Rick Mancini
@rickmancini10.bsky.social
Husband,father,Yankee Fan. Fixer of all things.
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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
Mark Hamill posting rebellious content in a battle against a dictator and his robotic sidekick is the most Star Wars shit ever.
February 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
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The benefits of recovery are too numerous to list, but among the best is getting to be a participant of the sober community. I am constantly amazed and inspired by you all.
February 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The benefits of recovery are too numerous to list, but among the best is getting to be a participant of the sober community. I am constantly amazed and inspired by you all.
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During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.
February 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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This was the moment that marked the beginning of the end for Sinema. She thought she could power through it and find some "centrist" way forward, ignoring the people who elected her in the first place.
She was so dead set on being as stupid as possible and the more it didn't work the worse she got.
She was so dead set on being as stupid as possible and the more it didn't work the worse she got.
Remember when Simena sided with GOP goons and voted down a minimum wage increase, with a flamboyant thumbs down and a little curtsy, while dressed like an 19-year-old mallrat?
Fuck off into retirement, sweetie. Good riddance.
Fuck off into retirement, sweetie. Good riddance.
March 5, 2024 at 11:34 PM
This was the moment that marked the beginning of the end for Sinema. She thought she could power through it and find some "centrist" way forward, ignoring the people who elected her in the first place.
She was so dead set on being as stupid as possible and the more it didn't work the worse she got.
She was so dead set on being as stupid as possible and the more it didn't work the worse she got.
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I think it’d be good for more people to know that the exact same private equity executives responsible for destroying hundreds of jobs at Vice — Fortress Investment Group — are also responsible for destroying thousands of jobs at Gannett newspapers.
February 23, 2024 at 12:12 AM
I think it’d be good for more people to know that the exact same private equity executives responsible for destroying hundreds of jobs at Vice — Fortress Investment Group — are also responsible for destroying thousands of jobs at Gannett newspapers.
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Repeatedly shouting that Joe Biden is old and unpopular is surely the pinnacle of journalism.
What the hell has happened to the New York Times?
What the hell has happened to the New York Times?
i mean, sulzberger says exactly that in that puff interview with him
February 22, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Repeatedly shouting that Joe Biden is old and unpopular is surely the pinnacle of journalism.
What the hell has happened to the New York Times?
What the hell has happened to the New York Times?
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Oh to be a young woman in Alabama, I’d have so many embryos to claim as children I’d never have to pay taxes again.
February 22, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Oh to be a young woman in Alabama, I’d have so many embryos to claim as children I’d never have to pay taxes again.
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I sincerely admire this, a writer who tells pols how to do politics finally stepping up himself and I am giving his campaign money for it.
Well, the news leaked: I'm running for Minnesota State House 61A. I'm still getting things up to speed, but I've been told to share donation links, so here they are. I'm running for housing, schools, decarbonization, and keeping Minnesotans safe from far-right extremism.
Please consider donating!
I'm Will Stancil and I’m running for House District 61A to build more prosperous cities, safer communities, and accountable government in Minnesota.
secure.actblue.com
February 22, 2024 at 2:26 AM
I sincerely admire this, a writer who tells pols how to do politics finally stepping up himself and I am giving his campaign money for it.
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Fascism calling itself Freedom is still fascism.
February 22, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Fascism calling itself Freedom is still fascism.
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So today I learned about Girl Scout Troop 6000, a Girl Scout troop entirely of girls living in NYC homeless shelters.
I also learned that you can buy all your Girl Scout cookies directly from them on-line.
Which I just did.
And, if anyone else wishes to, can be done here:
I also learned that you can buy all your Girl Scout cookies directly from them on-line.
Which I just did.
And, if anyone else wishes to, can be done here:
www.girlscoutsnyc.org
February 8, 2024 at 11:04 PM
So today I learned about Girl Scout Troop 6000, a Girl Scout troop entirely of girls living in NYC homeless shelters.
I also learned that you can buy all your Girl Scout cookies directly from them on-line.
Which I just did.
And, if anyone else wishes to, can be done here:
I also learned that you can buy all your Girl Scout cookies directly from them on-line.
Which I just did.
And, if anyone else wishes to, can be done here:
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I don't normally repost from the Bad Place, but Joe Biden's post a few minutes ago is legendary.
February 12, 2024 at 3:55 AM
I don't normally repost from the Bad Place, but Joe Biden's post a few minutes ago is legendary.
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Originalism is bad faith bullshit to arrive at whatever argument you want.
Pro state's rights when it is desired, anti-state's rights when it is convenient.
Plain wording when it is desired, deep investigations of intent when plain wording does not get them where they need to go.
Pro state's rights when it is desired, anti-state's rights when it is convenient.
Plain wording when it is desired, deep investigations of intent when plain wording does not get them where they need to go.
Originalism, like Fundamentalism is a great trick because you can always say that what needs to happen now is based on your vibes about what dead people thought when writing some stuff down. It's astrology: a hope that the unchanging crystal spheres exist and you can read their meaning now
Again, hilarious* that the same Supreme Court Justices who could squint hard enough to discover a nearly unlimited individual right to own weapons in the Second Amendment are now tying themselves in knots to ignore the clear meaning of the Fourteenth.
*infuriating
*infuriating
February 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Originalism is bad faith bullshit to arrive at whatever argument you want.
Pro state's rights when it is desired, anti-state's rights when it is convenient.
Plain wording when it is desired, deep investigations of intent when plain wording does not get them where they need to go.
Pro state's rights when it is desired, anti-state's rights when it is convenient.
Plain wording when it is desired, deep investigations of intent when plain wording does not get them where they need to go.
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Few provisions in the Constitution are narrowly-tailored to specific facts and few provide specific remedies. Yet, in this case, Trump's conduct fits precisely within the scope of 14A §3 and the remedy is specific and mandatory.
So get ready for all kinds of word salad to avoid that.
So get ready for all kinds of word salad to avoid that.
The oral arguments suggested that 7-9 Justices want to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court disqualification decision, but the arguments they advanced against it are so weak, simplistic, and contrary to their long held positions that I suspect the clerks are really going to struggle to write it.
February 8, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Few provisions in the Constitution are narrowly-tailored to specific facts and few provide specific remedies. Yet, in this case, Trump's conduct fits precisely within the scope of 14A §3 and the remedy is specific and mandatory.
So get ready for all kinds of word salad to avoid that.
So get ready for all kinds of word salad to avoid that.
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Oh, so now all of a sudden Congress is uniquely in charge of the Reconstruction Amendments? [stares very hard in Shelby County]
February 8, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Oh, so now all of a sudden Congress is uniquely in charge of the Reconstruction Amendments? [stares very hard in Shelby County]
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The Hawaii Supreme Court says its state constitution does NOT protect an individual right to bear arms. Justice Eddins' majority opinion also sharply criticizes SCOTUS' decisions in Heller and Bruen as calamitously wrong from top to bottom. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
![History by historians quickly debunked Heller’s history.
“If history, and history alone, is what matters, why would the
Court not now reconsider Heller in light of these more recently
published historical views?” McDonald, 561 U.S. at 916 (Breyer,
J., dissenting); United States v. Bullock, ___ F. Supp. 3d ___,
2023 WL 4232309, at *4-*5 (S.D. Miss. 2023) (Reeves, J.) (“[A]n
overwhelming majority of historians reject the Supreme Court’s
most fundamental Second Amendment holding – its 2008 conclusion
that the Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms,
rather than a collective, Militia-based right.”) (cleaned up).
History is prone to misuse. In the Second Amendment cases,
the Court distorts and cherry-picks historical evidence. It
shrinks, alters, and discards historical facts that don’t fit.
See Heller, 554 U.S. at 639 (Stevens, J., dissenting); Bruen,
597 U.S. at 112 (Breyer, J., dissenting)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreibubghjam7tmyffsl3ecc6m4ksbf62ybbsuhe2ziuj3x2tzvoytwe@jpeg)
February 8, 2024 at 3:01 PM
The Hawaii Supreme Court says its state constitution does NOT protect an individual right to bear arms. Justice Eddins' majority opinion also sharply criticizes SCOTUS' decisions in Heller and Bruen as calamitously wrong from top to bottom. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Once again noting that if this is what happens to a cis girl accused of being trans, imagine what happens to a girl that is actually trans
A Utah high school athlete needs police protection after a state school board member publicly singled out and suggested the student was transgender, followed by threats from her followers on social media
Utah school board member Natalie Cline questions high school athlete’s gender, causing social media uproar
A Utah school board member started a social media firestorm when she publicly accused a high school athlete of being transgender with no evidence. She later apologized — but not before many commenters personally attacked the player, and the lawmaker who wrote the state’s anti-transgender athlete bill also weighed in possibly in violation of her own measure.
www.sltrib.com
February 8, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Once again noting that if this is what happens to a cis girl accused of being trans, imagine what happens to a girl that is actually trans
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To the surprise of exactly no one, Trump puts himself before anyone, particularly his voters
Remarkable but true: Trump's strategy of delaying his 1/6 trial could screw over GOP voters. Pushing it into summer could lock him in as GOP nominee well before they learn just how legally vulnerable he truly is.
Today's pod digs deep into this.
Listen👇
newrepublic.com/article/1788...
Today's pod digs deep into this.
Listen👇
newrepublic.com/article/1788...
How Trump’s Trial-Delaying Scam Could Screw Over GOP Voters
Fresh off a big loss in appeals court, Trump hopes to kick his trial-by-jury until after the election. That could backfire on GOP voters—or even on Trump himself.
newrepublic.com
February 7, 2024 at 1:30 PM
To the surprise of exactly no one, Trump puts himself before anyone, particularly his voters
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my other idea along these lines is that biden should advertise the billions in summer food assistance the administration got passed into law with a big event where he is handing out lunches to school kids and attacking Republicans who oppose this
biden should have the IRS make a giant check with $300 billion written on it, and then he should hold a press conference touting new enforcement on rich tax cheats with the check as a centerpiece
i am not joking
i am not joking
If this is what is radicalizing the billionaires against Joe Biden then Biden should be leveraging his bully pulpit and screaming about it every day - pitting the billionaires against rest of us.
Up to Biden to take the fight to them and lead it.
Up to Biden to take the fight to them and lead it.
February 7, 2024 at 1:11 PM
my other idea along these lines is that biden should advertise the billions in summer food assistance the administration got passed into law with a big event where he is handing out lunches to school kids and attacking Republicans who oppose this