Invisible Old Broad
@ceeee-geeee.bsky.social
Politics junky. Feminist. CollapseAware. CovidAware.
#CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask
#FuckThePatriarchy #Vote
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
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#FuckThePatriarchy #Vote
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
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Yes! Josh has kept his level-headed, empirically minded, broadly liberal approach steady through an incredible amount of change & turbulence in politics & culture, to put it mildly, not everyone has managed.
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Yes! Josh has kept his level-headed, empirically minded, broadly liberal approach steady through an incredible amount of change & turbulence in politics & culture, to put it mildly, not everyone has managed.
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Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke...
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
PHOTOS: TPM Celebrates Our 25-Year Anniversary in NYC talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/phot...
PHOTOS: TPM Celebrates Our 25-Year Anniversary in NYC
We rang in our 25th anniversary in style last week, hosting a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke...
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
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Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
Federal Court Ruling Limits Police Qualified Immunity in Line 3 Excessive Force Case - UNICORN RIOT
Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
unicornriot.ninja
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
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It looks like Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury, prosecutorial conduct equivalent to committing perjury, in order to manufacture an indictment against James Comey for…
wait for it…
perjury.
wait for it…
perjury.
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It looks like Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury, prosecutorial conduct equivalent to committing perjury, in order to manufacture an indictment against James Comey for…
wait for it…
perjury.
wait for it…
perjury.
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/2 Just to be clear, 5th Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith’s dissent is wildly emotionally incontinent and so bizarre it can’t even be called unprofessional. If someone I loved wrote it I would be very worried and investigate dementia.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
/2 Just to be clear, 5th Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith’s dissent is wildly emotionally incontinent and so bizarre it can’t even be called unprofessional. If someone I loved wrote it I would be very worried and investigate dementia.
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This is so nutty that I assumed Jerry E. Smith was a Trump appointee, but nope, just a 5th Circuit judge
I dunno, man, if I began an opinion with a 3+ page "Preliminary Statement" complaining about disrespectful conduct by the other two judges on the panel, I would not immediately follow it up with this:
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is so nutty that I assumed Jerry E. Smith was a Trump appointee, but nope, just a 5th Circuit judge
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There’s an even bigger problem with Halligan’s “highly prejudicial” misstatements of fundamental tenets of criminal law which suggested that grand jurors did not have to base a finding of probable cause on the actual evidence presented to him. That’s not harmless error 😬
People really should be prepared that the Comey case goes forward with a finding that the indictment fuck-up was harmless error.
So long as the operative counts that were indicted had identical language there's a decent chance some court, whether trial, appeal or SCOTUS finds it was harmless
So long as the operative counts that were indicted had identical language there's a decent chance some court, whether trial, appeal or SCOTUS finds it was harmless
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
There’s an even bigger problem with Halligan’s “highly prejudicial” misstatements of fundamental tenets of criminal law which suggested that grand jurors did not have to base a finding of probable cause on the actual evidence presented to him. That’s not harmless error 😬
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He used "Democrat Party" early on in his opinion, a well-known right-wing partisan "insult" meant to put down Dems.
That's a clear, unambiguously aggressive political view in a politically sensitive opinion.
The sort of thing a healthy 5th Circuit would take steps to sanction.
But yeah, the 5th.
That's a clear, unambiguously aggressive political view in a politically sensitive opinion.
The sort of thing a healthy 5th Circuit would take steps to sanction.
But yeah, the 5th.
But worry not, he has a footnote explaining why his fixation on Soros "is not political."
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
He used "Democrat Party" early on in his opinion, a well-known right-wing partisan "insult" meant to put down Dems.
That's a clear, unambiguously aggressive political view in a politically sensitive opinion.
The sort of thing a healthy 5th Circuit would take steps to sanction.
But yeah, the 5th.
That's a clear, unambiguously aggressive political view in a politically sensitive opinion.
The sort of thing a healthy 5th Circuit would take steps to sanction.
But yeah, the 5th.
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SCOOP: Notes obtained exclusively by Democracy Docket reveal Cleta Mitchell, leading anti-voting activists, and right-wing lawmakers met to discuss plans to limit early and mail voting — returning us to one-day elections and radically restricting ballot access.
Exclusive: Cleta Mitchell, Activists Scheme to Bring Back One-Day Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
SCOOP: Notes obtained exclusively by Democracy Docket reveal Cleta Mitchell, leading anti-voting activists, and right-wing lawmakers met to discuss plans to limit early and mail voting — returning us to one-day elections and radically restricting ballot access.
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NEW: Pro-voting groups and voters went to court today to ask a three-judge panel to block North Carolina’s racial gerrymander, arguing it “wiped [the state’s] historic Black Belt Congressional District off the map, silencing Black voters.”
North Carolina’s GOP Gerrymander Goes to Court
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
NEW: Pro-voting groups and voters went to court today to ask a three-judge panel to block North Carolina’s racial gerrymander, arguing it “wiped [the state’s] historic Black Belt Congressional District off the map, silencing Black voters.”
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ANOTHER Republican state senator in Indiana says he's been swatted... as state legislators resist calls to redistrict to create more favorable GOP districts
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
ANOTHER Republican state senator in Indiana says he's been swatted... as state legislators resist calls to redistrict to create more favorable GOP districts
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Indiana Senate Republicans chose to defy pressure from Trump by rejecting his call for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms. The president had hoped to acquire two more red seats in Congress. https://bit.ly/4r8BkWU
Indiana GOPers Defy Trump, Vote Against Gerrymander Session
Read more here.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Indiana Senate Republicans chose to defy pressure from Trump by rejecting his call for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms. The president had hoped to acquire two more red seats in Congress. https://bit.ly/4r8BkWU
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People are asking ”well if the court dismisses the Comey indictment for various kinds of fuckmuppetry by the moronic and debased Trump Justice Department, the statute of limitations has run and so Comey is free, right?
It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry.
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It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry.
/1
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
People are asking ”well if the court dismisses the Comey indictment for various kinds of fuckmuppetry by the moronic and debased Trump Justice Department, the statute of limitations has run and so Comey is free, right?
It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry.
/1
It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry.
/1
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EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or fede
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or fede
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or fede
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or federal laws.
EOs cannot overturn state or fede
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So if a state passes a law he doesn’t like, he’ll retaliate by making it harder for red rural parts of that state to get online?
Like his FEMA bans that hurt red parts of blue states?
The state-level red-blue maps has absolutely poisoned our political minds abt where voter types actually live.
Like his FEMA bans that hurt red parts of blue states?
The state-level red-blue maps has absolutely poisoned our political minds abt where voter types actually live.
Huge @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop: Trump is preparing to try and ban all state AI laws, going so far as having Brendan Carr’s FCC pull rural broadband funds from states that try to regulate AI www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.
www.theverge.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
So if a state passes a law he doesn’t like, he’ll retaliate by making it harder for red rural parts of that state to get online?
Like his FEMA bans that hurt red parts of blue states?
The state-level red-blue maps has absolutely poisoned our political minds abt where voter types actually live.
Like his FEMA bans that hurt red parts of blue states?
The state-level red-blue maps has absolutely poisoned our political minds abt where voter types actually live.
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Larry Summers to retire to spend more time with the family that he was doggedly trying to be unfaithful to
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Larry Summers to retire to spend more time with the family that he was doggedly trying to be unfaithful to
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Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
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Do you remember BA.3—the weakling cousin of BA.1 & BA.2 that seemed to take the worst from each & had weaker ACE2 binding than even the ancestral Wuhan Virus?
After three years, BA.3 is back.
And it is transmitting.
Who saw this coming?
1/13
After three years, BA.3 is back.
And it is transmitting.
Who saw this coming?
1/13
March 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Do you remember BA.3—the weakling cousin of BA.1 & BA.2 that seemed to take the worst from each & had weaker ACE2 binding than even the ancestral Wuhan Virus?
After three years, BA.3 is back.
And it is transmitting.
Who saw this coming?
1/13
After three years, BA.3 is back.
And it is transmitting.
Who saw this coming?
1/13
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No Rapist Left Behind
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
No Rapist Left Behind
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I have a sneaking suspicion that Majority Leader Thune does not like Speaker Johnson very much.
Mike Johnson says he's talked to Thune & he's "very confident that when this moves forward in the process - if & when it is processed in the Senate, which is no certainty - they will take the time methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in the House. To amend this discharge petition."
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I have a sneaking suspicion that Majority Leader Thune does not like Speaker Johnson very much.
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Washington Post editorial about Trump's comments today: "These distortions dishonor Khashoggi’s legacy, stand at odds with the facts and are beneath the office of the president."
Opinion | ‘Things happen’
Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Washington Post editorial about Trump's comments today: "These distortions dishonor Khashoggi’s legacy, stand at odds with the facts and are beneath the office of the president."
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Bonesaw meets Bonespur at the Conference of Thin-Skinned Cowards
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Bonesaw meets Bonespur at the Conference of Thin-Skinned Cowards
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Maybe ICE should up its screening process...
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Maybe ICE should up its screening process...
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You know how you avoid a harmful back-and-forth?
When the forces of liberal democracy get back in power they use every possible civil and criminal tool to obliterate the autocrats until they can’t do a damn thing.
This isn’t hard. We PUNCH Nazis, and authoritarians, and fascists.
Not shake hands.
When the forces of liberal democracy get back in power they use every possible civil and criminal tool to obliterate the autocrats until they can’t do a damn thing.
This isn’t hard. We PUNCH Nazis, and authoritarians, and fascists.
Not shake hands.
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
You know how you avoid a harmful back-and-forth?
When the forces of liberal democracy get back in power they use every possible civil and criminal tool to obliterate the autocrats until they can’t do a damn thing.
This isn’t hard. We PUNCH Nazis, and authoritarians, and fascists.
Not shake hands.
When the forces of liberal democracy get back in power they use every possible civil and criminal tool to obliterate the autocrats until they can’t do a damn thing.
This isn’t hard. We PUNCH Nazis, and authoritarians, and fascists.
Not shake hands.