Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Guns don't kill people, toddlers doapnews.comPolice investigate after toddler pulls out loaded gun at Michigan daycarePolice in southeast Michigan are investigating after a toddler pulled out a loaded pistol at a daycare. 100
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 24/09/2026No active body camera, no qualified immunity. Make it a law 021
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Politico…for people who want information without insight or understanding 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism..."youtube.comJohnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (Official Audio)YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 19/08/2026When you see him make that shape with his lips remember the words "face anus" 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Why "human printer" when Printcess is right there? 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I think everyone is missing what a brilliant 3-dimensional-chess answer this was. She is epitomizing the longstanding US policy of strategic ambiguity regarding Taiwan 010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Do any of you have Türkiye-invokes-article-5-and-NATO-goes-to-war-against-Israel on your bingo card?apnews.comIsraeli strikes hit an air base hours after a Turkish delegation visit, Syrian officials sayIsraeli airstrikes have hit the Abu Duhur air base in northern Syria, Syrian officials say. The attack occurred early Tuesday, hours after a Turkish delegation visited the base. 100
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Since these are most effective on bare skin, how long before we start seeing ice agents, grabbing people by the neck?  000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Perhaps the most important thing to look for in the next president is good taste in redecorating 021
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Not all who wonder our lost, some of us just can’t remember what we came into this room for  010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Is there anywhere in the constitution that says a senator has to be an animal and not a vegetable? 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Today was a good day Anthropeum.com · Jul 27 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟦🟩🟦🟦🟦🟩🟦 86,670 · top 2% of players today!anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 011
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 21/07/2026If Trump really wanted to be Reaganesque, he’d sell arms to Iran 021
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 11/07/2026#GiftArticle The Justice Department is a vexatious litigantnytimes.comTimes Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.” 020
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026#KavanaughKill Perfect name for ICE murders at profile stops! 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 06/07/2026#GiftArticle "He had been put off by the strand of environmentalism that he said used shame as a lever." That's a bullshit excuse you ignorant fuckhead. When you had power you actively used it to shit on the planet and now you want forgiveness. Fuck younytimes.comThis Former G.O.P. Politician Wants to Take Politics Out of Climate Change 051
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 03/07/2026When we pack the court I nominate Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social so there will be an actual historian to explain the past to the originalists 010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 30/06/2026“There are tons of people here…” This statement is literally true. Figure the typical American weighs around 200 pounds so that works out to about 10 Americans per ton. I see tens of Americans in that video. 010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 30/06/2026It’s quantum voting obviously. Schrodinger’s cat doesn’t die until you open the box. And the voter doesn’t cast their ballot until the envelope is opened 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I don’t remember who said it, but someone once observed that if you keep calling every policy proposal that will improve peoples lives “socialism“ eventually people are gonna start thinking socialism is a good idea 100
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 25/06/2026We need this "For each case referred to the Supreme Court, a bench of nine judges drawn at random from the full federal judiciary will be empaneled to hear and decide the case. After deciding the case, they will return to their respective benches until called upon again." 010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Humiliating Straights should be the title of a future Trump biography 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Why are conservatives so convinced that God is a hate-filled asshole? 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This is true as far as it goes yet stops just short. Literate or illiterate, all are equal in the grave. 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The problem with the Iran deal seems to be that Trump did not include Israel in the negotiations. The criticism of the Abraham Accords was that they did not include the Palestinians in the negotiations, an omission I see as upstream from Oct 7. This seems to be a pattern with Trump's deals.nytimes.comLebanon Emerges as Weak Link in U.S.-Iran Deal to End War 100
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Trade unions are, in a way, benevolent societies. Police unions are, perhaps, better seen as malevolent societies 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 02/06/2026#GiftArticle I like this idea "Since A.I. is built on the collective knowledge of humanity, the wealth it generates must benefit humanity."nytimes.comOpinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. 112
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The attacks on Talarico will work because, like the old saying goes, You can fool some of the people all of the time and they make up the Republican base 010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 27/05/2026My first thought was against this, I have a positive impression of Al Green and don't know anything about Menefee. But then I saw that Green is 78, so yeah, he shouldn't even be running. Make way for the new crop of leadersnbcnews.comDemocratic Rep. Al Green unseated by Rep. Christian Menefee in Texas primary with two incumbentsNBC News projects Menefee defeated Green after GOP-led redistricting efforts forced them to run for the same slice of Houston. 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 24/05/2026How many people get the irony of memes about Richard Dawkins? 010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 21/05/2026#GiftArticle Is this it? Is this finally it? Did he finally go too far? Or is there still worse to come?nytimes.comOpinion | Trump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before 010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Pay attention to who your local police unions endorse. Don’t vote for that candidate unless you want to live in a police state 010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Rural people hate cities because cities have lots of poor people, lots of people on welfare, lots of homeless people...and still, even with that dragging the average down, GDP per capita is way higher in cities than in rural areas. It makes them feel like unproductive failures. Which they kinda are 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I've read 18 and started a few more without finishing. Some I liked, some were meh. Nothing about the ones I've read makes me want to read any of the others on the list. Seems like it would be a chore 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 14/05/2026"Chinese leader Xi Jinping hailed the US-China relationship during President Donald Trump’s visit, but warned that Taiwan could prove a flashpoint and that the superpowers needed to avoid a “Thucydides trap” that could trigger conflict." Do you think Trump knows who Thucydides is?semafor.com🟡 Semafor Flagship: The advantage of time | SemaforXi warns Trump of a potential Taiwan flashpoint, the Iran oil crisis boosts EV sales, and the James Webb Space Telescope spots the most primitive galaxy yet seen. 100
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 08/05/2026When someone accumulates a billion dollars we should give them a trophy that says “you win” then confiscate all of their money. If they acquired their wealth through merit they should be able to do it again from scratch, right? 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Just a reminder Billionaires didn't create Silicon Valley Silicon Valley creates billionaires 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Dictionaries, and grammarians, can be either descriptive or prescriptive. Are there any linguists who are prescriptive? Is that even possible? 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Early reminder for the Democratic Party It’s not my job to vote for the candidate you pick It’s your job to pick a candidate I will vote for 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 20/04/2026You regret your vote for Trump? I’m glad you’re sorry But I don’t forgive you 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I’m beginning to think @chrismurphyct.bsky.social would make a good president 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Who would have guessed that the person who went to Florida during the 2000 presidential election to assist George W Bush would turn out to be a partisan hack? [Amy Coney Barrett and Bret Kavanaugh were there too...what a strange coincidence] #GiftArticlenytimes.comThe Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court 010
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 08/04/2026As the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas showed, a 'ceasefire' doesn't mean that either side ceases firing, it just means US media stops covering it 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Does DC have a version of a 5150 hold? an individual can be involuntarily placed in a locked psychiatric facility for an evaluation for up to 72 hours...[if they are] a danger to themselves, a danger to others, or "gravely disabled". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterm... 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 06/04/202610/10 no notes! This entire thread is well worth the read 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 06/04/2026"To lack credentials wasn't just to be less expert, it was to be less entitled to an opinion." If one looks one can find this attitude on Bluesky 000
Mansfield Mule @mansfieldmule.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Why do people keep pointing out that Trump is threatening war crimes when the US has never allowed its leaders to be punished for war crimes 000
