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Redneck Lefty
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urban-achiever.bsky.social
$7 b sounds like a lot of money but it's a drop in the bucket as compared to the misery and death those assholes caused.

I'll get banned if I keep typing.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says he'll approve a $7 billion opioid settlement with the Sacklers' Purdue Pharma, including money for victims.
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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dinosaurbob.bsky.social
He writes poetry for everyone he wants to fuck, you dunce.
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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lawprofblawg.bsky.social
Pretty amazing to see someone take credit for the stifling of the university as an educator.

abovethelaw.com/2025/10/teac...
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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scottsantens.com
As part of blocking Nixon's guaranteed income bill from reaching the Senate floor, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee said, "Who will iron my shirts?"

It would have dropped poverty by 60%.

If you want to put an end to this shit as I do, please join me in fighting for universal basic income.
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4h
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
The girl later told congressional investigators that she saw Mr. Gaetz use cocaine that night. For having sex with him twice, the girl was paid $400, according to testimony she gave to the Ethics Committee. That fall, the girl moved to live with a family member in Texas, according to Ms. Wolf. She did not complete her senior year in high school. She continued to work for minimum wage in the food services industry. Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
Post an image that always makes you laugh
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
That man is old enough to be her granddaddy
jeradwalker.bsky.social Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 3h
what the actual fuck
A headline from the New York Times: Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love The article lede: By Jacob Bernstein Reporting from Los Angeles Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his "particular complications and particular darkness." But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby. He promised to take a bullet for her.
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
Charlotte leaders blast secrecy around Border Patrol move into NC
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Given the Lavrov news, reupping this post from August.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/04/d...
Both Putin and Medvedev are making Trump look weak — or rather exposing that he is weak. My guess is they have good reason to know Trump’s is scared of exercising any real leverage over Putin, and for reasons that go well beyond any similarity to “Sleepy Joe.” This fake Medvedev interview plays into that, suggesting that Russia has leverage because they have the Epstein files. The claim is not remotely outlandish. Craig Unger has been focusing on the Russian aspects of Epstein’s past, including Svetlana Pozhidaeva, the woman trained as Russia trains its spies, who opened a modeling agency and then got a bunch of funding from Epstein to fund other things, as well as Masha Drokova, the pro-Russian activist who first served as Epstein’s publicist and then infiltrated Silicon Valley. More important, perhaps (since this is a fake Medvedev speech), is John Dougan, who was a West Palm Beach cop before he became — and still is — a Russian disinformation operative, one who overtly crafted anti-Harris disinformation in last year’s election.
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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pbump.com
3. The 2019 email mentions a developer named "Pulty" who was somehow involved with Trump's original purchase. There was a developer in Florida with a similar name: William Pulte. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
William J. Pulte - Wikipedia
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November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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pbump.com
4. His grandson is now in charge of the FHFA, who has used his position to level allegations of mortgage fraud against Trump critics.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Bill Pulte faces new questions over removal of Fannie Mae watchdogs
Why did the Federal Housing Finance Agency chief fire a group of ethics officials? The latest reporting suggests a real controversy is starting to unfold.
www.msnbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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pbump.com
1. This email mentions some machinations involving the dubious sale of a Palm Beach house. bsky.app/profile/davi...
davidcorn.bsky.social David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d
Trump "came to my house many times."
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
It's like Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre have come back from the dead to totally unwind US politics.

🤔
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
I mean, think about it.

If she DID find a way to record it, she would own the first born of the AG, DAG, and FBI Director.
emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d
One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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parismarx.com
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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meredithshiner.com
I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time.

for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
Most of the hearing was routine. At one point, however, Straw's attorney, Christopher Parente, lodged a largely symbolic objection over his client having to turn in his passport, calling him a "boring suburban dad" and saying his whole reason for going to the protest in the first place included objecting to the government checking people's passports and papers. Parente said it wasn't fair for Straw "to sit here now and ask him to turn his passport over to the government for no reason other than they think they can," adding that "landscapers arrested by ICE cannot stand up to the government." "Mr. Straw can, and your Honor can, too," Parente said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg said the passport was about bond conditions, not about what ICE is doing on the streets, and that defendants have turned in their passports "in every case I've had for 19 years." After McShain decided Straw did not have to turn in his passport, Mecklenburg said she'd drop the requirement for all defendants to ensure Straw was not receiving special treatment.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Especially when you LET the guy who led a guy who shoot up a pizza joint full of children off the hook for this.
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d
Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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ariellaelm.bsky.social
Could someone have done better than Schumer at keeping the Dems 100% in line for the last month? Remember, 5 of these people (and another 5 who we don’t know), started negotiating day 1. Schumer successfully kept them from doing anything about it till AFTER the election.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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ariellaelm.bsky.social
but I don’t know who would take his place. I don’t know who has the most impact in the LBJ room.

Not to mention, in the middle of this fight, and we are in the middle of it, there will be a vote on the ACA in Dec and we have until then to work our asses off to make Rs as unpopular as possible.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Hell, here's hoping someone sues or demands a criminal investigation. He made false claims about them to law enforcement.

Prosecute his sorry white ass.
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.

Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This is one of the reasons I said the Cave Caucus should have held out for at least a week, to make it clear Trump was unlawfully starving people.
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d
As predicted in lots of places, including this morning's "One First," the extra 48 hours that the full Court bought for itself on Tuesday (by overriding Justice Jackson and extending her "administrative stay") was enough time for Congress to moot the SNAP case:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-192-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
The biggest is that the clock is running out on midterms, and they have not laid the groundwork for theft.

Redistricting isn't going to be the magic bullet they thought it would. They'll try poll place intimidation as a last resort but I think it's a long shot.
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
I can't even fathom what January will look like, except probably very bad for the Trump regime.

Absent a major black swan event, I don't see a path to power consolidation for them at this point.

For a number of reasons, not just Epstein.

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jgraydingler.bsky.social J. Gray Dingler @jgraydingler.bsky.social · 23h
The timetable evidently has been accelerated.

What's your new predication for when we get to January?

I'll just throw a random one out there: They do release the Epstein files but only after Trump had time to preemptively pardon himself and he tells his base he had to cause it was a Dem smear job.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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joefore.bsky.social
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM