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@chlodubs.bsky.social
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Upset about everything. Former policy attorney/lobbyist job hunting.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.
"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family. 

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator 

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of: 

➡️ defunding the police 
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets 
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors 
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections 

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 2h
so cheerful and inclusive!!!
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 46m
before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
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A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 11h
Having watched so many episodes of Katie's show, where even her mega-MAGA guests act like they're being held hostage, this story doesn't surprise me. Of course they're making everyone pretend to be their friends and come to their stupid parties. www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...
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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base
From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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Le HuffPost @huffingtonpost.fr · 11h
Accent français et mouchoir sale… Céline Dion a fait son comedy club pour son 13e concert
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Accent français et mouchoir sale… Céline Dion a fait son comedy club pour son 13e concert à Paris
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Not your attorney @chlodubs.bsky.social · 10h
It's entirely possible to dislike Susan Collins and talk about it without making fun of her medical condition.
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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · 23h
Borrowing from Tom Paine, I would simply call this excellent piece Common Sense. Among other things, it shares Paine's anti-monarchical attitudes. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached (Gift Article)
The president’s despotism is itself a constitutional offense.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Susan Collins "does what Trump needs her to do to enact his agenda, and sometimes casts a protest vote—but only if she can prearrange it to be meaningless. She is a snake disguised as a muppet."
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Susan Collins Is the Living Worst
The most despicable Republican is actually the “reasonable” Republican.
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Karolina Muchova Fan Club @muchovafanclub.bsky.social · 14h
It's annoying that the @nytimes.com didn't write Melissa Hortman's name here. She has a name! WTF
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 16h
A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Not your attorney @chlodubs.bsky.social · 14h
I despise her, and also this is awful
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All the report says is “obviously we didn’t lean enough to the right”
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Not your attorney @chlodubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And so is Hayden!
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Not your attorney @chlodubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Kansas used to have a strong tradition of moderate GOPers who would hold the far right back. Graves is a fine example.
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NPR @npr.org · 10/10/2026
It has been one year since Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages and President Trump promised an end to the war, but Palestinians say the past 12 months have been a ceasefire in name only. n.pr/3TxsXs9
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Photos: What a year of ceasefire in Gaza looks like
It has been one year since Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages and President Trump promised an end to the war, but Palestinians say the past 12 months have been a ceasefire in name only.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ah yes, kicking off the Christmas season with a public execution, just like Jesus would want
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trafficking kids. Don't think we can 'turn the page' on this shit @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social unless you think the government should be trafficking kids. Fucking monster. Just wanna let them get away with this
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CLAIM: the ICE agents fired into a vehicle with a child in it for no reason at all FACT: these keys here are jingling isn't that interesting? isnt the sound they make really something?
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You guys death penalty cases last decades. The reason people are talking about AEDPA and Dems’ central role in the modern death penalty is that 30 years ago isn’t a long time. There are people on death row right now whose original cases predated the Clinton-era law that now governs them.
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Not your attorney @chlodubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes, exactly. White supremacy and white Christian nationalism is the real enemy and the common source of antisemitism, Islamophobia, etc
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 10/10/2026
The Trump admin said that ICE would scale back on community arrests if states complied with its deportation agenda. But data show that was a false promise. ICE's assault on communities has only gotten worse, even for states that do collaborate with the federal agency:
Trend chart showing ICE arrests from Oct. 2024 - July 2026, with spikes in Jan 2025 after Trump's inauguration; in April 2025 after the White House set an arrest quota; and a surge throughout summer 2026. Thanks to local collaboration, ICE arrested many people from local jails, police stations, and prisons.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/10/2026
This is so much worse than the headline really makes out. Seems kind of like Nikon didn't check hard enough and maybe looked past how genAI was used to fabricate this imagery www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Winner of scientific imagery contest was AI generated
Nikon disqualifies the winner of its prestigious science competition for using AI after microscopy experts questioned the accuracy of the clip on social media.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.
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Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South
At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Detrumpification is going to require so much work.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 05/10/2026
My client and I to MPR about this phenomenon. Two other attorneys are quoted talking about their client as well. We're not going to let ICE get away with making a mockery of court orders like this. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 10/10/2026
Zacharia is on the board of White Rose Resistance, an extremist abortion “abolitionist” organization that wants to prosecute people who have abortions for homicide:
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Opinion | The anti-abortion movement’s growing support for throwing women in jail
The only way to actually stop abortions in states where they’re banned, some activists argue, is to prosecute women for homicide.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 10/10/2026
People freaked out over this take, but I was absolutely correct. What I should have added is that they’d also be doing weird anti-abortion dog whistles like this
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is dumb as hell but it’s absolutely not as dumb as this shit. Bob Macy was a registered Democrat but he didn’t vote for a Democrat his entire adult life after Reagan .
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Disagree. Most Marvel villains are complex, conflicted characters, often with tragic backstories, and usually have some deeply buried potential redeeming feature.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10/10/2026
Don’t worry guys, Compact Magazine assures me it’s only unpublishable due to woke www.compactmag.com/article/ross...
hat does it take to get a fantasy novel published these days, if not a famous name and a great manuscript? Judging by The
Falcon's Children, a high epic fantasy by conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, it seems the answer is a gimmick of some kind—ultra-violence, soft-core sex, identity politics.
Douthat's novel, the first in a planned trilogy, is being serially released on Substack after being turned down in two rounds of submissions to publishers, which speaks to the siloed nature of contemporary publishing rather than the merits of the book.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On the day TN was torturing Christa Pike I was in Oklahoma for what should have been a major step in finally resolving the saga of Richard Glossip. It happened to be Sept 30--exactly 11 years after OK nearly killed Glossip only to realize it had the wrong drugs. My report w/@jordansmith.bsky.social
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The Key Witness Against Richard Glossip Just Returned to Court. It Didn’t Go Well.
Decades after blaming Richard Glossip for his own actions, Justin Sneed is less credible than ever — and prosecutors know it.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
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Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Liliana seems to be getting shit for this, but she's not wrong. You don't need to be actively executing people like Arizona's current Dem gov and AG, to enable a system in which executions occur. Oh and Arizona's current Dem governor and AG have executed 3 people and are seeking a 4th warrant.
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Not your attorney @chlodubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
YEP
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Every time I drive on 1-81 in VA I think of Will Morva, a severely mentally ill man executed by Terry McAuliffe in 2017. That case has stayed with me and will remain with me forever. If there's one bright spot it is that VA has since ended the death penalty. But it makes it all the more senseless.
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Will Virginia Execute a Man Whose Crimes Were Driven by Delusions?
William Morva is set to die on July 6, despite evidence he is severely mentally ill. Will Gov. Terry McAuliffe kill him anyway?
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One more thing about the death penalty before going offline. As disgusted as we should be by Trump's bloodlust, we should NOT lose sight of the CENTRAL role of Democrats in upholding, expanding, and enabling this system that seems to horrify so many people right now. It really cannot be said enough.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
This is not said to imply that you should vote for Republicans. It’s said to imply that you should pressure your Democratic reps (if you have them) to make the law better.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
Of course the GOP and red states are responsible for the most murders. However, the Democrats made the choice to enable them to do that years ago and have not yet undone their error.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
As far as I am aware, there is no substantial attempt to repeal this law.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
AEDPA substantially limits—today, right now—the scope of judicial review available to prisoners, and is absolutely responsible for people being put to death at this moment.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
People getting mad about this probably don’t remember AEDPA, the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which passed the senate by 91-8, and the House 293-133, and was signed into law by Bill Clinton.
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Not your attorney @chlodubs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Read this whole thread to become enraged with me.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1 kudos to every member- house or senate, that recently voted to “impose” sanctions on Russia. You got played. 2, after reading the ny time and the wsj today, it’s very clear why trump ramped up his efforts to cut deals with Putin and sell out the ppl of the Ukraine
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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is why *Russ Vought* (who holds the money) should be impeached, and this year, because it's simpler than Trump, and could pick up enough votes from Republicans to do it.
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