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Jim White

@jawhite.bsky.social
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Lawyer (mostly retired), pedant

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 4h
Fuck you so so much to the armed occupying National Guard Collaborator cowards "patrolling" Union Market, mixing with families with small children, roaming around like criminal gangs just trying to normalize fascism in our nation's Capital. !! ORDER NOW AND GET A BONUS, NOW WITH EXTRA FBI !!
Armed occupying National Guard cowards+ 1 FBI agent
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 2h
As someone who does teach con law, the idea that the Republicans on the Roberts Court are just too committed to "originalism" is farcical. You will search the opinions in Shelby County or Trump v. US (inter many alia) in vain for even the slightest trace of it
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 7h
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 7h
Truly cannot believe Dems aren’t making Musk a bogeyman. Richest man alive. Massive body count. Overt support for ethnic cleansing. Deploying his massive wealth to exert political power all over the world. Suppress speech. He’s what Rs pretend Soros is times a million.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 9h
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h
The last Trump-Kushner-Witkoff “peace plan” for Russia-Ukraine had more on data center construction opportunities than on security guarantees that could make peace last. This time it’s an oil deal. The whole effort has been trying to sell out Ukraine for personal profit and neo-fascist solidarity.
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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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades
After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
First the wedding, now the ballroom — “Trump/Russia” gets smellier and smellier.
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 20h
A reminder that if not for the Supreme Court in US v. MORRISON, Jane Doe would have had access to the federal courts for a civil rights action. The Court said that rape is a local matter no matter how great the impact on commerce.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 23h
Look how casually Vice President JD Vance mentions the possibility of political violence (“kind of insane that we didn’t have a revolution”) when discussing white men’s grievances. White identity politics (white nationalism) is central to his worldview.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19h
Khashoggi's assassination was in hindsight one of the highly salient norm-shattering moments of impunity that helped recalibrate contemporary expectations for outrageous crimes: if you're rich & powerful enough, in the words of the President of the United States, "they just let you do it"
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Kathy Bader @astrolabe.bsky.social · 19h
We are in NC canvassing. Knocking on doors. I now realize that it is another way to get to meet dogs. So that has helped. A lot. If you or someone you love would like to meet dogs ... I mean canvass, give us a shout.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Susan Collins team bragging in its canvassing materials about her having "delivered" the conservative Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe. tinyurl.com/3mxnybe7 #MEpolitics
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Someone should do a piece on this. There is *SO* much more money easily available on the right.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chicago Pope from the top rope!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/10/2026
Your nerd-ass freshman roommate after three beers, repeating random shit he heard on TikTok.
Elon Musk: Unless they figure how to make places actually invisible, "stealth" just means low radar cross section in the 2 to 18 GHz range. Against and advanced enemy, current stealth technology is not worth the design constraints IMO.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fun facts: Chris Rufo’s grandmother was an Italian immigrant who, I’ve heard from a reliable source, never learned to speak English fluently. Rufo’s wife meanwhile is an immigrant from Thailand. And the director of the Manhattan Institute who employs him? The son of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.
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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Kids just be doing shit
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.
Line chart titled "So far during Trump's second term, just 8% of all job growth has gone to men" showing change in employment by gender since January 2025. Total nonfarm employment grew by 776,000 jobs through September 2026, with women gaining 711,000 positions (92% of growth) while men added only 65,000 jobs (8% of growth). Women's employment gains accelerated sharply through 2026, reaching 711,000 by September, while men's employment growth remained flat with brief periods of decline, including a drop of 96,000 jobs in February 2026.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One crazy thing about this new outpouring of racism against South Asians and calls for expulsion or forced assimilation is it was kicked off by some brown skinned students at a Texas game wearing cowboy hats and excitedly celebrating their football team — ie some guys very assimilated to America.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They'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.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Arlington Cemetery is hallowed ground. A final resting place for our fallen heroes who were brave enough to serve. How dare this five-time draft dodger dishonor them by trying to erect a monument to his own vanity? Veterans will not let him get away with it.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The only thing that spreads faster than measles is an outbreak of sidebars on the NYT homepage when an Ivy League school is under fire.
CheNew Work Cimes
Hochul Names Letitia
James as Special
Prosecutor in Cornell
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Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate a former student's allegation of rape.
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Cornell Students Call for Change at Fiery Public
Meeting
Through tears, some students shared stories of assaults they experienced. Others criticized administrators and demanded improved consent training.
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Men Accused in Suit Give Varying Accounts of the Night
Document Trove
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N.Y. Lawmakers and Victims Push to Change Rape Law in Intoxication Cases
Parents Are Talking About Consent After Cornell Rape Allegations
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
A deep dive into the Baltic states' extensive preparations for a Russian invasion, from @isaacstanbecker who tracks "the emergence of a new order, in which Ukraine matters as much to the security of Europe as the United States" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Baltic States Prepare for War
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it.
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 02/10/2026
Took a (very) rainy walk through the Loop tonight. I was absolutely soaked, but my camera stayed dry enough.
The pavement in Chicago is wet from a day-long rain. Street and traffic lights reflect on the stored in vivid colors. In the foreground, a person with an umbrella is an out-of-focus silhouetteCalder's Flaming - an orange, abstract metal sculpture in Chicago stands in a wet, reflective plaza. The sculpture is reflected in the rain coating the plaza's stone pavers in the evening with buildings in the background
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The unitary executive types never get too hung up on the "shall execute the law faithfully" bit of Article II
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yehonatan Ovadia – a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who has lived in the U.S. on a visa since 2022 – is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (a notorious federal prison) and facing deportation … for his criticism of Israel on religious grounds.
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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's important to him because he's a white supremacist, which is the same reason he avoids mentioning the Nazis or Confederates when he lists the foes America has defeated. My guess is at least one of his speechwriters believes the wrong side lost in WW2, if Hegseth doesn't.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Spotted in the DC Metro
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Republican politicians are scum. They will lie about anything to keep their money and power.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 01/10/2026
If only our nation's press had accurately reported on Trump's catastrophic cognitive decline, when it mattered - during the election campaign. ... But they had their hands full handwringing about Biden.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Story time. My wife's post here reminds me of one of my favorite stories from my time on the Hill, of which there are many. I was in Comms for a Dem member, and the Caucus would put on a weekly talking points seminar for comms staffers. More often than not, these were run by Third Way.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.
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James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This historic image is the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima of MAGA idiocy
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Democrats blast Trump for frequently falling asleep during official events, but we saw the exact same thing from Joe Biden. And by "the exact same thing," I mean he never actually fell asleep in public but it totally felt like he might. by Jake Tapper
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Right wingers: don't mess with our cherished traditions like Cracker Barrel logo and the welfare queen
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
abolish the death penalty
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