Inyalowda

20 May 2025

Cian McCarthy@arealmofwonder.bsky.social

"I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest." ~ John Buchan Sunset, near Le Croisic (1890) 🎨 Ferdinand du Puigaudeau

apnews.comAppeals court declines to block California from counting 20,000 disputed ballotsAn appeals court has declined to rule on whether California elections officials can count roughly 20,000 ballots that the Justice Department alleges likely belong to noncitizen voters.

Oh for 🤬's sake, the ballots aren't "disputed" - DOJ is engaged in an evidence-free fishing expedition.

carl231.bsky.social@carl231.bsky.social

From AP: apnews.com/article/cali...

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"Coach, save everyone else's arms for tomorrow. I got this." - Brandon Woodruff, probably

Adam / Kelly Clarkson Stan Account@floorgeneral.bsky.social

Brandon Fucking Woodruff, pitching in the World Series. #Brewers #ThisIsMyCrew #WinOurWay

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TRG

@q4nwspunk.bsky.social

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😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Blind clocks and stopped squirrels. 😏

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

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Old enough to remember when Swamp Thing wondered why we didn't get more immigrants from Norway . . . 🙄

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and ‌saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee .. had not awarded him a Peace Prize. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Conservatives are ❄️❄️❄️❄️. #PatMcAfee

Weston Welaxation@unlox.bsky.social

love that the core conservative principle these days is “people shouldn’t be allowed to dislike me without consequences”

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Remarkable how close this is to what Swamp Thing regurgitated in front of a microphone just the other day.

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#PubliclyFundElections #EndCitizensUnited

More Perfect University@mpuniversity.bsky.social

Abdul El-Sayed: Money out of politics, what does that mean? We have this regime called Citizens Unified. Students: Booo.

readsludge.comMusk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot PushPeople Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.

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Useful idiot. At best.

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

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Why do leftists constantly fall into the Right's media traps? If this is too subtle for you, let me 'splain: STOP TALKING ABOUT CHEESECAKE FACTORY AND FOCUS ON THE SUBSTANCE OF OBAMA'S CRITICISMS OF THE GOP. Gawdamn it, people, see the whole 🤬in' board.

theunpopulist.netA Democratic Toolkit for Using a Midterm Win to Check Trump and Force a ReckoningThe next Congress will need to act like the first branch and unabashedly use all its constitutional powers

"Congress controls the money, the confirmations, the subpoena power, and the impeachment power. The past two years have shown what happens when it declines to use them. The job of the opposition is to use all of them, at full strength, from the first day."

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

"Democrats have campaigned for two years on the claim that this is an emergency. If they win, they should act like it."

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"The House has a stronger claim to sue over violations of the power of the purse than any outside plaintiff. In 2020, the D.C. Circuit held that the House had standing to challenge Trump’s diversion of military funds ... because spending money Congress never appropriated injures the chamber itself."

"The House should instead revive inherent contempt, which lets the chamber fine or detain a defiant witness on its own authority without having to ask [DOJ] to do it. It should back that with appropriations: no salary for any official in contempt, and no funding for the office that employs them."

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

"Democrats have campaigned for two years on the claim that this is an emergency. If they win, they should act like it."

"A party that will not risk a shutdown has no appropriations leverage at all. Shutdown blame tends to fall on whichever side the public already distrusts, and in last fall’s shutdown, polls put most of it on Trump and Republicans. There is little reason to expect the next one to go differently."

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Election integrity by bounty hunting. What could go wrong? 🤔

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

ow.lyShould We Have Wolves or Livestock on Public Lands?From wildlife and watersheds to public safety and the public interest, the evidence favors wolves over livestock on western public lands.

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"[BLM] currently rents out an astonishing 83% of the lands it manages to private livestock operations, authorizing the cattle and sheep to take out 50 to 65% of the edible forage that will grow for the entire year. That level of overgrazing has led to serious land health problems . . . "

Wolf Conservation Center 🐺@nywolforg.bsky.social

"If it comes down to a choice between wolves and livestock on western public lands, the clear winner is wolves. Let’s extend the benefits all across the American West. The case for leasing public lands for livestock production? That’s a tougher sell." Read more: https://ow.ly/ZPuK51014Qu

zeteo.comLula’s Incredible Comeback Shows How Democrats Can Win in 2028The Brazilian left's big win is a blueprint for taking on the far-right, and shows up Democrats in the U.S. who appear ready to botch the next presidential election in two years.

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Spoiler: manipulate the algorithm the same way the Right does.

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

"Lula’s Incredible Comeback Shows How Democrats Can Win in 2028" The Brazilian leftist's big win is a blueprint for taking on the far-right, and shows up Democrats in the U.S. who appear ready to botch the next presidential election in two years, writes @alonso-gd.bsky.social for Zeteo:

Another one for the #FAFO File.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

I keep saying this: Stephen Miller is trying hard to preemptively scapegoat someone ELSE in case the GOP loses Texas. But they're naming him by name. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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National Weather Service

@nws.noaa.gov

Fall is a great time to prepare your home for winter weather emergencies! Winter storms can knock out power and keep you from traveling for days. Keep enough non-perishable food, water, medications for at least 3 days. weather.gov

The definition of oligarchy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

dan solomon@dansolomon.com

you’ll never believe this but there was a time when “you’re paying more at the pump while oil companies are making record profits” was a line people would boo at instead of cheer

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

This is why Trump just said at his rally that he doesn’t care about high gas prices because people who own stakes in the oil and gas industry are getting rich.

@merriam-webster.com's gonna need a new word to describe Matt Yglesias levels of wrongness.

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Like those looming Medicare cuts after the midterms? 🤨

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says he did a lot of great stuff but it will kick in later

Have we finally discovered The Decency Line at last? And is this really what it took?

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Ohio’s biggest newspaper broke its own rules to endorse Amy Acton, calling Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad disqualifying. “Using childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it crosses a line Ohioans should defend, whatever their party.” thedailybeast.com/trumps-maga-...

You can blow out a candle 🕯️ But you can't blow out a fire 🔥

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

That soft *pop* you heard is the bubble bursting.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

SLOK: “.. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493. .. Mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sounds like fighting fire with fire, something this ol' crew boss and engine boss understands quite well.

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"Thank you. Next!"

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

The Trump Administration has advocated for Viktor Orbán to be UN Secretary-General, WSJ reports.

theguardian.comSerbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic electionVučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in election provoked by student-led protests

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Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Protest works. Organization is decisive. Draw your own conclusions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

to.pbs.orgLula beats Bolsonaro in Brazil runoff, securing fourth presidential termWith 100% of the vote counted, Brazil’s electoral court announced that the soon to be 81-year-old Lula held an unassailable lead of nearly 4.4 million votes over opponent Flávio Bolsonaro.

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PBS News@pbsnews.org

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America. https://to.pbs.org/4jH4H1d

idp.nature.comNearly half of reef-building corals face elevated relative risk of extinction - NatureNature - Nearly half of reef-building corals face elevated relative risk of extinction

#SocialEcology

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

Nearly half of reef-building corals face elevated relative risk of extinction

But hey, the oil companies are making record profits, so it’s worth a little pain, right? Right? Bueller? 😏

Patrick De Haan@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social

Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people, due to the US war on Iran and other factors like limited output from Russia

#FAFO

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thehandbasket.coVivek Ramaswamy and the Grand Old Rape PartyAs Election Day closes in, the party's values have never been more clear.

They've never made it clearer who they are.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

i wrote about the GORP

Remember, the bulk of this crony socialism goes to Swamp Thing’s Big Ag donors, not family farmers.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

As his policies bankrupt them, Trump-supporting farmers fully embrace socialism. But only if it’s for them.

Now here it is, your moment of *whee!*

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"Empathy is a superpower." Amen.

Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉@pguist.bsky.social

Empathy and kindness are so needed in the world we now live in 🫶

washingtonsun.comWhite House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior StaffConservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

Q for the lawyers: couldn't 'pardoning everyone' be seen as furtherance of a conspiracy? 🤔

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

buff.lyThe Forest Service is poised to hand off one of the West’s most visited landscapes - High Country NewsPitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.

This Administration is determined to give away or destroy our public lands birthright.

High Country News@highcountrynews.org

Critics say this is a test case for privatizing public lands. buff.ly/iOq9nxV

Projection 24/7

Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

yahoo.comMAGA Election Fraud Crusader Scott Presler Busted for Shady Voting TacticsA Republican operative who regularly accuses Democrats of voter fraud allegedly let three fellow conservatives register to vote using his Pennsylvania address—even as questions swirl about whether the...

hear-ye--hear-ye.bsky.social@hear-ye--hear-ye.bsky.social

Trump fanatic, middle age white man thinks he is above the law? Let see if the law hold on this white christian man What is the minimum sentence DHS is saying for voter fraud? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...