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Tyler Blake

@tyblake.bsky.social
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Golden State Warriors fan, politics junkie, proud San Franciscan, shitposter. All thoughts and opinions my own.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Especially hypocritical coming from soi-disant originalists, since the Founding Era discourse around the Fourth Amendment is pretty clearly predicated on the opposite idea—that these agents are apt to run amok & behave abusively, requiring their discretion to be constrained by a neutral magistrate.
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is true and also very bad that there’s no political upside for republicans to engage with reality on Iran
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The war is over, also we’re winning the war bigly, also it’s not a war
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I put probably ~10 hours into Control and got bored but maybe this is a sign to give it another shot
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If there’s one thing we know about appeasement it’s that it definitely always works
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of fascinating observations in this piece. A key one is that those demanding calculated moderation on trans rights are not acknowledging where the logic *or* the politics of that position actually lead, which is to a terrible place:
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
yes more of this please ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
screenshot of two paragraphs excerpted from the linked article, with the final sentence of the first paragraph highlighted in green. excerpt reads as follows:

In response to Venegas’s lawsuit, the Trump administration contended that the government had a reasonable suspicion to detain him, and that this argument was supported by Kavanaugh’s concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo. Basically, Kavanaugh said that agents detain and question people when they have reasonable suspicion, and since agents detained and questioned Venegas, they must have had reasonable suspicion to do so. In a September 21 order, though, Trump-appointed district judge Jeffrey Beaverstock wrote that the government offered “no factual support whatsoever” as to why its suspicion was reasonable, and that he was “simply not inclined to take the Government’s word for it.”

Beaverstock also wrote that Kavanaugh’s concurrence offered no help to the administration, because the immigration stops they carried out looked nothing like the immigration stops that Kavanaugh imagined. “Venegas was not promptly released,” said Beaverstock. “Instead, the officers disregarded the veracity of his documentation and continued to detain him.” Beaverstock concluded that the administration’s warrantless raid and detention policies are likely unconstitutional, and issued an order temporarily blocking them.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The only non-Trump thing I can think of that even comes close is Reagan’s IRS deciding to give segregation academies tax-exempt status
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah this is the judicial equivalent of Samuel L Jackson screaming “say what again” in Pulp Fiction
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah I learned during a hearing years ago (thankfully only observing) that “spitting mad” isn’t just a rhetorical flourish and that order was nothing close to this
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Free practice tip: it is bad if the judge’s order sounds like it was dictated to a clerk while they were hitting a punching bag with your PHV application taped to it
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Have been a litigator for 10 years and never seen anything CLOSE to this level of fury
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah I think people just generally wildly overestimate both the hit rate and the likely ceiling of your average 1st round pick, particularly guys outside the top 10 If a 20s pick turns into a rotation-level player that’s a good outcome!
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s not his fault that the bar is on the floor and somehow both his opponents tripped on it
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Like I’ve always said you gotta consentmaxx or else you’re gonna get justicemogged
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Norvell wished on a cursed amulet to beat Alabama and now he can ONLY beat Alabama
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of the core tenets of centrism is never saying “we were wrong”
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
2024: we’ll fix it all on day 1 2026: pweese just give us one more chance
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Part of me is morbidly curious how many more times MAGA would fall for the “the check is in the mail!” scam
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A little over 10 years ago. It's astonishing how far the culture has moved in the wrong direction on trans rights since, and the continued capitulation of centrist dems has aided a dangerous and unjust situation: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
nbcnews.com
NBA Pulls All-Star Game Out of Charlotte Over Transgender Bathroom Law
The National Basketball Association has decided to pull the 2017 All-Star game out of Charlotte, N.C.
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kimchi too
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Only Charlie Kirk is a father. Only Charlie Kirk is a husband. Only Charlie Kirk's death is a tragedy and totally unacceptable. The rest of us are potentially, if we are unlucky enough, simply the sacrifice the second amendment demands and Charlie Kirk demanded." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
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Acceptable Losses
Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My first thought was wow the WeWork guy let himself go
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ducking a meeting with a bunch of desperately ill children from the state you represent to record a video praising Mr. Trump >>>>
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A gender-neutral toilet at that!
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
do any of you know what words mean or do you think "backfire" is when the expected and intended result occurs?
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Not a fan of Hasan Piker but he's a guy who streams monologues to a small audience. Elon spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get Republicans elected and was for weeks the second most powerful member of the federal government, but oddly Republicans are rarely grilled about his views
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The news media instead told us that "it's not clear what Elon Musk's politics are" right before he became the #1 Republican donor in history then told us "Elon Musk is leaving politics" right before he was going to become the #1 Republican donor for a second consecutive cycle.
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lower prices? ❌ No new wars? ❌ Lower the debt? ❌ But hey at least a dozen or so trans women can’t play high school sports
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yep. Trumpism's main pillars have all crumbled: *Mass deportations widely hated/haven't created jobs for native born *America First foreign policy (unchecked militarism/contempt for int'l alliances) is disaster *Trade wars aren't restoring manufacturing/are hurting countless ordinary people
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The same story repeats itself everywhere in the culture: dumb rich guys who don't know what anything is or does, who are too lazy/smug to learn and ideologically committed to the idea that everything they don't control is Woke Bullshit, wrecking stuff on principle. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
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How U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade War
Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was see...
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Kris Pursiainen @krisap.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Enes Kanter stepped onto a WNBA baseline during a game. In that moment, he presented a larger threat to the league than any transgender athlete ever has: clutchpoints.com/wnba/indiana...
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Fever’s Sophie Cunningham urges haters to ‘look at the stats’ in confident clapback
Protests keep following the Fever in the wake of Sophie Cunningham's comments about transgender woman. She says her critics are hypocrites.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Trump admires Kim Jong Un because he has successfully enslaved the North Korean population the same way Trump wants to do to us
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Benedictine Funk @jdandeneau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“It should be illegal not to like me” is like, the third primary tenet of modern rightism
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
the word ‘intervention’ elicited a pavlovian response to authorize indiscriminate bombing, he’s not even listening
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Abolish ICE is the moderate position
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Me: I wonder why I have a headache Also me: three coffees no water no food
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Golden State Warriors currently learning the hard way that you don’t get to hang “maintained future optionality” banners
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Like everything else they care more about the performance than the substance
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"we love our brave troops don't we folks we always support the troops stand and salute them why aren't you standing do you not support the men and women in uniform the troops the beloved troops" it was bullshit the whole time, they never cared even a little.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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