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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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White House Staff Heartbroken By Sight Of Weak Trump Struggling To Yell Racial Slurs At TV https://theonion.com/white-house-staff-heartbroken-by-sight-of-weak-trump-st-1845298690/
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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.”
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New — I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy’s weaponization of Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse and how it’s only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:
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Franklin_Graham supports a traitorous, murderous, serial pedophile and his enablers. If hell exists, he's a shoo-in. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/franklin-g...
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In a highly unusual move, the Trump administration asked a federal court on Friday to block certification of the Senate election in Alaska if the Republican incumbent loses. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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Thanks @fairvote.bsky.social for elevating my piece in @thehill.com on how to and gerrymandering
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.
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.
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Can’t be said often enough.
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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Daniel Pemberton and David Byrne wrote a song about Elon Musk for Alex Gibney's documentary. TikTok took it down and canceled the entire account for the film. So Pemberton encouraged those of us lucky enough to see him perform today to share it. youtu.be/WAvdN-JSUFU?...
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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.
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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.
EDJ edit page continues its reality-defying streak decade after decade:
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(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Replying to @froomkin.bsky.social
Every Washington journalist knew damn well that Trump’s vandalism claim was lunacy, and that the arrests were a travesty. presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-... 3/3
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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.
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...
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Surely the Pentagon has seen strange sights, but seldom anything like the testosterone-besotted, fascisty-tinged clown show put on by the former weekend Fox News host who now runs the US military. charliesykes.substack.com/p/day-one-im...
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i genuinely forgot how bad this was
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Even dogs dressed in Dolly Parton wigs for a New Orleans parade in her honor. Source: NOLA.com
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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...
‘They don’t want trans people to exist’ – Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve speaks her mind sports.yahoo.com/art... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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