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@bistatelady.bsky.social
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Chantilly as Ceiling Cat Pro Choice, Pro Democracy, Feminist, Retired Techie, Cat Lady, Dancer, Survivor of Narcissists, Francophile, Foodie, Fussbudget.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h
the birthright citizenship question is, to me, the clearest evidence that originalism as practiced is just living constitutionalism for right-wing jurists. the originalist answer is the conventional one is the textual one, but that was basically unacceptable to much of the right.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 4h
Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 15h
“It also sets the precedent for using this chilling tactic on any journalist or watchdog as it sees fit.“ Oregon cities are doing this over and over again, making it prohibitive for any independent journalist without a team of lawyers to get public records. It’s outrageous.
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bistatelady @bistatelady.bsky.social · 20h
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s getting harder to shake the feeling the USA isn’t being set up for something awful by an adversary who understood how cheap it was to hire Donald Trump & a drunk sex pest from Fox News to destroy our military.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 01/10/2026
The thing about the death penalty has always been that it relies on an infallibility — after all, there's no reversing the punishment once administered — that no state in human civilization has ever achieved. But now there's another, rhyming problem: the state can't even properly administer it.
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bistatelady @bistatelady.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Revolting.
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Jill Wine-Banks @jillwine-banks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#SistersInLaw discussed the cruelty of Trump’s policy of sending immigrants to countries where they have no connection. Lower courts said no. Trump got the case to SCOTUS for the 3rd time and this time they allowed 3rd country removals until they rule in the merits. Shame on SCOTUS and Trump.
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DiveIntoIt🫘💙💙 @anandatoday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And men wonder why we pick the bear. At least it’s a beast that we know will behave a certain way. Male predators don’t think they are doing anything wrong, they feel entitled to take what they want when they want. And women are to keep quiet about it. Careers will be ruined if not.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026
Damn, socialism seems pretty fucking cool if you ask me
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Part of America’s unparalleled butt drone program. MAXIMUM LETHALITY!
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Jill Wine-Banks @jillwine-banks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good news. Trump-appointed judge orders press credentials returned to @msnowreports.bsky.social @cnn.com @politico.com. #SistersInLaw told you it was unconstitutional. Court confirmed that.
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bistatelady @bistatelady.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Poetic justice.
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Mary Todd @marytodd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Noel’s message today is masterful. Do take time to read and consider his insights.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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bistatelady @bistatelady.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Idiot.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The dangers of artificial intelligence have become an enormous issue - yet the White House has been so passive that even the AI companies themselves are asking what it will take to get government to step up and establish safeguards.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All these people writing articles about how AI could destroy humanity and even suggesting ways AI could do it...you do know that the robots are reading every word of this, right?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. They're murdering people on the high seas. There is no evidence that the reasons they're giving are true, & even if they were, this is a violation of international law. Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Ranking House Judiciary member already has (time zone is ET +6).
Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
Who Hatched this plan? Every other sitting U.S. Attorney General followed the Hatch Act and stayed away from political campaign rallies. But the handful of Americans tuning into tonight’s GOP midterm convention will be treated to the spectacle of Todd Blanche turning his office and the Department of Justice into partisan campaign props by becoming the first U.S. Attorney General in history to address a political party convention.
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News Corpse @newscorpse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
FIRST OF ALL, Trump's claim that "everything is dropping" is a flat out lie! SECONDLY, hasn't he already said that he won the war with Iran like 30 times?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
11yo: “Bro [the president) is doing evil side quests at this point.”
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bistatelady @bistatelady.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The title really says it all.
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 06/09/2026
We’ve successfully fought against President Trump’s unconstitutional actions — defeating his unlawful effort to end birthright citizenship & his illegal tariffs. His effort to subvert the ability of Americans to vote by mail will likewise fail. The constitution will prevail.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Help the Internet Archive, which is saving a lot of the data being purged/censored by the Trump Administration (and so much more).....
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Breaking: Someone appears to have hacked the Republican National Convention website and it now redirects to the Epstein Files website.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anyone who has anything bad to say about Gloria Steinem today wins a well-deserved block.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rest in Peace, Gloria Steinem. 💔
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The Vic @tdssister.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Happy Sunday #SheShed warriors! 💜💜
Gloria Steinem 
Women are not a special interest group. They are half the population.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 03/09/2026
As I read journalist @gilduran.com’s provocative new book over a long weekend, an unnerving realization took hold—in my hands was the most urgent warning for American democracy I have ever encountered. www.confrontthehate.com/p/the-most-u...
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'The Nerd Reich': An Urgent Warning for American Democracy
Decades of investigating government corruption couldn't prepare me for Gil Durán’s chilling account of Silicon Valley’s authoritarian ambitions.
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Paul Callahan (he/him) @paulcallahanmv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I usually prefer transcripts, but this conversation between Chris Hayes and Gil Durán is well worth watching.
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‘They are REALLY, REALLY DUMB’ about some things: Gil Durán EXPOSES Silicon Valley oligarchs
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Jennifer Smith Weber @allthingsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"The present moment needs us all. As has been said before, ‘you don’t have a life, you are a life’, it is all of our responsibility to find out what that really means and then share it with each other. The most beautiful thing you could say about life, and love, is that it went on."
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ed Markey asked Kennedy at least three times whether the Samoa trip was about vaccines. Kennedy denied it every time. A 2019 embassy email says otherwise. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-went...
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And this was the exact moment I stopped using Google maps
Map of Lake Ontario on Google maps, and it's listed as Lake America
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google--which donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee--just renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America. This is the oligarchy in action. Whatever Trump wants they deliver so that they can make more $ and/or Trump leaves them alone. www.mediaite.com/media/news/g...
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Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America
Google has updated its maps in the United States to honor President Donald Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My faith is that Dr. Annie Andrews is going to the US Senate because, in the end, I think South Carolina is an American state, not a MAGA colony. Subscribe to The Warning at steveschmidt.substack.com.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 27/08/2026
“Lake America” (instead of Lake Ontario) is destined to be one of those phrases that only lazy partisans use, joining “Democrat Party,” “Gulf of America,” “Department of War,” “death tax,” and “job creators.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump signs executive order on Lake Ontario, worsening farcical campaign against Canada
“We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America,” the president said, as part of a pointless and silly taunt.
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How You Like Me Now?... @1bigbullshitbill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We are 51% of the vote.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My dad was a public school teacher; and he always said the toughest parts of the job were: 1. Having to pay for your own classroom chalk, and 2. Performing gender-reassignment surgeries during class hours w/out parents finding out.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida." www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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bistatelady @bistatelady.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A federal judge struck down Texas' ban on drag shows, deeming it an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. "The solution is relatively simple ... just don't go."
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Texas’ limits on some drag shows found unconstitutional again
A federal judge reasserted his 2023 ruling that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back for reconsideration. The law went into effect in March as the case proceeded.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/08/2026
Months later, workers are still trying to repair the botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. trib.al/kr7lbz5
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Trump’s Reflecting Pool Renovation Is Somehow Still Peeling Off
Months later, workers are still trying to repair the botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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