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Darin 🙇🏼‍♂️

@darinmckenna.bsky.social
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Bi and basic dog dad in LA Y’all, my life is complicated. 😂 Bios are hard. Feel free to ask lol Politics 🏳️‍🌈, TV/Movies 🎬, Gay Stuff ™️, Theater 🎭, Theology (reluctantly)

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 45m
The dissonance between “I’m making brave principled stances” and “everyone has to be nice to me” is always odd to me. Knowing people won’t like your stance is what makes it brave and/or principled.
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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 9h
Believe it or not, the Supreme Court was presented as far back as 1947 with the question whether attempting to execute someone a second time, after a botched first go round (then, in a portable electric chair known as “Rusty”), was cruel and unusual.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 9h
a righteous act
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h
Holy fuck. SCOTUS overturned the circuit court ruling, sending Christa Pike to her death, and then the state of Tennessee botched the execution and she’s still alive. There are no fucking words.
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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Darin 🙇🏼‍♂️ @darinmckenna.bsky.social · 12h
Embarrassing for everyone involved
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21h
NEW: Republicans went ballistic when New Jersey admitted to an error that allowed fewer than 400 noncitizens to vote since 2023. But when 72,000 mail ballots were rejected across six states in the 2026 primaries over technical issues, the GOP remained silent. Democracy Docket breaks down the data👇
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A few noncitizen votes are a scandal. But thousands of rejected ballots are business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 21h
From the team that brought you AI John Cena Who Sexts Your Kids comes a profoundly bad new way to hoover up your data.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 30/09/2026
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doesn't fit The Narrative™️, doesn't get the coverage
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump’s approval rating flips with white voters in red states
The president's approval flips negative among white voters in six states he won, raising concerns for Republicans before the midterms.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 27/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social With Reps in battleground states running on trans issues, CNN poll finds once again that it runs dead last in voters' concerns after elections, crime, tariffs, etc. Good for them for finally positing a question other pollsters still ignore. [Live screen grab]
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet
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Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This may be unfair, but I'm morbidly interested in whether certain Cornell faculty are as worked up about this as they were about the encampments
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They can't all be this stupid. It's obviously a tactic to send the ACA into a death spiral.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Network solidarity against Trump's attack on the 1st Amendment lasted less than one week. Pathetic. On the bright side for CNN, moving forward Bari Weiss can make changes to ensure there is no more friction with the White House. Support independent media. demdock.com/4w6emld
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey look. A good policy (actually just reverting to what we had before, but I’ll take the rare W).
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...
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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Breentry 😭
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fox if this was a Dem: The President Failed to Demand the Return of the Top-Secret Parts from China. After the break: Should Hegseth resign? What do family members of pilots compromised by the China security failure say? Military experts denounce "culture of incompetence." bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s not that this story has not gotten attention, but this is the sort of story that Fox and NewsMax would have turned into a cultural touchstone under a Dem by running for weeks, darkly hinting at a conspiracy
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D. @deronhq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Everything he touches…
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
26 years ago
onion headline from 2000: Black Guy Photoshopped In, showing side-by-sides of a cover of a course guide with a Black student added to the second cover
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE: This was a targeted vehicle stop and also we shot him in the back as part of our enforcement of civil immigration laws in part because of AOC.
CLAIM: This illegal alien was indiscriminately targeted by ICE.

FACT: This is false. This illegal alien was the subject of a targeted vehicle stop. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S.

Resisting officers and evading arrest is dangerous for our officers, illegal aliens, and the public. We remind the public that resisting officers and evading arrest is a felony and a federal crime. Sanctuary politicians need to stop encouraging this dangerous behavior that puts our officers and the public at risk.

This dangerous attempt to evade arrest comes after sanctuary politicians held webinars and provided resources and tips for how to openly defy ICE:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hosted a webinar providing tips for illegal aliens to evade arrests at homes, workplaces, or in public.
Dan Goldman posted a video online calling on illegal aliens to make a plan for ICE encounters.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued multilingual flyers and online resources advising illegal aliens on how to evade arrest.
California Governor Gavin Newsom released guides and sanctuary laws advising illegal aliens how to recognize ICE, block entry, and defy arrest.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026
'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21/09/2026
In an attempt to prevent Bernie from bringing a vote to the Senate floor in early 2024 to block more weapons transfers to Israel, Biden personally called him and claimed he was about to sanction Ben Gvir. And then that didn't happen. From Jasper Nathaniel's talk w/ @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21/09/2026
Chris Van Hollen issues the first ever call by a Democratic member of Congress for US officials to be sanctioned by other countries
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's quite remarkable how much of the protesting against ICE gets becomes protesting the local police, often through the work of blue mayors or governors.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
no, it is the other way around. if you are looking at D+14 (or D+12 or +10 or even +8) generic ballot then there is basically no point in trying to tamper with anything. you are going to lose, the only ? is how bad it is going to be. it's when the election is *tight* that tampering makes sense.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
another one for this list bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/09/2026
the bipartisan majority of politicians being too captured to enforce existing antitrust laws is genuinely why we can't have nice things
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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 22/09/2026
weird day to be worried about state-run tv, gavin!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
oh yeah that’s the good stuff oh it’s so beautiful
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
President Trump is 0-2 against pools.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nevadan here, getting bamboozled into a Boring tunnel in Vegas was one of the dumbest things our government here has done in probably the last 25 years. And if you talk to a lot of those in office off the record they’ll admit this. They’re dumb, they’re dangerous, it’s a total mess.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Darin 🙇🏼‍♂️ @darinmckenna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom are part of the 11/10 pressure, mark my words
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