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Joe Discenza

@jdiscenza.bsky.social
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Opinions my own and, honestly, yours, too. If you think you disagree, take a moment to reevaluate. He/him. Oh, that wall pic is summer solstice 2023 sunset across the Baltic Sea from Międzyzdroje, PL.

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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#USDemocracy #MomSky When JD Vance told @angieforfl.bsky.social to “get out of America,” she clapped back:
Angie for U.S. Senate (@angieforfl) posted “The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to 'get out of America' while he and Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the people who built this country and then telling their descendants they don't belong here. /2” Pictured is Angie Nixon holding a megaphone, wearing magenta, and speaking to a crowd.
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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's been enough discussion over the past few days about rape on college campuses everywhere. This young woman is brave beyond measure to fight back and use her name. It makes me sick inside to think there would be less outrage or coverage because she's a Black woman. #KendallFrancis #Pinks
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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 9h
Huh. What I was paying a quarter century ago. Those used to be normal prime rates, folks. Rates came down in 2008 in the wake of the Great Recession.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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DJ BG @djbg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Night Ride” Cyanotype on watercolor paper 9x12 #art #cyanotype #cedarpoint #skyride
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not mentioned in here, but something I'm holding my breath for. Not ONLY is Harmeet Dhillon an Indian immigrant. But her policy of doing away w/affirmative action WILL RESULT in more Asians at UT (and everywhere else). At some point there will be enormous backlash, esp w/Rufo out there.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stephen Miller Is Destroying the Great America Trump Is Trying to Make emptywheel.net/2026/10/02/s...
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Stephen Miller Is Destroying the Great America Trump Is Trying to Make - emptywheel
Of the 20 Masters of the Universe at Trump's AI summit the other day, 11 are immigrants.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If our times have told us nothing else, it’s that the inability to understand a text is diagnostic of something
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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They can (and should!) impeach Hegseth. They could impeach whoever’s in charge of DHS by January. They could (and should!) eliminate DHS and restore status quo ante as of 9/1/2001. But it’d be hard to unfund ICE/CBP without that.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eels' slipperiness is the basis for the some of our oldest eel metaphors. In the 5th C. BCE, the Greek poet Simonides wrote that a slippery character -- say, like, a politician who is running for office to avoid prison -- is “like an eel down in the slime." And that's bad. 🗃️🧪
Meme. Colored medieval drawing of Simonides. You can tell it's him because his name is written above his head. Otherwise you might not know, because he is dressed very much like a medieval merchant. He is wearing a big maroon hat with a green band, and an orange cloak over a stylish black and yellow shirt. His yellow hair is long and flowing, and he is holding a book in his lap in his right hand. His face is lined with care or worry, and he is looking somewhere off to your left. He is not paying attention to you at all, really.

His thumb is holding his place in the middle of his book, and he looks like he's been interrupted in the middle of reading by some semi-distant disturbance. As if, somewhere off to your left, there is a bear trying to get onto a bus. The bear is apologetically looking for change to pay the fare, but everyone else is freaking out. Simonides is considering this scene, and writing a poem about it in his head.

Meme text reads:
"My best poetry
is eeligiac poetry"
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sliwa loves NYC, Mamdani loves NYC, and it shows.
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robynhitchcock.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I WANNA DESTROY YOU  Live at the Basement East 
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Robyn Hitchcock - I Wanna Destroy You (Live at the Basement East)
From Robyn Hitchcock's show at the Basement East in Nashville in Ap...
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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Y’all WANT to see a 2 hour old coo.
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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 02/10/2026
I try to mostly stick to my lanes when it comes to sports. I admittedly do not watch very much basketball (men’s or women’s) so if this thought has been done to death please ignore: Has anyone called Sophie Cunningham “JK Fouling” yet?
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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Let it be so.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026
This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.
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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to this ruling, the federal government has no role in voter qualification—and so cannot prosecute or punish non-citizens for voting. States can, but the feds cannot. I'm sure this is not the last word.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Spent some time this morning drawing a raven. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Art. Black and white drawing made of abstract shapes and lines showing a raven or crow in flight. It's wing is above it, caught mid-flap, and it's feet trail beneath it. It's eye is fixed ahead, looking at the horizon and the future.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 02/10/2026
cleveland postseason mode activated
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Gabe Wasylko @gabewasylko.com · 30/09/2026
Wednesday’s Autumn Sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
"The Trump administration is going to bat for the prediction market industry, now tangled in lawsuits in at least 20 states." Don Jr. holds investments in both Kalshi and Polymarket David Moore for @sludge.bsky.social
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Trump's CFTC Is Suing States for Kalshi and Polymarket, Backed by Trump Jr.
The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state ...
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Post-Election Fünke @snarkington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
REMINDER: As CEO of Columbia/HCA, Rick Scott committed the largest Medicare fraud case in American history. They paid $1.7 BILLION in fines and penalties; the equivalent of $3.6B in today dollars Rick avoided prison and escaped with stock options intact. medium.com/the-polis/wh...
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Who Committed the Most Fraud, Florida Senator Rick Scott or All of the Somalis in the Universe?
The Largest Fraud in U.S. Healthcare History Came from a CEO, Not a Refugee Community
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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No I know exactly what poster means: I’m a W fan bc I’m a ndwbb fan and 2019 all 5 starters were drafted first round and I’m specifically an aces fan bc they picked JY0 first!
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When pools reflected less than 2 years ago!
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Queen_Potato @queenpotato.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There was more punishment done against a trans professor giving a Christian student a low grade than the Cornell rapists ever received.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A societye that hath high expectaciouns and social pressures about sculptinge bodyes at the gym, but verye litel shared public commitmente to expandinge the heart and mynde wyth fiction, poetrye, drama, and art -- that societye ys bound to grow more callous and hollowe wyth each passinge year.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 29/09/2026
Dec 2025: Republicans summon Jack Smith to Capitol Hill, embarrass themselves Jan 2026: Republicans summon Jack Smith to Capitol Hill, embarrass themselves Sept 2026: Republicans summon Jack Smith to Capitol Hill, embarrass themselves The pattern isn’t exactly subtle www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Republicans are slow to learn a simple lesson: They can’t get the better of Jack Smith
Three times, Republicans have summoned the former special counsel to Capitol Hill. Each time, they have left humiliated.
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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Considering testing out that new Bluesky moderation by typing my actual response to these pricks.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thank goodness someone with this absurd set of priorities isn’t in charge of anything important
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026
these river otters are blissfully unaware the Cuyahoga has 13 fires in its history
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Five Takeaways From Hegseth’s Speech
The defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 29/09/2026
this dumb motherfucker
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think Smith could successfully sue Schmitt for defamation now, since he's restating the falsehood outside of the Senate hearing, and by this point he clearly knows what he's saying is false
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The best passer in ncaa basketball, without question. Worth a read.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OpenAI: We can't say what it's capable of, it just got out, maybe we should pause - not the money - just uh, I dunno something. You see we are hapless victims just like you! We'll deal with it after the IPO. Meanwhile -
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.
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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never actually talked to a parent. I know this post is about America. I don't fucking care. When the small one hit three and was finally eligible for the three-hours-a-day five-days-a-week 2/3 of the year government-funded playschool here in Ireland? I stopped slowly dying of exhaustion.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The proposed rule is from OMB, the office run by Russell Vought -- who has a history of opposing government efforts to expand access to voting.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey! That’s one of my maps! It’s always fun when a map that I drew turns up in the wild. I didn’t know the article was out yet! And now I have to go read it (the English version, most likely).
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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt working SO HARD to convince me Tuberville is not the dumbest Senator.
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Gerg @gregeggs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"you didn't know that we had this" that line will go down in the annals of dumbassery
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*They're great as a duo, actually, the organic and the mechanical, that's a really strong ticket
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Gabe Wasylko @gabewasylko.com · 27/09/2026
Today’s Browns Sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio Football is Back in The Land!
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