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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ask him to explain it! The moment hasn't passed, you can ask Trump things an hour later, a day later, even a week later. Even if he's evasive, you can ask twice, three times, or more!

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So a big part of Iran Contra and one of the (many) reasons it was illegal was that third party fund weren’t deposited into the U.S. Treasury

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Flipping to the GOP? En esta economia?

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Even watching this event live, I knew how bad this was. There was not a moment where I thought this was a good idea; at *best*, it’s a way to outsource listening to literal humans to AI, and I hate it.

Text message reading “ Ok I was gonna do an ultra quick summary of this Apple thing, and /among other things was going to say I didn’t like how they’re starting to vector towards more mainstream AI “fuck it, use it for everything”

And then they just threw out this feature where your watch can basically always be recording and you can retroactively save off conversations for AI recaps and man, fuck that so hard”

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My little birthday present to myself arrived

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For everyone seeing what's going on with Yosemite, note that it isn't the only place developers are trying to get away with land swaps with a corrupt administration. One of my favorite parks in Virginia is under threat from a data center developer: www.princewilliamtimes.com/localnews/pr...

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Prince William Forest Park land swap considered for data centers

Federal officials are considering a land swap that would allow a developer to build at least four data centers next to Prince William Forest Park in close proximity to Quantico Creek, one of the most ...

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nice day for a (fairly empty!) Nats game!

A view from the upper levels of Nationals Stadium, as they start giving up their lead over the Rockies

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

what it’s like trying to cross a street in Washington DC right now:

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This (thread) shows what my neighborhood is like right now 🤦‍♂️ Driving places can sometimes be a little tricky for me, but not even being allowed to be a pedestrian in my own neighborhood is such a PITA

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

TIL Pete Hegseth has had at least six extramarital affairs; five during his first marriage, and at least one during his second marriage

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Not that I slept on the philosophy or the light Neuromancer connection here, but I enjoyed reading this discussion about perception, identity, surveillance, and how important stories and context are to humanity, and how that relates to the old vs. new internets: www.hipcrimevocab.net/cases-two-bo...

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Case's Two Bodies: Cyberspace, the Lived Body, and the Narrative Construction of Identity

Neuromancer is a fantastic treatise on narrative identity, and I hope Apple does it justice.

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social I've had the tab open since I first saw it (I assume last year!), but I finally read A Tender Heart! The double meaning of the title was great!

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

TIL the writer and director of the movie Tár (the Cate Blanchett one) also invented Big League Chew? Am I the last to get the memo on this?

Chapman adds that the co-creator of the gum was bat boy, and now filmmaker, Todd Field.
"Rob and Todd actually cooked up the first batch of Big League Chew bubble gum in Todd's kitchen, when he was ten."

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Trump’s gonna be on the phone with FIFA all day tomorrow if things keep up like this

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Okay the Mall people are playing Free Bird so loud that I can sing along in my apartment. I don't love it, but it's a hell of a lot better than the flyovers, I guess

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It’s exhausting that if Trump wanted to attempt another coup, he’d be doing nothing different for Independence Day. He’d just need one of the flyover planes to hit the Capitol, have that and the firework disorientation to have a few dozen Congressional Democrats rounded up by his favorite…

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm just gonna go ahead and send this to my building discussion list now... love living in a war zone.. (Do the pilots up there think we're all down here like "America, fuck yeah!" when they fly over, or do some have more awareness?)

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Ok I’m on a tour of NIST, and the campus coffee joint is called “NYST - Not Your Standard Coffee Bar”

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Here’s a member of the Texas State Board of Education openly bragging that they excluded “false religions” when they k-12 overhauled curricula last week.

On Twitter, SBOE board writes that “this is exactly” what they did last week. He is responding to another tweet calling for the Bible to be taught to “the exclusion of all other false religions”

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A neighbor kindly tried to set me up with a local startup. The most interesting position listed this as a hiring goal: "You believe that founders and technologists disproportionately move the world forward, and that Elon is a profoundly valuable asset to humanity." 👀

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Clearing out storage yesterday I found an absolute gem: a sealed box of WOTC Netrunner starter decks 😍

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tim_in_dc @timdc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

why do we have to navigate this, EVER. no justification for this casually militaristic police state. i will not ever consider this normal.

black and white photo of 20+ armed and uniformed national guard soldiers standing in the area at the entrance of a metro station.

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Trump is occasionally responsive to public opinion (not the worst thing!); but he also insists on moving from one fuck-up to the next without thought. He's a creature with a nervous system, but no brain.

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you. (How is it that no one remembers a show about multi-dimensional Koala bears who can stop time, but fled KoalaWalla Land because the fascist flying kangaroos ban humans at the direction of the Great Dingy Doo?)

Post for The Noozles, aka The Wondrous Koala Blinky

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Going for a walk in my neighborhood used to be fun! Why must Trump ruin everything?

The Capitol, looking down the National Mall, obscured by fencing

The National Mall is hidden somewhere behind multiple layers of fencing and police and gaudy Freedom 250 structures

The National Mall, except instead are faux marble “buildings”, blocking the base of the Washington Monument and the Smithsonian Castle

Roger Penske and Sean Duffy sucking off Trump on the FAA building; at least it doesn’t use the “One Nation, One Race” branding from the t-shirt (fuckin’ yikes)

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

@musicologyduck.bsky.social if you need a lobby bathroom/water/gatorade/clif bar, I’m at 7th and E NW and we have a mutual who’ll vouch, just holler! Godspeed, stay hydrated!

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Today I experienced both scallion pancakes and Project Hail Mary for the first time. A+ on both. Many thanks to my hot librarian girlfriend, @frexe.bsky.social

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

MS NOW stream ended (at 12hr mark), but C-SPAN still going strong! I regret not moseying over and meeting some mutuals tonight, but even I may be tapping out soon.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfk...

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Trump Name Removal from Kennedy Center

YouTube video by C-SPAN

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I swear I can hear someone playing "Let's Have a Kiki" in the background of the C-SPAN feed (I also have the MS NOW feed going to because I can't wait to see this, even if I don't think they're going to make the deadline!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfk... (cc @sameenasafdar.bsky.social )

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Trump Name Removal from Kennedy Center

YouTube video by C-SPAN

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Phil Yabut @philliefan99.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Backlit mammatus, a red-backed rainbow, and a fiery sky to close out the day. #dc #dcwx @capitalweather.bsky.social @popville.bsky.social @thehillishome.com @hillragdc.bsky.social

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's just one thing. But vowing to make federal funding contingent on voters electing his favored candidate is unprecedented, incredibly destructive, and astonishingly corrupt. But he keeps doing it, and there's really no way to stop him.

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

@musicologyduck.bsky.social the overpass shots of a motorcade you posted ~4h ago; any clue who that was? I was guessing Vance? Asking b/c I saw photos of some US Govt. vehicles today that looked similar at Katie's Cars and Coffee today (e.g: www.instagram.com/stories/kati... )

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A thing I finally just put my finger on: part of what annoys me so much about AI hype is that it seems like all its proponents want to be pundits. It feels as if they think that the louder they tout the supposed virtues of AI, the more they'll be recognized as geniuses and gain subscribers/followers

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

“My only regret,” Rhodes said in the days after Jan. 6, “is that they didn’t bring rifles.” “We could have fixed it right then and there.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

As he planned to disrupt the transfer of power by any means necessary, Nestler says, Rhodes used the Insurrection Act as legal cover. As proof of that claim, Nestler plays a clip of Rhodes instructing Oath Keepers to refer to the Insurrection Act because it could provide "legal cover." According to Nestler, Rhodes thought the act "would give him and his followers plausible deniability."
In December 2020, Nestler alleges, Rhodes told others that Jan. 6 represented a "hard constitutional deadline" to stop the presidential transition. But as that date drew near and a peaceful transition became "more and more likely," Rhodes and his co-conspirators grew "more and more desperate." According to Nestler, Rhodes spent tens of thousands of dollars on firearms and made preparations to store them at a Comfort Inn in Virginia, a state with laws that are more gun-friendly than Washington, D.C. The group's so-called quick reaction force would be stationed at the hotel, prepared to transport the weapons into D.C.-by boat or otherwise—if needed.
Even after Jan. 6, Nestler continues, Rhodes howed no remorse. He plays a recording dated Jan. 10. 'My only regret is that they should have brought rifles," Rhodes says. "We

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2026

Trump's commencement message to Coast Guard cadets: "I'm gonna be here in '28. Maybe I'll be here in '32 too. I don't know. Maybe I will."

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lucasmundus @lucasmundus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m posting so much about the 1.776B Trump slush fund because it’s a disgusting leap towards dictatorship, and it makes a mockery of the oaths people at the DOJ swore. It’s illegal six ways from Sunday, no matter who he’s paying, and offends me in basically every way possible.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

NEW: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) offered amendment to block Trump’s newly-established $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded pot of money from "making any payments to convicted child predators" Multiple pardoned Jan 6 rioters have been accused of child abuse Amendment was blocked

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

FLASH: DOJ expands settlement in Trump-IRS leak suit to cover audits of all tax returns filed by Trump, family members, companies and trusts. Waiver of IRS' claims contained in addendum signed by AAG Blanche that was not in agreement released Monday www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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Justice Department expands Trump settlement to cover his tax audits

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed a broadly worded addendum that appears to end the president’s long-running disputes with the IRS.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The big story is about the unappropriated, misappropriated funds being dumped into an account for the enrichment of (in some to-be-determined combination) Trump personally, his personal lawyers and political lieutenants, and his insurrectionist rioting henchmen. 1/

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

These people really believe that certain titles and positions entitle them to respect

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Blanche: I am the Acting Attorney General! The fact that I used to be President Trump’s lawyer is just a fact. DON’T SAY THE PRESIDENT’S FORMER LAWYER WILL DO SOMETHING—SAY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL DO SOMETHING!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

I.R.S. officials prepared a 25-page memorandum outlining what they saw as flaws in Mr. Trump’s suit and advising the Justice Department to move to dismiss it, according to two people familiar with the memo. That memo was provided to Treasury officials in April, and it is unclear if they passed it along to its intended recipients at the Justice Department, according to the people, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal government deliberations.

No lawyers from the Justice Department ever appeared in court to respond to the suit or disputed any of Mr. Trump’s claims, which demanded at least $10 billion from the I.R.S. for not doing enough to prevent the leak of his tax information. The Justice Department instead made to a highly unusual deal in the case. In exchange for Mr. Trump dropping the suit, the Trump administration created the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for people who say they were wrongly targeted by the federal government.

The existence of the internal memo, which has not been previously reported, shows that the Trump administration disregarded readily available defenses to a lawsuit filed by the president against an agency he controls. While the Justice Department has said that Mr. Trump will not receive money from the new fund, critics have slammed the arrangement as a corrupt attempt at paying Mr. Trump’s political supporters, including, potentially, those who were convicted and later pardoned for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

A picture of a man inside the Capitol rotunda on January 6 2021. He is wearing full camo tactical gear, masked, carrying zip ties and climbing over a bannister in the gallery

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

An impeachable theft of taxpayer funds.

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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Did @frexe.bsky.social and I just watch Bloodsport? Hell yes. Did we then immediately learn that Michaela Coel, of all people, is remaking it for A24 right now? Hell yes!

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