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ZenStegosaurus

@zenstegosaurus.bsky.social
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I'm ZenStegosaurus on the old bird. Popping over here in hopes of getting untainted news updates & commentary. Just your typical slightly snarky GenX, into whiskey, Aussies, challah, backyard farming, embroidery & a bit of a poetry/ sci fi/fantasy geek.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fed raises rates .25% The temper tantrum coming from Trump will be one for the ages
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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
don't be sad today marvel at the fact that out of all the billions and billions of people who have ever existed throughout time, you were lucky enough to be alive at the same time as Dolly Parton
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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hokusai 🌊🌊🌊 @thebluenami.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
i appreciate @jamestalarico.bsky.social making it clear he won't tolerate any BS towards @crockett.house.gov if they're one of his supporters JASMINE CROCKETT has a BRIGHT future ahead, and she's a certified rockstart who knows how to hold republicans accountable #blues
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ZenStegosaurus @zenstegosaurus.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm not holding my breath but this is what I want to hear from TV pundits about Graham's death...
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Simpsons meme with Hans Moleman on a pay phone saying “I need the biggest metaphor you have.” Followed by “No, that’s too big.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The United States 1957 vs. 2026: The same vibe, an innocent black girl surrounded by the same damn problem, white supremacy.
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ZenStegosaurus @zenstegosaurus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Nice to see that Jack Smith still has hope for the DOJ's ability to recover the character it's lost under Trump. I'd love to hear details on how he thinks that can be done in future administrations.
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Francis Ford Copulate @francis-f-copulate.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
this new series is actually disappointing…
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.
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ZenStegosaurus @zenstegosaurus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
In honor of Robert Mueller, I'm reposting a 2019 thread from Twitter I wrote after I read Volume 1 of the Mueller Report. If you've never read the report, It's worth taking the time & explains a lot about why we are where we are at now. 🧵
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Antonio Bruno @antoniobruno.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 13/03/2026
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
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ZenStegosaurus @zenstegosaurus.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I’m in the car in tears from listening to President Obama speak at Rev. Jackson’s funeral. If you haven’t heard it you should. Hearing his voice is so bittersweet- I was so excited & hopeful when I voted for him but it’s also gut wrenching how far our country fallen 😔.
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acturia111.bsky.social @acturia111.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/02/2026
NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
At last. SCOTUS remembers that Congress is a separate and co-equal branch of government, to whom the Constitution assigns the power to levy taxes. One of Trump’s favorite levers is removed from the arsenal of extortion.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.
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ZenStegosaurus @zenstegosaurus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Worth reading to better understand the FCC/Colbert issue.
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spatula bankhead @robmillerr.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Skip right to the interview and boost its viewcount (currently at 959k). Maybe leave it running several times after you watch: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A
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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 16/02/2026
Barack Obama almost never jumps into the chaos. The fact that he’s speaking out now — repeatedly and urgently — is a warning. Something is deeply wrong. America needs to listen.
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Lawrence Johnson @lj4112.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13/02/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 12 AP: After Natl Park Service takes pride flag down from flagpole at NYC's Stonewall National Monument, city leaders -- including Manhattan Borough President -- and 100 activists & residents show up to raise it again.
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NY officials raise rainbow flag at Stonewall in rebuke of Trump administration
New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Big news in Texas: A Democrat just decisively won a state legislative special election in a district around Fort Worth that Trump carried by more than 17 points in 2024. Taylor Rehmet, a local union leader, defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss 57 to 43 in the historically conservative district.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Minnesota National Guard warmly greeting and handing out snacks to peaceful protesters! 🫶 👏 ✊
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 22/01/2026
FACT: California sends $83 billion more to the federal government than we get back. Trump can talk down on California all he wants, but California pays his bills.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 17/01/2026
If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Three pieces of news in the last few days that you may have missed — all Democratic or progressive victories. 1️⃣ Pennsylvania's Bucks County quit its ICE contract, due to the new sheriff elected in November.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/01/2026
Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Trump just now on AF1: "Don't ask me who's in charge, because I'll give you an answer and it'll be very controversial." Reporter: What does that mean? Trump: "It means we're in charge."
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 19/12/2025
A Boulder artist created stickers that neatly cover images of President Trump’s face on the new 2026 America the Beautiful National Parks Pass. Boulder artist Jenny McCarty’s project tapped widespread anger with recent changes to the National Parks Service.
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Boulder artist makes stickers to cover Trump’s face on National Parks passes — and the orders are flying in
Jenny McCarty’s stickers for the 2026 passes have gained national attention since launching Dec. 10.
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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.
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Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Oops forgot my Alt text
Map of Nashville split into 4 different districts, with large additions of rural areas.
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ZenStegosaurus @zenstegosaurus.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
MSNOW is saying the West Virginia National Guardsmen have died. They are sacrifices to Trump’s malignant ego. All the officials how didn’t try to stop Trump from sending them to DC has some responsibility.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Can't top this one I got in a text
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
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is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Dear all writers: If you can't quote what the person you're defending actually said, maybe don't defend what he said?
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Steve and Brad arrive back from the pub.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/05/2025
BREAKING: In a victory for voters, a federal court rejects Jefferson Griffin's attempt to overturn the North Carolina Supreme Court election and orders the state to certify Justice Allison Riggs' victory. More to come.
democracydocket.com
🚨 Griffin v. North Carolina State Board of Elections (II)
Learn more.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
History was made today.
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ZenStegosaurus @zenstegosaurus.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If you're not watching Cory Booker right now, it's time. He's telling stories about John Lewis. What a beautiful way for him to make history fighting against the trump administration.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19/03/2025
NEW: NJ federal judge Michael Farbiarz, a Biden appointee, is assigned to the Mahmoud Khalil case and immediately orders that Khalil "shall not be removed from the United States, unless and until the Court issues a contrary Order." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This case had been pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. There, on March 10, the Court ordered that the Petitioner may not be removed from the United States, pending a ruling on the Petition. See ECF 9.
Today, the case was transferred to this Court. See ECE 79.
The Court orders: the Petitioner shall not be removed from the United States, unless and until the Court issues a contrary Order.
The purpose of this Order is to preserve the Court's jurisdiction, so that the Petition can be reviewed and ruled on.
The authority for this is the All Writs Act, at Title 28, United States Code, Section 1651, as it has been interpreted by the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
See, e.g., Dabone v.
Karn, 763 E.2d 593, 597 n.2 (3d Cir. 1985) (citing FTC v. Dean
Foods Co., 384 U.S. 597, 603 (1966)) .
II IS on this 19th day of March, 2025, so ORDERED.
Michael E. Farbiarz, U.S.D.J.
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Carlos E. Gates @carlosegates.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In the years 2025/26, the distinction between the courageous and the cowardly will become unmistakably clear in the annals of history.
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