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Charles

@charlesboebinger.bsky.social
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History lover, nerd

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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My third or fourth Fblthp trigger win in the format was for the 7th win in a draft ... I beat three Kiora-made dragons by surveilling myself out of cards and flashing back Generous Revival targeting a big Fbs I had had to surveil away many turns earlier.
A messy board state of Reality Fracture limited that shows the opponent has made three dragons off of Kiora. The poster has just won off of a Fblthp, Impossibly Lost trigger.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl
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WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Obvious point: The Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are far better Americans than Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Disgraceful. Relative of Afghans Who Helped U.S. Military Is Deported to Africa. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...
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Relative of Afghans Who Helped U.S. Military Is Deported to Africa
The Trump administration has deported thousands of immigrants to countries where they have no ties. Dozens were on the latest flight, to the Central African Republic.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
James Bond finding a weapon and going “Ugh, a Klobb.”
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Mel Brooks now 5% of the way to really being the 2000-Year-Old Man
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What makes my heart heavy is that 13 servicemembers and a school full of girls died for no reason except to attempt to boost a sad old man’s ego
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
All these people shocked at Cape Verde playing well, as if they didn’t have a Praia
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I hate conspiracies and I don't think it was staged. Nor do I think Butler was staged. You can loathe a politician without losing your mind.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
JD Vance’s phone in a few days
Image of Maps app directions to walk from the Naval Observatory to Canossa Castle.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
All honor to the Hungarian people for showing the way.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Robert Mueller was one of the last well-dressed men in Washington. Soft shouldered suits with white button-down collar and foulard ties. Wore his watch on the underside of his wrist, as a holdover from his military training. One of the last to carry that classic American look.
Two photos of Robert Mueller. In the first, he's seated in a beige trenchcoat. In the second, he's wearing a dark worsted suit with a white button-down collar shirt and navy foulard tieTwo photos of Robert Mueller. In the first, he's wearing a charcoal scarf with a black overcoats. In the second, he's wearing a dark worsted suit with a white button-down collar shirt and red fouldard tie. His watch is worn with the face on the underside of his wrist. Mueller wallking with Obama and Comey. All three men are wearing dark suits with white shirts and dark shoes. A photo of Mueller as a student with schoolmates. He's wearing a checked sport coat with light colored cotton pants, light colored shirt, and narrow four-in-hand tie.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Plenty of people in power believe in trans rights and pursue use of their power to protect them yet are not offered NYT op-ed space to make the case for that opinion as often as anti-trans people are offered the same space. So what's going on there?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/03/2026
the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory” this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21/02/2026
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/02/2026
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
And it's not about "historical accuracy" in Greek mythology, Andromeda is described as an ethiopian princess but you've never seen a black andromeda in a major film. Europe in antiquity was not a jim crow society you freaks
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Götterdämmerung I wasn’t into pro sports as a kid, so he was my Jordan/Ali/Gretzky
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Taking over Greenland is not a joke. Trump is sending messages to foreign leaders and making threats that will destroy the most important alliance we have. Are Republicans in Congress and Marco Rubio really ready to throw NATO away because they’re too afraid to stand up to Trump?
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19/01/2026
This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.
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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If one can believe in the passage of time, it's been 13 years since my brave little pooch did nothing in the face of chaos. Thank u for allowing him to burn. 🙆 🙇
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I think politicians should be legally barred from sending fundraising emails/texts that start with ‘My Decision’ unless an actual decision is being announced
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
My father at Christmas, discussing one of the dogs: ‘She’s 75% Golden.’ Me: ‘Just like my Spotify Wrapped.’
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
My mother loved the @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social drawings I had commissioned for her for Christmas!
A tuxedo cat stretchesA drawing of a tuxedo cat stretchingA cat popping over a bed to say hiA drawing of a cat popping over a bed to say hi
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/12/2025
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2025
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories: • Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption). • Sex criminals. • War criminals.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
THE EXPERIENCED HEAD OF A CRITICAL OFFICE that helps organize important technical research and disburse billions of dollars in funding for the U.S. Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience. www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
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SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr
The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Thinking back to Constitutional Law with Randy Barnett(!) when I made an impassioned point about how the Roman Republic collapsed, the design of the Constitution was to stop that, and he scoffed, "we're not Rome." "I pay the soldiers, not the Senate" was how Gaius Marius kicked off the end.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Seven million patriots celebrated the real America today.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/10/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Was the below not the correct reference photo for the Halloween costume my daughter wanted??
A portrait of Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I got a new leg brace attachment yesterday and immediately asked the orthopedist, "Who designed this? Tetsuya Nomura?"
An image of a black leather leg brace attachment with no fewer than four belts/buckles.
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy
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Charles @charlesboebinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I didn't watch Kimmel but I believe strongly in the First Amendment. It's wrong for the government to use threats of coercion to suppress protected speech by the opposition, and it's wrong to be cowardly in response.
An image of a Disney+ cancellation
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
16 September 1943 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Anna Schvorc, (or Schvarc) was born in Géberjén. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- Learn about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow
Old photograph of a baby lying on a blanket beside a small toy and a teapot, with a shadowy background suggesting an indoor setting.
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