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Sorting records and posting through it. Photo guy. Fan of the physical. Perpetually gettin’ real tired of it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/07/2026
this is why keeping corruption out of government is not some sideshow, it’s fundamental to effective governance if you cannot trust the people in charge of public health because “they changed their story due to bribes” is a legitimate inference, that is a crisis all on its own
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We talk a lot about bots online, but less about the secondary effect, which is turning people like Joe Rogan into effectively human bots who only repeat the engagement bait posts they see on the timeline
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The obvious points here: *there is no problem that the cops are solving. Some staff are negotiating fan access to players. No need for a govt official to jump in *their natural instinct is to escalate rather than defuse the tension, to demand obedience rather than manage the situation
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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.
NYT headline (July 2, 2026): U.S. Hiring Continues at a Steady PaceNYT headline (July 2, 2024): US Job Growth Extends Streak, but Signs of Concern Emerge.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.
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Blake @blakerj.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Excellent follow-up to their stellar debut.
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Blake @blakerj.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Peak dad rock
Vinyl sleeve of Barry Walker Jr.’s album “Shoulda Zenith” sitting in a Victorian photo stand
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
pausa de hidratación
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2026
there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.
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Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Shoplifting Call
A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Jesus Christ, this is such a national embarrassment.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I wrote about the groundwork being laid for the prosecution of Elon Musk's DOGE bros. Holding them accountable is a matter of national survival. badfaithtimes.com/the-doge-boy...
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The DOGE Boys Are Going To Pay
There is a real and furious chunk of the electorate demanding accountability for DOGE
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch David Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999)! Between the dark surrealism of his LA-set neonoirs, Lynch took a detour to America's heartland for this surprisingly down-to-earth and heartfelt road movie- the film he described as "my most experimental."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
More embarrassing stuff from @bloomberg.com. Perhaps its crack reports and savvy editors can try googling "iran jcpoa." Even just skimming the AI summary will reveal how Obama resolved this issue and then Trump screwed it up.
The US and Iran needed more than two months of fitful, strained negotiations to agree on a deal to halt their fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Now comes the hard part.

The provisional agreement announced by the two sides on Sunday night — President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday — leaves a narrow window of 60 days to negotiate issues around Iran’s nuclear program that bedeviled his predecessors for years. The memorandum of understanding, which has yet to be released, will be formally signed on June 19.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 09/06/2026
This is not ok. This is the stuff that makes societies unravel and devolve into chaos. Everyone partaking in this should be treated like a traitor. These are not Americans.
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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Before signing an EO, he asked, “what’s this for?” That should be a headline screaming across every major news outlet, but it’s not. aaronrupar.substack.com/p/trump-cogn...
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Trump's cognitive impairment endangers us all
It's undeniable if you actually watch him.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This may be @jamellebouie.net 's best column ever, which is really saying something. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It's going to be hilarious (in the soul-crushing way) to see how fast Alabama goes to #SCOTUS for a stay of this ruling under Purcell, after obtaining relief from the Court from a similar injunction <checks notes> 15 days ago on the ground that it *wasn't* too close to the election.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Thurgood Marshall in the early 90s warned about the dangers of bad-faith legalism on the Supreme Court and Republican appointees' willingness to use originalism as a cudgel against 20th century progress. I wrote about it for @liberalcurrents.com. www.liberalcurrents.com/thurgood-mar...
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Thurgood Marshall Saw It Coming
The supercharged bad faith of
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Space is the place is available to watch on the criterion channel 🚀
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Space Is the Place - The Criterion Channel
Directed by John Coney • 1974 • United States Starring Sun Ra, Barbara Deloney, Raymond Johnson Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film versio...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/05/2026
very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2026
thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Wait, I thought if 60 Minutes edited an interview with a politician in the slightest, that was grounds for a lawsuit?
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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Apparently this cassette sold out in record time yesterday (hell yes), but Island House just ordered 40 more, so you can still get on it. All proceeds go to Jennifer's chemo treatments.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This from @jamellebouie.net is fantastic. Expand SCOTUS, yes, but also strip it of the powers it has accrued to itself. Make it serve the people and the republic as was intended. Also, let me add: the Roberts Court delenda est youtu.be/SRzS61buXkQ?...
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The Supreme Court is Corrupt. This is What We Can Do About It.
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Ben Chasny @6organs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Tomorrow 6Ø have a tape on Island House Recordings. This is a benifit for @jenpkelly.bsky.social all money to her for the Drs. Side A is a 14 min version of Faust’s Jennifer with Singing from @thescrvnr.bsky.social Meg Baird, Elisa Ambrogio @dadadrummer.bsky.social and Naomi Yang.
Cover of cassette with a drawing of a figure sitting down and a mirror to the side. Tape is called, Six Organs of Admittance featuring the Six Organs Choir.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The substance of the administration is obviously the worst part, but the complete degradation of style, the subjugation of it to one man who is the personification of a complete absence of taste, is embarrassing, and feeds the substance as well.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/04/2026
“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”
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Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/04/2026
www.theonion.info
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto
The problems with our tech philosopher kings
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/04/2026
the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Morning🐰🖤 David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE (2006) • Now playing on the Criterion Channel
Rabbits from Inland Empire.

Three rabbits stand in a dimly lit room with teal walls. One figure, dressed in a suit, stands near the door, while another, in a pink dress, is seen from behind at a table. A third one, in a light shirt and brown pants, sits on a couch.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
As a result of Trump & Hegseth's re-segregation, all five service chiefs, the JCS chairman and vice chairman, and nine of ten combatant commanders are white men. Also, the U.S. military is back to zero female four-star officers for the first time since 2008; there were four in 2024.
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