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JDC Burnhil

@jdcburnhil.bsky.social
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he/him. Writer of stories, scripts, and essays. Strongly committed to clear thinking. Always fascinated by writers' shop talk about how to achieve certain effects. Also interested in science, esp. computers and epidemiology.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We indicted Miguel Baron, a Queens pharmacy owner, for allegedly stealing over $31 million from Medicaid. Baron exploited New Yorkers with HIV in a scheme to fraudulently bill for medication he never provided and bought real estate and World Cup tickets with the stolen funds.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If Dems win a trifecta in 2028 and don't push forum-shopping reform (and related judicial reforms) as their first bill, they'll doom everything else they try to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...
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How Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas (Gift Article)
For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
among many other things I would like to see dems campaigning on, it should be made clear to companies that profit from deals like this that any public lands or resources given to them by trump will be immediately nationalized with appropriate punitive fines
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After FDR cleaned up the mess created by Calvin Coolidge and blamed on Herbert Hoover, Democrats spent decades reminding voters what the two parties had done. In recent generations, that basic act of politicking has been deemed impolite by Democratic leaders. That needs to end.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One guy has a trifecta he's using to hide cops who killed our neighbors for protesting goons putting churro ladies in concentration camps. The other says stupid shit occasionally on a Twitch stream, where he spends like 90% of his waking time. I want my party's leader to fight only the first guy.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.
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(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026
Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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JDC Burnhil @jdcburnhil.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
All of this.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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beccagrawl @beccagrawl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sorry but I hate this sanewashing of an illegal occupation of my home. We do not have “misdirected anger” - we are tired of occupying forces, who frequently physically and verbally intimidate and harass residents, and the soft focus reporting those accompanies their occupation.
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Soemy Yuka @soemy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I still like this Bocchi fanart I did a year ago
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
From the other day--a detail of the MN-15 docs that has gotten less notice. DOJ opened its investigation into the anti-ICE community in February, pointing to alleged assaults of ICE goons. Those alleged assaults were almost all fabricated & cases have been dropped. emptywheel.net/2026/08/18/d...
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DOJ Used Pam Bondi's Trophy Arrests as an Excuse to Spy on Minnesota's Anti-ICE Community - emptywheel
In his filing showing a grand conspiracy theory DOJ is attempting to concoct, Isaac Sant also showed how the trumped up assault defendants Pam Bondi paraded as trophies served as the excuse to predica...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 27/07/2026
You cannot withhold funds Congress appropriated as a weapon to punish states for how they voted. It is an abuse of power, plain and simple, and the people who lied to Congress about it need to answer for it. I am not letting this go. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 27/07/2026
The Trump administration has now admitted in its own court filings that it terminated nearly 300 energy grants “based solely” on the political identity of the recipient’s state, whether it voted for Kamala Harris and had two Democratic senators.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New at The Watch: More on how and why Democrats should make it possible for victims and their families to sue Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and other political appointees for violence inflicted by immigration agents.
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Suing Stephen Miller
It's time to put everyone from Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to the most recent ICE hire on notice: a reckoning is coming
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is art, to me.
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JDC Burnhil @jdcburnhil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
FWIW, as long as you are trying to come up with the most reasonable explanation *for the evidence*, you aren't in CT land yet. A CT tries to invoke a conspiracy to explain the ABSENCE of evidence. In this case, there has to be a reason the FDA first said one thing and then another.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A big reason for Democrats to promise prison time for Republicans in power and the use of the state to undermine the Republican Party as an organization is because our former allies need to believe that someday soon, America will cease to be like this.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Taylor Farms CEO goes to the White House to kiss the ring and a day later the FDA is saying the cyclospora sample was a false positive. Here's the thing: could it have been a false positive? Definitely! Could you have gathered the necessary data to figure that out this fast? No. Fucking. Way.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The reason to not defund all the pillars of a functioning society to save money is that society collapses and no money is saved. The reason to not spend all the money on police and tax breaks for wealthy pricks is then the wealthy pricks have everything in a police state designed to protect them.
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ねこまたなおみ @nekomatanaomi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
気になるマンガのファンアート描くマン! 「虎耳女になったとて 第1話」を COMIC FUZ で今すぐ読もう! #虎耳女になったとて #COMICFUZ share.comic-fuz.com/chapter/72374
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JDC Burnhil @jdcburnhil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness:
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Two stylized anime characters walk along a street, their joined hands swinging together as they walk: Suzuki Miyu, a pink-haired girl in a panda T-shirt, and Tani Yuusuke, a dark-haired boy in plain clothes with glasses. They both show signs of embarrassment, but as they walk, Miyu's expression melts from wariness to a blushing smile.
Alt: Two stylized anime characters walk along a street, their joined hands swinging together as they walk: Suzuki Miyu, a pink-haired girl in a panda T-shirt, and Tani Yuusuke, a dark-haired boy in plain clothes with glasses. They both show signs of embarrassment, but as they walk, Miyu's expression melts from wariness to a blushing smile.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
With all my heart, I beg you to bite the bullet and migrate from Substack.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"What struck me about the Great American State Fair was its hollowness. Its exhibits, architecture, & symbolism were pompous, empty facades. We got a preview of the future promised by the Trump administration: a cheap image of greatness that impedes the real thing." open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...
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Why the Great American State Fair Failed
This architectural disaster showed that Donald Trump will never make America beautiful.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.
Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.

“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”

She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

“In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.
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JDC Burnhil @jdcburnhil.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Very random thought: I want to hear Malcolm McDowell intone the "I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot" meme.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2026
really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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andy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
While this is a big win, @noupside.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social's win comes at a cost. 'lawsuit was a massive attack on the free speech (&) it succeeded... The chilling effect worked.' - @masnick.com. But still, we all need to continue to FIGHT BACK. www.techdirt.com/2026/07/06/c...
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Censorship Lawsuit Against Disinformation Researchers Dismissed — After Succeeding At Actual Censorship
Trump-appointed Louisiana federal judge Terry Doughty has spent years bending over backwards trying to help some MAGA faithful manufacture nonsense claims about “censorship” for some gr…
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There’s a non-zero percent chance that a sitting Senator is unconscious in a hospital (if not dead!) and his office is keeping it secret and that feels like it should be a bigger deal
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ぶるすかのケンジ関西コミティアM-86 @hadaken.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Yirtios @yirtios.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Kuma dump
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I kinda love this. Link: buff.ly/oGx8VLm
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.
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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
FREDDY & JASON VS HELL (Ronny Yu, 2005) The Cenobites force a doomed polycule of bank robbers to intervene when an increasingly apocalyptic rivalry between two paranormal serial killers spills out of Hell. Starring Robert Englund, Doug Bradley, Eliza Dushku, Jonathan Tucker, and Adrianne Palicki.
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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Final verses of Langston Hughes poem, "Let America Be America Again"
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Every single person hired by this admin needs to be fired immediately once we have a new one. (Thanks SCOTUS!) I realize this will be rough because they've already fired all the best people and we'll be short-handed, but no one hired during these four years can be trusted.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author, Stage Combat Guy @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm from (and still in) Massachusetts, which leads the country in education, was the first state to formally adopt same-sex marriage, and under the current administration has taken strong stances on protecting abortion access and trans rights. So, yeah, absolutely.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said

But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant.

In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 04/07/2026
"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...
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Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It’s time to stop letting Republicans claim the mantle of patriotism. They’ve done nothing to deserve it.
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Republicans Don’t Own Patriotism | Robert Reich
True patriots don’t put loyalty to their political party above their love of America.True patriots don’t support an atte
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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Dave @1701trekkie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Chicago Justice. Leo breaking out the beatific brass knuckles.
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