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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So much for state's rights. Source: ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos share.google/aDIsij61GVG6...
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DOJ sues 4 states that allow some noncitizen residents to qualify for in-state tuition at universities
The Justice Department filed lawsuits seeking to block laws in four states that allow residents without citizenship to qualify for in-state tuition and financial aid.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Working outside in this heat. Sure would ne nice to have a tall glass of water to come inside to. Especially if she made me a drink.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Don't show anyone your behind-the-scenes unless they earn it.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
There have been no moms of toddlers at #Gitmo. The prison doesn't want to deflate it's scores.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Anyone think Pam Bondi was getting high by smoking the #EpsteinFiles?
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The venn diagram between people who attend Dialog and people who use the services of child sex traffickers is a fucking circle.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Might not be so hard to prove anti-trust cases of we had recordings of these meetings.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
God, men suck. share.google/idqekxVwIpY2...
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‘It immediately puts men on the defensive:’ Single women say homeownership is hurting their dating lives.
More single women are buying homes and it’s causing some men to get cold feet.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I think the flamingos in a small crustacean, as evidenced by their facial structure, and how they dip their heads underwater and scoop upside down. Im guessing the small creature eats the algae. Just missed a link in the food chain. Source: My last SF Zoo visit. Crazy video, though.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My 4 year old still doesn't associate that song with over-priced frozen desserts delivered on 4 wheels, and I'd like to milk this miracle as long as possible, thanks.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
What is it called when you just don't feel comfortable in traditional gender spaces anymore?
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Duperotomy, I believe.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
SCOTUS has been illegitimate since 1849. I wrote about this in The Hollow Law: policytorque.com/hollow-law-a.... Chief Justice Taney stated "political questions" were nonjusticable, and then when Lincoln went to reinforce that, Taney tried to stop him. Even Taney knew Luther was 🐎 💩.
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The Hollow Law — Amicus Brief | PolicyTorque
Brief of Amicus Curiae PolicyTorque LLC in support of reversal of Luther v. Borden and restoration of judicial review of Article IV republican government guarantees.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
All the republicans who would push back on both funds are gone.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Girl Running: I'm Coming!
ALT: Girl Running: I'm Coming!
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Secretary Wright doing a lot of free work for an industry instead of, you know, guarding and expanding our energy infrastructure. policytorque.com/energy-polic...
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Energy Policy Inversion | The Power of Power | PolicyTorque
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
When it comes to finding ways to have unhealthy habits, you strike me as someone who is pretty resourceful. I have faith in you.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
White Milk? Really? You don't have to wear a white hood for me to have seen it.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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$251 Million Out. $26,148.57 Back. - PolicyTorque
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Speaking of poss. civil rights violations, please see scandal in Chicago I exposed on the @chicagocta.bsky.social. FTA considers CTA even less safe now than before. $251M -> connected private security contractors @crainschicago.bsky.social @propublica.org Policytorque.com/cta-transit-enforcement
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Fact is, an increasingly conservative SCOTUS has been relying on bad, biased, or falsified data since 1849. SCOTUS has enjoyed pretense of objective authority for ~180 years, simply by not addressing the incompatibility between the precedent of 1803 & 1849. "Political Questions" was always a sham.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Then she should be advocating for the full restoration of the VRA, since it was designed on purpose to uphold government's obligation to provide "a republican form of government." There is no way that a form of government chosen by a minority can fall under that description.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The people who are constantly attempting to subvert its power. Interestingly, ambiguity never seems to go in favor of respecting rights, only limiting them.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I write about this in my series called The Hollow Law, on my policy blog, policytorque.com/hollow-law-p... PolicyTorque is where I deep dive a number of subjects, including Congressional Insider Trading.
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The Hollow Law — Prologue: Before the Law | PolicyTorque
Washington, D.C. February 26, 1877. The Wormley Hotel. Railroad lawyers. A trade. The mechanism before it learned to wear legal language.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In other words: The legal architecture built a double bind. Comply with VRA → exposed to Equal Protection challenge. Ignore VRA → exposed to Section 2 challenge. Effect; permanent litigation regardless, with courts serving as the final arbiter of what a legislature is actually permitted to do.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
VRA Section 2, as interp. Thornburg (1986), effectively created obligation to consider race when drawing maps in covered areas. Maps without considering race/minority voting power was diluted, you got sued. Maps with explicit race to create majority-minority districts, you got sued under Shaw (1993)
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Is Florida the state for floozies and scam artists? Sure, but, hear me out. Santa Monica is known as "Home of the Homeless," because the weather is nice. The scammers have to live somewhere, why not concentrate them in one place, and then we just don't go there?
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
So much for caring about the "population crisis."
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
430M spent by the City of Chicago in the last 8 years specifically to enforce fare paying & safety. $26,184.57 collected in fines + a letter to Mayor Johnson from the FTA saying in December of 2025 "The CTA is not safer." Private security companies paid 251M of it policytorque.com/cta-transit-...
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$251 Million Out. $26,148.57 Back. - PolicyTorque
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Yes we used to be clever enough to hide our corruption. Now it's just out in the open.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I Have the deeper story on #insidertrading. @davelevinthal.com I sent you a message. Can talk on Signal if you like.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
On my blog, PolicyTorque.com, I document the tool I created, Market Sentinel, designed specifically to explain and track anomalous signals in trading data, and to tie it to any filed STOCK Act PTRs. The finding was not subtle. @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov #insidertrading
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
@vikasbajaj.bsky.social vikas, please DM me. I have a story for you and Jack
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
@jackewingnyt.bsky.social jack, please DM me.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Listening to @aljazeera.com, we see trouble w/ news coverage. AJ cuts off journalist providing context of US involvement in stimulating drug trade in region, & Trump's pardoning fmr Honduran Pres Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted of drug trafficking to US, AJ is more concerned abt describing 1PP.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Having taken over the bulk of domestic chores and child care for almost 1.5 years now, ladies...I get it. Zero interest, dead bedroom.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Believe it or not, I made this one myself. #beautiful #girldad
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
@haleycass.bsky.social is this the author?
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"Mark of the beast of the ancient world." Sign me up. The ancient world was fucking dope.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Dems: Sterotype about what people want to vote for, who they are, and where they live, because I'm sure TN, SC, WV, and KY all are happy to be lumped in the same category. If you think TN and WV are anything alike in character or voters, you are the problem.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Can we talk about something? 18 and 19 year old women are groomed by adult men all the time, they aren't usually much less susceptible to it, & adult women are trafficked all the time. If Epstein had just been more careful, he might still be alive and not in prison. Underage girls was a choice.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Algorithm on point.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Even if all of those times were twice the actual episode length, it would still be exhausting.
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HELLFRAZIER @popnpizza.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
As a result, I'm gonna lock this thread down b/c I don't want to spread misinformation if the runtimes and titles aren't correct.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
If we ever win a KY senate seat, it will be because of a retirement, not because Dems have the enthusiasm necessary to outwit Republican gerrymandering districts of Dem strength.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Every year, it happens. Or did you already memory hole McGrath for KY campaign? Or anyone else who was wildly popular w/ progressives & independents, but got squashed by the party? Right now RW media is making fun of Dems for not remembering who ran with Clinton in 2016. VA Sen Tim Kaine, jicyf.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This is your reminder that even if what is happening in #gaza is working, which it isn't, it's only because we have normalized #warcrimes, & made a mockery of the International World Order WE set up. Either we start following the law, or we all agree it never worked in the 1st place. Can't do both.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
@awscloud.bsky.social, I see what you are doing here, and it's giving antitrust vibes. Cheaper from whole foods, but I either pay 10 for delivery or drive to whole foods and walk through your store...to buy more stuff. Smells like nonsense.
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
That's all you got? You aren't going to point out the literal toilet humor and the slander of misogyny? Because i typed 'so much' nonsense but it got autocorrected? That's all you have?
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PolicyTorque @mfr1003.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Please point to the language I used that was even vaguely misogynistic. I'll wait. Didn't think so. Another one bites the dust.
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