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Angel[a] Pappas

@disnazzio.bsky.social
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Your favorite middle-aged cop-disliking mom’s favorite middle-aged cop-disliking mom, co-founder of Baltimore Courtwatch, avowed grumbletonian. #FreeThemAll #AbolishThePolice

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 6h
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h
If you think that you should not say bad things about power people, you are not a journalist. You are a corporate public relations agent.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 6h
When we talk about the corrupt Supreme Court, we’re not just talking about Clarence Thomas getting paid off or Scalia doing billionaire junkets. John Roberts’ spouse getting paid by BigLaw firms would also be considered corrupt under federal law for other government employees.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5h
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 5h
The U.S. warns Americans not to travel to Haiti. It deported Pastor Molis Augustave there anyway, separating him from his American wife and two kids. #Immigration #TPS
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Too dangerous for his American wife and kids — but not for their Haitian father?
Haitian father deportation case highlights immigration policy dangers for American families.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 5h
Trump was reportedly encouraged by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, to carry out his illegal invasion of Venezuela during an hourslong session with the chatbot just weeks before the attack this January.
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Report: Trump Used Grok to Help Talk Him Into Illegal Invasion of Venezuela
The president reportedly used the AI chatbot for hours when Elon Musk visited the White House last December.
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Angel[a] Pappas @disnazzio.bsky.social · 6h
A lot of people could have saved themselves a lot of heartache today by listening to women in like 1998. Because you know who isn’t surprised that Eminem is a craven right wing piece of shit? Me.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 14h
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”
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Angel[a] Pappas @disnazzio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy Italian American Heritage Month and a merry Fuck Columbus to all who celebrate. Let’s stop perpetuating harm (and embarrassing ourselves) under the guise of honoring our ancestors. Malatesta is right there!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Debbie Szumylo @djszumylo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's standing exactly like Barbie after the dog chewed off her rubber feet and snapped her internal hip band, and then I tried to wedge her back into her high heels so she could stand up in the Dreamhouse.
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Angel[a] Pappas @disnazzio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It was before I was 7, which I remember because the other little girl who was with me when a teenage boy flashed us moved away the summer I turned 7. We were in front of her house in broad daylight.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I asked the DoD to comment on the fact one of the Pentagon's influencers had: • Praised dictators • Called women a "pestilence" • Said only people with children should be allowed vote Its response? "We are proud" to have worked with someone like this www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Youth pastor voice
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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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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're losing billions of dollars every year, most of our revenue comes from two customers, and we believe our product has a good chance of killing everyone. We value ourselves at $2 trillion.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh so they made woman/femme participation in tech culture contingent on attending rape parties, cute
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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Angel[a] Pappas @disnazzio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Listen it’s not the biggest problem facing society but whoever padded Madonna for this VMAs performance should be investigated for elder abuse, jfc this is a travesty
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
It appears that Eric Zhu, the "19-year-old entrepreneur" who the NY Times just quoted about sneaking into AI group house parties at the age of 13, might also be the same guy behind that bizarre sperm race event in April 2025:
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Bay Area student organizes 1st-of-its-kind sperm race to raise men's health awareness
Is sperm racing the next big thing? Well, it might not become an Olympic sport, but it's certainly creating quite the buzz. The so-called world's first sperm race was held in downtown Los Angeles and ...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
Followed very closely by this disgustingly Andrew-Tate-inflected case of attempted rape:
In December, a call came into Hillsborough’s police station at 2:22 a.m. A woman, who was riding in a Lyft at the time, was on the line. She said she had been trapped at AGI House by a male resident who tried coercing her to have sex.
The man told her that she was old and “would be alone forever,” according to a police report. He was “persistent in attempting to convince” the woman “to have sex with him, and she repeatedly declined,” said the report, which redacted both names.
The woman climbed over a gate and got away unharmed, the report said.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...
The house quickly became a hub for events. Eric Zhu, 19, a tech entrepreneur, said he used to sneak into parties there when he was about 13. No one checked anyone’s age, he said, and “it was pretty crazy.”
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🧊🛩️ SEATTLE, TAKE TWO 😬⛓️ With dozens of shackled captives waiting for hours on buses, a second crappy Air Wisconsin jet (N455AW) departs Texas for Seattle’s Boeing Field to take over the human trafficking mission for the broken down one sitting there in the cold autumn rain 👀
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Angel[a] Pappas @disnazzio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is from a letter that the girl would would be my great-grandmother wrote to the boy who would be my great-grandfather. 104 years ago. He didn’t in fact throw any of her letters away (nor she his). I’ve been scanning them in batches for 3 years.
This is a letter that you, no doubt, will throw away but I have nothing to say but that I love you with my whole heart.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When I point out that Executive Orders apply only to federal agencies this is what I mean to prevent: over-compliance.
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Angel[a] Pappas @disnazzio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Admittedly very loud former choir kid here begging my choir and theater compatriots to please stop BELTING IT FOR THE BACK ROW in spaces that are not auditoriums. Like we actually do not have to whole-ass ✨perform✨ every word we ever say in every setting. Settle down, Owen Meany, this is a Wendy’s.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"...Vance not only briefed POLITICO on the state of the Iran deal talks, but spoke to a group of reporters from several news organizations. In exchange for the information, those outlets agreed to grant Vance anonymity. Status, which did not participate in the briefing, is not bound by those rules."
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t want to be too alarmist here but you’re all aware that the Nazis were hyperbolic idiots right? Like you have picked up on the fact that this is actually a core part of fascism?
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know “haha funny furries” but that’s a sitting US Senator standing next to a podium labeled “Transgenderism Is A Mental Disease” so I’m not really sure all these cis people should be crackin’ up here
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
this is a LOL on every level—EVERY LEVEL—including allowing the sitting vice president of the United States to speak on background. Like, I'm sorry if the VP wants to give an interview, he can put his name to it and say it with his chest.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The losers running @yale.edu decided in October 2024 that Trumpism was a permanent state of affairs and so they should never criticize it, and earlier this year endorsed Chris Rufo as an authority on "trust in higher education" ... all while the GOP was already blowing itself up with incompetence.
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🔞🏳️‍⚧️ Eleanoir Nevermore!! 🧪🩸 @cutestanomaly.ca · 22/09/2026
Hey I think it should be said with the next round of "Discord age verification" scares and panic coming around Do NOT drop everything and run to a website you heard about 30 min ago and had not looked into at all The amount of vibe coded slop preying upon people's worry is alarming
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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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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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In Maryland, just fifty miles from DC, a sheriff has targeted and attacked local immigrants for over twenty years. The harm to those communities is breathtaking. a NEW must-read, just weeks from his latest reelection race... (in a county that Harris won over Trump).
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“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm.
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The Supreme Court Changed. What Now?
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC
The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
They even made DoorDash apologize.
DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.
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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
VICTORY in the most severe criminal case against the student movement for Palestine! The California attorney general dropped felony charges and $329,000 in restitution against Stanford students who occupied a building to demand their university divest from Israel’s genocide.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22/09/2026
“We do not pick and choose which laws to enforce or where to enforce them” is such an old lie, the Charlie Brown having hoes of cop impunity
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