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jamellebouie.net
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 7
Let me expand on this point. The Constitution is quite clear that you can't distinguish between kinds of persons in running the Census. And that is especially about apportionment for Congress. The original language makes it pretty clear when it talks about "free persons". But the 14th amendment ...
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 7
As Wessel states, now bulldozing the Census. It's critical to note that not counting people "in our Country illegally" violates the constitution. It doesn't speak of citizens or legal status, simply "the whole number of free persons".
August 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Give this a listen. Trump and Rubio are locking up people for engaging in speech, without any tangible evidence of wrongdoing or even hateful speech. So it's good to hear from the people they are demonizing.
On the day he was detained: When I get the appointment the first thing was uh… is this a trap or is it legit? And I realized directly that I am dealing with two extreme opposite poles. One is becoming a citizen with full rights, and the other one is being detained and having no rights. I see the risk, I see the opportunity, and I want the American people to see this, too. To see this level of injustice. That I am doing everything legally, that I have prepared and studied for the Constitution and that I went willingly and respected the law, did everything the way how it's supposed to be done.
April 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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nicsigni.bsky.social
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.

www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis
There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…
www.techdirt.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:
Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system. They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place. Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes. The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn
February 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
I have a joke about res ipsa loquitur
rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · Dec 4
I have an appellate lawyer joke, but I didn’t preserve it below
kendylhanks.bsky.social Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · Dec 3
I have a res judicata joke, but you’ve probably already heard it
December 4, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen
November 13, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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josie.zone
I stand by what I said in this 2018 essay about Terry Gilliam’s 12 MONKEYS

We are in the crisis now, but there is a future after the crisis, however unrecognizable

You fight to make that future better than it otherwise would be

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And yet, despite all this, the movie ends on a note of extremely cautious optimism. The virologist sits down on his plane next to someone, and we see that it's one of the '30s scientists. She tells him she's in "insurance." One might read this as her being sent to prevent the further spread of the disease. Given everything we've already seen, this is a misreading. We can assume she's there to complete Cole's mission and take one of the vials back to her home time and work on a cure. She wouldn't have pinpointed the proper moment without Cole's efforts. They weren't for naught. Herein lies why 12 Monkeys feels so urgent as 2018 draws to a close: Perhaps it is, indeed, too late to avert the great catastrophe. But we cannot accept that the catastrophe is the end of the story. There will be some kind of future, however difficult it may be to live in. It is our responsibility to prepare whatever we can for the survival of what's worth preserving in that coming existence. La Jetée, in a crucial contrast to 12 Monkeys, features the protagonist traveling into the far future and finding an advanced civilization that has emerged from the ashes. Gilliam's film doesn't provide us with that relief. It guarantees nothing pleasant. But it reminds us that we can learn from the days in which we live in order to ameliorate the coming world. We still live in the now, and there is still work to be done and wonders to be experienced. Even Cole, near the end of the story, seems to realize this, and, in the '90s, utters lines that should echo in our heads: "This is the present. This is not the past. This is not the future. This is right now."
November 6, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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edyong209.bsky.social
My XOXO talk is online. It's a v. personal look at what it was like to cover the pandemic, live through it, be broken by it, and heal from it. I talk about my approach to journalism, a 7-part code for being a public figure, why I left the Atlantic, and a lot more. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Ed Yong · Videos · XOXO
Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, ...
xoxofest.com
October 10, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Excellent new essay by Ted Chiang, who gets to the heart of why language and art are inherently about conveying meaning and experience, not just form:

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
www.newyorker.com
August 31, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
if they unseat Ted Cruz I will play a free solo show in Austin and the set list will include Golden Boy, Riches & Wonders, Comandante and whatever other oldschool bangers ppl want
combledore.bsky.social trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · Sep 20
Texas will break your heart every time, but I keep hoping
September 23, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
Unearthed Hot Dish Forum Posts By Tim Walz Could Shake Up Race wapo.st/3XNUip0
Opinion | Uncovered forum posts by Tim Walz could shake up race
A forensic analysis of comments on HotOrNotDish.net.
wapo.st
September 20, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
Leash your dog. Yes, you. Yes, your sweet dog. Leash your dog. Not only because of the harm it could do, but because you have no right to put other people through the stress of not knowing what it will do. EVEN IF you can predict your dog (you can’t), other people shouldn’t have to rely on it.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 6
a friend of mine just lost her pup to an unleashed dog that attacked it, so this my reminder to you to leash your fucking dog when you’re in public
June 6, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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markpopham.bsky.social
MY WIFE IS NOT THE ISSUE!! I hope that my wife will someday learn to raise and lower her own flags, but if she doesn't, sir, that will be her problem, not mine, just as your rug is your problem, just as every bum's lot in life is his own responsibility regardless of whom he chooses to blame.
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · May 29
Some real bangers in here
considering whether this event requires recusal, an unbiased and reasonable person would take into account the following facts. As I have stated publicly, I had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. **I was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention. As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused. My wife and I own our Virginia home jointly. She therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.** My wife's reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes, but I note that she was greatly distressed at the time due, in large part, to a very nasty neighborhood dispute in which I had no involvement. ** = highlighting begins/ends
May 29, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
*busting through the door, sweating and panting* A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO COUPS
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · May 29
Some real bangers in here
considering whether this event requires recusal, an unbiased and reasonable person would take into account the following facts. As I have stated publicly, I had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. **I was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention. As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused. My wife and I own our Virginia home jointly. She therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.** My wife's reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes, but I note that she was greatly distressed at the time due, in large part, to a very nasty neighborhood dispute in which I had no involvement. ** = highlighting begins/ends
May 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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May 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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edburmila.bsky.social
Every low level lanyard job person in DC: please don’t wear a campaign button in my house, someone could see it and I might get in trouble

SCOTUS: first you take a loan from someone with business before the court and then you just don’t pay it back. Did you see my insurrection flag.
May 17, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
This is the only winning play here
Screenshot of letter on Cleveland Stadium Corp. letterhead, with a big drawing of the stadium wrapping around the "CLEVE" like an oversized letter C: November 21, 1974 Dear Mr. Cox: Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters. Very truly yours, CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP. James N. Bailey, General Counsel
May 6, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
Can confirm. This is a huge and necessary win for Americans' privacy, particularly after the Supreme Court gutted privacy protections under Roe. Now it's time for the Senate to do its job and follow suit.
dell.bsky.social dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Apr 17
Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a bill banning police agencies from purchasing Americans' location data, has passed by the House in a 220-to-197 vote.

Big victory for @wyden.senate.gov
April 17, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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edyong209.bsky.social
One thing I forgot to mention in this piece about why birding has changed my life: It is truly wonderful and gently radical to spend large chunks of your day looking up. My neck lifts; so, too, my spirits.
edyong209.bsky.social Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social · Mar 30
I wrote a little essay about what birding has done for me in the very short time since I became a birder.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...
Opinion | When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place
To find the birds, you have to know them.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2024 at 12:43 AM