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Josh Rogers

@iamjosh.bsky.social
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Software engineer based out of Middle TN. Avid disc golfer. Eat the rich. ACAB.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
Zelenskyy: “We are talking with various colleagues from Europe and America. I tell them honestly: Chinese representatives are involved in developing an alternative to Starlink. “They are getting closer, and they are passing it on to Russia. Russia could gain that kind of dominance.”
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 15h
Our US healthcare system is in absolute shambles and it is all because it is optimized toward profit not care.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 15h
My wife is going through this insurance hell now. She has to jump through at least 4 hoops that leave her in an awful state when the drug that works is already known to work but is 6k per month. So, now she has to stop it and go through 4 different other medications before they'll approve the PA.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“He says the I.R.S. is using relatively small mistakes in his personal tax return to retaliate against him. The suit claims the I.R.S. illegally disclosed his employee and tax information to Justice Department prosecutors to discredit and fire him.”
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jesus Christ these are ghoulish people...
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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: Harmeet Dhillon's Civil Rights Division is trying to indict former Trump White House official Cassidy Hutchinson, a star witness before the Jan. 6 Committee.
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Justice Department seeks criminal charge for former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson
The former Trump aide was a star witness before the Jan. 6 committee. The case is being pursued by the Civil Rights Division, led by Harmeet Dhillon.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 08/10/2026
U.S. immigration officials detain award-winning filmmaker Arfat Sheikh who legally came to the U.S. to study and later claimed asylum, his family and friends say. DHS confirms that Sheikh was arrested on Sept. 24, adding that he “illegally overstayed his lawful admittance.”
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Award-winning Kashmiri filmmaker is detained by U.S. immigration authorities
Arfat Sheikh, whose work explores conflict in the disputed Himalayan region, entered the U.S. in 2019 on a student visa and filed for asylum in 2020, supporters said.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So I edited this story. And I wanna share on thought on language, & telling the truth We talked about: the "government is lying to you" It may sound saucy. It may sound like opinion But it's just true And if something is true then you should just say it, clearly That's just good journalism
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 08/10/2026
News incoming
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Still don't regret cancelling Spotify after this was first announced.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In Phoenix, the Democratic candidate for CD-8 was out repairing yard signs when suddenly she was brutally assaulted and raped. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Primary every one of their asses!
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Primary every one of their asses
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration is weaponizing the DOJ and DHS to generate propaganda to push its “rigged election" narrative. The timing and promotion of arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud suggests a strategic effort to push their false narrative. Thread:
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Haha, this fucking sucks.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I just had a very confusing call with a spokesperson for Starbucks.
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We Asked Starbucks Why Their 'Sugar-Free' Drinks Have Sugar and Now We're Just More Confused
There's a big difference between "sugar free" and "no added sugar."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I do think our information environment is the primary cause here. Our entire social and information enviros are intermixed, optimized, and monetized by keeping the participants enraged at everything. I also think a close second is a complete lack of leadership out of a recalcitrant political class.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've lived here long enough to know better than to hope, but this is the first election that I've seen in the 30+ years of living here that there are more signs for the Dem candidates than Repub and I am in Williamson County.
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 06/10/2026
ICYMI: Heads across the state virtually exploded and phones began to ring over the weekend when veteran GOO Sen. Janice Bowling endorsed an independent candidate in the governor's race -- not party nominee U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
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Republican TN state senator spurns party, backs independent candidate Hatley • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee Republican state Sen. Janice Bowling endorsed independent gubernatorial candidate David Hatley instead of nominee Marsha Blackburn.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I do love it when Blackburn being a self-serving shrew bites her in the ass. It surely doesn't happen often enough.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 06/10/2026
Tennessee lawmakers began hearings on medical marijuana program. TBI rep calls weed ‘dangerous drug.’
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Tennessee lawmakers began hearings on medical marijuana program. TBI rep calls weed ‘dangerous drug.’
​Tennessee lawmakers held hearings to discuss implementing a limited medical marijuana program, but the state’s top law enforcement group remains the most vocal opposition.Representatives from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, TBI, emerged as the strongest opponents, stating there were no circumstances in which they thought medical marijuana should be allowed in Tennessee.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is dangerous for them because if they weren't going after this kind of b.s. they'd have to actually go and solve some real crime.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I expect better from WA State. This type of behavior and thinking this kind of post was acceptable from leadership is indicative of why you're in this situation in the first place beyond the issues in the recent negotiations. Good for the union on standing up!
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yet anyone with eyes knows this is exactly what they do, they coordinate. I would like to say I hope this brings about change to all of this, but I feel this will just be brushed over as small in the grand scheme of things and nothing will change.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026
Spot the difference
Side-by-side comparison of three social media posts announcing the death of former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert at age 84. On the left, Fox News posts, “BREAKING: Dennis Hastert, longest-serving Republican House speaker, dead at 84,” above a photo of Hastert raising his hand at a microphone. In the center, CBS News posts, “Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died,” above a photo of Hastert walking through the U.S. Capitol. On the right, MeidasTouch posts, “Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a ‘serial child molester.’ He was a registered sex offender.” The MeidasTouch post includes an image of Hastert speaking from the House floor with a C-SPAN chyron identifying him as Speaker of the House.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 03/10/2026
"How much does it cost to get more information about a cop who punched someone in the face? If you guessed anything lower than $2.5 million, you’d be wrong — at least according to the city of Eugene." More from FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social in @theintercept.com:
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Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 04/10/2026
A new lawsuit by journalist @bubbaprog.xyz shows the DOJ secretly searched his digital accounts for a wide range of materials. And prosecutors failed to tell judges about a federal law protecting the press from search warrants… again.
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DOJ’s secret search of journalist’s accounts omitted press law
Journalist Tim Burke’s new lawsuit challenges the government’s search of months of emails, messages, files, and other information from his Google and Twitter accounts
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
Appeals court pauses reinstatement of fired Seattle federal prosecutor reut.rs/4dnRPct
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Appeals court pauses reinstatement of fired Seattle federal prosecutor
A US appeals court on Sunday put on hold a judge's order reinstating the Seattle area's ​top federal prosecutor, who had been fired by President ‌Donald Trump.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This feels like the most pre ordained ruling ever...
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We're using it and still seeing how truth doesn't meet the expectations and promises being delivered by the rabid pro-AI crowd.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm getting the distinct impression that journalists covering AI aren't actually speaking to anyone in tech that doesn't have some kind of incentive to keep the AI gears spinning. I use this every day and yet I regularly see journos saying, the anti-AI crowd just doesn't use it. That is wrong.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am a lead engineer with 25 years of experience in a now 100% pro AI software shop. I use it every day all day. They are absolutely parroting & stealing yrs of open source and now closed source software when training their models. I've literally had it inject someone else's API keys into my repo.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FLAG: Trump doesn't rule out using the Insurrection Act around the midterms during an interview with TIME. "I don't rule anything out or in." "I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes." time.com/article/2026...
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What Trump Has Built
An interview with the President at a pivotal moment in his second term
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
White House drops CNN from the press pool covering President Trump's trip to Texas and Oklahoma, a move that comes after a federal judge blocked the administration's effort to more tightly control the media outlets that have access to the president. www.washingtonsun.com/media/w...
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White House Drops CNN From Trump’s Travel Press Pool Again
The move comes after a federal judge blocked the administration’s effort to more tightly control the media outlets that have access to the president.
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want you to look at what Tennessee did last night, for the second time, and recognize the cruelty and hate it takes to do this to another human being despite what they've done. That is wholly representative of who the government of Tennessee is and those who voted for them.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The White House has removed CNN — again — from the press pool that's set to cover Trump today.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This, and the Democrats being only +3 in Wisconsin seems completely incompatible with the polls showing D+8 in Iowa and Ohio.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
James Talarico at the State Fair Classic 🔥
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My wife is on Fasenra which is 7.5k every 8wks and now she is on Cibinqo which is 6k/mo. The co-pay cards for both just ran out. We can't afford them, no one can afford them. I have 3 indications for being prescribed GLP1 meds, yet they are 500/mo so I am not taking it either. Fuck US healthcare
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wait, so they change the methodology all the way back to 2021 and then release a bunch of "oh, inflation isn't so high after all" feelgood pieces...who can reasonably still trust this shit?
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She manages to fly under the radar somehow, but there are few who are more corrupt and self serving than my senator, Marsha Blackburn. It is quite likely Tennessee is about to elect her corrupt ass as governor and we will deserve everything we get for doing it too...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: The Supreme Court, over the objections of the 3 liberal justices, grants a stay in the D.V.D. litigation, authorizing the Trump admin to resume third country removals without any notice to people being sent to countries they've never been to. The Court also agrees to hear the case in December.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 CERTIORARI GRANTED 26-426 DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL. (26A406) The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed. The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents’ claims. (2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f)(1). (3) Whether the Government’s Guidance on third-country removals is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You can kind of see the electorate coming into focus at around D+7-10, which is an *extraordinarily* good place to be at as a baseline, but should also make you very skeptical about the D+5,000 polls that keep getting released.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 28/09/2026
Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s leadership PAC left state Rep. James Talarico off of its latest list of endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/jas…
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Jasmine Crockett Snubs Talarico in New List of Endorsements
Crockett had committed to focusing on “down-ballot” candidates in Texas instead of joining Talarico on the campaign trail.
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