Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I suppose, though I don’t think one needs a PhD—or any degree, actually—to be technically literate. 140
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think he sounds about how I’d expect for being 20 years younger, he’s just had his brain pickled by social media like the rest of the Republicans. 000
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026Trump: "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." 11129880
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Well they certainly vote on whether to grant cert, but I guess I thought it was mostly a bare yes/no rather than a discussion of *why* yes/no 🤔 ie I’d be surprised if Alito *knew* there were 5+ votes for a particular outcome (though I’m certainly not an expert) 000
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Do we think/know the Justices discuss cases before oral argument? 110
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026But God forbid they allow pilots to take antidepressants 🙄 010
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20262522882
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...nytimes.comTennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was. 181211226
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The mind that boggles at this phenomenon—the inevitable result of putting violent xenophobic assholes in power and letting them run amok—is probably reeling at all sorts of basic cause and effect situations. 311092174
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026All across the US, MAGA-governed counties stand out. Their population engage in profligate self-destructive conduct and their healthcare facilities and access to healthcare are at the level of third-world countries. Conversely, Democratic counties operate at the high end of the developed world.economist.comIn MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being bornOur analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration 56234
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Well nobody said they were the sharpest tools in the shed. 001
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The whole conservative legal movement at this point is just doing the most outrageous and extra-legal things possible to a) set precedent for the future, and b) catch Fuckface’s attention to get a nom for a Circuit position and or SCOTUS. 230
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Because the conservative Justices have repeatedly shown that rules and laws don’t actually matter, so their disciples figure they don’t matter for them, either. 130
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I thought she had already left to work in Congress? 🤔 120
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188113851
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can’t decide if I’m more disgusted by the condition of his phone or that both he and his editor thought it was a good idea to lead with a photo of it. 000
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I mean it took like one day for Republicans to line up behind the “Kamala gave blowjobs for promotions” smear 020
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Was just gonna say I generally read it years later and think “damn, that was really good” 😅 030
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026…you can write a *personal check* for $150k?! 220
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026How did Newsom convince all the other state AGs, over whom he has no authority, to also agree to this? 🤨 000
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 13153711943
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Lawler isn’t beatable? He’s a two-term Republican Congressman in a D+1 district in *New York* who barely won in 2022 and 2024. With reps like this “one House Dem” I can’t imagine why everyone thinks Dems are useless sniveling cowards 🙄 2480
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Zuck? Bezos? Larry Ellison? Sergey Brin? DHH? Alex Karp? Palmer Luckey? And of course people like Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Jensen Huang are all willing to support fascists, if not openly fascists themselves. 110
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You can either turn Siri off entirely with the red button at the bottom, or limit it to “classic” Siri in Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Siri 000
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Then update—Siri AI is pretty unobtrusive and you can easily disable it in Settings. Or don’t—Apple provides security updates for quite a few years. 101
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is what happens when the President of the United States coddles Putin, signals he won’t honor American obligations toward NATO, and starts a losing war against Iran that shows his weakness. No one has emboldened and empowered Putin more than Donald Trump.politico.euEuropean leaders prepare public for ‘intensified threat’ from PutinHowever, NATO sees no risk of “imminent attack” despite the fresh warnings from countries such as Poland, Lithuania, France and the Netherlands. 45123
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Also Ukraine has ~1M troops NOW but didn’t before the invasion. And we’d need to compare to the entire EU, not any one nation (though Turkey’s military appears to be roughly the size of Ukraine’s). 110
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Then what’s the point? They may not be willing to fight over small-ball stuff but they’ll certainly fight back if their safety/territory/sovereignty is threatened. 210
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026How the hell does Putin think he can take on NATO when he can’t even take on Ukraine? 100
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Of course even that isn’t true—a significant percentage of detainees have pending claims/applications for legal status (not a crime) or overstayed their visa (not a crime). 060
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Extraordinarily odd interpretation of the Court’s order, since it explicitly said the stay would remain through disposition of the inevitable cert petition. So even if these CA8 loons rush out an extra-legal merits decision, MO will still have to use the old maps in November. 020
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Can the reporters do some reporting and determine if the informant is actually Trayon’s brother-in-law? This isn’t a difficult question to answer 🤨 000
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Will be a real shame when they get vandalized and/or stolen 😅 010
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked. 6330151672
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Well I can certainly agree with Fuckface that the Roberts Court "will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country's history." 000
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026They *must* be covering for someone they already hired, and I highly doubt that person was "forced into it." 070
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Wow, another Reuters story with no link to the court documents and no mention of the docket number or even the case caption. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW THE CASE?! 040
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026As anyone with a brain was warning throughout 2024, Trump doesn't give a shit about public opinion because we're stuck with him through 2029 not matter what he does. 010
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Only when the executive is a Democrat and/or trying to enact policy with which the Court disagrees. Duh! 040
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026But don't worry, they'll gleefully "save" us from the tyranny of having clean air and water. 020
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Can't stand Bessent, but cutting off the witness with "I do have a question at the end of this" and then *not* having a question at the end of this is peak Congress Brain. 000
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If Durbin had any ability to think on his feet, the proper response to this would have been "...what the fuck are you talking about?" 010
Reposted by Jared (hard "d")Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: Once exceptionally rare, illegal deportations — in defiance of court orders or due to ICE screw-ups — are now a routine part of President Trump's mass deportation push. It happened 3 times this past week and more at least 30 times in recent months. www.politico.com/news/2026/09... 261800770
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Your pedantry is a really valuable contribution 🙄 001
Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It isn’t “ad hominem” if it’s substantive criticism of his words and actions An illustration: calling out your pathetic simping for Schmuck and do-nothing Jeffries is substantive criticism; saying your pfp makes you look like a massive twat is ad hominem. 030
