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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Trump hires an unqualified friend via no-bid contract because Trump waiting until the last minute makes it an emergency. Friend drains and coats as fast as possible to avoid being stopped by the courts. It sucks. Trump tries chemistry. It fails. Trump arrests random bystander.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/06/2026

Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...

reuters.com

EXCLUSIVE: White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near

The report does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The DOJ can simply settle suits from J6 convicts and pay them taxpayer dollars for attempting to overthrow the government, assaulting Capitol Police in the process. In fact, they already have.

theguardian.com

January 6 defendants pursue millions in claims through obscure federal process

Federal Tort Claims Act, over which DoJ has total discretion, provides workaround to Trump’s $1.8bn slush fund

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Big shocker: the Trump administration lied to try to cover up partisan, pro-billionaire action. Specifically, the DOJ claimed that the antitrust division completed their investigation and cleared the merger; both claims are false. The investigation wasn't completed and they leaned towards blocking.

variety.com

‘Reeks of Corruption’: Top DOJ Officials Reportedly Cleared Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Before Staff Lawyers, Who Were ‘Leaning’ Toward Antitrust Lawsuit, Could Object

Top Justice Department officials moved to drop the antitrust investigation into Paramount's $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery before the team of lawyers investigating the matter could is...

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This is a survey of the feelings of educated white men. They *feel* that law schools are going to punish them for being "conservative" where that is defined as "I object to saying that women and minorities are my equal." And they *feel* that this is a violation of their 1A rights. However...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Part of the calculated desecration here isn't just symbolic. It's that there a dozen ways this is already explicitly illegal, black letter no-question unambiguous statutory prohibition, but he can flaunt how nobody's going to tell him no or do anything about it.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Happy The Knicks Won Even After Ticketmaster Blocks Fans Day to all who celebrate! Thankfully, nothing else important is today.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

this opener by krugman is how every musk story should be framed open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Yesterday I took a short trip. I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Boring Company. Then I used my neural implant to summon a fully self-driving Tesla robotaxi. While enroute I read the latest news from
the Mars colony.
OK, none of that actually happened, because those products don't exist. There are no working Hyperloops. The Boring Company has not dug any commercial tunnels. Tesla has a few self-driving — though not fully self-driving - taxis in Austin and nowhere else. (Google's Waymo driverless taxis are operational in several major hubs.) Neuralink, which is purportedly pioneering brain implants, has tested its products in a handful of patients but done no more than that. And of course there is no Mars colony: there have been no manned flights to Mars, nor the prospect of any for the foreseeable future.
Yet at various points over the past decade Elon Musk promised that each of these services would be available by 2025 if not sooner.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/06/2026

“I think actually things will move maybe even by the end of this year to where you don't even bother doing coding. The AI just creates the binary directly.” “Doing coding.” The AI just creates “the binary” directly. Ok.

247wallst.com

Elon Musk: Coding Was a Top Job for Decades. It Will Be Dead By the End of the Year.

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) CEO Elon Musk has made yet another sweeping prediction about the future of work, this time aimed squarely at software engineers. Speaking at a recent confer...

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Chanting: “Plague. Of. Locusts! Plague. Of Locusts!”

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery and climate change that it ⁠had removed from parks and monuments nationwide.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Iranians care more about Donald Trump's mental heath than Republicans.

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James Fallows @handle.invalid · 11/06/2026

Hey Trump: Go to hell. People in DC pay *more FEDERAL tax* per capita than people of any state. And have zero representation. As I understand it, you personally evade federal tax, and are destroying a city where more people live than VT or ND. Tend to your own sordid business. Leave DC to DC.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Kamala Harris is “more progressive” than Bernie Sanders and it’s not even close. Bernie’s racism gets in his way.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

LOL Of *course* they deviated from standard procedure. That's the only way that they could ensure that the IRS would settle the case before the judge ruled the case invalid.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

On the day before Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, all I can think about is that time in 2021 when the head of the UN World Food Program asked Musk to donate $6 billion to save 42 million people from starvation and he refused.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

[Bill Hader eating popcorn.gif] St. George incorporation was rigged by the Republican state legislature, allowing St. George to exclude parts of town that would vote against it and disallowing all affected people to vote, knowing that the parish-wide vote failed. The entire fiasco is racist.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I thought that DOJ referrals were supposed to come from places other than the President. Vance may have been the one who made the referral, but we know that he did it at Trump's behest. The DOJ is supposed to be non-partisan but this is clearly partisan or he wouldn't be announcing it.

thehill.com

Vance referring Walz, Ellison to DOJ for criminal fraud investigation

Vice President Vance said late Monday that he will refer Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Justice Department (DOJ) for a criminal fraud investigation prom…

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026

I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what they’re really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldn’t be able to vote.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the administration "will continue to use every lawful avenue to denaturalize and remove aliens.'" You'll note that he doesn't say that they will use every lawful avenue to denaturalize and remove *criminal* aliens. Just aliens. Just any aliens.

cnn.com

Justice Department moves to strip citizenship from 17 people in unprecedented denaturalization push | CNN Politics

The Justice Department announced Monday that it will move to revoke citizenship from 17 people nationwide, marking the latest move in the Trump administration’s unprecedented push to target naturalize...

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ok, FIFA, your FIFA Peace Prize gambit needs to be activated and you need to insist that all members of all teams must be given visas. Then you need to insist that all attendees are given visas and a guarantee that they won't be harassed by immigration agencies.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In 1933 Adolf Hitler shook down German industrialists for millions of Reichsmark to establish what he called the Adolf-Hitler-Spende der deutschen Wirtschaft—a slush fund he used to pay off Nazis whose violence got them into legal trouble. In 2026, Donald Trump is quietly doing the same thing.

nytimes.com

Obscure Group With Trump Ties Plans to Route Funds to His Allies for Legal Fights

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

100% certain Rubio did not say “Hunter is a private citizen” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

And let's be honest about why: Elon Musk thinks that this is funny and clever, that it will make him look cool to the other tech bros.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Even after these women have been digitally stripped of their clothes, xAI is trying to harm them even more by removing the last bit of protection they have, their names. If their names are released, it's guaranteed they'll get harassed. It's shameful, expected behavior from xAI.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 03/06/2026

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today, Trump showed this graph to show how impressive it is that his pool guy painted the reflecting pool in violation of court orders, by pointing out that the Reflecting Pool is longer than the Empire State building "and the World Trade Center," which no longer has towers and which isn't depicted.

A headline and photo from The New Republic: "Trump Whips Out Wild Poster to Celebrate Finished Reflecting Pool Reno". The photo depicts Trump holding a poster-sized graph in his left hand (held steady by another person's hand, off-camera). The chart shows a drawing of the Reflecting Pool, dwarfing drawings of three skyscrapers, each of which has a spire at the top. This supposedly depicts how impressive it is that Trump's pool guy resurfaced the Reflecting Pool quickly (while under court order to not begin and using a no-bid, outrageously priced contract). Because painting a pool is totally equivalent in work effort to building the Empire State Building.

The photo caption is "Trump Whips Out Wild Poster to Celebrate Finished Reflecting Pool Reno".

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Trump: "in [the Middle East], a ceasefire means you fire in a more moderate manner." Trump literally does not grasp the concept of "Stop."

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

[citation needed] Prove that "objective fact," Mike.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/06/2026

NEW: Justice Sotomayor blasted SCOTUS for allowing Alabama to use a gerrymander it previously ruled intentionally discriminated against Black voters. The ruling will upend midterms “in the name of permitting Alabama to discriminate against Black Alabamians,” she said.

democracydocket.com

‘It debases the democratic process’: Sotomayor slams Supreme Court’s Alabama ruling

She said the court's conservative majority disregarded "both democratic values and the rule of law" through the ruling.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

ROFL She's only interested in a newsroom that is built on trust and mutual respect, but she is not required to treat her employees with trust or respect. "Mutual" means that it goes both ways.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Rubio: I have never seen Trump fall asleep. Lieu: I’m going to show you a video that shows you just lied to congress. Here is a video of him asleep while you are talking.

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StephenB💙8647VoteBlue🇦🇺🇨🇮🇺🇦 @steveyb22.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I remember when Joe Biden warned that Republicans were going to go bigger than Jim Crow & he called it Jim Eagle & everybody called bullshit & said he was overreacting & so on but yeah he said that so you know whatever but I guess he was too old so nobody wanted to listen. 😏

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The crooked SCOTUS justices know that the map was drawn with race in mind, which they forbid if it allows minority representation but allowed here to promote white representation, are so chicken shit that they didn't put their names on the decision.

npr.org

The Supreme Court reinstates Republican-favored Alabama congressional districts

The ruling means that Alabama's 2026 midterm elections will feature six Republican-leaning districts and one Democratic-leaning one.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

LOL! She is apparently unaware that AI is programmed to be biased. "AI," as its current iteration was created, is fundamentally flawed by GIGO. It was trained on *all* documents without being told which were reliable, trustworthy, or factual. Fact-checking and equity rules are too "woke" for them.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Tough on crime" Republicans want to ensure that urban Black people in NOLA go to jail, and shriek about "Defund the Police," then defund the New Orleans prosecutor's office because its budget is larger than the budget of an area with 2/3 the population and no tourism. No internal consistency.

nola.com

Louisiana Legislature passes bill to take money from Orleans DA, give more to other districts

The bill became controversial when a last-minute amendment took money away from the Orleans Parish district attorney’s office.

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/06/2026

When the post is one character too long and you have to get rid of the Oxford comma…

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Imagine being so unable to love your child that you set fire to the whole damn world instead.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'll hold out for the official truth social announcement that it was never on and also it's back on biglier than ever and also unnecessary and not happening but it'll happen in two weeks in a really tremendous way stay tuned

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Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 01/06/2026

Jesus. Stop watching CBS. I don’t care that you love 60 Minutes. This company is in dumps back pocket and no longer stands for journalistic excellence. STOP WATCHING CBS.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Most of the money going towards the Reflecting Pool renovations, a project with unbid, inflated contracts going to Trump's friend, intended to make the Reflecting Pool no longer a reflecting pool, is coming from park entry fees, while park budgets and staffing are slashed.

thetravel.com

U.S. Government Gives Zion National Park Toilets The Cold Shoulder And Uses Entrance Fees To Fund D.C. Renovations

Zion National Park's ongoing toilet issues remain on hold while D.C. seeks more "beautification" funding.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The Boring Company, which has yet to successfully complete a project and whose tunnels are notoriously leaky is evaluating if this project is feasible and the local news acts like it is.

wbrz.com

Tunnel from an Elon Musk company could connect New Orleans' convention center to Superdome, report says

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Trump believes that he can sign an EO that takes away whistleblower protects of *former* employees but holding them to a contract that they didn't sign, thus taking the profits from John Bolton's book. It's simply a threat to harass potential whistleblowers.

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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

An assassination attempt has to include someone in immediate danger with a weapon fired at them. Only one of the four most recent incidents was an actual assassination attempt.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If President Trump is referring to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, it was abolished in 1975.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The "Tough on Crime" party that falsely claims that they are targeting criminal aliens first and also pretends that being an undocumented immigrant is a crime. Meanwhile, violent criminals are being pardoned or simply released to prioritize deporting taxpaying grandmothers.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

here's my Memorial Day post: "Republicans hate our veterans — and no one hates them more than Preznit Fuckwit" — watch what they do, not what they say. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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Republicans hate our veterans — and no one hates them more than Preznit Fuckwit

watch what they do, not what they say

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