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Jared

@jardem12.bsky.social
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East TN. Law educated. Anti-autocrat.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 5h
I think of Republican public servants who commanded respect, among Conservatives and many Liberals. Howard Baker. Dwight Eisenhower. Margaret Chase Smith. Everett Dirksen. Teddy Roosevelt. People of honor, above filth and corruption, with whom one could disagree, but leaders with values & dignity.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 10h
If you think the unitary executive theory is driven by originalism, you haven’t been reading the relevant scholarship on the topic.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 5h
Murder and rape are wrong because they cause immense harm and violate the rights and autonomy of other human beings. If you need a god to tell you that murder and rape are wrong, that says a lot more about you than it does about atheists.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h
These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h
Trump: "I get along great with Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un, you know who that is? North Korea. When people have 112 nuclear missiles, it's nice to get along."
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h
Connie Chan, endorsed by Nancy Pelosi to succeed her in California, says she will vote to 'end a genocide in Gaza'.
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Pelosi-backed US candidate calls for ‘full arms embargo' on Israel
Connie Chan, endorsed by Nancy Pelosi to succeed her in California, says she will vote to 'end a genocide in Gaza'.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h
Former managing director at BGC Group/British banker-turned-whistleblower Simon Andriesz, the man who told the FBI about Lutnick/BGC’s “financial irregularities,” fraudulent 9/11 charity, and revealed Howard Lutnick’s secret business partnership with Epstein in Adfin, has been found dead.
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Whistleblower who outed Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6h
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h
Trump: "I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than anybody in this room, anybody, anywhere in the world. Well, there's a woman sitting right over there. She's a housewife. But she's very good…She perhaps knows more than I do, but I actually don't think so."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Trump: "We will pass the No Invasion of Our Country Act prohibiting any future president from every opening our borders to illegal immigrants again. We will pass a truly great healthcare plan."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h
Trump in Ohio: "We will be establishing a brand new U.S. National Space Academy. Every other state wants it. So many states want it…As the birthplace of aviation and the Wright Brothers, we win the midterms, Ohio will be very strongly considered for this."
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 6h
This is batshit. This is vastly worse than any Biden decline. Trump has come unglued. He's a danger to the republic.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 6h
Shocking that more people don't want Trump to campaign for them.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10h
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
There's almost nothing on which I agree with Mike DeWine. Yet his fundamental decency as a human being is impressive. DeWine attended the funeral Saturday of Pierre Damas Bel, a young Haitian man who died by suicide in Aug after his family said he was bullied for wearing an immigration ankle monitor
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine mourns Haitian man at Springfield funeral
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said and the country lost someone it needed when Pierre Damas Bel died by suicide after being bullied over an ankle monitor. DeWine and his wife, Fran, attended Bel's funeral on ...
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 9h
High school senior Elder Chavez Carranza is an immigrant living in the US legally under a program for abused or neglected children One day he went to buy food when a cop asked for his papers-which he didn’t have that day. So ICE put him in detention He has been incarcerated for more than 200 days
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h
We started our very own private school with @arktimes.bsky.social. All it took was $45, a few clicks on a state website and an American flag.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h
ICE just spent $16.7 million arming agents with shock gloves—wearable devices that deliver a painful electric shock. Human rights organizations like Amnesty International say the gloves “could be readily misused for torture.” Mother Jones' @hurwitz.bsky.social investigates: bit.ly/472ZbhV
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 8h
We thought this was going to be a resignation video over the use of American taxpayer dollars to fund the “God Made Trump” ad.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8h
No one has ever been prosecuted under the ADA in history, but the statute of limitations is five years. Unless Trump pardons everyone, I expect to see people prosecuted for the growing number of ADA violations after Trump leaves office.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8h
This is blatantly unconstitutional and an Antideficiency Act violation. Congress set the ADA penalty in 1906: 2 years in jail and/or a $5,000 fine. It would’ve taken the typical person 31,250 hours of work to pay the fine then, meaning it’s the equivalent of a $1.2 million fine today.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h
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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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 9h
Nixon asked Goldwater how many votes he had in the Senate. Goldwater told him, "Not many and not mine."
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 9h
As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/c...
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As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 10h
Barron Trump is a grown-ass man who's best friends with Andrew Tate and built a $150 million crypto fortune. He's absolutely fair game for a corruption investigation, along with the rest of his crime family.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 14h
UPDATE: Tom Cotton responds. (And he’s right!)
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No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter. Arkansans don't want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I'll always put Arkansas first.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10h
Voting by mail is bad except when Trump is afraid of losing and then it's good. He's already encouraged MAGA to cheat. He reeks of desperation.
Trump posted a video to Truth Social Saturday saying, “The 2026 midterm elections are upon us, and I’m asking every patriot to get out and vote. This is one of the most important elections of our lives, so to learn how and where to vote, go online to swampthevoteusa.com. If your state has early voting, do not wait. Go out and vote. Vote early, vote by mail, or vote in person on election day, November 3rd, so we can defeat the radical left Dumocrats in a midterm victory that is too big to rig. We’ve got to beat the Dumocrats. I call them Dumocrats because their policies are so bad.”
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 10h
Kevin Hassett just looked at skyrocketing mortgage rates and told us it's good news, because the money is going to corporations building data centers "instead of lending to homeowners." These people are staggeringly out of touch.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h
‘NAZA,’ the documentary in which two dozen Israeli military personnel admit to committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza, is selling out theaters. Whether it can advance the case for genocide may be more complicated. Former IDF soldiers and intelligence officers recount how bombing
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NAZA Is Selling Out Theaters. Can It Influence The Hague?
Whether the film can advance the case for genocide may be more complicated than convincing viewers.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 9h
We literally fought a whole danged American Revolution for one basic principle: how we spend the government’s money is the province of the most democratic body in our government: Congress.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h
And yes, it's been happening for years on end:
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13h
So much for Donald Trump’s promise to lower costs “on day one.” Instead his disastrous economic agenda is raising your interest rates - making your mortgage and your credit card bill more expensive. Enough is enough.
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The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher
The president’s own agenda has helped undermine promises to fix the economy and get the deficit under control.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 16h
1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 13h
Minneapolis prosecution: "'I seem to be indicted for holding meetings,' one defendant told the judge... As The Verge summarized the indictment, 'the DOJ is trying to punish people for trailing ICE officers—and if it succeeds, other activists could be next.'" [@ericboehm87.bsky.social, @reason.com]
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Minneapolis activists used encrypted group chats to outmaneuver ICE. Now the feds want to prosecute them.
"I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 13h
President Trump posted Sen. Tom Cotton’s cell phone number to the world on Saturday, as part of a plea for his Truth Social followers to badger his Republican ally into making daylight saving time permanent. A source confirmed that the number Trump shared actually belongs to Cotton.
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President Trump Doxxes Tom Cotton’s Cell Phone
It’s all part of a unique push for permanent daylight saving time.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 18h
lol. Reeks of fear
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 17h
Private jets. Luxury vacations. Ethical scandals. Thomas, Alito and Roberts demand respect while the Supreme Court’s credibility crumbles. Steve on the Court’s crisis of accountability. Read it here: steveschmidt.substack.com/p/start-with...
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Start with the mirror, Sam
The last desperate card for MAGA senators facing defeat and repudiation is the Supreme Court.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17h
If the Dems win the senate, expect this retirement and then the Senate GOP will jam the next person down our throats. Probably someone like Judge Eileen Cannon. Good lord www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16h
“My party is being infiltrated by people like Bo French,” Rove said. “Nick Fuentes goes to Dallas and meets with a bunch of Republican leaders. This guy is a Nazi. We’ve got all these people getting on their little podcasts and so forth, saying: ‘We’re just asking questions about the Jews.’”
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Jared @jardem12.bsky.social · 16h
The responsible thing to do. We don’t see that modeled this much these days.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 16h
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Groundhog Day: I Ain't See Nuffin Meme
ALT: Groundhog Day: I Ain't See Nuffin Meme
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 17h
Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit a Trump donor and Middle Eastern businessmen with ties to Witkoff and Kushner. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
Trump contradicts himself on the status of US missile and munitions reserves on average once every 72 hours. The truth is that he has no idea. One wonders whether Hegseth does either. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 18h
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16h
Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h
The administration has found yet another way to fuck with solar power.
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The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 18h
It is profoundly grotesque that Jared Kushner plays at diplomacy while he also profits from bombing children in Gaza “In his..diplomatic role in the Trump administration, Kushner..helped broker a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, though Israel has continued to launch daily strikes against Gaza”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
Blue collar workers in Ohio feel betrayed by Trump. On Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were laid off from their jobs at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio.The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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