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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TRUMP "I'm building a ballroom for entertaining." > "I'm building a ballroom for national security." "I'm building an arch to celebrate our greatness." > "I'm building an arch for national security." "I'm banning those reporters b/c they suck." > I'm banning them b/c national security."

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Bluesky is going to be a lot less useful and fade out to Twitter clone treatment if they are suspending accounts like #Popehat. I literally start with his curated feed to see what is happening in Lawsky and go out from there. It will be less useful if we are suspending accounts like his.

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johnmark @johnmark.org · 23/06/2026

oh @moderation.bsky.app you got some 'splainin' to do... why no popehat???

what shows up on bluesky after searching for popehat aka ken white - it's a screenshot with the message "not found - account has been suspended - try again"

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

True democracy at its finest. Cleisthenes would be so proud.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We're supposed to trust these AI programs when their owners cannot protect themselves from their monsters. I read this book in high school.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Right there, at the window, tuning up for a concert. Every morning. 😴

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

slate.com

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@kenwhite.bsky.social When you go to 3 line Hat IDs, your profile locks up on some installs.😅 The profile text pushes the feed low enough it cannot be seen/touched and BSky cannot scroll a profile then. Havin' Hat Feed Withdrawal.

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Christopher D. Brown @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

@kenwhite.bsky.social I have a question about Contract law....

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haunted dog @zandywithaz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Jimmy Breslin said Rudy Giuliani was “a small man in search of a balcony.” It doesn’t get any better than that.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Trump, when it comes to talkin', has the most 'my boyfriend knows karate' vibe I've ever seen. -Josh Johnson

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's genius! Only MAGA will want to carry it (and they don't travel internationally) so no one will renew their passports and eill have trouble voting ir traveling at all.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Executive Editor was violent person-adjacent and therefore calls it all a fiasco. The entitled class is very whiny about security for the entitled. But kids in school? Or guns in cars. Or guns in homes. Or guns on trains. Meh, old news. Not worth the headlines or loss of access.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Replying to
@JenniferJJacobs
The shooting happened on the level above the ballroom where the White House Correspondents Association dinner was.
I don't think people hearing about this -- or even those of us in the room -- realized how far from the president, VP and other guests this incident was. It was on another floor, up some stairs and several sets of security away.
Because the Washington Hilton's hotel and other public spaces were open for other functions, the entire building wasn't secured by the Secret Service, just the specific areas where the WHCA dinner was held, law enforcement officials told @CBSNews
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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The "we need the ballroom" take by MAGA is so craven. The Secret Service perimeter did its job. None of the guests were in danger of anything worse than a drunken Kash barfing on their Manolos. This was the equivalent of a WH fence jumper stunt.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Trump's treatment of the military is genius. The one institution he must have if he doesn't want to ever leave the White House and he's treating them like a red-headed stepchild. Definitely ensures personal loyalty.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Big law firms gonna act like big law firms.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

No one believes you, Tucker. No one at all. You've changed directions more times that a wind sock on a jet runway. It doesn't work anymore.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Npt funny in the RFLMAO sense but funny in the grim, "everything is sh!t so let's stream George Carlin saying I told you so jokes all nite" funny.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's being held at an IHOP. There will be room to spare

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

theguardian.com

Her husband is a double amputee in ICE prison. She confronted Kristi Noem over its cruel conditions: ‘I have a fire inside’

Mildred Danis-Taylor dropped everything to advocate for the release of her husband, Rodney Taylor. A brutal year of legal and health challenges led her to Capitol Hill

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Hats off to the pilots who are flying these missions. They don't KNOW the Iranian air defense is completely down there. They are flying low and slow to find the missing pilot completely exposed.

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

#Artemis II - Has completed a successful Translunar Injection burn Orion spacecraft is on its way, for the first time in over 50 years astronauts are on their way to the moon! 🌕 Mission Control confirms good burn! View from Orion looking back at earth 🚀

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Look, you can say you were proud to exit the JCPOA and you can say you wanted to conduct diplomacy with Iran, but you can’t claim both of those things at the same time.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I missed the live feed of the Challenger launch and it was one of the few launches I missed. I felt irrational pain that I jinxed that mission. There are very few U.S. manned launches I have missed since then, none voluntarily. And I'm going to stroke out every time.

Artemis II rocket riding a perfect column of fire leaving Launchpad 39B against a deep blue sky. It's GO time!

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It sounds like having his ultimate boss in the room did not help the Solicitor General with his nerves on iota.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Hey kid, this is all you ever need to know

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Literally seeing people on FB commenting on No Kings with "We hsven't had a king since 1776 so go home!" Their profile pics being some AI version of King Trump imagery. It's hilarious own-goal stuff but also so pathetic.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Evergreen macro: "Gee, maybe it was a bad idea for Trump to fire the people in government who knew what the fuck they were talking about when it came to [insert subject]."

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

There was a moment after he was arrested and extradicted that I felt sorry for the parents. I mean, it's unlikely they had any idea how much fraud was going on at that point. I mean...it was staggering and incredibly dumb at the same time. But lol now I'm enjoying their suffering, guilt-free.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

When a governor who wants to be more cannot tell the difference between penmanship and cursive writing, you have to wonder.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It's not fun anymore? Or the Iranians aren't makin' with the bribes he expects?

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

But they are NOT on the streets chasing down and occasionally killing people because they learned policing from GTA. It's a net improment, especially without masks...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Also triggering Iranian support for their own repressive regime after being attacked by the American Mad King.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Generations of Marines would be interested to hear that boots on the ground on an island is not boots on the ground in combat circumstances.

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

So...when's the regime-change-not-war starting in Cuba?

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/03/2026

Trump 3/9/2026: "Iran also has some Tomahawks…A Tomahawk is very generic." Trump 3/13/2026: "Nobody has the technology or weapons that we have…We have the Tomahawks."

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I have a question. Why hasn't Trump asked the oil companies to sell gas at last month's prices for a couple more months? The oil often comes from fed lease land. It costs the same as last month. All they need do is patriotically forego the upside from a war vs evil and take a normal profit.🤔

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"We could have not killed all those school girls but it's more fun to blowed them up, ha-ha-ha!"

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Ain't no time to wonder why Whoopie we're all gonna die!

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Sorry I have to post and go soon. Take care of yourselves. A small lamb greets one of its first mornings, while its mother stands watch and the Irish spring quietly ushers itself in for another year. 🌿🐑☘️ #Stunday #photography #Ireland #ECK

A small white lamb stands in sunlit grass while its ewe stands protectively beside it near a wire fence. In the softly blurred background, bright yellow daffodils bloom across a green field, capturing a quiet moment of spring on a rural Irish farm. 🌼🐑

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Remember when Trump was sending a dry-docked hospital ship from the Gulf to the Arctic to assist people with advanced, free healthcare already? Has anyone checked on how that voyage is going or nyah?

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Rumpole the Brief @rumpole-brief.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The Financial Times ran a story with this headline. Got to be a contender for the most ridiculous billionaire-worship of the year. George here is sitting in Europe ordering his tanker captains to risk their ship and crew to transit the Straits while the boss sips tea a universe away.🤬

The billionaire 'buccaneer' braving the Straits of Hormuz with a picture of George Prokopiou, the owner of Dynacom Tankers.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

From @wsj.com: "Of the 279 people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year, 181 were U.S. citizens, the Journal found. Close to half of those Americans were never charged with assault. None have been convicted at trial." www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

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Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.
The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.”

Excerpt From
“Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.”
Aaron M. Renn
The Washington Post
https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ
This material may be protected by copyright.

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