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Saruman's industrial growth policies
@midwesternterroir.bsky.social
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
midwesternterroir.bsky.social
All health insurance companies are irredeemably evil enterprises, against which no act is immoral or unjust.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.

His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

(Published Feb. 2023)
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
www.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
One hard part of the literacy problem in the United States is there are a lot of people -- some of them with college degrees and beyond -- who don't realize that they are bad at reading

I don't know how to reach those people
November 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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followers4algernon.bsky.social
This edible aint shit…. *takes another*

𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
midwesternterroir.bsky.social
lol

lmao, even

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
U.S. Reviews Biden Asylum Cases After Shooting A Homeland Security Department spokeswoman accused the previous administration of failing to vet asylum applicants "on a massive scale." The man identified as the suspect was said to have worked with the C.I.A. and fled Afghanistan in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, a program born after the sudden fall of the Afghan government in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces and the o Taliban took control of the country. The suspect received asylum from the U.S. government in April, according to three people with knowledge of the case who were not authorized to speak publicly.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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zackbornstein.bsky.social
Safe topics for your family Thanksgiving:
-Hamas
-Everyone’s weight, net worth
-Lives that matter
-Only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun
-Who AI will replace first
-Who controls a woman’s body
-Sydney Sweeney ads
-Best ethnicity
-The Jews, general or specific
-Trump hot?
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
That, & - I don’t care if this sounds ableist to some, these statements apply to him and no one else - anyone who watches a fifteen second video of him talking and wiggling in his seat who doesn’t see a fucking charmless weirdo with negative charisma is a ready, willing victim of a wallet inspector
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8d
The women drawn to RFK Jr. see an intoxicating cocktail of romance and danger—whether it's getting attacked by a yak or texting about taking metaphorical bullets for each other.

But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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sweetmax.bsky.social
man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
bored ape nft. a monkey in an electric teal hoodie with white drawstrings, the monkie has headphones around his neck and looks like they don’t want to make small talk
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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edzitron.com
Tweet that says "my "we're not enron" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt"
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents. In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much. Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death. If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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tittyjenkins.bsky.social
Bitch what the fuck?!
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers inform a federal judge about the Washington Post's bombshell: The government's claim that Costa Rica will no longer accept Abrego has been exposed as a lie.

More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia respectfully submits this supplemental notice to provide the Court with additional facts relevant to his motion to dismiss for vindictive and selective prosecution. Recent developments in Mr. Abrego’s habeas case before Judge Xinis, concerning the government’s misrepresentations about whether Costa Rica would accept Mr. Abrego upon his removal, make crystal clear that the government is willing to mislead the courts and defy court orders intended to shed light on its conduct, all in service of punishing Mr. Abrego. This provides further proof—if any were needed—of the government’s vindictiveness toward Mr. Abrego and underscores the need for discovery into the motivations of the high-level officials who initiated this prosecution and are ultimately responsible for the government’s misrepresentations regarding Mr. Abrego’s third-country removal."
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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miss-machete.bsky.social
The Thing (1982) is a Thanksgiving movie.

Thought of it while prepping a Friendsgiving turkey today.
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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cpsc.gov
KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing.

That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.

Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11d
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johnjharwood.bsky.social John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social · 11d
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
MAGA Rules: When you know you’re in deep trouble, change your story... abcnews.go.com/US/doj-halli...
In reversal, DOJ says Comey indictment was reviewed by full grand jury
In a reversal from what the DOJ represented in court Wednesday, prosecutors said Thursday that the full grand jury reviewed the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey.
abcnews.go.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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toneloaf.bsky.social
Did we conspire? Well we can't discuss that with a Federal Judge.
a man says okay but that 's worse in front of a woman
Alt: a man says "Okay but that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right?"
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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flowersofparadise.bsky.social
She's REALLY trying to make it seem like a bad thing is happening with the frog behind her standing like this 😂😂😂😂
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM