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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New to American mahjong and want a regular game but don’t have a schedule to allow you to play at the same time every week? The Scramble is perfect for you!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

ALTMAN: "WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.

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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 13/05/2026

“Why I’m voting against all the constitutional amendments on the Louisiana ballot this Saturday.” New by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...

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Why I'm voting against all five constitutional amendments on Louisiana's ballot on Saturday

And how you can support the recall effort against Gov. Jeff Landry

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A century ago during the 1920s, America experienced what the historian Merle Curti aptly called a "cult of prosperity," an era that -- just like our own -- conflated "rich and powerful" with "brilliant and wise" I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I bet it worked out great for everyone back then.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

When Donald's stupid, tacky ballroom was estimated to cost $200 million and be privately funded: Donald planned to pocket anything over the actual cost. He then raised the estimate to $400 million to account for this corruption. Now, he wants taxpayers to pay $1 billion so he can pocket even more.

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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The ol’ cat’s out of the bag now! No going back!!

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I know normalization is just what we've decided to do to cope but turning a botched assassination attempt on the president of the united states into a public debate on gilded playspace is FUCKING STUPID and I refuse to treat this bullshit pivot seriously or with respect.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity. They get off on the suffering. www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

the-reframe.com

Where It Ends

Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope."

Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war.

A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic.

Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

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Evan @revrevvinev.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Marching bands are the coolest thing ever in the history of humanity.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is a super smart take on Bruen. SCOTUS has essentially declared that because a state declined to enact a particular gun regulation in the past, it’s constitutionally barred from enacting that regulation today. Impossible to square with the 10th Amendment.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

Photographer
@mostafabassim1
photographed this boy walking home alone with a snack being "randomly" approached by DHS. "After he was unable to produce documentation proving his citizenship, agents informed him that he was under arrest." He said, "Can I just go home?" Answer: No.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This admin refuses to do anything to lower your health care costs, but found $75 billion for ICE… so agents can break down the doors of American citizens’ homes and drag them, barely clothed, through the snow. That’s not an exaggeration. That happened this weekend in Minnesota.

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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Apparently based on a true story involving a truck not a helicopter. Which just makes it funnier. Sitcom genius.

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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Just watched the turkey drop episode of WKRP. And henceforth will watch it every Thanksgiving eve eve. 🦃

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Sounds like a distraction from the day’s news to me—but serious nonetheless www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

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Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Are you telling me that we *already* have two "missing tape" stories *this week* when all of Watergate only had one?!

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Is that before or after we get his healthcare plan?

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It would be much easier to codify Bivens and allow everyone -- not just Republican senators -- to sue federal officials for alleged rights violations

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Justice Jackson says the supermajority once again does not "understand the assignment" in emergency applications. The crux: the government has not shown it will suffer irreparable harm in the time in would take for the issue to be fully resolved by the courts in due order.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Good morning. Last night was a referendum on Trump's corruption, cruelty, and chaos. But it's also not a coincidence these big wins came at the exact moment when Democrats are using our power to stand for something and be strong. A huge risk to not learn that lesson.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/11/2025

So many predicted close races, which is understandable. But turnout favored the anti-kings…. And blew the predictions up. 2026, and 2028….. stand back and stand by

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Tonight’s elections are a repudiation of Trump’s corruption and disastrous economic agenda. We need to fight harder, push farther, and not give in. We cannot let this moment pass. Let’s protect health care, stand up for working people, hold the line, and take back our government.

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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Cucumber basil smash. Too much cuke flavor, tho

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Malber1 @malber1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

We are at a place in time when Bill Nye, the Science Guy has to speak behind bulletproof glass. This is exactly who we are.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Will be on @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social shortly talking about this and more SCOTUS nonsense.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The conflict here is that the justices aren’t using the emergency docket as a temporary tool, they’re making “precedent” and expecting lower court judges to apply it without explanation. This is why we’re seeing so much frustration from lower court judges.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Surly Buddhist @surlybuddhist.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

No truer words have ever been spoken.

@wapplehouse
The Taco Bell drive thru at 1 am will have a $200k Mercedes S65 waiting right behind a '96 Cavalier that's never had the oil changed followed by a moped ridden by three people.
All craving the same thing: to Live Más. Truly the last great melting pot of class in this country.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era. Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Today, at Law Dork:

lawdork.com

Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era

Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Also: More court pushback.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/09/2025

Thanks to Trump, 1 in 4 nursing homes could close. Community clinics are on the brink of shutting their doors. Hospitals, already filled to the brim with patients, are bracing for huge cuts. Promising research that offers the last hope for kids with cancer is shutting down.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state
constitutions block public funds from supporting religious
entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe,
Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) .
The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional
provisions.
The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state
governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious
entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See
also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597
U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower).
Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the
government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of
jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not
all religions will receive public funds, the government forces
minority faiths to support other faiths, or else.
The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and
public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of-
government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty
structure.
As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church-
state separation and federalism principles. The Court's
nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution
"has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Goddamn. You can’t even have principles and make ice cream because people are too afraid of Trump

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Charlie Kirk's murder is just the latest example of how our nation's love affair with guns is allowing the Second Amendment to swallow up the First. With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

But I don’t think now is the time to point fingers either way. I just want to make the neutral point that the Second Amendment continues to swallow up the First Amendment—that the omnipresent threat of gun violence in the United States continues to act as de facto censorship on the free exchange of ideas. People are understandably afraid to speak their minds in public. They are afraid to appear in the public arena and say something that might be controversial, or really to say anything at all, because it is outrageously easy for people to obtain firearms in this country. And so it is outrageously easy for someone who doesn’t like you—for political reasons, or moral reasons, or insane reasons—to go out, get a gun, and shoot you. A while ago, I wrote that “the only reason you have not been shot is because nobody has yet decided to shoot you.” That remains tragically true today.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/09/2025

Maine Governor Janet Mills has issued a standing order that serves as a prescription allowing anyone to get a COVID vaccine at a pharmacy or clinic. The Maine Bureau of Insurance also issued a bulletin reminding insurers that they must fully cover the vaccine under state law.

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At Governor Mills' Direction, Maine CDC Issues Standing Order Expanding Access to COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Federal Roadblocks

Maine Bureau of Insurance also sends bulletin to state regulated insurers reinforcing that COVID-19 vaccines must be covered under Maine law

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

here's a great example from @nbcnews.com of how the media cleans up the weirdness from donald trump cc @atrupar.com

NBC News

‪@nbcnews.com‬
President Trump says he spoke with Charlie Kirk’s wife Erika and will attend Kirk’s funeral in Arizona.

Aaron Rupar

‪@atrupar.com‬
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Stop the rhetoric responsible for the terrorism, he says, while using rhetoric that will incite more terrorism.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Yes. Yes, they are.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.

A picture of Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, which provides that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”

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