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Lee Ann Roberts

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 9h
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Balls & Strikes
A site for critical, progressive, and bullshit-free commentary about courts, judges, and the legal system they uphold.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h
Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump?
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Republicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump?
Trump supporters may be surprised to learn the state takeover of means of production is not driven by the left
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 8h
I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 8h
Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 8h
A heart warming story that actually involves Facebook being sorta kinda useful.... in 2026?!?
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 10h
Colson Whitehead. Harlem, 1986. A work of fiction, yes, but a prescription for our times, a broader interpretation of “termination for cause.”
From COOL MACHINE by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, 2026):

Last week Carney had fired Jerome the sales associate after he admitted that he had voted for Reagan, not once but twice. “What this country needs is a good kick in the ass, you know.” Carney showed him the door. What message did it send to the community to hire people of such low character?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
"It's important for you all to stay on the same team as Ken Paxton," says the woman who filed for divorce and ended their marriage
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
Slander is spoken; libel is written. But this isn't either of those. It's detailed reporting from a respected outlet with damning evidence. And "most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history" is as impressive as "shortest NBA player from Luxembourg"
Speaking on behalf of Lutnick, the White House said: "The BBC's pathetic and desperate attempt to slander Secretary Lutnick will do nothing to change the fact that he has been the most consequential Commerce Secretary in modern history."
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 8h
fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
Getting your understanding of "progressive thinking" from X is as bad as getting it from Fox News.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 8h
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h
Do their actions merit impeachment? Yes. Many times over. Would impeachment weaken them, and reduce their ability to abuse power? Yes. At minimum by taking up time and attention. Would it stop valuable lawmaking from happening in Congress? No. And the White House is breaking laws. So... why not?
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 12h
the man in the drunk castle
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 10h
In light of that Atlantic article going around featuring the traumatized truck driver who hit Pierre Damas Bel, I'll re-up what I wrote a month ago. craigcalcaterra.com/blog/there-i...
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Blood on J.D. Vance’s hands
A young Haitian man walked in front of a truck. His blood is on J.D. Vance’s hands
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Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 14h
Celebrated rappers and producers are selling out the culture in exchange for artwork usually reserved for the world’s shittiest hot chicken restaurants
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AI Album Covers Have No Place in Hip-Hop
A visual artist who built his career on creating covers for independent rap records laments how AI is bastardizing his life’s work.
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BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 15h
Dear indie bookstores: Please stop creating your logos (& posts & graphics &c.) with genAI. Those tools are built on the stolen work of the authors & illustrators you're supposed to be supporting & promoting. It's like someone using you for recommendations & buying from Amazon, only worse. 💜Me
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 14h
Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk. Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.
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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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h
When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific.
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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
TAPPER: Hiring is slow, wages are not keeping up w/ prices. So what is the president talking about when he says it's the best economy ever? HASSETT: This is a characterization very often made by the president's opponents when I do interviews. It's a double bind question. The pollsters are wrong.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14h
MAINERS: Early voting starts TODAY! Voting early is the best way to make sure your ballot is safe from suppression efforts and election sabotage. Make your early voting plan today! Not in Maine? Help drive historic early vote turnout by sharing this post.
(around images of the state of Maine, a lighthouse, a lobster, and a pine cone) IN-PERSON EARLY VOTING STARTS IN MAINE TODAY

VOTE EARLY OCTOBER 4-29

SHARE THIS & SPREAD THE WORD!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just one day after another of cartoonish villainy
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 23h
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14h
you rotate the square piece when you play Tetris don't you
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Agree with all of the below, with this distinction: -Alito is the most *predictably* partisan-R member of the court. -Roberts is the most *consequentially* partisan-R member.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026
Georgia won’t let anyone give a voter standing in line water no matter how hot it is or how non-political they are. But 5 large from the president for voting his way? No prob!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West)
By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
TAPPER: 2 years ago, Trump said he thought he could get mortgage rates down to 3%. Last week mortgage rates had the biggest weekly jump in 4 years. It's more than 7%. Why has Trump failed to deliver on that promise? HASSETT: President Trump hasn't failed to deliver at all. The economy is booming.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h
Vote against all Republicans to stop them from stealing from you.
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
HASSETT: If people were unhappy, it'd show up in the data TAPPER: It seems to be showing up in the data, just not the data you're looking at
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why not run ONE ad exposing the Gang Who Couldn't Epstein Straight? Their crotch-sniffing isn't just about them being sick perverts. They think you're a sucker. They think you don't see Elon & his Reich soaking up trillions, building dirty data centers up your ass while your mom can't afford gas.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I don't want the government giving things to me, see"
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
What’s up with right wingers and whipping up pogroms against their own families
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 03/10/2026
These people don't want a "color-blind meritocracy"! They are white supremacists who believe non-whites are inferior and the benefits of our citizenship should reflect it.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 03/10/2026
In the time following the Sept. 11 protests, three men have been arrested in connection with Tasia Fortune’s death. The first was Jarques Ratliff, 51, on Sept. 11, who entered a not guilty plea. Arrests of 25-year-old Earnest Lloyd Jr. and 45-year-old Eric Clark followed. buff.ly/9EFO23F
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Armed Demonstrators Protesting Tasia Fortune’s Murder Were Peaceful, Jackson Police Chief Says
Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney told the Jackson City Council that recent demonstrations by armed protesters were peaceful.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I kind of really want to see this because it seems so aggressively unpleasant on purpose?
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🌮 Alacrity's Ghost @alacritysshadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I made a big deal this spring over Kotlikoff’s refusal to take responsibility for hitting a student with his car, and the Board’s unwillingness to do so either. This is why. An administrative culture of “not our fault” is how you botch a rape investigation. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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GUEST ROOM | Kotlikoff Makes the Rules; He Needs to Follow Them Too
Cornell Law Professor James Grimmelmann analyzes and discusses the legality of the incident between students and President Kotlikoff following the April 30 Cornell Political Union debate.
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Egg @patob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not only that but www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." She didn't have surgery until she was an adult.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
50 years from Goldwater, Scott, & Rhodes to this guy & this position, & yet somehow we've spent the last decade talking about "polarization" as the problem & how it is <checks notes> the Democrats who have moved further from the political center than the now-far right authoritarian party.
Hugh Scott, Barry Goldwater, John Rhodes, 1973
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Rebecca / The Practical Kitchen @ryeisenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well damn, fortune cookie. Okay then.
A hand holding a fortune cookie paper that reads “Prioritize your mental health and seek help if necessary.”
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