'm in a meeting, what's up?" This goes all the more strongly if *it's your meeting*.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
They saw me coming a mile off. hipfonts.com/taylor-swift...
hipfonts.com
Taylor Swift Typography: A Visual Journey Through Her Album Fonts | HipFonts
Aside from beautiful album covers, Taylor Swift's albums feature some eye-catching typography. Check out the fonts used in Taylor Swift albums in this article.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Any peace plan must involve Russia returning to its 2021 borders; Ukraine can accept nothing less. Nevertheless, it is also true that any *realistic* peace plan involves *the 2021 borders* and Ukraine conceding Crimea, seized in 2014; Russia can accept nothing less.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
And. For. What.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If you want to make a billion-dollar movie, you need a movie with broad appeal. Niche won't do it. Likewise, if you want to win supermajorities in Congress, you need a message with broad appeal. This is why "maybe we can flip a seat and win razor control of the House" is toxic thinking for Dems. 🧵
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
That said, Presidents can issue interpretations of law binding on the executive branch, so long as the question is interstitial and the interpretation is textually allowable. The Unitary Executive doctrine isn't and never was monarchical. It asserts the President's intrabranch power, no more.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. Even when the judicial system's answer is wrong, the judicial system's anwser is authoritative, and if Congress doesn't like that answer it can change (and has changed, e.g. the Ledbetter Act) the statute.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Senility. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...
meidasnews.com
Trump Says Ukraine 'Should Have Never Started' War With Russia
Zelensky responded by saying Trump was in a "disinformation space"
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
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a close up of a woman 's face with blonde hair and pink lipstick smiling .
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with blonde hair and pink lipstick smiling .
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@basicappleguy.com I hope that you will receive this subtle use of your Rancho Cucamonga wallpaper—as one of three Apple-related easter eggs in this shot in a video—as the respectful hat tip as which it's intended.
A Mac OSX Rancho Cucamonga desktop with Excel and Safari open, with several Band-Maid and Apple easter-eggs.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The short answer is, because Iran's leaders are more interested in plowing money into murdering Israelis than they are in building a stable country for their people. Iran's regime is the problem and only regime change can solve it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qMD...
youtube.com
Why Iran’s economy is shutting down
YouTube video by CaspianReport
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The hallmark of the next few years, I suspect, was defined by the supertitle on the Kash Patel hearing: "The FBI has lost the trust of Americans." And he's right—but installing an unqualified dipshit with an enemies list won't fix it. The problem lies not in the diagnosis but in the remedy.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I mean, you can't have it both ways. You can't (to take a, arf, high profile example) have a President who can unilaterally rename mountains when you like the President and the new name without a Presidency that can unilaterally rename mountains when you dislike the President and the new name.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Perhaps the federal government generally and the Presidency particularly are too powerful. Perhaps this is what happens when you create a potent weapon; it falls into enemy hands and is used on you. Perhaps the size and scope of these should be reduced, drastically.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New Dream Theater is out. Video's rubbish but the song is—surprisingly good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwOj...
youtube.com
Dream Theater - Midnight Messiah (Official Video)
YouTube video by Dream Theater
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Two more Band-Maid grabs. What a blessing is 4K video.
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Saiki, killing itMisa, killing itKanami, killing it
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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
People who use video on Zoom calls are psychopaths. No one wants to see you.
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