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Venting. Hoping for a miracle.
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@stevevladeck.bsky.social What can be done to reverse a pardon?
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...
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The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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For all the work the conservative legal movement put into capturing the Supreme Court, they've never been able to get around the basic fact that normal people hate its policy agenda. The polling numbers on Citizens United are ABYSMAL. Blowout-level stuff. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Common sense for the common people.
AI is unpopular. The public overwhelmingly supports aggressive AI regulation; it overwhelmingly opposes further investment in AI infrastructure. Naturally, Dems are telling frontline members to ̶d̶o̶ ̶p̶o̶p̶u̶l̶a̶r̶i̶s̶m̶ curl into the fetal position to appease the mean tech men. There is another way.
Unsurprising
Donald Trump Jr.'s island wedding extravaganza was partially funded and planned by a Russian oligarch who is close to Putin and attended part of the multi-day outing. Don Jr calls him a "personal friend." @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/dona...
Terrifying article from @radleybalko.bsky.social
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
What an irresponsible douche.
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
Before I read the fine print on this, and having just watched Brooke Rollins blather on about drones, AI, and screwworms, I was about to tag @bencollins.bsky.social about this post. Doing it anyway for kicks.
Good times. Before torment nexus. theonion.com/scientists-a...
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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social They might be better than you at this
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Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York cemetery www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
"Trump largely sabotaged those negotiations, because he was talked into believing the war would be easy and deliver a quick burst of glory." This is why we are where we are.
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I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.
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Replying to @azrww.bsky.social
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Please read this clear-sighted piece by @karlbode.com
with the Washington Post firings I'll redirect you again to the piece I wrote last year for Dame Magazine:
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@KCCI, you can call it murder because we all know that's what it was.
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Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
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@nytimes.com Why are you letting this garbage advertise on your app?
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social , @schumer.senate.gov We are watching and we definitely vote. Primary, Hakeem?
Will Democratic "leaders" like Schumer continue to support & fund ICE now that a memo revealed they are ignoring the 4th Amendment, and the autopsy showed they murdered Geraldo Lunas Campos in detention and they have expanded their reign of terror to Maine? If so, why?
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