Barrista
@onbluskysku.bsky.social
Lawyer, Pittsburgher, reader of too few books, enjoyer of too many jokes
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1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability
The Government Lawyers Database
glowlaw.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
Yeah pepper spray someone driving a car good job guys
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yeah pepper spray someone driving a car good job guys
Meesa thinks thisa bad take
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Meesa thinks thisa bad take
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Not quoting because this shouldn't be given more air, but this sort of stuff is vile. Blaming every bad thing in the government, no matter how far it is from Israel, on the Israel lobby is transparently antisemitic. Yes, even if you say you're not talking about jews at all. Don't be cute.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Not quoting because this shouldn't be given more air, but this sort of stuff is vile. Blaming every bad thing in the government, no matter how far it is from Israel, on the Israel lobby is transparently antisemitic. Yes, even if you say you're not talking about jews at all. Don't be cute.
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Fuck it, man, join DSA. Eat these losers alive or die.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Fuck it, man, join DSA. Eat these losers alive or die.
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It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
Tattooing these names on my chest to remind myself who to kick out of office when they come around
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Tattooing these names on my chest to remind myself who to kick out of office when they come around
This works unless your senator is John Fetterman, whose offices are closed
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This works unless your senator is John Fetterman, whose offices are closed
Harvard University is not done with the social experiment
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Harvard University is not done with the social experiment
I wonder how @coolzonemedia.bsky.social feels about their name becoming synonymous with a total breakdown of the social order
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I wonder how @coolzonemedia.bsky.social feels about their name becoming synonymous with a total breakdown of the social order
Proposal: if you own a company that gets bailed out the government gets to take your money first to cover the cost. Then government funds can cover the rest and they own it from there
"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Proposal: if you own a company that gets bailed out the government gets to take your money first to cover the cost. Then government funds can cover the rest and they own it from there
As we all know Texans hate when their US Senators look at sexy women on the internet
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
As we all know Texans hate when their US Senators look at sexy women on the internet
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Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl".
The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...
The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...
Bari Weiss Crosses Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Picket Line
This week, Bari Weiss, the controversial new right-wing head of CBS News, crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to participate in a front-page puff piece that painted her as a scrappy “Pitts...
paydayreport.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl".
The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...
The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...
Also why IQ is broadly useful at the tails and basically useless everywhere in between. An IQ of 67? That's a rough time. 134? You can do some pretty exceptional things. Most everyone in between though? You're not that different.
you have to be a genuine fucking idiot to believe this. there is no plausible genetic mechanism for this, especially if you go looking for "IQ" genes. there are a few genes which if you turn them off make humans gravely intellectually disabled. other than that it's a million point mutations.
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Also why IQ is broadly useful at the tails and basically useless everywhere in between. An IQ of 67? That's a rough time. 134? You can do some pretty exceptional things. Most everyone in between though? You're not that different.
So if the numbers in Seattle hold steady, Katie Wilson should win by around 200 votes. Less than 1% Jesus
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
So if the numbers in Seattle hold steady, Katie Wilson should win by around 200 votes. Less than 1% Jesus
There are American towns whose names will be synonymous with Chelmno, Sobibor, and Treblinka
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
There are American towns whose names will be synonymous with Chelmno, Sobibor, and Treblinka
Only these people can do land acknowledgements
Two years ago, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration approached the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the original caretakers of the land, with an unheard of proposition: Would they like a piece of their land back?
19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...
19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...
For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
19thnews.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Only these people can do land acknowledgements
Quoting because I can't reply but bsky.app/profile/balt...
holy shit, where is this?
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Quoting because I can't reply but bsky.app/profile/balt...
Who each of the Stardew Valley characters voted for in the NYC Mayoral Election, a thread:
Elliott: Mamdani, before going to a slam poetry night and bombing
Harvey: Mamdani, because he wants his patients to have more money to afford medical care
Sebastian: Didn't vote, and needed to tell everyone
Elliott: Mamdani, before going to a slam poetry night and bombing
Harvey: Mamdani, because he wants his patients to have more money to afford medical care
Sebastian: Didn't vote, and needed to tell everyone
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Who each of the Stardew Valley characters voted for in the NYC Mayoral Election, a thread:
Elliott: Mamdani, before going to a slam poetry night and bombing
Harvey: Mamdani, because he wants his patients to have more money to afford medical care
Sebastian: Didn't vote, and needed to tell everyone
Elliott: Mamdani, before going to a slam poetry night and bombing
Harvey: Mamdani, because he wants his patients to have more money to afford medical care
Sebastian: Didn't vote, and needed to tell everyone
Love to discover there are a few precincts in Williamsburg where Eric Adams got more votes than Zohran Mamdani lmao
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Love to discover there are a few precincts in Williamsburg where Eric Adams got more votes than Zohran Mamdani lmao
I respect that Yglesias always says what he believes quite candidly but it does preclude the kind of lying that what he's advocating absolutely requires. If you want people to lie you probably should not say that in advance in public!
*I* have core principles and beliefs. I'm saying that politicians running for office should try to avoid such things.
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I respect that Yglesias always says what he believes quite candidly but it does preclude the kind of lying that what he's advocating absolutely requires. If you want people to lie you probably should not say that in advance in public!
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someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself