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Appellate law. Occasional dog valet. (he/him) I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide . . .

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h
I think it's bad that a South African Nazi can spend almost 300 million on the U.S. midterms (gift link).
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 17h
The Republican Party is chock full of Nazis. The government has Nazis in senior administration positions. The Republican Party’s largest donor is a neo-Nazi. David Brooks might not want to admit it, but that’s why it’s long past time for him to shut up.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 20h
St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Republican Party is on the side of Russia against Ukraine. It’s not me saying that, it’s their cult leader. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Bill Barr’s dishonest letter did so much damage to this country
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Wait why is Trump helping Putin and hurting Zelensky?” - Unfrozen Caveman Pundit
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/10/2026
Do we arrest those who shoot people in our streets? Or do we join them? The *only* cohort that has trouble answering that question is the one we're paying to play Candy Crush on our subway platforms, on top of $117 MILLION we paid for cops assaulting our neighbors last year. More than Jalen gave up!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/10/2026
NYC is on track to have its lowest rate of shootings EVER, and the thing that is going to ruin that is the presence of ICE. If the police commissioner cannot pick the side of New Yorkers, she obviously has to be fired. The numbers do not lie.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mamdani, in closing, on today's ICE shooting: "This is an agency that must be abolished."
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/10/2026
NYPD has run NYC for decades. It is going to take a lot to break their backs. They've threatened the child of a sitting mayor with impunity, stormed City Hall in a drunken rage, and of course have committed countless acts of violence with impunity.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/10/2026
We can still get 3k+ whistles out the door to people in need in under 24 hours and they are free.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.
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Jason Narducy @jasonnarducy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you Salon and @carynrose.bsky.social ! www.salon.com/2026/10/07/m...
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Michael Shannon’s R.E.M. tribute reminded me why I love the band
The actor’s show with Jason Narducy is more than nostalgia — it celebrates the band’s artistry.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states
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pfcass @pfcass.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We pay 6.25% of our incomes to social security. Musk pays 0%. Seems wrong.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If Budweiser was trying to identify individual alcoholics and send them personalized "Chuck, you haven't had a drink in a while, here's a free case on us" ads we would rightfully call for them to be drawn and quartered
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"May Block..." My God. www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Schumer warns Democrats may block Trump’s judge picks if they flip Senate
Republicans used their Senate majority to block vote on Merrick Garland’s nomination after the 2012 death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Through the first three quarters of 2026, Chicago is on pace for fewer homicides than it recorded in 2025, a year that closed with the city’s fewest recorded killings in 60 years." We're old enough to remember when we were told that ending money bond would lead to "the end of days".
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Chicago on Pace for Fewer Homicides Than Last Year’s Historic Low: Police
Through the first three quarters of 2026, Chicago is on pace for fewer homicides than it recorded in 2025, a year that closed with the city’s fewest recorded killings in 60 years.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 05/10/2026
Liza standing in front of a portrait of herself making the same face Timothy Dalton from HOT FUZZ standing in front of a portrait of him making the same face
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
jail
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the clear throughline behind every Trump voter is a refusal to believe that their behavior has consequences
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o... “Just as Germans who backed Hitler and the Nazi Party after 1933 were fully aware of what they were joining, so Christians who have backed Trump and the MAGA movement a second time know and bear responsibility for what they are now endorsing.”
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When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now
Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s almost as if the slope was slippery.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagine being one of these judges....and continuing to do your job deporting 2-year-old kids "The Banality of Evil" - Hannah Arendt
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chicago police are defunding Chicago
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026
Pennsylvania reports 943 measles cases as outbreak grows reut.rs/4iXZG3Y
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Pennsylvania reports 943 measles cases as outbreak grows
Pennsylvania's health department reported 943 measles cases as of ​Wednesday, according to its website, ‌as the state grapples with a growing outbreak of the highly ​contagious disease.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exactly why the "maybe Mary Cheney can reason with them" approach doesn't work. Their brains are cooked. Go after independent/undecided voters. www.editorialboard.com/how-the-righ...
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How the rightwing media can turn humiliation into victory
Eric Schmitt will never face the consequences of today's spectacular failure.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The family separation apologist has not done a good job it turns out
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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not new, but literally every shadow docket hearing, the Supreme Court is reinforcing its illegitimacy. It is not a court. It is not doing the work of a court. In the interest of the rule of law, we need to ultimately abide by its rulings, but there is no future without significant court reform
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t think a good system of government would give the worst person to ever live the ability to murder every human on earth.
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