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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Now's a good time to reup my factual assertion that if you're pissed Trump didn't go to trial for his coup attempt, SCOTUS is singularly responsible (and DQing him would have been even further impossible).

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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Oh my. Trump asks Supreme Court to pause the TikTok ban law. An expert on Supreme Court’s procedure & practices tells me the Court cannot do what Trump’s asking. Another says this is a PR stunt. Remarkably, Trump’s attorney on the filing is his Solicitor General nominee. That’s very troubling! :-(

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KaraQuixote📝🔎🇺🇸🌐🇪🇺 @ciaoquirktax.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

That's just one. It makes me queasy, to say the least. I'm getting reports about other ones, ranging from 300-20,000.

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

While rummaging through my Twitter archives, overcome with emotion seeing this post from February 21, 2022, at the onset of Putin's brutal, unilateral invasion of Ukraine. 3 days later, Russia would invade Ukraine. 1,023 days later, Ukraine still stands. Let's keep it that way. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦🕊️

Image of tweet from February 21, 2022. BREAKING via Reuters: Putin just ordered troops into Ukraine – Donbas territory. War has begun.

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KaraQuixote📝🔎🇺🇸🌐🇪🇺 @ciaoquirktax.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The power went out for 10 minutes. I haven't experienced that in forever, so it's really weird to me now. The entire street (houses & sidewalk lights) & the driving roadway went dark. I thought it was just my house. Whew, I guess. And it cut off the heat. I hope that returns. It's 28F out. Brrr.

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KaraQuixote📝🔎🇺🇸🌐🇪🇺 @ciaoquirktax.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It tells me that they're lacking votes in even the "conservative" female demographic. Also of note: Using "we" is a political tactic to make people & voters believe that they're in an allied & special group. Maye Musk doesn't live in Florida. She lives in NYC. Secrets? How juicy. 🙄

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KaraQuixote📝🔎🇺🇸🌐🇪🇺 @ciaoquirktax.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Musk may be using his mother's account to publicly test out political ideas. Exactly one month ago:

Maye Musk's November 12, 2024 Tweet/X post about wanting Lara Trump to be a Florida senator, as the Senate is "an old man's club".

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KaraQuixote📝🔎🇺🇸🌐🇪🇺 @ciaoquirktax.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What's next? Steve Bannon as the director of Radio Free Europe or Asia? Bannon was an executive producer. But I'm sure that felon guy doesn't think Bannon's "straight outta casting".

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

As I note in this piece, we've actually seen this weird mishmash of ridiculously wealthy businessmen and dipshits whose main qualification is loyalty to the president about a hundred years ago. It was the Cabinet of Warren G. Harding and, hoo boy, did that not turn out well.

Black and white photo of Harding's Cabinet outside the White House getting ready for their mugshots.

Portrait, I mean. Portrait.

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Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Satellite images show some Russian navy ships have left Tartous and are currently sitting offshore in the Mediterranean Sea. This is happening amid continuing uncertainty about the future of Moscow's military presence in Syria. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Russian ships move from Syria base amid doubts over future

Satellite images show Russian ships off the Syrian coast, as Moscow mulls its military future after Bashar al-Assad's fall.

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Biden has approved a new national security memorandum ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House that could serve as a road map for the incoming administration as it looks to counter growing cooperation among China, Iran, North Korea and Russia. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

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Biden approves national security memo on China, Iran, North Korea and Russia ahead of Trump’s return

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KaraQuixote📝🔎🇺🇸🌐🇪🇺 @ciaoquirktax.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If it were proven instead of suspected, do you think the UK/Europe would wake up?

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

From now on, when they go low, I’m going subterranean.

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Cue Daniel Penny having dinner at Mar-a-Lago inauguration in 3… 2…

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wthisnext @wthisnext.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Who broke the law? The man inciting the insurrection is the one who should be in prison not the investigators.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This morning, I heard my students talking about what they did over the weekend. Some shopped, some went to the movies, some put up decorations, and one said he spent the weekend watching the news so he could translate for his parents what Trump is planning to do. This is who we are now.

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Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In addition to intl law issues does it seem smart to be doing photo ops showing your take over of an area that the leader of the group that just ousted Assad is named after?

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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 09/12/2024

1/ "Education is also critical. It can empower individuals to think independently, question sources & understand the complexity of the endless information available on the internet." - @eliothiggins.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com #NewsLiteracy #Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

nytimes.com

Education Is Key to Fighting Disinformation on Social Media

In our interconnected modern world, education is critical in the fight against disinformation.

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Republicans Against Maga @reclaimamerica.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Sad!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Generally speaking, I am far on the “free speech” end of the larger deplatforming debate, but there are strong arguments for deplatforming based on actions, especially when there’s a pattern and intent to cause harm. I encourage @aaron.bsky.team to consider Jesse Singal’s presence in that context.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. Please remember this

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This person should be nowhere near federal govt service, much less Director of the FBI. My own personal experience tells me that. But then you read this, it's even worse. And this is just scratching the surface.

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BuckSatan @bucksatan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

With RFK coming in, women are going to have to get Back Alley vaccinations so they can protect themselves.

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Assad was propped up by Putin. But Putin couldn’t help him — because Russia’s military has been devastated by Ukraine. Make no mistake: our Ukraine policy is working — it weakens Putin EVERYWHERE.

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SketchInkRepeat @sketchinkrepeat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What I find interesting is their desire to follow and disrupt. It’s like they don’t like being ignored. Again. They don’t want us. But can’t live without us. Go figure. Sad. Every time they troll it’s like an admission to wanting us in their lives. Closeted liberals perhaps? 🤔

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I understand hating opinion columns, I say this as an opinion columnist, but reporting is good and if American democracy is going to survive we desperately need reporting to expose corruption.

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Recently in Syria. US bombs ISIS; Turkey attacks Kurds; Israeli troops enter.

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Fella Historian🌻 @thisuserisdumb.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It is Assad day for Putin. I❤️puns

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KaraQuixote📝🔎🇺🇸🌐🇪🇺 @ciaoquirktax.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Enough is enough. Make using these flags in a celebratory manner illegal.

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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I texted Macron that every painting, sculpture and artifact should be nailed down at the Louvre before Ambassador Charles Kushner lands at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Just to be on the safe side.

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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Cattitude intensifies.

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Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I keep reading that this is a place for kinder people, but gentle souls have always been among us. We just couldn’t hear them anymore. Perhaps our gathering here is proof that we missed those voices. What a wonderful thing to believe about ourselves. It can be a bold move to choose kindness.

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A Florida-based federal judge has ordered nearly $1 million in sanctions against Donald Trump and his attorney Alina Habba, calling the former president a “mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process.” www.politico.com/news/2023/01...

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Judge sanctions Trump, Habba nearly $1 million for ‘completely frivolous’ Clinton suit

The judge ordered Trump and Habba to pay $938,000 to cover the legal costs for the 31 defendants Trump linked in his year-old lawsuit.

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Monkeytime @tmorman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Centrist Dems keep on not learning the same lessons over and over and over again. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/u...

In interviews, many Democrats expressed little surprise, saying that the Harris campaign had devoted much of its energy to winning over moderate white voters in wealthier neighborhoods and suburbs, both in Philadelphia and around the nation. In an October memo, her campaign wrote that the “path to win Pennsylvania capitalizes on Trump’s unprecedented weakness in the suburbs.”

As a result, many staff members felt that Philadelphia’s racially diverse neighborhoods were ignored.

Even though the campaign raised $1.5 billion, many of its field offices in the city were filthy and lacked basic supplies like tables, chairs, cleaning products and printers, staff members said. Several recounted being forced to raid the campaign’s better-stocked suburban offices or to raise money independently. One office received more than 20 boxes of campaign T-shirts, only to discover an embarrassing misspelling: “Harriz-Walz.”

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nudaydawns.bsky.social @nudaydawns.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Why can't more people be like Dick? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/a...

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Dick Van Dyke, Approaching 99, Dances in Coldplay’s Latest Video (Gift Article)

In the clip, which was filmed in October, Van Dyke sings, dances barefoot and offers meditations on aging, family and love.

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