@blondesockbun.bsky.social
Outlaw country southern, not bootlicker country southern.
Metalcore, snowboard, law shit
Metalcore, snowboard, law shit
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Big tech is spending millions to push back against rising opposition to data centers.
Meta has spent over $5 million in the past month on ads promoting data centers.
An industry trade groups is also ramping up lobbying, and sending talking points to members of Congress.
Meta has spent over $5 million in the past month on ads promoting data centers.
An industry trade groups is also ramping up lobbying, and sending talking points to members of Congress.
Data centers have a political problem — and Big Tech wants to fix it
A growth engine for the economy is becoming a political albatross. Can messaging change that?
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Big tech is spending millions to push back against rising opposition to data centers.
Meta has spent over $5 million in the past month on ads promoting data centers.
An industry trade groups is also ramping up lobbying, and sending talking points to members of Congress.
Meta has spent over $5 million in the past month on ads promoting data centers.
An industry trade groups is also ramping up lobbying, and sending talking points to members of Congress.
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"I want a Clippy to be my sycophantic pretend girlfriend" is a hell of a take.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"I want a Clippy to be my sycophantic pretend girlfriend" is a hell of a take.
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No, Justice Kavanaugh, it's not the "interim" docket.
Yes, Justice Kavanaugh, I would like you to answer for the consequences of your votes — especially when those consequences come from a vote on what you claim is the "interim" docket.
No, you don't have to answer.
Yes, I'll keep asking.
Yes, Justice Kavanaugh, I would like you to answer for the consequences of your votes — especially when those consequences come from a vote on what you claim is the "interim" docket.
No, you don't have to answer.
Yes, I'll keep asking.
100 days of Kavanaugh stops and the justices who silently allowed them — and a bill to change that
The Shadow Docket Sunlight Act is being introduced on Wednesday. And, Justice Kavanaugh still isn't saying if he's having second thoughts on his September opinion.
www.lawdork.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
No, Justice Kavanaugh, it's not the "interim" docket.
Yes, Justice Kavanaugh, I would like you to answer for the consequences of your votes — especially when those consequences come from a vote on what you claim is the "interim" docket.
No, you don't have to answer.
Yes, I'll keep asking.
Yes, Justice Kavanaugh, I would like you to answer for the consequences of your votes — especially when those consequences come from a vote on what you claim is the "interim" docket.
No, you don't have to answer.
Yes, I'll keep asking.
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he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.
COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.
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watch this.
September 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
watch this.
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I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.
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🚨JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨
@propublica.org is looking for our next Ancil Payne Reporting Fellow.
Some key details:
•For journos with 3-7 yrs professional experience
•Two-year fellowship; starts Jan. 2026
•Based in our DC office
•$75K/year + Benefits
•Apply before 10/13 9am ET
More here:
@propublica.org is looking for our next Ancil Payne Reporting Fellow.
Some key details:
•For journos with 3-7 yrs professional experience
•Two-year fellowship; starts Jan. 2026
•Based in our DC office
•$75K/year + Benefits
•Apply before 10/13 9am ET
More here:
Ancil Payne Reporting Fellowship
New York City, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
September 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🚨JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨
@propublica.org is looking for our next Ancil Payne Reporting Fellow.
Some key details:
•For journos with 3-7 yrs professional experience
•Two-year fellowship; starts Jan. 2026
•Based in our DC office
•$75K/year + Benefits
•Apply before 10/13 9am ET
More here:
@propublica.org is looking for our next Ancil Payne Reporting Fellow.
Some key details:
•For journos with 3-7 yrs professional experience
•Two-year fellowship; starts Jan. 2026
•Based in our DC office
•$75K/year + Benefits
•Apply before 10/13 9am ET
More here:
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FFS.
The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.
September 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
FFS.
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For those who missed my earlier, more substantive response to Klein’s piece:
It’s very easy, in these moments, to see who has never had their right to exist peacefully in society on the ballot.
The killing of Kirk is horrible. That’s it. Nothing about the way he practiced politics was good.
The killing of Kirk is horrible. That’s it. Nothing about the way he practiced politics was good.
“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
September 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
For those who missed my earlier, more substantive response to Klein’s piece:
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Everyone drink.
JUST IN: Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as US Atty for DC, 50-45
August 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Everyone drink.
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POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
July 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
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Read this whole thread. The EO is a huge regressive step. And Brian's not wrong to be worried about this point in particular. The major theme of Trump II social policy is old-style Poor Law thinking, down to the indoor versus outdoor relief distinction.
It's not at all alarmist to expect that the new network of detention centers will be used to confine unhoused people—and to extract free labor from them. Everything in this executive order points in that direction.
July 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Read this whole thread. The EO is a huge regressive step. And Brian's not wrong to be worried about this point in particular. The major theme of Trump II social policy is old-style Poor Law thinking, down to the indoor versus outdoor relief distinction.
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As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights.
July 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights.
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DOJ says it acted pursuant to President’s authority so Grace is out. The question now is will they name Habba to a new 120 day interim US attorney appointment or will they turn to the Vacancies Act and name a different person as acting US attorney.
Since @orinkerr.bsky.social asked, a thread, from limited information reported online, about how I see the US attorney mess in DNJ.
1. Trump picked Habba as interim US Attorney under 28 USC 546. Technically, the AG is supposed to pick, but whatever. She gets 120 days to serve.
1. Trump picked Habba as interim US Attorney under 28 USC 546. Technically, the AG is supposed to pick, but whatever. She gets 120 days to serve.
July 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
DOJ says it acted pursuant to President’s authority so Grace is out. The question now is will they name Habba to a new 120 day interim US attorney appointment or will they turn to the Vacancies Act and name a different person as acting US attorney.
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Her: you quote Alanis Morissette too much
Me: well slap me with a splintered ruler
Me: well slap me with a splintered ruler
March 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Her: you quote Alanis Morissette too much
Me: well slap me with a splintered ruler
Me: well slap me with a splintered ruler
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waste, fraud and abuse
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM
waste, fraud and abuse
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*clears throat*
BUT ARE THEY DOING IT TO ENFORCE THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT?
(I seriously can’t believe we have to live through this bs again ….)
BUT ARE THEY DOING IT TO ENFORCE THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT?
(I seriously can’t believe we have to live through this bs again ….)
My latest @npr.org story: Republicans in Congress are reviving a push to exclude millions of people living in the states without U.S. citizenship from #2030Census counts that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”
Republicans renew a bid to remove noncitizens from the census tally behind voting maps
GOP lawmakers are trying again to exclude millions of non-U.S. citizens living in the states from census counts that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
www.npr.org
July 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
*clears throat*
BUT ARE THEY DOING IT TO ENFORCE THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT?
(I seriously can’t believe we have to live through this bs again ….)
BUT ARE THEY DOING IT TO ENFORCE THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT?
(I seriously can’t believe we have to live through this bs again ….)
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One thing that keeps me up these days: how is the next party in power supposed to govern? The GOP has signaled it will not always be bound by laws or international agreements it disagrees with. It’s not absolute — they blew up part of reconciliation, but not all; ignore some court orders, etc. (1/7)
July 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
One thing that keeps me up these days: how is the next party in power supposed to govern? The GOP has signaled it will not always be bound by laws or international agreements it disagrees with. It’s not absolute — they blew up part of reconciliation, but not all; ignore some court orders, etc. (1/7)
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Trump doesn't talk a lot about abortion, but he's putting anti-abortion zealots in positions where they can do immense harm. Read this thread and the linked article.
I'm not prone to hyperbole but Trump appointing two absolute freaks to the Office of Legal Counsel is the most ominous step it's taken on abortion.
Josh Craddock believes the 14th Amendment requires a nationwide ban and that the Comstock Act is a ban on abortion pills. Me in @ballsandstrikes.org:
Josh Craddock believes the 14th Amendment requires a nationwide ban and that the Comstock Act is a ban on abortion pills. Me in @ballsandstrikes.org:
The Trump Administration Is Staffing Up With Nationwide Abortion Ban Zealots
Conservative activists have spent years pushing a fringe legal theory that could ban abortion nationwide. A pair of newly appointed White House lawyers could do exactly that.
ballsandstrikes.org
July 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Trump doesn't talk a lot about abortion, but he's putting anti-abortion zealots in positions where they can do immense harm. Read this thread and the linked article.
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Here’s the full memo:
July 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here’s the full memo: