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Kevin Todd @kvntodd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Justice Jackson is spot on here. This Court’s decisions are in line with Korematsu and others of the worst decisions in its history. But now it tries to hide behind the shadow docket and procedural minutiae

At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today's Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Opening Bloomberg.com right now

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

Haley Britzky @halbritz

AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID.

"They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Says the guy who spent millions to elect a judge that will soon be the deciding vote on a case involving Tesla’s ability to sell cars in the state.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"So I confess that I have been imperfect, I confess that I have been inadequate to the moment, I confess that the Democratic Party has made *terrible* mistakes that have given lane to this demagogue." - @corybooker.com More of this, honestly, please. Acknowledge it. Please.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I am not moved by politicians often, but I am moved by Booker today. I hope more dems callously see how much attention he's commanding today take his lead. I don't care if the reason they do it is craven-- I just want them to fucken fight. also fuck strom thurmand may he rest in piss

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

"I'm not embarrassed of my own beliefs" is exactly why AOC has crossover appeal to lots of moderate Dems who don't share her ideology

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Apparently a 'wrinkle' to the legitimacy of the law is whether or not a newspaper accused your spouses dad of something

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The deal is I punch you in the face How about I give you $50 instead Nope, I want to punch you I’ll buy you dinner but no violence Sorry, I really like to punch Ok, what if you slap me medium-hard It’s a punch in the face or nothing Ok fine, punch me. I can’t be blamed for obstructing a deal

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I don’t really like to comment on political strategy but WTF are Schumer and Newsom, two of the most powerful leaders in the Democratic Party, doing right now?

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

One of these things is not like the other.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Reminder: When a person or institution you hate is targeted for illiberal persecution by an aspiring authoritarian, you have to defend them EVEN IF you don't like them. It doesn't matter if you don't like campus protestors or Columbia or the law firms. We must defend them or we're all at risk next.

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Brett Kollmann @brettkollmann.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Even if we put aside the awful substance of Newsom's remarks, the setup—"he brought Charlie Kirk on his podcast to show how much he agreed with Kirk about _____"—is already damning by itself. The fact that sentence ends with "trans rights" makes it worse, not better. But it's already disqualifying.

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Jourdan Rodrigue @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Pay your good players earlier than you need to - The Eagles

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Matty F. Brown @mattyfbrown.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Can you imagine what Sam Darnold would have looked like behind the 2024 Seahawks offensive line and in the 2024 Seahawks offensive system?!

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

There is no QB of the future

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The Seahawks just ruined my day

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Kind of incredible that, btwn Doug Baldwin and Tyler Lockett, the Seahawks had arguably the two most underrated receivers of their respective generations. Feel fortunate to have watched both for so long.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

kyivindependent.com

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Let me translate two things this libertarian light nincompoop is saying: Personal liberties means doing whatever the fuck I want. Free markets means doing whatever the fuck I want. He’s an adult toddler.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Truly incredible how Americans can go to the polls, choose a bunch of incompetent jerks to run the country, then immediately recognize "welp everything's gonna suck now." I dunno, maybe don't choose the incompetent jerks next time? Just sayin.

Us Consumer Confidence Drops on Concerns About Economy, showing sharp decline after Nov/Dec 2024 in consumer confidence, present financial situation, and expectations, and a sharp incline in inflation expectations.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Normalize using lawful procedures to just remove public officials from office for serious misconduct. Weird how hard a time the US system has with that.

Hochul Plans to Impose New Oversight of New York City Amid Adams Scandal
Gov. Kathy Hochul intends to create new guardrails for the state to oversee the city’s affairs amid Mayor Eric Adams’s troubling behavior, but she does not plan to remove him at this time.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/02/2025

three weeks ago i had no idea ilan wurman existed and now i sincerely hope i am in the same room with him someday so i can tell him, to his face, that he is a charlatan and a disgrace.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I cannot think of anything more profoundly un-American than a president declaring himself a “king”

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

thebaltimorebanner.com

Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order

Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Roses are red Like my cheeks when I blush Less than a week ago the Eagles sacked Patrick Mahomes six times with just a standard four man rush

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you don’t follow sports you might not have noticed that Mina Kimes from ESPN has been doing a tremendous job bringing football to this website and deserves a lot of credit for why it was fun to be on Bluesky during the Super Bowl

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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

lawyers: your bat signal has been activated

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Excuse me while I vent for a moment SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.

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Gina @perilinpink.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I hope Philly does it again people.com/super-bowl-c...

But it wasn't until 2018 that a team was disinvited. That year, President Donald Trump revoked the Philadelphia Eagles' invitation to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when he learned that nearly all the players were boycotting the visit

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Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 10/02/2025

Congratulations to the Eagles and all their fans. Great, great season. What a way to rebound from the end of last season. Go party, go crazy, enjoy. I can't imagine you'll ever feel better about the Eagles than you do after this win!

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