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Thoroughbred racetracker. Retired City employee.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
There will be no eggs by Easter.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New York City Bar Association statement on US v. Adams www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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On United States v. Eric Adams | New York City Bar Association
Since its founding in 1870, the New York City Bar Association has supported the rule of law as one of […]
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
great, a 5-page pdf with no identifiable plan or actions. do not make me run for office.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Trump appoints new U.S. Ambassador to United Nations
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hanna Hickman was senior litigation counsel for the Division of Enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau when her job was terminated. She came to CFPB from a 15-year career as a litigator. She's tough as nails. Inspiring to watch.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of Cathy Harris atop the Merit Systems Protection Board, ruling that Trump's decision to fire her exceeded his authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...
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CNN submitted a FOlA request for records related to the security clearances of Musk & DOGE personnel granted access to classified / secure networks.
"Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team," an OPM email address responded.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/02/2025
“Congress wants to cut government but not their own budgets. Elon Musk's 'Dept. of Government Efficiency' wants to slash spending—except on his own gov-funded ventures. If they’re serious about cuts, they should start with their own staff and perks. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
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Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” and Congress: Hypocrites Cutting Others But Not Themselves
In 2011, when I was a freshman in Congress, we did something that should have become a habit—we cut our own budgets by 5%.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“What do you want to do with the people who regret their vote?” I want them to pick up a fucking phone and call their reps. I want them to get out to a protest. I want them to stay home and decline to vote in the next election. Their input and feedback in resisting fascism is not of value.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is why I have no patience for “people are going to realize they made a mistake & we have to make space for them without scolding.” Trump Targeted The Wrong People is not a change of heart, it’s a customer service issue.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Lmao a Nobel Prize winner finds the solution to the global fertility collapse is for men to do the dishes and laundry more often -- more or less the precise opposite of the trad prescription Fabulous @byheatherlong.bsky.social essay www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | A Nobel Prize winner decodes why people aren’t having kids
Economist Claudia Goldin finds it largely comes down to societal expectations of how much men should do at home.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
25-year-old Marko Elez has been reinstated in the Trump administration and given an EOP email address, per source, as Musk had said would happen Elez left Treasury after the WSJ reported that he had tweeted last year: "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool"
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Butlersrunner @butlersrunner1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
@arimelber.bsky.social did you dye your hair? I like the Gray.
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Butlersrunner @butlersrunner1.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Shouldn't the Secret Service save us from this? Or the CIA?
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What could go wrong with these "patriots" in charge? As they continue building their autocracy, chaos and power grabbing, Americans are going to suffer. Jobs will be lost and the economy will tank and there will be blood in the streets. We're just not going to let you fuck with us! #FightMAGA
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 14/06/2024
Oh this is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhWq... "...this Robocop fuckwagon looks like an inbred DeLorean"
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Lewis Black Gives Elon's Cybertruck Two Middle Fingers Up - Back in Black | The Daily Show
Tesla's stock price has plummeted over 40% this year, which is why they're relying heavily on the success of their latest robo-car release, the Cybertruck. In a new Back in Black, Lewis Black explains that between a massive recall, rusted metal, and a flesh-eating automatic trunk, it looks like the Cybertruck might be cyber-f**ked. #DailyShow #Cybertruck #Tesla #LewisBlack Subscribe to The Daily Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Daily Show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailyshow Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: http://www.paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aei0b Follow Comedy Central: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ComedyCentral Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ComedyCentral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comedycentral Watch full episodes of The Daily Show: https://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show About The Daily Show: Jon Stewart and The Best F**king News Team host The Daily Show, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning program analyzing the biggest stories in news, politics, and culture through a sharp, satirical lens. The Daily Show redefined the late night show category on TV and, with an audience of over 51M across social media platforms, has become a launching pad for some of the biggest stars in entertainment. The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 16/02/2025
arm yourself before it's too late to do so
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Butlersrunner @butlersrunner1.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
If two or three of these people disappeared would they be able to continue this assault?
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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Disrupt far-right organizing, grow your network / community, buy / train in firearms, take a Stop the Bleed course, anticipate supply shortages and have alternatives (water filtration / learn to grow your own produce), learn basic repair skills, study past resistance movements; some legal options.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 16/02/2025
we should be demanding our governors purge our national guards of trump loyalists before they're turned against us
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/02/2025
worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
it's so fascinating to me that the Bulwark is more consistently and honestly anti-Trump than the Free Press
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
NEW: Scoop about the architect of the destruction of USAID. Pete Marocco was a USAID official in the first Trump Admin. On a trip to the Balkans, he secretly met with the Serb separatist leader. That was a no-no. Caused a big diplomatic incident. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign ...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Three fights in first nine seconds of US vs. Canada game at 4 Nations www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The fun thing about America having centuries of unbroken institutional legitimacy is that the President can publicly say "I am doing a coup, illegally, in order to break the law for my own benefit" and 95% of people on both sides will say, "Oh no, he's not, that'd be crazy."
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DaveAnthony @daveanthony.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
In Ferguson, they swept phone data from the crowd, then later drove down streets and if there were 2 or more of those people in a house, they raided it.
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Butlersrunner @butlersrunner1.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
As I watch the Nightly News I'm amazed that life is apparently going on as normal for them. When do you think it will be time to tell people watching the news what is really going on and that it's time to step up. It will probably require violence. But do you really want to live under a dictator?
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Love, Ms.O 💋 @maryosteen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
They’d have to physically carry me out as I kicked, scratched, bit, punched, pulled hair, spit, and screamed. But, hey, that’s me.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A fun thing to do with this supposed Napoleon quote is to do a google search to see what forums it appeared on with this exact wording before 2022. I'm no computer whiz, so maybe I messed up, but the only hits I got were these two...for Stormfront, a neo-Nazi forum.
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Re: 15th Dec: New clashes in Moscow errupts between ethnic Russians and migrants from the Caucasus. Police detain 8
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Originally Posted by metalman862
He who saves his country violates no law.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-Edward Abbey
Go Russians! Beat the invaders into the ground
AND I hope the Russian MEN remember to beat to the ground those who brought the invaders -- and those who support them -- i.e., the government and the mainstream media reporters.07-23-2005, 01:11 PM
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Re: Napoleon
He who saves his country violates no law.
Patriotism
Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
Now thats a good quote!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
What's incredible is how there are thousands - tens of thousands - of stories like this, a genuine national crisis akin to a foreign invasion, and our elite press is so bubbled, so insular, that they can only cover it by writing "Strong leaders flex governing muscles" 700 times over. Pathetic.
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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It’s really coming down out there
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
He or she who joined SCOTUS’s opinion in Trump v. US should really contemplate what they’ve done
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/02/2025
If there’s a next time, I hope people back the person & the party actually fighting for them instead of crying that it wasn’t enough or fast enough. Progressive means making progress. Getting it done, but it takes time. Hold folk’s feet to the fire, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. -end-
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Anduril (founded by Palmer Lucky & backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen, a close ally of Musk & Thiel) recently bragged that it’s “taking over the @USArmy's Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program pending @DeptofDefense approval.” Lucky says that he’s >10X more “crazy” than u think.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/02/2025
The infrastructure of the Internet would run longer without electricity than without trans folks tbh
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Hypnotized America @profchildermass.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Read this and get in the game.
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Anson Burlingame @ansonburlingame.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
"It is past time for our party to change to a fighting posture. We can swing at every pitch. We can fight every battle. We can overreact to everything Trump and Musk are doing. We have nothing left to lose. Let’s act like it."
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Butlersrunner @butlersrunner1.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Who was paying attention when Victor Orban was making all of those trips to Mar a Lago? They were training sessions and Trump and musk learned very well. Unless Millions Step Up immediately we are now a dictatorship. We have no power.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
He who rambles on about Hannibal Lecter, Arnold Palmer’s dick size, windmill cancer, and turning Gaza into a real-estate play, and thinks he’s saving the county, should have his head examined.
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Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Meanwhile in Russia: Sergey Mikheyev says that in light of the Trump administration's express intent to abandon NATO allies in case they intervene in Ukraine, Russia should strike Brussels, London and Paris. Vladimir Solovyov wholeheartedly agrees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkX5...
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Sergey Mikheyev says Russia should strike Brussels, London and Paris
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
DOGE is illegal Changing spending policies by executive fiat is illegal The authority granted to Musk is illegal It's not an opinion, but a fact Keep Reposting this
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 16/02/2025
Holyshit that opening Questlove put together for “Ladies and Gentlemen” is incredible. Like have you ever wondered what the experience of seeing one of the world’s greatest DJs mixing videos of live performances across 50 years of music would be like? You do not need to wonder now and it’s amazing.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This friggin' monster should be in prison for the rest of us life instead of threatening our nation, terrorizing our people, and endangering the world.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
At what point will Repubs go public with the threats that have been made against them? We’re not talking about primaries. Senate Democrats have been talking about it for a few weeks. What they’re doing to our gov’t is getting very dangerous. 271 Congressional Repubs. One needs to go public.
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Outerspace79 @outerspace79.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Nope. Check out what Orban did in Hungary, Erdogan in Turkey, what Kaczyński tried to do in Poland, , and what Fico is doing in Slovakia. And it all started in putin’s russia. By the book. I am not surprised at all.
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Sabrina McDaniel 🌊💙 @sabrina-mcdaniel.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
` If there ever was a definition for "too little - too late" .. 😡
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