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Here to find some community to make it through the stupidest timeline

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 14h
did not expect to have to read or remember how to spell the name kimberly guilfoyle but lol
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
why is the California Democratic Party taking millions from Kalshi? WTAH - they don't need to take this gross gambling money. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
"KALSHI CASH: If Kalshi’s campaign donations are any indication, the prediction market behemoth is betting that California politics are a worthwhile investment, Tyler Katzenberger reports for POLITICO Pro subscribers in today’s California Decoded newsletter.

The fast-growing firm has poured nearly $2.5 million into California’s Democratic Party, state races and business-friendly political action committees this cycle as it ramps up its political operations nationwide, according to state campaign finance records. It’s picking favorites in competitive contests, siding with moderate incumbents in red-on-blue fights and wading into intraparty battles on both sides of the aisle.

And while Kalshi says its giving is designed to be bipartisan, there’s a clear winner: Democrats. On Saturday, the California Democratic Party reported a whopping $2 million contribution from the company.

It’s the latest instance of tech firms using cash to sway state politics. Uber and Airbnb have built political war chests to defend their interests in California. While Kalshi’s spending hasn’t yet reached the eye-popping sums those giants have invested in ballot fights, the firm’s maneuvering so far mirrors Uber and Airbnb’s strategy of playing in key races."
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He didn't say this, really. It's a pretty skewed reading, he's pretty clearly claiming that the price to pay (gas) is small compared to them nuking those places. He's insane, incoherent, and offensive enough as is, without this kind of unfortunate embellishment/spin.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
There does seem to be an interesting subset of folks who seem huffily annoyed that creators might want to be compensated for their stolen work by the people whose intentional acts of theft has literally allowed to become billionaires, I mean, how dare we, right
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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
not in the secondary
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They will be injured immediately on signing, I fear
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 05/10/2026
it can’t be intentional grounding if bryce young can’t see over his linemen!
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my issue is that they have not gotten the memo to the play by play guys to shut the hell up
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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
DJ Reed ain't it fellas
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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
also, to be clear: you cannot pay Jameson Williams and short-change Sam LaPorta, unless his back is shattered or something.
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Mike Singletary: 'Can't Do It!' NFL Tirade
ALT: Mike Singletary: 'Can't Do It!' NFL Tirade
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Gibbs the pass-blocker"
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Kermit the Frog's Confused Reaction
ALT: Kermit the Frog's Confused Reaction
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
robert kraft screaming, crying, throwing up
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Street sign reading Jamal Khashoggi Way over the street in front of the Saudi embassy
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For the King 2 - a cute aesthetic, cooperative rpg, all turn based and with some fun stories.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Return of the Obra Dinn is one I don't see go on sale very often, but my god what an incredible game! I knew it was going to be special going in, but I didn't realize how elated I'd be at getting the correct solution and that jaunty theme plays, or how invested I'd be in uncovering the story.
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Save 33% on Return of the Obra Dinn on Steam
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fucking hell, this is ghoulish. The chosen stats here and their outcomes are insane.
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Absolute clown behavior
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/10/2026
Ground Effect xkcd.com/3305/
Comic. [Two people flailing high in the air. Three people on the ground running ahead of them. Arrows and a dotted line indicate that this second group is within roughly one body length of the surface.] [caption] The “ground effect” explains why sprinters can run most efficiently if they stay within roughly one body length of the surface.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/09/2026
A federal judge ORDERED the Trump admin to privately show him the memo purporting to justify boat strikes that have killed 234 people in the Caribbean and Pacific. Judge Engelmayer rejected several rationales for withholding the memo from the public and will determine whether to release it.
The Court directs defendants to file the declaration(s), and to arrange for the Memo to be available for in camera review, within two weeks of this decision. See ACLU II, 2016 WL 889739, at *6 (ordering Government, within five days, to produce document at issue and “advise the court who has received [it] (including persons who received it from its original recipients) and for what purpose”); Elec. Frontier Found. v. U.S. Dep’t of Just., 826 F. Supp. 2d 157, 172 (D.D.C. 2011) (directing agency to “provide further explanation regarding whether it shared with non-Executive Branch entities the responsive documents that it withheld from the plaintiff”). Defendants are authorized to make appropriate redactions in the declaration as publicly filed, while filing the unredacted declaration under seal. Upon review of these materials, the Court will determine whether to commission supplemental briefing.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat Strikes The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u... w/ Ben Weiser
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Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat Strikes
The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can pry my em dash out of my cold, dead hands
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it only tuesday
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lol the entry box help text doesn't go away when you type? Incredible
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/reic...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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Ennui-tery @jerkwheatery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
EMOTIONAL TERRORISM
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unfortunately the "what the actual fuck" they are doing appears to be intentionally building the authoritarian surveillance state.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, harder for him to anonymously source himself as war skeptical if he's forced into a public record tiebreaker on it...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Epic Handshake meme: Trump and the Acting Army Secretary shaking on “NEED BALLROOM”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"That's what it's all about, doors and sardines. Getting on, getting off. Getting the sardines on, getting the sardines off. That's farce. That's--that's the theater. That's life."
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of so called MAGA adherents now think Trump sucks but that does not mean that they see their interests as aligned with the groups they consider to be subservient to them.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just because people come to the same conclusion about something, it doesn't mean that our interests are the same and it's dangerous to assume they are.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/09/2026
nathan fielder: you're a real PNG file, right?

Elizabeth Holmes on a gray checked background looking totally full of shit:
why would I decieve you?
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If that's her attitude I'll happily vote for someone else in the primaries
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seriously, what the hell could they have been thinking?
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
as I‘ve gotten older I’ve become more of a civil libertarian. I don’t need some complicated explanation of how someone’s oppressed. just people should be able to do what they want unless it causes big negative externalities
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
vote for me and my platform of chilly rainy days being only for cozy reading and napping
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 23/09/2026
Because it won't make the billionaire energy company owners enough money. They're turning down modest profits because it's actually more profitable to them in the long run to let demand grow to outstrip supply.
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The Samuelation @samuelation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How long are you working on this? I just went through a week's worth of mail earlier and threw out all that junk, but get probably 3-6 political items a day at the moment
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