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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 17h
I wish more people treated Confederate iconography for what it is: the symbolism of traitors to the United States, and the symbolism of racist white supremacist bigots. Such symbology and iconography should be treated with nothing less than utter contempt. Like how Germans treat the Nazi swastika.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
ICE spent $16.7 million on 6,000 pairs of electroshock gloves despite knowing about a U.S. Army study documenting the pain and fear they cause. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social reacts to the disturbing findings.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly 💯
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 10h
Sickening
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
Texas executed Jamaal Howard by lethal injection exactly one week after Tennessee tried and failed to do the same to Christa Pike. Howard’s lawyers tried to use Pike’s horrific experience as a reason for a stay, but the courts said no. Beyond comprehension.
theguardian.com
Texas kills man in first US execution since botched lethal injection of Christa Pike
Jamaal Howard, 46, executed by fatal dose of pentobarbital after lawyers’ bid for stay had been denied
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 9h
I call it Republican hair. Always a helmet for the ladies, not one hair moves when their head moves!
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10h
All clustered in NSA/Cyber Command.🤔
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 9h
Absolutely.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 9h
Everyday I have to delete 20-25 text messages for the same reason. It's infuriating! BTW, I now set most emails to go to the deleted folder, then made specific rules for individuals and a few organizations I want to hear from. It's very effective.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 9h
OMG. A charlatan and an anti-Semite. Disgusting.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Touché.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you had any doubts that this entire administration is but one long assault on the rule of law, this article should convince you.
theguardian.com
Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yep, I call it karma in one lifetime: Starr lost his posts as president, provost and professor of law at Baylor for the coverup. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy... except maybe Brett Kavenaugh.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you for saying that about Neil Gorsuch! I think of him as the man who consciously stepped on the face of Merrick Garland, and ignored all precedent surrounding SC nominations, to become a justice. And he saw nothing wrong with it!
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
She is a monster.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Impeach this man.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is Megyn Kelly really a human being?
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not an exaggeration. Why do you not highlight this stuff CONSTANTLY
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amen.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wow!
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reading the NYT is bad for one's mental health, blood pressure and sense of reality. But I am happy to hear the John Roberts is having a "tough time." Actions have consequences.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great tagline for the man! Not sure the soap issue is incompetence or a sign of being on the take. Corruption at the top flows down to every level.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So true! Seems they need more than babies from their women...
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank the Koch, Scaife, and Bradley families, together with the Federalist Society -- and all the rich Republicans who have given to their causes -- for turning the GOP and a good chunk of the legal profession into associations of pure grift. "What's in it for me?" $$, power and influence, they say.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And there you have it. His critics all agrees this would happen.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Says the fellow who led the social media disinformation team in Trump's first election. cry me a river, Jared. Hope you end up in prison where you belong.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Running scared, Little Donnie? You're sounding lamer and lamer.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 4,000 Texans showed up for James Talarico in Ken Paxton's home county 👀
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 01/10/2026
Our Oversight and Judiciary committees will ensure that ANYONE who has threatened our democracy is held accountable, and that work is happening now. Proud to partner with @raskin.house.gov on the work ahead.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
We remember Botham Jean. It’s been 6 years to this day when he was killed while sitting on his couch eating ice cream.
A picture of Botham Jean in a suit and tie
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Fortunately, the damage this project could do will be somewhat limited because Hegseth has set a deadline of just 120 days for these men to report back. Then again, if Gingrich, Luckey, and Musk can’t redefine the future of national defense in four months, who can?" 😂😩
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The evidence mounts that Trump picked Hegseth because he knew he was mentally disturbed enough to order American troops to fire on American citizens.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Actually, Secretary Hesgeth, YOU are the ideological clown.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Impeach this man.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Or the bottom of the ocean!
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Out of step with [the administration's] priorities." That's about as close as you can get to saying that its priorities are bribery, corruption and the use of foreign policy to generate income for administration officials.
theguardian.com
Trump administration withdraws US from Greco anti-corruption monitoring body
‘The era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over,’ state department spokesperson says
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good for him!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Could not agree more.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow, you are lucky! What a great kid.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This means we need to add every conservative Supreme Court justice to the list of people who should be prosecuted for human rights crimes, right?
theguardian.com
Supreme court allows Trump to temporarily resume deporting people to third countries – live
More than 25,000 people have been deported to 29 countries under ⁠the policy implemented last year, according to a tally by human rights groups
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was unaware that Trump even knew the word "moral," much less its meaning. But surely he means "morally binding" for them but not for me!
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You mean, Republicans are willing to do that. The rest of us are disgusted by them. Seeing Republicans continue to promote outrageous lies reminds me of a character's line in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed: "You are the sun and I am your worm!" That's what these GOP politicians are saying to Trump.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It kills me to hear radio and TV news hosts talk about "Trump's philosophy of governance.“ Neither he nor the GOP is interested in governing. They're here for the grift and the power, and maybe some quick social media fame achieved by being total a$$holes. They are simply stupid crooks & charlatans.
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reasonmatters.bsky.social @reasonmatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That about sums up Josh Hawley. Arrogant until he has to run from rioters...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
aaayy shout out to all the climate organizers and legal groups like @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social, @courtacctability.bsky.social, and @peoplesparity.bsky.social that kept raising hell about Alito's glaring conflict of interest ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
ballsandstrikes.org
The Supreme Court’s Recusal Rules Are Worthless
Cases involving the oil and gas industry are great for Justice Samuel Alito, a noted investor in the oil and gas industry.
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