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• pronouns they/them • old & married (to @zomduckie.bsky.social) • recovering academic • stats, poli sci, politics, theology, bad jokes • be nice & do what you can to help others • super duper stitious

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I keep thinking about this weird thing where the DOJ is investigating Jerome Powell for allegedly lying to the Senate about renovations (even though no senators have accused him of lying), while Kristi Noem told the Senate Trump approved her $220M ad campaign and Trump himself said that wasn't true.

07.03.2026 03:50 👍 743 🔁 167 💬 16 📌 3

I dunno, if I were Jeffrey Goldberg, author of "How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?' (2008), I might pause for a moment before cheerleading another war in the same region.

07.03.2026 05:36 👍 640 🔁 90 💬 26 📌 1

imagine the media coverage of the Iran withdrawal (if it gets to that point)

07.03.2026 03:29 👍 586 🔁 65 💬 4 📌 1
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CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

07.03.2026 03:03 👍 3734 🔁 1941 💬 99 📌 119
United States Onurt of Appeals
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
No. 26-5050
September Term, 2025
1:25-cv-02471-ACR
Filed On: March 6, 2026
Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al.,
Appellees
V.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al.,
Appellants
BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges
ORDER
Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the
opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is
ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.

United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.

Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.

Haiti TPS is safe for now.

07.03.2026 03:58 👍 2289 🔁 631 💬 17 📌 29

this is explicitly genocidal

07.03.2026 03:44 👍 2687 🔁 598 💬 81 📌 15

all the more pool for me, fuckos

07.03.2026 06:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

who up pondering the orb

07.03.2026 05:02 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

something's very definitely going on at fox news HQ

07.03.2026 00:07 👍 428 🔁 70 💬 18 📌 1

I am always saying this

07.03.2026 04:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

many are saying

07.03.2026 03:43 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

couldn't happen to a worse person, rest in piss bozo

07.03.2026 03:05 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

07.03.2026 02:54 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

07.03.2026 00:04 👍 5523 🔁 1060 💬 118 📌 39

LMFAOOO

07.03.2026 01:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

True liberal internationalism has never been tried

06.03.2026 22:17 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

this is something of a problem because it sure hasn't been underpinned by anything else

06.03.2026 22:13 👍 58 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

You don't hate them enough

07.03.2026 00:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yo dawg I heard you like Lehman moments

06.03.2026 20:12 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I actually didn't until this tweet, TIL 🙏

(I haven't gotten any new ink in like 16 or 17 years or something)

07.03.2026 00:09 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can only hope that this squeezes car dealerships more than most

I don't think that would be true?
But I want it to be

07.03.2026 00:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Constitutional Amendment to make Zohran president when

06.03.2026 23:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

there are a large number of ways in which the republican party is learning, apparently for the first time, that your adversary gets a vote

06.03.2026 20:01 👍 585 🔁 80 💬 20 📌 3

He's yelling at the dumbass Fox News guy. Definitely starting to feel the heat. Will it matter? Who knows, but he's not comfy right now and that makes me feel good.

06.03.2026 23:11 👍 5543 🔁 794 💬 172 📌 18

bro was that a furry in the new pitt episode

06.03.2026 23:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

> WFW
> Store not too far
> Park & ride fairly close if I need downtown

It's hard to be in a good spot with this in Texas, but I probably got pretty close to as good a hand as you can get

06.03.2026 23:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not really, she's just misleadingly clipped a lot

Almost every bad quote you've heard from her was taken out of context, and she's actually done some good legislatively

(I used to think as you do until someone told me this and I started looking stuff up)

06.03.2026 23:00 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
06.03.2026 17:25 👍 68 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

it can only good happen :)

06.03.2026 21:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sure, that's why I ended my reply with "Maybe you still find it unacceptable, but it doesn't say what that account said it did"

06.03.2026 21:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0