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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris

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Joined August 21st, 2023. #685,259 I am just as surprised as you are. Wine Educator/ Optimistic American. History buff. I wasn't born in Chicago, but I got here as soon as I could. Italian Wine Ambassador, WSET Level 3 He/ Him

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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 4h
If they were capable of empathy, they wouldn't be conservatives.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 4h
May she never eat ice cream in public again for all of her days.
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 4h
Is there a bigger coward in US History than Chuck Schumer?
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 4h
"North Star", dammit
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 4h
We live in a world where Ken Paxton has never NOT sucked, and where he will continue to always suck. Like the Northern Star of Sucking.
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 4h
Top-notch!
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 4h
Ken Paxton Sucks Today. Ken Paxton Sucks Tomorrow. Ken Paxton Sucks Forever!
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 5h
ken paxton sucks
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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Diflako
that imitation crab is banging my wife and I love it

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commas are important
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h
meanwhile, over on twitter dot com
Michael Tracey © @mtracey
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You know who could have easily brokered a reasonable, amicable solution to the Cornell fiasco? I'm not even kidding: he would've done an exponentially better job than the imbecile Title IX bureaucrats and Keystone Cops campus police
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 5h
Now just to sit back and watch my favorite horror movie...
Robert Altman's SECRET HONOR, starring Philip Baker Hall
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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6h
having just watched the ad of him stealing the montblanc pen, it is so hard to see this as anything but a vicious inside job
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 9h
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 6h
These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 6h
And the DFW reference goes full circle.* *The circle is never not full.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
lmao
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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 7h
It's Banned Books Week, so I'm sharing the most beautiful thing ever written in one of the most banned books of all time in the United States. THE GREAT GATSBY is my favorite novel.
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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mamet Speak. I've been doing my impression of Mamet Dr. Seuss-style bebop speak for over 20 years now. Includes homages to HOUSE OF GAMES, HOMICIDE, THE SPANISH PRISONER, HEIST, SPARTAN, & THE UNTOUCHABLES. www.youtube.com/shorts/m-zYC...
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Mamet Speak #film #spoof #acting #comedy #satire #parody #movies #mamet
YouTube video by Film Intuition
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 13h
It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 17h
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 16h
Jeeves!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 18h
Not "allegations"! He admitted it!
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 19h
Mamdani is a good New Yorker
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Michael Corleone: Settle All Family Business
Alt: Michael Corleone: Today We Settle All Family Business
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 19h
This is technically accurate but referring to Hastert as a guy guilty in a hush money case certainly buries the lede. It's like calling Al Capone a tax cheat or O.J. Simpson a memorabilia thief on first reference. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 20h
The list at the bottom is driving me up a tree. I wish I could show it to Dorothy Parker and then sit back and listen. From bread to biscuits. From deep sea divers to pie crusts. From steerage to steering wheels. From jaguars to jacquard. From OPEC to essential oils. From rock concerts to bagels.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 20h
Across the Chicago area, video gambling machines are allowed in more than 200 communities. They're legal in almost all of Kane, McHenry and Will counties. We look at where those machines are and the ramifications of the growing industry.
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Video gambling saturates Chicago area — nearly 80% of region allows video slots
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20h
I wrote about the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation. Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? My new piece:
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What Do Authoritarians Do When They Are About to Lose an Election?
Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? A reflection on the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I know a little German.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The limits of the what now
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Was silence not an option?" - Ta-Nehisi Coates to Ezra Klein, September 28th, 2025
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
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Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025. Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual abuse material in the first half of 2026 than for the whole of the prior year. The UK-based IWF, which monitors abuse material globally, said it had assessed 6,310 AI images that met the legal definition of child sexual abuse, 40% higher than last year’s total of more than 4,500. Continue reading...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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The CAC App
Explore hidden gems, iconic structures, and the rich architectural legacy of Chicago—all at your fingertips.
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Chicago architecture center app is what you're looking for!
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like the Wilson Phillips song, "Urine Love"?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
they're doing it once again badfaithtimes.com/they-make-yo...
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The Fascists Are Making You Sound Crazy
You will appear to be a complete lunatic if you explain the political realities of competitive authoritarianism.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
94%)
3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
250,000
VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
2,600+
287(G)
AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
DOWN
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And she said, "I hope you don't mind, I have been watching a little bit. I want you to know I am so proud."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?
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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Somehow I didn't already have this nincompoop blocked.
Justin Wolfers:
"The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.

Sometimes we disagree about facts.
Sometimes we disagree about values.
Figuring out which is which is the fun part."
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If we're not honest about where we are right now--unflinchingly honest and not beholden to some vision of bipartisanship which has *never existed* in this country's history--then we'll lie to ourselves about where we're going, too.
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