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Patrick Dark

@patrick.dark.name

Wake up, Donald!

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16m

But Sleepy Joe!

November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM

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John DesMarteau MD FACA

@jdesmarteau.com

Exactly my conclusion. Even if Congress somehow voted to extend the ACA subsidies, Trump would veto the bill because he hates Obama and the ACA is Obamacare. Congress would not have a veto-proof majority if it actually did pass extension of the ACA subsidies. So there’s that.

November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM

Patrick Dark

@patrick.dark.name

King Trump has “concepts of a plan”, I’m sure.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Trump on Air Traffic Controllers: The one’s that stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus.

Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?

Trump: I don't know.

November 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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Bethany Black

@bethanyblack.bsky.social

Lower the maximum wage.

November 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

👇👇

November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM

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John Collins

@logicallyjc.bsky.social

They are so good at this.

November 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM

Patrick Dark

@patrick.dark.name

It’s amusing that what passes for intellectual discourse in the Republican Party is whether or not it’s appropriate to cancel neo-Nazis. Seems like a no-brainer, but they can’t decide. And some are cancelling the Jews instead.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 4d

Meet Will Donahue, the founder and chairman of the College Republicans of America. After Tucker Carlson’s softball interview of Nick Fuentes, Donahue says that Tucker’s critics are the problem. Alrighty then. 1/ x.com/realwilldona...

November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM

Patrick Dark

@patrick.dark.name

Kind of sad when an American court essentially says that deliberately insulting a child is considered a fundamental right worthy of constitutional free speech protection.

”Misgendering” is not a political viewpoint. Yet here we are with the First Amendment being perverted for destructive ends.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.

Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.

OPINION
MURPHY, Circuit Judge. An Ohio public school district bars its students from referring to transgender and nonbinary classmates using the pronouns that match their biological sex if the classmates prefer to go by different pronouns. The plaintiff in this case has parent and student members who believe that a person's sex is immutable. The members want to express this view by using biological pronouns. And they believe that they would convey a falsehood —that a person's gender is fluid—if they use preferred pronouns. So the plaintiff challenged the school district's speech ban on behalf of its members under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause.
This case about pronouns pits two important interests against each other. On the one hand, the school district has prohibited speech (biological pronouns) that expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern. And because the district requires other speech (preferred pronouns) that expresses a competing view, it has discriminated based on its students' viewpoints. Its approach thus raises serious free-speech concerns. On the other hand, the school district rightly responds that it has a duty to protect all students- including transgender and nonbinary students— from bullying and harassment. And this protection, while necessarily restricting speech, does not violate the Free Speech Clause. So which of these competing concerns should prevail in this case?

The Supreme Court's cases provide a clear answer. A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities or infringe the legal "rights of others" in the school community. Tinker
v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). In this case's current posture, the school district has fallen far short of meeting this demanding standard. It introduced no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights. The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view. We thus reverse and remand
Case: 23-3630
Document: 253-2
Filed: 11/06/2025
Page: 4
No. 23-3630
Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc.
Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al.
Page 4
for the entry of an appropriately tailored preliminary injunction barring the district from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns. Yet nothing we say here forecloses the district from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against the abuse of transgender students just as it enforces those policies against the abuse of all other students.

November 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM

Patrick Dark

@patrick.dark.name

I remember back in the day when people thought it was outrageous that McDonald’s workers be paid $15/hour.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 4d

If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS

This is his part-time job

November 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM

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Tyler King

@tyleraking.com

The blacklist is back just as Hollywood is contracting and right-wing billionaires are capturing every broadcaster and studio. At this rate, mainstream entertainment as we’ve known it will be exclusively state media before these four years are up.

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 4d

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.

Does this sound familiar?

Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel

It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.

www.worldofreel.com

November 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM

Patrick Dark

@patrick.dark.name

I’m of the persuasion that the $300 million “ballroom” is a cover for King Trump’s desire for a throne room.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

Trump has mostly avoided the effects of his administration’s most damaging decisions, aided by the media bubble that surrounds him. But the shutdown, already a GOP liability, is becoming harder to dismiss.
www.pbump.net/o/the-shutdo...

The shutdown is no longer ignorable

You can see why President Trump might not have been particularly worried about the government shutting down last month. During his first term in office, the government shutdown twice, once setting a n...

www.pbump.net

November 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM

Patrick Dark

@patrick.dark.name

A summation of the Trump monarchy:

Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 4d

Pulitzer Prize photo right here.

November 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

screenshot from Politico article linked below:

"“If you don’t terminate the filibuster, you’ll be in bad shape,” he told them over breakfast in the State Dining Room.

It was classic Trump dominance theater, like many other occasions this year where he successfully muscled recalcitrant Republicans to confirm controversial nominees, support divisive policies and enact sweeping domestic policy legislation.

But upon returning to the Capitol, the senators made it very clear: They planned to blow Trump off. One GOP senator, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, laughed out loud when asked about the anti-filibuster push.

Welcome to the dawn of Trump’s lame duck era."

November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM

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Aaron Sojourner

@aaronsojourner.org

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate

This streak dies tomorrow

Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months

This blind spot will remain forever

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 4d

Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.

On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.

This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.

Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...

November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva….

#TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM

Patrick Dark

@patrick.dark.name

More evidence that the The New York Times—the United States’ so-called “paper of record”—has become irrelevant in the arena of political discourse.

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 5d

ffs, @nytimes.com

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
Did Women Ruin the Workplace?

November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM

Patrick Dark

@patrick.dark.name

Hilarious that Donald Trump’s Army would be begging for food from a socialist country while Republicans work to end the socialist food assistance program in the United States and Trump is building a $300 million ballroom and thumbs his nose at the working class with Great Gatsby-themed parties.

Jerrad Christian @jerradchristian.bsky.social · 5d

The US Army was telling active duty soldiers to get food from food banks in Germany. They removed it.

WE aren't socialist, but certainly willing to mooch off other nations socialist programs.

PATHETIC.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Ohio #Military #Veteran #UnitedStates #FoodSecurityForAll #Shutdown2025

Instructions from the US Army for places US soldiers can get food from German food banks.

November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Houston Chronicle

@houstonchronicle.com

The race to fill Texas’ historic 18th Congressional District seat is headed to a runoff, after none of the candidates got 50% of the vote.

Read more here: www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...