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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)
Good thing they didn't create this as an app in the Apple store, eh?
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Good thing they didn't create this as an app in the Apple store, eh?
Every solidly Democratic jurisdiction should be doing the same. Game it out, find the failure points, and then put in a plan to overcome them.
"I’m told that Mamdani’s team and other New York officials have already begun quiet but urgent preparations for hostile deployments from ICE, the National Guard, or both."
Read about it in the latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/after-zohr...
Read about it in the latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/after-zohr...
After Zohran’s Win, Trump Is Coming for New York
An inside look at NYC’s preparations for when Trump sends in the National Guard and an ICE and CBP surge.
www.thebulwark.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Every solidly Democratic jurisdiction should be doing the same. Game it out, find the failure points, and then put in a plan to overcome them.
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Get out of the house, enjoy some Fall weather, and make an IMPACT at Impact Happy Hour! We'll be at the National Landing Water Park TODAY from 5-7pm - we'll drink, chat, and TAKE ACTION to improve car-free mobility in Arlington. Hope to see you!
RSVP to Impact Happy Hour
Join us for Impact Happy Hour, this Friday November 11th from 5pm-7pm at the National Landing Water Park. It'll be a chill, social hang-out and a chance to take some time to give feedback at the Arlington's Transportation Future Pop-up as well as take action on the important Action Alerts currently accepting feedback! Dress for the weather, we'll be outside!
susmo.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Get out of the house, enjoy some Fall weather, and make an IMPACT at Impact Happy Hour! We'll be at the National Landing Water Park TODAY from 5-7pm - we'll drink, chat, and TAKE ACTION to improve car-free mobility in Arlington. Hope to see you!
Hey, DC, was that a V-22/Osprey flyover? Didn't see it, but certainly heard and felt it.
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hey, DC, was that a V-22/Osprey flyover? Didn't see it, but certainly heard and felt it.
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Just thinking about all the Never Employee This Kid lists people like Ackman put together of pro Palestinian protesters and how quiet they are about shit like this:
RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...
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 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Just thinking about all the Never Employee This Kid lists people like Ackman put together of pro Palestinian protesters and how quiet they are about shit like this:
In the end, a competent & honest (& expanded) Sup Court will have to come to the (obvious) conclusion that the pardon power as exercised by this president is wholly illegitimate, voiding a good number of purported exercises of it. That's going to be a heavy lift, but morons like Martin are helping.
New in PN: Ed Martin's peculiar view of pardon power
"Since Martin neither knows what he’s doing or cares whether it’s legal, he’s perfectly willing to float the most unconstitutional trial balloons, such as 'Trump can pardon people for state crimes.'"
"Since Martin neither knows what he’s doing or cares whether it’s legal, he’s perfectly willing to float the most unconstitutional trial balloons, such as 'Trump can pardon people for state crimes.'"
Ed Martin's peculiar view of pardon power
Trump's pardon attorney is very confused about how pardons work.
www.publicnotice.co
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In the end, a competent & honest (& expanded) Sup Court will have to come to the (obvious) conclusion that the pardon power as exercised by this president is wholly illegitimate, voiding a good number of purported exercises of it. That's going to be a heavy lift, but morons like Martin are helping.
This is the kind of shit that malformed people who haven't had enough human contact in their lives build. Absolutely kill it with fire. (And get the people responsible for this into therapy) Christ.
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is the kind of shit that malformed people who haven't had enough human contact in their lives build. Absolutely kill it with fire. (And get the people responsible for this into therapy) Christ.
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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