@jabernak.bsky.social
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OLIVER: “F*ck! Sh*t! — It was fun while it lasted, guys.”
John Oliver says he’s lucky Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have to worry about the same things as CBS & ABC — then realizes the MAGA billionaire Ellisons are planning to swallow them too.
John Oliver says he’s lucky Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have to worry about the same things as CBS & ABC — then realizes the MAGA billionaire Ellisons are planning to swallow them too.
September 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
OLIVER: “F*ck! Sh*t! — It was fun while it lasted, guys.”
John Oliver says he’s lucky Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have to worry about the same things as CBS & ABC — then realizes the MAGA billionaire Ellisons are planning to swallow them too.
John Oliver says he’s lucky Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have to worry about the same things as CBS & ABC — then realizes the MAGA billionaire Ellisons are planning to swallow them too.
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James Talarico: I think the most revolutionary teaching in my religion is the teaching to love your enemy. We are called to love our opponents as much as we love ourselves. I see my opponents as children of God
September 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
James Talarico: I think the most revolutionary teaching in my religion is the teaching to love your enemy. We are called to love our opponents as much as we love ourselves. I see my opponents as children of God
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It's pretty clear by now that the mass shooting in Manhattan a week ago today was not some random act.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nfl-shooti...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nfl-shooti...
“NFL” Shooting Wasn’t Random
Another manifesto gets censored in a case that needs transparency
www.kenklippenstein.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It's pretty clear by now that the mass shooting in Manhattan a week ago today was not some random act.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nfl-shooti...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nfl-shooti...
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BILL BURR: “There’s nothing wrong with being a billionaire, but if someone’s working 40 hours/week and can’t make rent you’re not paying them enough… maybe you should just be worth $900 Million. How do you take an 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
August 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
BILL BURR: “There’s nothing wrong with being a billionaire, but if someone’s working 40 hours/week and can’t make rent you’re not paying them enough… maybe you should just be worth $900 Million. How do you take an 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
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I wrote about this in "Our Own Worst Enemy," and used a study of an Italian town in the 1950s as an example of how we're repeating that cycle.
August 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I wrote about this in "Our Own Worst Enemy," and used a study of an Italian town in the 1950s as an example of how we're repeating that cycle.
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As usual, Bill Burr doesn’t miss 🎯
August 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
As usual, Bill Burr doesn’t miss 🎯
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Last year, Direct File saved taxpayers $5.6 million in tax preparation costs by allowing people to file their taxes for FREE.
That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it.
Trump just gave them their wish.
news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it.
Trump just gave them their wish.
news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.
news.bloombergtax.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Last year, Direct File saved taxpayers $5.6 million in tax preparation costs by allowing people to file their taxes for FREE.
That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it.
Trump just gave them their wish.
news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it.
Trump just gave them their wish.
news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
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Me: "So you're the child of immigrants."
Her: "Correct."
Me: "But you don't accept immigrants are Americans?"
Her: "Not at this moment."
Me: "So your parents are not Americans?"
Perhaps my favorite exchange from my insane Jubilee 'Surrounded' debate.
Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
Her: "Correct."
Me: "But you don't accept immigrants are Americans?"
Her: "Not at this moment."
Me: "So your parents are not Americans?"
Perhaps my favorite exchange from my insane Jubilee 'Surrounded' debate.
Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
July 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Me: "So you're the child of immigrants."
Her: "Correct."
Me: "But you don't accept immigrants are Americans?"
Her: "Not at this moment."
Me: "So your parents are not Americans?"
Perhaps my favorite exchange from my insane Jubilee 'Surrounded' debate.
Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
Her: "Correct."
Me: "But you don't accept immigrants are Americans?"
Her: "Not at this moment."
Me: "So your parents are not Americans?"
Perhaps my favorite exchange from my insane Jubilee 'Surrounded' debate.
Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
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My record on Palestine speaks for itself. I’m proud of it. One of the strongest in Congress. I throw down for pro-Palestine candidates. Largely unrecognized work. That’s fine. Disagreements are fine, too. But if you want to toss all that for 1 half assed MTG stunt, be my guest. I know where I stand.
July 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
My record on Palestine speaks for itself. I’m proud of it. One of the strongest in Congress. I throw down for pro-Palestine candidates. Largely unrecognized work. That’s fine. Disagreements are fine, too. But if you want to toss all that for 1 half assed MTG stunt, be my guest. I know where I stand.
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I'm not paying much heed to the rumor that Jeff Bezos might buy Condé Nast as it comes from the Daily Mail, but it would be a disaster since, in addition to Vogue and GQ, they have WIRED and The New Yorker. Never underestimate a billionaire's ability to destroy your favorite publication. RIP Gawker.
July 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I'm not paying much heed to the rumor that Jeff Bezos might buy Condé Nast as it comes from the Daily Mail, but it would be a disaster since, in addition to Vogue and GQ, they have WIRED and The New Yorker. Never underestimate a billionaire's ability to destroy your favorite publication. RIP Gawker.
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Want to see something really insane? Look at this website for USGS's Water Science Centers and Regions and see how many of their directors have "Former Employee" after their names. Everyone's gone! My best friend from grad school was one of them. Who's monitoring floods, droughts, etc?
Water Science Centers and Regions
A list of all of the USGS Water Resources Mission Area Science Centers and regions, hubs for critical water science funded by Federal, State, and other partners and stakeholders located throughout the...
www.usgs.gov
May 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Want to see something really insane? Look at this website for USGS's Water Science Centers and Regions and see how many of their directors have "Former Employee" after their names. Everyone's gone! My best friend from grad school was one of them. Who's monitoring floods, droughts, etc?
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GUARDIAN: “Before his Grecian holiday, Cruz ensured a reduction in funding to the NOAA efforts to improve future weather forecasting of events that cause the sort of extreme floods that are being worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
July 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
GUARDIAN: “Before his Grecian holiday, Cruz ensured a reduction in funding to the NOAA efforts to improve future weather forecasting of events that cause the sort of extreme floods that are being worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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For-profit insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are defrauding taxpayers out of $80 billion a year.
HHS Secretary Kennedy claims he wants to "clean up corruption" while he is doubling taxpayer dollars to these companies.
That sounds like the real "waste, fraud, and abuse."
HHS Secretary Kennedy claims he wants to "clean up corruption" while he is doubling taxpayer dollars to these companies.
That sounds like the real "waste, fraud, and abuse."
June 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
For-profit insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are defrauding taxpayers out of $80 billion a year.
HHS Secretary Kennedy claims he wants to "clean up corruption" while he is doubling taxpayer dollars to these companies.
That sounds like the real "waste, fraud, and abuse."
HHS Secretary Kennedy claims he wants to "clean up corruption" while he is doubling taxpayer dollars to these companies.
That sounds like the real "waste, fraud, and abuse."
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Someone on TikTok said court won’t accept vertical video of police misconduct.
That’s…not how evidence works.
My latest piece is about why this kind of legal misinformation is so dangerous.
Check it out here:
Objection: That’s Not the Law open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
That’s…not how evidence works.
My latest piece is about why this kind of legal misinformation is so dangerous.
Check it out here:
Objection: That’s Not the Law open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Objection: That’s Not the Law
Why viral misinformation about courts, cops, and evidence is more dangerous than you think
open.substack.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Someone on TikTok said court won’t accept vertical video of police misconduct.
That’s…not how evidence works.
My latest piece is about why this kind of legal misinformation is so dangerous.
Check it out here:
Objection: That’s Not the Law open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
That’s…not how evidence works.
My latest piece is about why this kind of legal misinformation is so dangerous.
Check it out here:
Objection: That’s Not the Law open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
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With a lift from their thunderous fans, the Valkyries met the moment on Thursday. They're meeting just about every moment. Something is happening here.
"I call 'em killers," their coach says.
sfstandard.com/2025/06/20/v...
"I call 'em killers," their coach says.
sfstandard.com/2025/06/20/v...
Kawakami: The Valkyries are meeting the moment, one ear-piercing victory at a time
The expansion team isn't perfect, but after beating Cailtin Clark and the Fever, Golden State is daring all of us to underestimate what this team can do now.
sfstandard.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
With a lift from their thunderous fans, the Valkyries met the moment on Thursday. They're meeting just about every moment. Something is happening here.
"I call 'em killers," their coach says.
sfstandard.com/2025/06/20/v...
"I call 'em killers," their coach says.
sfstandard.com/2025/06/20/v...
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June 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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YOU WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY???
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih3qdtlloz3yhggypbtwiveqdgzzfgapsnetvq7qsni7wfmyuovoi@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
YOU WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY???
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
*This* is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote.
It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."
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“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸
June 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸
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It'll soon be the most stolen rocket in the world.
Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket
Will SpaceX have more competition?
www.theverge.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It'll soon be the most stolen rocket in the world.
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/2 The hidden premise of the question seems to be there is some hidden cheat code that lawyers know that will solve this. But there’s no cheat code for fascism. You submit to the masked armed thugs or you get brutalized and/or prosecuted. There’s no win scenario…
June 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
/2 The hidden premise of the question seems to be there is some hidden cheat code that lawyers know that will solve this. But there’s no cheat code for fascism. You submit to the masked armed thugs or you get brutalized and/or prosecuted. There’s no win scenario…
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Not too many Black folks will be surprised that the very first civilian Trump’s Marines detained in Los Angeles was a Black man.
A veteran.
A veteran.
June 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Not too many Black folks will be surprised that the very first civilian Trump’s Marines detained in Los Angeles was a Black man.
A veteran.
A veteran.
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While protesting on June 14, do you have to give your ID to police? Which states let drivers run over protestors? Trump is clear he does not respect the right to peaceful protest, so be ready. Here are 13 tips to protect yourself and your loved ones.
No Paywall.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...
No Paywall.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...
13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting
Read & Share if you're joining the No Kings protest on June 14, or know anyone who is
www.qasimrashid.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
While protesting on June 14, do you have to give your ID to police? Which states let drivers run over protestors? Trump is clear he does not respect the right to peaceful protest, so be ready. Here are 13 tips to protect yourself and your loved ones.
No Paywall.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...
No Paywall.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...