what’s my position on healthcare? let me respond to that in my extremely human voice
extremely satisfying seeing someone eat their laken-riley vote
Angie Craig, Peggy Flanagan spar over fraud, immigration in U.S. Senate debate
The DFL candidates butted heads during an MPR News debate over their records on key policy positions and sought to make the case that they were best suited to advance to the November ballot.
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bort@crushbort.bsky.social · 2mo agoit’s gonna be so nice to see angie craig lose
Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone
Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.
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I saw terrain at the first 40k function I attended that was the destroyed remains of plantation houses with a little sign that said something like 'the only heresy is a desire to return' and I cannot tell you how much I wish I'd taken a photo
300 followers: i am the modern day publius. my posts on bluesky will be preserved and debated by philosophers and political scientists for generations to come 30,000 followers: doing my geralt of rivia as a troubled teen mom bit again
BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Politico@politico.com · yesterday26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
I’m proud to announce today that after a years-long legal fight in federal court, the unfair “County Line” ballot in NJ is finally dead for good. Thanks to all who helped along the way. Power is being returned to the people. But as we celebrate today, the fight to fix NJ politics continues. THREAD
Chuck Edwards: At night when I look into the stars, I see your name written among them. I cannot bear to think of you in the arms of another, for you have captured my heart and soul. 23 year old staffer: you're highkey freaking me out rn periodt
we live in a culture where not only is this something you can freely say, it's a view held by everyone at the new york times, and cetera and cetera. im realizing it's a view held by friends and colleagues. colonial boomerang fucks you right in your head, among its many other properties
ive been putting up with some version of this talking point for my entire life. barely even notice it anymore. imagine if i said this about jews though. there will never be peace in the middle east until jews shed their genetic propensity for violence against mohammedeans. imagine anyone saying that
They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
The idea that social media users aren't pronounced enough about being pathetic whining losers runs so contrary to all of my lived experience online that I think this counts as gaslighting
New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterdayOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
He had this look in his eyes I’ve never seen in another cat. A sort of world weary, ironic detachment. It was so fucking funny. He looked so serious and he acted like a fucking clown.
I miss our cat, Ted. Some of you on here probably still remember him. He was a minor internet celebrity for a second, and when I worked for Ilhan, I did several fundraising drives where I would post pics of him in exchange for donation receipts and raised like $25,000.
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
Really great, excoriating look at the New Yorker article on the Biden admin and Palestine: citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-v...
News Brief: Very Serious New Yorker Article Launders Biden Officials’ Responsibility for Gaza…
Citations Needed | July 29, 2026 | Transcript
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the desire to somehow reform or rehabilitate a party that has never been anything but psychopaths of varying restraint must be something you’re born with. they’re in power stomping everyone’s faces in and you’re wondering how to make them more palatable to moderates
This is the perfect headline for ok magazine because I can’t have any reaction other than “ok”
OK! Magazine@okmagazine.com · 4d agoPatricia Heaton backed a petition urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be barred from New York City's 25th 9/11 anniversary.
They need to bring back intermissions for movies. The best part of the opera is taking a break in the middle to get a little coffee and a little snack and see what everyone else is wearing. I will accept a long movie if they add an intermission
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 4d agoPoll True or false a movie's ability to be rated 5 stars hinges directly on whether or not it has a runtime absolutely not a second longer than 120 minutes oh what's that we don't have polls weird well it's True
NYT pushing an alert for administrator change at an Ivy League university, just determined to be a parody of themselves
preventable diarrhea outbreak would be a beautiful name for a baby