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Mark Blacknell
@blacknell.bsky.social
· Sep 12
This summer, we signed up for a week of dive lessons. I’d never really learned how to use a diving board.
It was an hour a day of throwing my body into the air and hoping I did it right. It was some of the most fun I’ve had in years, and I’m so glad we did it.
(First in a series of Good Things)
It was an hour a day of throwing my body into the air and hoping I did it right. It was some of the most fun I’ve had in years, and I’m so glad we did it.
(First in a series of Good Things)
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ALERT ‼️ Federal law enforcement/ ICE checkpoint on Clara Barton Pkwy eastbound into DC, near MacArthur Blvd exit. Men in masks pulling over white work vans, making detentions.
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
ALERT ‼️ Federal law enforcement/ ICE checkpoint on Clara Barton Pkwy eastbound into DC, near MacArthur Blvd exit. Men in masks pulling over white work vans, making detentions.
Love to pay for a house longer than it was built to last.
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Love to pay for a house longer than it was built to last.
The damage that this/Lucy Caulkins/et al did to generations of kids is hard to comprehend (but worth reading the 2019 story below). Thankfully, lots of districts across the US have taken a hard turn away from that approach in recent years, but we're still living with the consequences.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The damage that this/Lucy Caulkins/et al did to generations of kids is hard to comprehend (but worth reading the 2019 story below). Thankfully, lots of districts across the US have taken a hard turn away from that approach in recent years, but we're still living with the consequences.
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(It's okay to take joy in this, folks.)
(It's okay to take joy in this, folks.)
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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(It's okay to take joy in this, folks.)
(It's okay to take joy in this, folks.)
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They finally did it
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
They finally did it
A pretty good characterization. While I first started paying close attention in the Contract On America mid-90s, I was a newly minted lawyer when the Supreme Court awarded Bush the presidency & Cheney's lies weren't just his, but enabled by grown people who knew better, & did nothing. Never Forget.
in case anyone on this website is too young to have had fully formed political rage while Cheney was VP, a concise summary of why we are Like This
Good morning! Dick Cheney is dead and I have an obituary that I wrote all the way back in 2017 about this monster!
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A pretty good characterization. While I first started paying close attention in the Contract On America mid-90s, I was a newly minted lawyer when the Supreme Court awarded Bush the presidency & Cheney's lies weren't just his, but enabled by grown people who knew better, & did nothing. Never Forget.
When Congress won't do their jobs, sometimes you can do it for them.
PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When Congress won't do their jobs, sometimes you can do it for them.
It's hard to convey just how terrible of a human being Dick Cheney was, but @erikloomis.bsky.social takes a pretty good run at it.
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It's hard to convey just how terrible of a human being Dick Cheney was, but @erikloomis.bsky.social takes a pretty good run at it.
I’m sorry Virginia, but if DC is going to have to watch your incessant political ads, we’re going to need to take Arlington and Alexandria back
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!
Dick?
Dick?
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!
Dick?
Dick?
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It’s Monday…again
November 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It’s Monday…again
When an AI model has more accountability than ICE.
Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation
Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation
Senator Marsha Blackburn accused Google of anti-conservative bias.
buff.ly
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
When an AI model has more accountability than ICE.
Just saw my 9 year old trying to figure out how to use my tape deck. Asked him to show me what he was trying to play and . . . folks, I’m feeling good about this one. :D
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Just saw my 9 year old trying to figure out how to use my tape deck. Asked him to show me what he was trying to play and . . . folks, I’m feeling good about this one. :D
May your dads and granddads spend their time doing this, instead of getting their brains liquified by Fox News.
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
May your dads and granddads spend their time doing this, instead of getting their brains liquified by Fox News.
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Happy Halloween! We have skeletal national voting rights, a ghost of a chance at statehood & we've been treated to this trick since 1801. Boo! It's a grave yardstick for our national democracy to be measured by. We won't settle for Fun Size voting rights—only Full Size will do!
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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This is a Top 5 album of all time, for me. The first time I heard B.O.B., my jaw dropped. And that was just the start. #SWATS
Happy 25th Anniversary to OutKast's fourth studio album 'Stankonia' originally released October 31, 2000 | Listen to the album + read our anniversary tribute by @jesseducker.bsky.social here: album.ink/OutKastStank
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a Top 5 album of all time, for me. The first time I heard B.O.B., my jaw dropped. And that was just the start. #SWATS
When we rebuild this country, remember that Democrats helped create and defend this monster. Make them do better.
NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
When we rebuild this country, remember that Democrats helped create and defend this monster. Make them do better.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Reminder: Slow TF DOWN tonight. (Every night, really, but especially tonight.)
Was just pointed to this. When I think about the energy that has been spent on panics about razor blades in apples and LSD-laced candy, and then the reality of kids getting killed on Halloween just by plain old drivers...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/201...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/201...
Here’s why Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians
Children are three times more likely to be fatally injured by a car on the holiday than any other evening of the year, and the risk grows to 10 times for kids 4 to 8.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reminder: Slow TF DOWN tonight. (Every night, really, but especially tonight.)
Then again, Claude sounds like a lot of American voters.
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Then again, Claude sounds like a lot of American voters.
Good to see Lily Allen back.
Lily Allen takes the “Fuck It” approach to a breakup album: defector.com/lily-allen-takes-the-fuck-it-approach-to-a-breakup-album
Lily Allen Takes The "Fuck It" Approach To A Breakup Album | Defector
All couples in love are alike; each shattered couple, however, has been shattered in its own way. When you fall in love with someone, your friends tolerate you talking about them and fawning over…
defector.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Good to see Lily Allen back.
Another step toward the final state in which every crime against a disfavored class is immune from the law.
We are well beyond the intended structure of the Constitution at this point. Every elected Dem needs to understand and act like it.
We are well beyond the intended structure of the Constitution at this point. Every elected Dem needs to understand and act like it.
even mentioning January 6 while prosecuting one of the perpetrators for potentially another case of far-right political violence nipped in the bud gets you put on leave at the DOJ now. stochastic terrorism on jet fuel
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Prosecutors Who Called Jan. 6 Attackers a ‘Mob of Rioters’ Are Punished
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another step toward the final state in which every crime against a disfavored class is immune from the law.
We are well beyond the intended structure of the Constitution at this point. Every elected Dem needs to understand and act like it.
We are well beyond the intended structure of the Constitution at this point. Every elected Dem needs to understand and act like it.