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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8h

A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex

Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free

Andrew Taake walked free because of Trump’s pardons, despite being convicted of a child sex crime.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 6h

I would! I meant to say a little more about it, but I was interrupted mid text. It manages to be fairly plain in its presentation, yet mysterious in its effects, although there is nothing tricky about it.

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 10h

I haven’t usually read the Booker Prize-winning novel before the announcement, but this year I have.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE

A federal jury found the county and the Sheriff's Office violated the Constitutional rights of 674 people.

longisland.news12.com

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 11h

It’s just a couple of lines in Bull Durham. She may be woolly, young girls they do get woolly/from all the stress.” Then Crash Davis takes the guitar away from him.

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 11h

The Nuke LaLoosh version is in a category all its own.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13h

Biden reversed this 40 year trend and Trump brought it back within months.

Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 13h

BofAI: Inflation growth YoY has outpaced the after-tax wage growth of lower- and middle-income households since the beginning of the year

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 11h

Welcome to The Resistance New York Post

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Welcome to “justice” in Donald Trump’s America.

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 13h

From the man who said avoiding sexually transmitted disease were his personal Vietnam.

“I feel like a great and very brave solider."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "We have officially renamed the Dept of Defense back to the original name, Dept of War. And remember we won World War 1, we won World War 2, we won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name. We became politically correct"

Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 13h

It’s Louvre1 now
Or Louvre1793 if they went with the birthday year option.

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 14h

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:

"So I'm putting a team together..."

Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 16h

Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life

Memento (Aloof) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 21h

I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h

Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. chose new leaders on Tuesday. The new president is an archbishop from Oklahoma City who issued a statement two days after President Trump’s inauguration calling on Catholics to remember that Jesus was once a refugee, and to support immigrant families.

Archbishop Paul Coakley Is Picked to Lead American Bishops

“We face a growing worldview that is so often at odds with the Gospel mandate to love thy neighbor,” the group said in a letter to Pope Leo.

nyti.ms

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.

Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police

The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.

abcnews.go.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20h

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 1d

Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

Intent, perhaps? They are not trying to move the listener to the same place.

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 1d

In another sign of a stumbling economy, a new report says credit card debt is rising in Ohio at the fifth-fastest rate in the United States ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/10/o...

Ohio is among states where credit card debt is rising most quickly • Ohio Capital Journal

A new report says credit card debt is rising in Ohio at the fifth-fastest rate in the United States. It's another sign of a slowing economy.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · 1d

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates:

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

QT of @avidreader1000
Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking MSNBC:

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.

U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign

Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.

www.msnbc.com

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

History is “inspired by” a true story

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

Sitting here in Northeast Ohio, trying to figure out the motivations of these two pitchers. The risk was much higher than the financial reward, so I wonder if it was just the thrill of the scam. Or if they thought long-term, it would actually make them even richer?

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

My state is very competitive in the race toward the bottom.

|Between The Lines| @frankjones25.bsky.social · 1d

Ohio to expand legal work hours for minors despite federal conflict
Newly passed changes to Ohio's revised code is set to allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work until 9 p.m. during the school year.

Republicans again trying to help corporations. Push kids into low wage jobs that adults can’t live on.

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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 1d

Note to Democratic Party:
90% of democrats AND 67% of independents say the cuts in federal funding of healthcare programs such as Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act have gone too far.
Majorities of both also say health care is critical issue to them.
@prri.org
prri.org/research/tru...

Trump’s Unprecedented Actions Deepen Asymmetric Divides

The 16th annual PRRI American Values Survey examines Americans’ opinions on how democracy is working, what it means to be “truly American,” concerns about the economy, and belief in the American Dream...

prri.org

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Jim Naughton @jimnaughton.bsky.social · 1d

Great news!

A lot of things are terrible, but that shouldn’t blind us to the fact that this is wonderful news .

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL.
The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for
a writ of certiorari is denied.

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