Wednesday Addams
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The facts are horrifying. By failing to address how straight cis White British & Irish men are involved in an epidemic of violence against women & girls, they know, fascism & racism support that violence. *Source: www.femicidecensus.org/wp-content/u...
September 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The facts are horrifying. By failing to address how straight cis White British & Irish men are involved in an epidemic of violence against women & girls, they know, fascism & racism support that violence. *Source: www.femicidecensus.org/wp-content/u...
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This, and all the Jan 6 pardons, are sending a signal to those who might participate in future coup attempts: we will have your back.
She was a criminal and now they are giving her the honors of an American hero at the same time that the Republicans in the House refuse to hang a plaque honoring the hundreds of Capitol Police that defended them. Just disgusting. thehill.com/policy/defen...
Air Force to provide funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt
The U.S. Air Force will provide Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt with military funeral honors, reversing a Biden-era decision that denied her family’s request, according to a legal group that has …
thehill.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This, and all the Jan 6 pardons, are sending a signal to those who might participate in future coup attempts: we will have your back.
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Can you imagine what the MAGA Republicans would have said if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris had asked the Army Corps of Engineers to raise the water level of the Ohio River to improve the boating conditions for their birthday family outing?
And why aren't the MSM hypocrites calling him out on this?
And why aren't the MSM hypocrites calling him out on this?
JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Can you imagine what the MAGA Republicans would have said if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris had asked the Army Corps of Engineers to raise the water level of the Ohio River to improve the boating conditions for their birthday family outing?
And why aren't the MSM hypocrites calling him out on this?
And why aren't the MSM hypocrites calling him out on this?
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Great piece from Steve_Vladeck on why AG Bondi’s complaint about Judge Boasberg is not just baseless, but a hit job designed to intimidate other judges and discredit the judiciary.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/170-dojs-r...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/170-dojs-r...
170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg
DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Great piece from Steve_Vladeck on why AG Bondi’s complaint about Judge Boasberg is not just baseless, but a hit job designed to intimidate other judges and discredit the judiciary.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/170-dojs-r...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/170-dojs-r...
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The July jobs report was abysmal
But May was reduced from 139,000 to 19,000
Yes-you read that right
June was worse-147,000 to 14,000
Biden fixed the economy
Now we’re back to Covid numbers
And with the cuts Trump made to Medicaid and SNAP
A lot of American workers are in HUGE trouble
But May was reduced from 139,000 to 19,000
Yes-you read that right
June was worse-147,000 to 14,000
Biden fixed the economy
Now we’re back to Covid numbers
And with the cuts Trump made to Medicaid and SNAP
A lot of American workers are in HUGE trouble
August 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The July jobs report was abysmal
But May was reduced from 139,000 to 19,000
Yes-you read that right
June was worse-147,000 to 14,000
Biden fixed the economy
Now we’re back to Covid numbers
And with the cuts Trump made to Medicaid and SNAP
A lot of American workers are in HUGE trouble
But May was reduced from 139,000 to 19,000
Yes-you read that right
June was worse-147,000 to 14,000
Biden fixed the economy
Now we’re back to Covid numbers
And with the cuts Trump made to Medicaid and SNAP
A lot of American workers are in HUGE trouble
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Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.
Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.
Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.
Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
July 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.
Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.
Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.
Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
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He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses.
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
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This is really important. In most areas, if you get off Bluesky and walk down the street, things seem normal. It’ll only be later that people lose their insurance while watching their taxes go up and a supercharged secret police force raid public places
Remember: Most Americans just have no idea that 99% of this is going on. It’s simply off their screens.
July 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is really important. In most areas, if you get off Bluesky and walk down the street, things seem normal. It’ll only be later that people lose their insurance while watching their taxes go up and a supercharged secret police force raid public places
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When the Homeland Security funding from the new budget bill kicks in we are going to enter a fundamentally new era of unaccountable secret police that will change American politics and society for a long time.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/welcome-to...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Age of Disappearance
America's new era of secret police.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the Homeland Security funding from the new budget bill kicks in we are going to enter a fundamentally new era of unaccountable secret police that will change American politics and society for a long time.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/welcome-to...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/welcome-to...
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I’m as tired of saying it as you are of hearing it, but this is unambiguously Nazi shit
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I’m as tired of saying it as you are of hearing it, but this is unambiguously Nazi shit
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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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HIRONO: If ordered by the president to shoot peaceful protesters in the legs, would you carry it out?
HEGSETH: Of course I reject the premise of your question
HIRONO: Considering that the president in his first term actually ordered such a thing, it's not a premise you can reject
HEGSETH: Of course I reject the premise of your question
HIRONO: Considering that the president in his first term actually ordered such a thing, it's not a premise you can reject
June 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
HIRONO: If ordered by the president to shoot peaceful protesters in the legs, would you carry it out?
HEGSETH: Of course I reject the premise of your question
HIRONO: Considering that the president in his first term actually ordered such a thing, it's not a premise you can reject
HEGSETH: Of course I reject the premise of your question
HIRONO: Considering that the president in his first term actually ordered such a thing, it's not a premise you can reject
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Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year
Critics of anti-pandemic measures prompted schools to end mask mandates, but doing so exposed millions to COVID infection, contributing to nearly 22,000 deaths.
www.latimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.
June 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.
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The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ’s New Top Voting Lawyer Worked for Leading Anti-Voting Law Firm
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
Trump is now giving the South African president the full Zelenskyy treatment
May 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
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April 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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“This is absolutely, unambiguously illegal,” Christopher Peterson, a University of Utah law professor who specializes in consumer protection.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Elon Musk’s lawyer says $1M giveaway winners not randomly chosen, which could raise legal issues
Musk had said winners of the giveaway were chosen at random.
www.nbcnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“This is absolutely, unambiguously illegal,” Christopher Peterson, a University of Utah law professor who specializes in consumer protection.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Wisconsin State Attorney General Josh Kaul is taking legal action against Elon Musk
March 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wisconsin State Attorney General Josh Kaul is taking legal action against Elon Musk
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This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.
BREAKING: On a 5-4 order, SCOTUS denies DOJ’s motion to vacate Judge Ali’s State/USAID order, but notes that his prior deadline passed, so Ali is going to have to go back to the drawing board and “clarify” what the gov’t needs to do, “with due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines.”
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A831
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, ET AL. U. AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
(March 5, 2025]
On February 13, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a temporary restraining order enjoining the Government from enforcing directives pausing disbursements of foreign development assistance funds.
The present application does not challenge the Government's obligation to follow that order. On February 25, the District Court ordered the Government to issue payments for a portion of the paused disbursements-those owed for work already completed before the issuance of the District Court's temporary restraining order-by 11:59 p.m. on February 26. Several hours before that deadline, the Government filed this application to vacate the District Court's February 25 order and requested an immediate administrative stay. THE CHIEF JUSTICE entered an administrative stay shortly before the 11:59 p.m. deadline and subsequently referred the application to the Court. The application is denied. Given that the deadline in the challenged order has now passed, and in light of the ongoing preliminary injunction proceedings, the District Court should clarify what obligations the Government must fulfill to ensure compliance with the temporary restraining order, with due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines. The order heretofore entered by THE CHIEF JUSTICE is vacated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiancyolrpahy5eevk7jckhjxanf3xodqpitrzmowz5o6ke7ukg7sq@jpeg)
March 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.
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Elon is firing HUNDREDS of highly skilled workers at Bonneville Power Administration.
Engineers, dispatchers, lineworkers. These positions are funded by PNW ratepayers—NOT from federal funding.
It doesn't save taxpayers a DIME! Our grid is at risk because Elon doesn't have a CLUE what BPA is.
Engineers, dispatchers, lineworkers. These positions are funded by PNW ratepayers—NOT from federal funding.
It doesn't save taxpayers a DIME! Our grid is at risk because Elon doesn't have a CLUE what BPA is.
February 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Elon is firing HUNDREDS of highly skilled workers at Bonneville Power Administration.
Engineers, dispatchers, lineworkers. These positions are funded by PNW ratepayers—NOT from federal funding.
It doesn't save taxpayers a DIME! Our grid is at risk because Elon doesn't have a CLUE what BPA is.
Engineers, dispatchers, lineworkers. These positions are funded by PNW ratepayers—NOT from federal funding.
It doesn't save taxpayers a DIME! Our grid is at risk because Elon doesn't have a CLUE what BPA is.
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i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
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I think Mendes is absolutely right: he still likes it, but 'it feels very linked to the person I was in the 90s.'
It's not a bad movie. In a lot of ways a very good one. But it's the last navel-gazing movie from a time when you could get away with that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/m...
It's not a bad movie. In a lot of ways a very good one. But it's the last navel-gazing movie from a time when you could get away with that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/m...
Oscars Rewind: How ‘American Beauty’ Lost Its Luster
At the 2000 Academy Awards, the film won five Oscars, including best picture. Then came 9/11, a tanking economy and Kevin Spacey.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I think Mendes is absolutely right: he still likes it, but 'it feels very linked to the person I was in the 90s.'
It's not a bad movie. In a lot of ways a very good one. But it's the last navel-gazing movie from a time when you could get away with that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/m...
It's not a bad movie. In a lot of ways a very good one. But it's the last navel-gazing movie from a time when you could get away with that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/m...