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if he thought it would juice his 2028 prospects, he'd probably pull the trigger

Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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So we're on day two of @bencollins.bsky.social and @theonion.com posting about everything but their position on whether they support their social media manager's social media posts, right?

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i think it's become genuinely impossible to parody these freaks. as bad as you think they are, they always are worse.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

rich straight ppl especially. look, i am no fucking fan of marriage but it was a lot simpler - and overall effective for future safety - for me to marry my partner than to stand on some theoretical ground. wtf.

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we are not doing originalist pronouns; shut the FUCK up

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Vance is a vicious little weasel who will absolutely watch a livestreamed execution and anyone who believes otherwise has pretty much not paid attention to Vance's entire life.

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Judge Mascott received her commission on October 10, 2025, exactly 365 days ago. In that time, she has issued *ZERO* published majority opinions. Remarkable.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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little john @littlejohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just endless whiny racist grievances all the way down. I guess when you gut the government and ignore the actual business of running the country, you have infinite time for this garbage.

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Newsletter from CMs Wonsley, Chavez, Chughtai, and Stevenson lists the mayor's proposed cuts in terms of equivalent days of MPD overtime. ♥️✊🙏 @robin4mpls.bsky.social @jchavezmpls.bsky.social @aishaforward10.com @sorenwithward8.bsky.social

Council Member Soren Stevenson

Ward 8 News from Council Member Soren Stevenson
October 8th, 2026

Dear neighbors,

The City Council is preparing to amend and adopt a City Budget for 2027. The 2027 Budget proposed by Mayor Frey in August includes cuts to many programs that our communities rely on while increasing the budget for the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) by more than $20 million.

We can recognize that the City is facing real fiscal challenges while rejecting false austerity. These narratives are being used as a pretext for cuts to programs communities rely on, all while allowing MPD to have an ever ballooning budget that goes unchecked year after year.

Fiscal responsibility doesn’t look like just cutting across the board. It means examining every major area of city spending, identifying inefficiencies and measurable outcomes, and ensuring every tax dollar the City spends actually improves residents’ lives or enhances a public good.

MPD has gone $20 million over budget two years in a row, and MPD leaders have publicly admitted that there has been mismanagement of overtime. Earlier this year, both the Commissioner of Community Safety and the Chief Operating Officer both publicly stated they were unaware of this overspending for nearly all of 2025. Earlier this year, when ICE invaded our city, our communities stepped up to protect our neighbors while the MPD did little to nothing to keep us safe yet still got millions in overtime compensation. It is not fiscally responsible to increase MPD’s budget by $20 million when it is widely known that mismanagement of MPD is fueling unnecessary costs that are not meaningfully improving public safety.

The budget is funded by working people, and they deserve accountability and oversight of how their money is spent. This year, the Board of Estimate and Taxation, the body that sets the maximum tax levy, made it clear that unchecked police overspending needed to be meaningfully addressed. The City Council has…

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026

Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.

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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 09/10/2026

This might be a controversial take, but I'm not a fan of people who "torture" LLMs--not because I think LLMs are conscious, but because I generally don't understand people who break their toys for fun.

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I am *saying*. I'm so tired of my lightweight summer shirts because we're heading into like month 6 of needing to wear lightweight summer shirts.

Honestly so distressing that Thiel is so weird and waxy-looking that the South Park cartoon of him just looks the same as he looks in real life.

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Strong boy mayor absolutely flailing as per usual

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lol perhaps the fact that people like your oligarch owner signed onto the whole project of a government that virulently despises queer people, with special hatred reserved for trans kids? Dunno, just spitballing here.

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Who is the target audience for Thiel’s laughable lectures on the Antichrist besides “creepy dudes who worship Peter Thiel”

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Yeah, that’s what struck me. Rather than providing anything meaningful about process or something, it’s reduced to implying that profs are just avaricious and grasping.

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Honestly it’s more the “highly coveted” part that scans the weirdest. If they’d just said “teaching position with job protections” or something I’m not sure I would have noticed.

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Did…did the NYT genuinely think people don’t know what tenure is

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I’m tired of Caitlin Clark’s age being used an excuse for her failure to meet the moment - on the court and off. A’ja Wilson won her first MVP at age 24. Paige Bueckers gave a moving speech about racism when she was 19. It’s not CC’s age. It’s because she’s immature, incurious and indifferent.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lolololol watching Stewie and the Liberty whine about how a ref didn’t tenderly and clearly answer her question is fucking rich.

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Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

nytimes.com

Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions

Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

just donated and if you have the ability to do so as well, please do. this is some bullshit.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also, no, I am not letting Sam Alito’s not-even-in-an-opinion rants — many of which are years-old speeches reiterating the same grievances he’s been making constantly to anyone who will listen — lead to the exact coverage now that he clearly so desperately craves.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.

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depends on what color pants you wear the most often. as a colored pant aficionado, I run into matchy-match problems with tops. but my personal picks are pink, blue, red.

Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

we had one of these for my brother's basement room growing up and man, it sucked in so many ways, sadly. not warm, weirdly buzzy, sometimes a burning smell.

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Well, that is certainly a way of picking a law school dean that will produce a result.

University of Austin (UATX) & -3h
Who will be dean of UATX Law? The search has begun.
Search committee: Judge James C. Ho, Judge Andrew S. Oldham, Judge Amul R.
Thapar, and co-chairs Claire Brickman and Adam Biggs.
Applications reviewed beginni Show

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fair point. that guy is a fucking monster.