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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'm so old I remember what happened the last time the Asian markets collapsed.

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delfin @thedelfinclutch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

HEGSETH: Okay, we're set up. Now we wait for the cavalry to arrive. SOLDIER: Who's that? HEGSETH: Jesus Christ, of course. This is Armageddon. He will appear and clear the approach for his forces. ... ... ... HEGSETH: Annnnnnnnny time now.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I can't imagine the company will survive the inevitable civil lawsuits, let alone potential criminal charges...

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The reply all blunder itself happens, is human, and is nothing compared to the multitude of "unsubscribe me from this list" reply alls that inevitably follow, and I will die on that hill.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown. "I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...

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Trump Admin Tells Federal Employees To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown

One health department employee said the directions seemed to be "coercing" subordinates into political activity.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

today i am challenging democratic politicians, for the rest of the week, to pick one (1) horrifying thing republicans are doing and pretend its as bad as jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended id suggest tom homan taking bribes, but theres a few things to pick from if they want

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Everyone reading this needs to understand that if this goes into effect you - yes, you, individually, the person reading this right now - could be deemed a "narcoterrorist" by Trump and subjected to summary execution.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Wait are they really still learning to manually shepardize?! That makes me irrationally happy. I loved doing that at a law student tbh

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Meanwhile "booktok" continues to grow. There's plenty of demand for book reviews.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

There are more people still illegally stuck in CECOT.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Honestly Kirkland is actually better. Cute pup!

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Why are places in the US that rely on foreign tourism suffering? Huh, it's a mystery. Must be because Vegas is too expensive now.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Yes all of that but I'd also like to see a breakout of foreign tourists. I certainly wouldn't risk a pleasure visit to the US right now on any kind of visa. Plenty of alternatives to Vegas in countries that aren't indiscriminately imprisoning foreigners and promising to do more of it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My great-grandfather led a team of doctors that invented chemotherapy. He’s part of the legacy of breakthroughs in medical science that saved so many lives. And now we’re going to throw away years of groundbreaking research because we put a manifestly unqualified person in charge of public health.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism. Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“Groceries.”

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

They don't care. Even better.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Not satisfied with decimating tourism with the ever increasing headlines of unwarranted arrest and detention, they want to put a nail in the coffin. Aren't you glad you kissed the ring at the club world cup @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social ??

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Unaffordable for many lol. RIP the economy. Especially all places in the US that have enjoyed tourist dollars.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Elizabeth Warren went to CNBC today and destroyed Donald Trump on the economy. Trump is trying to bury this appearance with a tantrum on his failing media site. Make sure this goes viral instead. www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

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Senator Elizabeth Warren: Firing of BLS commissioner is 'dangerous'

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss her reaction President Trump's firing of BSL chief, whether Congress is able to take action, and much more.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

People assume famous actors/comedians make way more money than they do...

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I used to unsubscribe but I think that actually made it worse - many, if not most, are not legit and any response at all puts you on a "we've got a live one" list.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Same. I still bring it up whenever possible. I think this did as much to normalize Trump and led to his winning in 2016 as anything else and I'll never forgive Fallon until he recognizes his complicity.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Iirc, when PE took over Red Lobster they sold off the buildings and forced the restaurants to rent. Bankruptcy followed very quickly.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/08/2025

I think Orwell put it best www.orwell.ru/library/essa...

It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not. Remarks like ‘They can't run me in; I haven't done anything wrong’, or ‘They can't do that; it's against the law’, are part of the atmosphere of England. The professed enemies of society have this feeling as strongly as anyone else. One sees it in prison-books like Wilfred Macartney's Walls Have Mouths or Jim Phelan's Jail Journey, in the solemn idiocies that take place at the trials of conscientious objectors, in letters to the papers from eminent Marxist professors, pointing out that this or that is a ‘miscarriage of British justice’. Everyone believes in his heart that the law can be, ought to be, and, on the whole, will be impartially administered. The totalitarian idea that there is no such thing as law, there is only power, has never taken root. Even the intelligentsia have only accepted it in theory.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. The familiar arguments to the effect that democracy is ‘just the same as’ or ‘just as bad as’ totalitarianism never take account of this fact. All such arguments boil down to saying that half a loaf is the same as no bread. In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions. The belief in them influences conduct, national life is different because of them. In proof of which, look about you. Where are the rubber truncheons, where is the castor oil? The sword is still in the scabbard, and while it stays there corruption cannot go beyond a certain point. The English electoral system, for instance, is an all but open fraud. In a dozen obvious ways it is gerrymandered in the interest of the moneyed class. But until some deep change has occurred in the public mind, it cannot become completely corrupt. You do not arrive at the polling booth to find men with revolvers telling you which way to vote, nor are the votes miscounted, nor is there any direct bribery. Even hypocrisy is a powerful safeguard. The hanging judge, that evil old man in scarlet robe and horse-hair wig, whom nothing short of dynamite will ever teach what century he is living in, but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe, is one of the symbolic figures of England. He is a symbol of the strange mixture of reality and illusion, democracy and privilege, humbug and decency, the subtle network of compromises, by which the nation keeps itself in its familiar shape.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

They pushed through $170 billion that can be used to build concentration camps and have already started doing to though. We're a lovely mix of both I'd say.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/07/2025

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

You might need to unclench your jaw. It’s worth checking.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Free advice for this Sunday morning: When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link. Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

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ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/07/2025

Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man. Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I was somehow not prepared for the last scene of that South Park episode my lord 😯 so what happens now

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

If you're a visual learner: white represents money FEMA is granting to build detention centers. Blue represents too much money to spend saving little girls (and a hundred other people) from drowning

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My skeet (or whatever we call it lol) was not about the Epstein situation though fwiw, I'm super frustrated with the decades long failure to challenge the immigration rhetoric from the right and the current concentration camp movement that has resulted from it.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I won't pay for Axios...

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

E.g. Recently the CEO of Blackrock said he didn’t want finance or comp sci majors. He wanted history majors and English majors. Goldman Sachs agreed. / 3 fortune.com/2024/05/17/b...

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The rise of the English major: BlackRock COO wants to recruit liberal arts analysts that 'have nothing to do with finance or technology'

As AI rises, so does the demand for critical thinkers.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Or something that exists outside of, or independent from, current political rhetoric. Something to be gamed with better slogans but not something that can be challenged substantively.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Democrats never seem to want to even try to shape or move public opinion, they spend all their time and money trying to understand and cater to public opinion as if it's an immoveable force.

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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Who was president five years ago...

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