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@cantankerouscrow.bsky.social
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Lawyer, family man, collector of shiny objects and seeds.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h
Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.
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The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars
The billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military operations shows he’s a national security risk. No private citizen should have that much power.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h
Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11/10/2026
Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
ICYMI, great statement by former VP Mike Pence about Trump's betrayal of Ukraine. Scandal there's no one else left in Republican Party able to say it out loud.
President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin's ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey
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While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin's war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.
Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin's war machine.
As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.
America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin's war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.
Putin doesn't want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia's military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.
America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here.
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Catching some of the lightning at the edge of hurricane #Isaias
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
major democracies electing far-right populist governments
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Love it.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The extremists on both sides are fighting for a single-state solution that denies the future of the other. and they have been doing so for a century. Pretending otherwise is what allows Hamas and Netanyahu to embrace and continue the bloodletting.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why would you draft extensive legislation without requiring the teams to go back to the pac 10 and the other small conferences, or capping coach salaries?
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s illegal for the president to use taxpayer money to do a partisan commercial during a football game right? Why am I seeing that on TV “funded by the US Government”?
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jensen Huang is incredibly unpersuasive in this interview with Ezra Klein, we’ve got to regulate / shut these guys down right away.
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’re going to have a good night in November but that will become increasingly rare as power is further consolidated by reactionary billionaires. This country is going down the tubes, one step forward two steps back
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I knew George W. Bush was a bad guy when I was 12. I am not surprised to see him behave poorly
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Saving this one for a few months from now amidst super El Niño
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cool Running
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026
new Stupidest Play Of All Time contender, holy shit
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder again that the President of the United States has no idea what a trade deficit is — a concept taught in high school econ. He thinks that if the US buys $500 of goods and services from Canada, and Canada buys $400 of goods and services from the US, we have “lost” $100.
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m currently writing a novel set five years in the future which involves smugglers and it just got way more realistic unfortunately lol
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is awful, but also … Glad we’re all talking about this dumb bullshit rather than the war we’ve lost or private development in Yosemite or 5 year olds being deported or how we’re only letting white people from South Africa in as refugees or regulation of AI
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A new ship built in Murmansk travels across the Atlantic and is conveyed to a new owner off the coast of Maine after a few hiccups during the trip.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I thought he was a bigger McKinley fan
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Seriously wtf is wrong with the guy? And with our Congress for leaving him in this position? And with our country, for largely shrugging at all this?
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Shortly after taking office last year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled the nation's top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during U.S. military operations.
Hegseth had bet senior officers would endorse his view that focusing on civilian security was
"woke" and out of step with "maximum lethality," current and former defense officials told ProPublica.
Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
really incredible. We’re 71 days to the midterms. But the states are manufacturing standing by trying to plan around an order intended to make mail in voting illegal
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SDDPHOTO @sddphoto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
MAGA
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blaw @blaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Just abjectly stupid and unforgivably evil
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/08/2026
infuriating: doing cardio for 20 minutes a day makes me look and feel better
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
you may not care about the global rules-based order but it cares about you
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Honestly - I haven’t spent too much time thinking about primary elections this year as I find all the back and forth debate/fighting usual and predictable narratives exhausting. That said - just remember kids: Vote blue no matter who. 🌊🤘🏼
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They know voters hate this shit. So they wait until Blanche has the votes for Collins to come out against him. So she can claim to be a moderate. So she gets reelected. So she can spend the next two years voting for more Todd Blanches.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Also the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I can’t believe we’re doing another cycle of pretending to have a deal with Iran. This is so stupid.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Jeannine Pirro should be disbarred.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Great piece on the largely imaginary shoplifting surge: I do think one thing the piece misses is that a bunch of major police departments started years-long work slowdowns in 2020 where they refused to do their jobs (often falsely claiming their hands were tied by woke prosecutors)
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 24/07/2026
In times of emergency it is essential for people who understand what is happening to speak about it in the clearest possible terms. I appreciate the rare courage of Derek Lowe at @science.org to do that. www.science.org/content/blog... Disemboweling our universities will harm all Americans.
Time for another note about the Trump administration’s approach to funding US science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am sometimes met with disbelief. But I mean what I say and I am trying my best to say what I mean: The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
DC statehood, proportional representation/MMD, court reform, national campaign of reconstruction and deterrence to prevent anyone from ever trying this kind of garbage again
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/07/2026
An apparent ICE-related shooting in Maine is a good time to remember to treat the agency's initial claims with skepticism rather than credulity.
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Crow @cantankerouscrow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks for flagging, everyone should submit comments. They will adopt this ridiculous rule regardless, but the more arguments that are submitted, the more likely the winning one to defeat it will have been submitted such that administrative remedies are exhausted and the court can hear the arg.
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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is yet another ground for impeachment. It is a rejection of the United part of the United States.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Huge turnout tonight for a protest over ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday Magnolia Park, Houston. Video is from my colleague Macy Meinhardt, who is not on Bluesky but is on the scene.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/07/2026
"I have to tell you, I am just shocked by all of this. There was nothing in Toht’s personal history aside from his embrace of violent ideologies and history of racist comments and rape apologism to suggest he might be this kind of morally bankrupt person."
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If Only There Had Been a Sign that the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn’t Make a Good Senator
“There’s simply no way any of us could have predicted a Nazi SS guy with his eyeballs dangling out of his sockets and the Staff of Ra broiled into his flesh ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The dumbest damn timeline.
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