todmcmanis.bsky.social

todmcmanis.bsky.social

@todmcmanis.bsky.social

Never underestimate the human capacity for stupidity. Please don’t give money to your enemies. And for the love of god don’t support Nazis.

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I’ve decided to stop supporting a man worth more than two hundred thousand million dollars who decides his bottom line is more important than the democracy that helped him become worth more than two hundred thousand million dollars.

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Replying to @cwebbonline.com

Our troops shouldn’t have to fight their own government for a home that won’t make their families sick. #SupportTheTroops

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Replying to @nathansnewman.bsky.social

Democrats need to state that if this is done, they will have no choice but to turn Trump and his subordinates over to international tribunals for war crimes prosecutions, if Trump makes it impossible to prosecute them domestically. Make subordinates accepting pardons understand the consequences.

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“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

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

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RIP the iconic Rosa Parks, died this day 2005 in Detroit. “I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.”

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Thanks @fairvote.bsky.social for elevating my piece in @thehill.com on how to and gerrymandering

FairVote@fairvote.bsky.social

The way to end the gerrymandering wars is to "give up our fixation on single-member districts and winner-takes-all elections, and use proportional representation." – @mulroyda.bsky.social, district attorney of Memphis & Shelby County, TN in @thehill.com

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Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

Can’t be said often enough.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

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Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

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Lawyers for Rep. Ilhan Omar have accused federal authorities of ignoring key restrictions that a judge placed on the search of Omar's D.C. residence this week and demanded the immediate return of all property seized from the home.

ms.nowIlhan Omar demands DOJ immediately return property seized in search of her homeRep. Ilhan Omar’s lawyers allege investigators failed to follow court-mandated procedures and violated her constitutional rights during the search.

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Donald Trump was in Dalton yesterday… oblivious to the collapse of his presidency. A crowd smaller than this one endured two hours of senile babbling while the price of oil hit its five month high.

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So I teach social welfare policy where the central questions are “Who gets what? And why?” A substantial—unignorable—problem is that education can look like indoctrination if you’re insistent that conservatives be the heroes of the story.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social

EDJ edit page continues its reality-defying streak decade after decade:

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The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

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I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

The Nation Magazine@thenation.com

In the aftermath of the Cornell rape case, @espiers.bsky.social reflects on her own experiences with sexual assault, and how our current models of consent-based sex education may not be enough.

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Replying to @andrecarrington.bsky.social

"For comparison, the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden administrations made a combined total of 25 shadow docket applications over the course of 20 years." ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

ballsandstrikes.orgKetanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket AbusesThe conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.

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The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.

Texas Tribune@texastribune.org

Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.

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TizzyWoman@tizzywoman.bsky.social

@cornelluniversity.bsky.social - Jane Doe named 7 men in a gang rape lawsuit: M. Ingalls, J. Newell, W. Lee, G. Lopes, D. Sarabia, S. Norris, S. Kretzschmar. No criminal charges. Contact info 4 Cornell's prez below to express disgust. #StopRapeCulture

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Here’s Susan Collins walking in a parade-style campaign event. She’s concerned and wants to give Maine six more years of MAGA and corruption. Kudos to whoever took this video and captured the gas station sign.

The word “transgender” was coined in 1965. But people that we might now label as “transgender” have existed throughout human history. History doesn’t care about your politics. Or your feelings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transge...

en.wikipedia.orgTransgender history - Wikipedia

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An estimated 12.3 million girls ages 10–19 gave birth worldwide in 2025, according to the latest global estimates highlighted by the UN. That includes nearly 12 million girls ages 15–19 and more than 325,000 girls ages 10–14. #Pinks

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"Learn how to get totally unnecessary diseases by not consenting to vaccines from a man who sexually assaults not-consenting women." (Russell Brand's trial for seven criminal charges including rape and sexual assault starts less than two weeks after this unseemly appearance for RFK, Jr.)