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Jay Reding

@jayreding.bsky.social
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↙️↙️↙️ Attorney, aviation enthusiast, and writer. Located in Occupied Minneapolis. Opinions solely my own, especially the sweary ones.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4h
This man is doing more harm to the US military through screaming incompetence than most foreign adversaries could manage through the use of force.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1h
Watching Hegseth, I think of Eco's 'Ur-Fascism': "Since war and heroism are difficult, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits)." www.nybooks.com/articles/199...
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Ur-Fascism | Umberto Eco
I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contra...
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Mara Abolish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Bringing this facility online, adding 1,600 beds is really taking Minnesota’s current detention capacity and multiplying it by a factor of seven or eight” ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ Dfl silence on this is deeply disturbing.
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As hiring begins for Appleton ICE facility, CoreCivic offers to pay city and county more than $1.5M a year for lost tax dollars
CoreCivic has offered the Appleton and Swift County more than $1.5M million per year to cover tax revenue they would lose following the sale of the shuttered Prairie Correctional Facility.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2h
was just having a conversation about this. it's true. of all the trump admin crimes since 1/2025, these killings are among the clearest cut, with the most law/jurisprudence to support prosecution of a whole range of ppl involved, from leadership to subordinates.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h
AI xrisk people: ok we are particularly concerned about AI autonomous weapons Normal people: in principle I agree, but seems a bit far fetched that will happen tbh USG: today we are announcing we are doing AI autonomous weapons on purpose
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 20h
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 4h
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Futurama Bender Laughing at Leela Meme
ALT: Futurama Bender Laughing at Leela Meme
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 8h
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 6h
Here's a race to watch. MN-1 would normally be a safe GOP district. Beyond Rochester (home of the Mayo Clinic donchaknow...) it is mainly rural ag communities. But due to the Iran War and tariffs farmers in MN-1 have gotten hosed. If MN-1 goes blue, expect a wave. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Cook Political Report downgrades Finstad's reelection odds in Minnesota's 1st District
Democrat Jake Johnson, a high school math teacher, is running a competitive race against Republican Rep. Brad Finstad, prompting analysts to downgrade Finstad's reelection outlook.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8h
Just a reminder that the last time DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against a district judge, it was dismissed in a ruling by Chief Judge Sutton that was all but dripping with contempt (for the government): www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/internet/jud...
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 7h
SUSAs final primary poll had Angie Craig up by 2. That was a 22 point miss. PPP (Flannigan +14) was closer to the final margin for the primary even while having more undecideds than SUSA. Whatever theyre doing there rn, its pretty clear theyre not actually getting a good picture of the MN electorate
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 6h
DOJ's complaint about at least seven fed. judges in Minnesota for talking to the NYTimes about the Trump administration's mismanagement of immigration enforcement complains of these ten truthful statements on the ground that some immigration cases are pending appeal. www.justice.gov/sites/defaul...
A list of ten statements the judges made in this NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/politics/minnesota-judge-trump-immigration.html
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 8h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 7h
Judge Schiltz is a conservative judge in just about every sense of the world. He is incredibly well-liked in the Minnesota legal community and has a sterling reputation. The DOJ sounds like a crazy pro se litigant here. This is not going to play well for them.
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 10h
It still amazes me that people saw signs that said “Mass Deportation Now!!” waved by supporters of an administration who has already been detaining children and law abiding immigrants previously, and thought “oh they just mean the *bad* people!”
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 11h
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11h
Motion on the floor is to rename a Minnesota team - I don’t care which one and whether it’s college or pro - the Walleyes.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 22h
Bear is home! Thanks so much to everyone who offered suggestions and prayers. Small things like that are more meaningful than you know. My daughter is so happy he’s back!
A very wet, very spoiled black domestic shorthair cat who have his family a damn heart attack.
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 29/09/2026
Anthropic is just directly fearmongering about the open weight models that are eating their lunch on price now huh
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GLM-5.3 and the Spread of Advanced Cyber Capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bear is still out there. I am covered in brambles and mud. It's pouring rain. Luckily I found a motion detecting camera in storage to put by the door. I saw him at 3am and he came to the door at 6am. Maybe he'll come back at dark again. Telling the kids he's not home yet is going to be so tough.
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Political Poll Bot 📊 @pollresults.org · 29/09/2026
National House Sep 25 - 28, 2026 Generic Democrat (D) 53% (+15.0%) Generic Republican (R) 38% Don't know 6% Someone else 3% Would not vote 0% YouGov (B) 1003 LV Sponsor: Economist View Poll
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our cat got out tonight and hasn’t come back. My daughter is distraught. This has been a very tough year on us all, and losing Bear would be terrible. If you are the praying type, we would appreciate it.
Bear, a black cat who we love ever so much and just want to come home.
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are at the point where if there isn’t a rapid effort to hold people accountable under the law there’s going to be a rapid effort to hold people accountable by extralegal means. The latter will get horribly out of control. We cannot afford to let these monsters go unpunished.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recession indicator
A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western:
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Antijen @antijen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm going to be talking to my middle schooler about this tonight. It will be an awkward conversation but 12 is not too young to understand that this kind of horror happens and over the course of his life he will *almost certainly* hear someone brag about assault, or invite him to join in.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's difficult to engage in diplomacy when you're too simple-minded to think about anyone except yourself . . .
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These people are just *weird.*
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it.
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Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.
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“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”
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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and the conclusion I think I’ve come to is that even if it’s not God, we won’t win if we don’t sustain this fight with the faith that what we are saving and the future we are building are righteous. You have to believe in something bigger than yourself.
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starship Flight 14 made its deorbit burn, meaning the ship is now headed back to Earth for what will hopefully be a controlled splashdown off the Hawaiian cost. The ship is not intended to be recovered on this flight, so an explosion after landing is likely.
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starship Flight 14 is going to make an early de-orbit burn, coming down in a pre-planned splashdown site near Hawaii. No idea why, but it could be due to the engine failure early in the mission. The flight achieved its objective of making orbit and deploying satellites.
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Apropos of nothing... www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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'No one showed any sign of remorse': The heroic US lawyer who put Nazi death squad members on trial at Nuremberg
On 29 September 1947, the "biggest murder trial in history" began. Seventy years on, the chief prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, told the BBC how he fought to bring 22 killers to justice.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity.
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Loren Grush @lorengrush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not a Starship flight without a little drama. At first, it seemed like SpaceX might call off orbit insertion after an engine cut out. But the team pressed on and successfully inserted 26 Starlink V3s in orbit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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SpaceX Launches First Starship Flight to Orbit in Key Test
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket reached orbit for the first time on Monday morning, achieving a milestone for the program after the mission briefly looked at risk because an engine failed during asce...
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stock buybacks need to be outright banned. The SEC's decision to allow them back in 1982 was a mistake. It is absolutely a way of manipulating markets rather than efficiently allocating capital.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These sound like non-trivial problems.
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scottmanley.bsky.social @scottmanley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After polling engineers, they decided to proceed to orbit, it's now among one of the largest objects ever placed in orbit.
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Jay Reding @jayreding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like Starship Flight 14 is in orbit. Waiting to confirm that Starship has made it to the correct periapsis (lowest point in its orbit). The goal is to have a 275km circular orbit.
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