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Mark von Wahlde @markvonwahlde.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Another "almost, but not quite, entrapment" case. They should ve so proud.

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the gutting of HUD staff has been a chronically underreported failure of the current administration. it has resulted in massive mismanagement of public funds by private landlords who know they are not being scrutinized.

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I used to do govt contracting, a lifetime before law school & lawyering, and there's a degree that many things are true: (1) shouldn't trust the Trumps or Luckey with any amount of money; (2) DoD contracts for a lot of things that never pan out; (3) really a question of what the contract delivers.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 05/10/2026

If you live in… Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Texas Today is the last day you can register to vote! Text your friends and family. Check on your co-workers. Make sure the people in your life are registered to vote: BetterInAUnion.org/check

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Check Your Voter Registration Status

Have you moved, changed your name, or you're just not sure of the status of your voter registration? Fill out the form below to check your status.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

it’s weird how people treat “dsa” and “progressive” as the same thing. its almost like the DSA aren’t actually socialists or something.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

On the one hand, I have several reservations the SPLC. if the DOJ can prove everything in this, then this isn’t JUST a politically motivated prosecution. on the other, it turns entirely on alleged facts that could also be lawful activity even if true. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

As I wrote with @becingber.bsky.social in @justsecurity.org earlier this summer, these US attacks on third-state merchant vessels themselves constitute violations of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. At least according to the USG's own legal position. www.justsecurity.org/142005/block...

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Blockade and Article 2(4) of the UN Charter

U.S. attacks on neutral vessels to enforce its Iran blockade point to U.S. violations of UN Charter against four different countries.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

it’s such a relief to finally have a president who believes in pulling back on federal overreach.🙄

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Cuba is not Panama or Venezuela. It is not Iran or Afghanistan. Never forget that the people who invaded vietnam and bombed cambodia at the peak of the cold war never moved beyond covert action against Cuba. there are many reasons for that, none of them simple.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If only they had agency. (Congress could end this conflict at any time with a funding prohibition.)

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i think it’s weird that Abdulrahman El-Sayed shortens his name to Abdul rather than something less orientalist.

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Witness a Congress in contempt of itself.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Foreign leaders can be so difficult when you kill their families and launch surprise attacks on their countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

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An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders

Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As a poverty lawyer, I end up talking to voters directly responsible for the incoherence of US politics pretty regularly. I am increasingly confident that dementia & gerontocracy are a far more direct cause of our false consciousness problem than religion or geography are. If conservatives &…

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

boring technocratic liberal institutionalism will not save us, but it would be a welcome change from what we’ve been doing instead since the 1980s

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

to be fair to young republicans, there have been a lot of rabid idiot nazis for generations.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

the thing about warfare is that it is a clash between governments. if you don’t have good reasons and a realistic plan for destroying the other government and subordinating its people, then you will only ever achieve local temporally bounded goals through state violence.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

i occasionally feel guilty about exploiting the limited English proficiency of off shore customer service reps to get better results than the policies they operate under are supposed to allow. but if a company can’t train its people better i’m not going to just choose to pay more than i have to.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

that bathroom bill protest ad stoking fear and revulsion about transmen in the women’s restroom seems counterproductive.

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Elon Musk's Jet Tracking @elonjet.net · 20/07/2026

~ 42 gallons (160 liters). ~ 283 lbs (128 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $286 cost of fuel. ~ 0.4452 tons of CO2 emissions.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

listening to the latest @varnvlog.bsky.social ep on Maoism & the Mass Line. i’m reminded of reading Deng, or maybe Ho Chi Minh, & thinking Mao’s Lenin sounds a lot like a bureaucracy of Platonic philosopher-kings constrained by a Confucian social norms, ie broadly idealist political philosophy. …

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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 19/07/2026

DHS investigated ICE officer Jeffrey Lane Short ten years earlier in 2008 and substantiated ithat Short preyed on a 14-year-old girl and was accused of showing pornography to minors while an ICE agent. He was never charged and went on to become a city council member and molested other girls.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

liberalism is at its worst when it is reifying racial categories in the name of antiracism

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

time to lead the witness: Joe Biden was the president from 2021 to 2025, was he not? He became the president because a majority of the electoral college was composed of his electors, did he not? The electoral college’s composition results from votes cast in the previous election, does it not? …

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

this is not the outreach schedule of a candidate with an election on August 4 who hopes to win against a long term, well-financed Democrat. i do not understand what Sawant is up to. www.kshamasawant.org/events/

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Events – Kshama Sawant for Congress

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Wow Lindsay Graham died? I am sorry for the people who loved him. whoever that might have been.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

public health policy fixes aren’t sufficient. but they’re successful short term interventions that minimize the worst outcomes. aka the best we can expect from bourgeois liberal government that refuses to engage in the systematic redistribution of hoarded wealth as public provision of basic needs.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

hilary clinton supporters who have a problem with socialist candidates are the problem.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I’ve avoided a lot of the Platner discourse because it’s a toxic tarpit, but I think the notion that the lesson here is primarily about either one political faction or something essential about “unvetted” newcomers, sits in some considerable tension with the entire Eric Swalwell experience.

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sylviseb 💙🌈☮️🌊💙💛Maga➡️blocked💛💙🌎🌻✌️🦋 @sylviseb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Jerusalem Post has a center, center-right ranking from media bias groups. The poll also revealed that Mamdani's approval is ls higher than Trump's. www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...

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US Jews view NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani more favorably than Benjamin Netanyahu | The Jerusalem Post

39% of US Jews viewed Mamdani unfavorably, and 59% viewed Netanyahu unfavorably.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

the DSA reminds me of nothing so much as like paying to go see Stan Ridgway and sitting through 3 encores of album cuts and OingoBoingo Covers, but he never plays Mexican Radio.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

i shall remain steadfast that unlike everyone else I was 💯% right about Graham Platner at all times: opposition to him was overblown until it wasn’t. And it didn’t matter what your opinion was if you don’t live in Maine until it did. that’s rational, it is not a circle in need of squaring.

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

sexual assault allegations are a bigger deal than bad ink a guy covered up. i’d like to read the police report, but part of the reason that making a big deal out of inchoate bad tattooing choices is bad is because it robs more serious crimes of the wind they deserve.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

wait is it supposed to be newsworthy that FIFA is an opaque politically compromised and corrupt organization?

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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 06/07/2026

Fabio Lopez, a Customs and Border Protection officer from Fort Lauderdale, FL, was charged on March 11, 2020 with engaging in sexual activity with a minor and attempting to produce child sexual abuse material after being accused of molesting a 16-year-old girl whose mother he had met months before.

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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 03/07/2026

Joseph Courtland, a Customs and Border Protection officer from Portsmouth, VA, was arrested on Oct. 8, 2019 by Virginia State Police after hitting a Virginia DOT worker with his car. When officers inspected Courtland's cell phone, they found multiple child sexual abuse images featuring young girls.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

i for one am surprised by the amount of surprise expressed regarding the supreme court opinions last week.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

can't tell you how many times this happened to me in DC restaurants

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