Sean Vinsel (unspooky, pleasant)

Sean Vinsel (unspooky, pleasant)

@hoopsinsight.bsky.social

Worried about what’s going on

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What in the absolute hell kind of racism is this. What an embarassing lout

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Sean Vinsel (unspooky, pleasant) reposted

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

Sean Vinsel (unspooky, pleasant) reposted

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

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The most maddening part of this -- which is saying something -- is that the cop who has torn his town into shreds thinks the remaining residents are cool with him because they smile at him when he walks by. Mind-numbing levels of cope. www.propublica.org/article/depo...

propublica.orgThe Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His NeighborsIngram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of t...

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

This is horrible. This is demonstration that the government isn’t there to protect its people, it’s there to carry out what it wants to do. If you’re in the way of that, you may get hurt and they won’t care.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com

Video shared to social media by rapid response shows ICE agents abducting a man this A.M. from inside the Bridgeview Courthouse. Outside, Cook County Sheriff’s deputy Gigliotti #19013 daps it up with one of the agents. Asked about IL law preventing arrests at courthouses, deputy Glover shrugs.

Mason Williams for Kentucky is giving me some SGA-freshman year vibes. His basketball IQ is amazing. Help defense, rotating the ball, back cuts. No idea if he can be an on-ball guy this season, but he is absolutely special at understanding what each moment needs.

Sean Vinsel (unspooky, pleasant) reposted

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEW, NYT: More action from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of California that is not based in law and runs counter to DOJ policy. DOJ is threatening local elections officials in CA after DOJ did not get what they wanted from their BS lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

Sean Vinsel (unspooky, pleasant) reposted

This is WILD given that there is precisely 1 player on either team who has mass recognition (Reese) and she is often painted as a villain. Neither franchise has much history of success. The WNBA is attracting fans without needing narratives or personalities.

Meghan L. Hall@itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social

NEWS (From NBC): Game 1 of the 2026 WNBA Finals averaged 2.1 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, making it the most-watched WNBA Finals Game 1 ever. Dream vs. Valkyries is up 11% vs. last year’s Game 1 between Mercury and Aces.

@startribune.com I hope someone with your publication is monitoring things like this

mollypeonies@mollypeonies.bsky.social

DEEP DIVE is up! How the Star Tribune turned Republican “Somali gangs” rhetoric into an election-year crime narrative—and helped give demands for expanded local, state, and federal enforcement the authority of news.

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

theguardian.comMichigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-SayedTimmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed

Sean Vinsel (unspooky, pleasant) reposted

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."

More racist garbage

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."

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If anything, install the RECAP plugin so that anything you pay to look at on PACER, it can be the last time anybody has to pay for it. I've relied so much on the RECAP archive and have in turn contributed many, many dockets to the cause 20-40 cents at a time.

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reminder, this is what patrick ruffini was saying about the midterms earlier this year

Sean Vinsel (unspooky, pleasant) reposted

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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This is just flat out racism. No other way to describe it, and if you see someone trying to do otherwise (looking at you NYT editors) then correct them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."

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The DOJ is trying to revive the Biden-era prosecution of journalist @bubbaprog.xyz, whose reporting exposed antisemitism. Use our action center to tell lawmakers to speak up.

freedom.press📣 Take Action: Stop prosecuting journalist who exposed antisemitismMake an impact with guided actions from Freedom of The Press Foundation.

“The judge should dismiss the claims again...and the Justice Department should stop its unconstitutional attempt to lock up a journalist for using publicly available materials to expose a major celebrity’s antisemitism,” FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social said.

Sean Vinsel (unspooky, pleasant) reposted

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

baltimorebrew.comA disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore BrewBREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

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Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: Trump officials scrutinized Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019. They didn't find citizenship issues. 
The earlier review of Omar's immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.

This was a fun trip down memory lane!

Bill Connelly@espnbillc.bsky.social

I ranked the best college WRs of the last 50 years. Why? Because we'll probably have a new No. 1 soon. And because Remembering Some Guys -- Reidel Anthony! Tyler Lockett! Troy Edwards! Ashley Lelie! KIRK GIBSON! -- is a lot of fun. www.espn.com/college-foot...