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@thebestjoel.bsky.social
You know, I could write something useful and interesting here. I could use a bunch of single word declarative labels… something like, “Djinn. Jokester. Joel.” Or some such. But instead, I think I’ll just leave this space blank.
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"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
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My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
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Taxation without representation
December 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Taxation without representation
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Imagine being the most powerful person on the planet and still needing made-up prizes to make you feel special. The infinite vacuum of space envies the emptiness inside this man.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Imagine being the most powerful person on the planet and still needing made-up prizes to make you feel special. The infinite vacuum of space envies the emptiness inside this man.
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I need Pantone to step up with the 2026 colors of the year, I need them to be called things like Maybe It’ll Be Today Maroon and Fuck ICE Fuschia
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I need Pantone to step up with the 2026 colors of the year, I need them to be called things like Maybe It’ll Be Today Maroon and Fuck ICE Fuschia
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
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Getting heavily taxed is the best possible outcome for them and it's genuinely in their best interest realize this
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Getting heavily taxed is the best possible outcome for them and it's genuinely in their best interest realize this
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How it feels trying to cover this administration
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
How it feels trying to cover this administration
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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But the memes are somehow still worth it right gang
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
But the memes are somehow still worth it right gang
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As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review!
Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.
Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review!
Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.
Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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This, among millions of other reasons, is why any attempt to meet transphobes in the middle was always a form of abandoning trans people.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This, among millions of other reasons, is why any attempt to meet transphobes in the middle was always a form of abandoning trans people.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
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Turning the Supreme Court into a 27-member body with panels like a regular court of appeals is easier to pitch if you're attacking the rogue supreme court that doesn't respect the law or its own lower judicial officers rather than the judiciary as a whole.
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Turning the Supreme Court into a 27-member body with panels like a regular court of appeals is easier to pitch if you're attacking the rogue supreme court that doesn't respect the law or its own lower judicial officers rather than the judiciary as a whole.
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it is very, very important that the kind of institutionalists who would stand in the way of this absolutely get their shit rocked in the next two primary cycles
So this kind of thing is genuinely extremely useful for building public support for court reform.
You just have to look up Judge Jeffrey Brown’s resume and then wonder what it must be like for him to have the Roberts Court basically go, “You fool. You idiot.”
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
it is very, very important that the kind of institutionalists who would stand in the way of this absolutely get their shit rocked in the next two primary cycles
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I was told by a reporter in October that the White House was looking to prosecute me because I stood against their inhumane agenda.
Days later, they did exactly that.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Days later, they did exactly that.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Broadview conspiracy defendants want to see if White House played a role in their case
A significant legal battle appears to be brewing in the case of six people facing federal charges tied to protests outside an immigration facility in Broadview.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I was told by a reporter in October that the White House was looking to prosecute me because I stood against their inhumane agenda.
Days later, they did exactly that.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Days later, they did exactly that.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Time for Dems to gerrymander the shit out of their states
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Time for Dems to gerrymander the shit out of their states
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
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Somewhere in Dallas Harlan Crow telling his accountant right now to amortize Clarence Thomas as a business expense again this year.
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Somewhere in Dallas Harlan Crow telling his accountant right now to amortize Clarence Thomas as a business expense again this year.
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This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
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The ham sandwich unprecedented winning streak continues
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The ham sandwich unprecedented winning streak continues