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@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5m
“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13m
This debate performance is really going to help Ossoff stand out in the 2028 pack specifically because "does not eat shit in a debate" is going to be a top qualification for so many Democratic voters
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 33m
Collins has his head down through all of this, presumably mapping out what he’ll be doing as a private citizen next year
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Olympic canoeist who went through "nightmare" Reflecting Pool case is pushing two government watchdogs to probe "incompetence and wrongdoing."
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Former Olympic canoeist asks government watchdogs to probe ‘nightmare’ Reflecting Pool case
The Trump administration’s “sprint” to charge Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn, his attorneys wrote, “mirrored the rushed renovation itself.”
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am so beyond fucking tired of the insane levels of deference and plausible deniability news media orgs--esp legacy ones like the NYT--afford Trump and the absolute intellectual rot and cravenness that it represents among the ownership & leadership of those orgs
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The photo sits atop a story about how he’s blatantly exploiting his office for personal gain, corrupting the federal government to an unprecedented degree, and no one is even slowing him down anymore. And this is his only response.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hastert ain’t dead
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FAFO
a small white dog who has covered himself in filth, sporting a defiant look

The same small white dog recovering from the ordeal of a bath.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But that’s—that’s where my family is.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At a marathon runtime of four hours, Alex Gibney's new documentary 'Musk' strains to cover the sweep of the oligarch's business empire and its capture of U.S. government. But the interviews with first wife Justine Wilson and latest ex Ashley St. Clair about his vindictive nature hit hardest.
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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dems honestly should just lie about this right now so Alito (a dumb guy who doesn't actually know how anything works) doesn't figure out that he needs to retire in the lame duck if the GOP loses the Senate
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hastert’s death offers one last chance for Republicans to at long last account for his empowerment and reckon with some of their demons; not betting on it happening tho.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think about this a lot
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
America demanded more glamour shoots of me out on the road and @sfgate.com has delivered. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
sfgate.com
San Francisco's best hotel, the Phoenix, cannot be killed
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary takes a dip in the Phoenix Hotel pool.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve
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Steph @tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump take salsa
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
static.klipy.com
The Ptriot: Nearly
Alt: In The Patriot (2000), a British officer says wryly to another: “Nearly”
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Laura Petto @laurarpetto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why did no one on jeopardy get Dobbs v Jackson women’s health last night?!?!? Idk seems like the case overturning Roe is something everyone should know, and definitely people studying trivia. At least Ken seemed disappointed
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m at the space tourist hotel opening in 2027. I’m at the space data center launching in 2027. I’m at the combined space data center hotel taco bell in 2027.
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heute jedoch nicht @heutejedochnicht.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
liebe
Meta-Adbusting in der Londoner U-Bahn
Jeffrey Epstein mit Ray Ban Meta-Smartglasses und Denkblase „Finally, a pair that suits me...“
Caption: „GLASSES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T DO CONSENT“
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A small example of how Labour Conference works- the "Transport Reception " with the Secretary of State isnt held by Transport Unions, its funded by Amey , a privatiser "named and shamed" for breaking minimum wage laws this year. The "shame" doesn't stop Ministers doing their gigs.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"i'm fine, and..." what prompted this lol did the interviewer try to call 911 when he said he has the highest of IQs
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The mind that boggles at this phenomenon—the inevitable result of putting violent xenophobic assholes in power and letting them run amok—is probably reeling at all sorts of basic cause and effect situations.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
nytimes.com
Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2026
Been there
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This kind of elegantly illustrates exactly why genAI is garbage
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...
offmessage.net
The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
big dynamic this fall
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/09/2026
we’re entering our Bannon Era
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s notable that the purportedly liberal news outlet consigns Noem’s very well documented relationship with Lewandowski to the status of a disavowed rumor and buries it in the last paragraph of this report on her divorce filing. www.ms.now/news/kristi-...
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Kristi Noem files for divorce from Bryon Noem
The announcement of the separation comes six months after a bombshell tabloid photo leak of her husband, Bryon Noem.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LEONIDAS OF THE POTOMAC HOSTS HISTORIC WORKOUT SESH
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