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Just a lawyer, I suppose. He/him. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦=BC πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²=AL/MN Nothing I do or say on Bluesky is an endorsement of anything, nor is it legal advice.

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The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

07.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 1564 πŸ” 383 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 6
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Holy shit. These people shouldn’t be near sharp cutlery, let alone seats of power.

Mullin: β€œThis is war.”

Raju: β€œYou concede this is war?”

Mullin: β€œWe haven’t declared war.”

Reporter: β€œYou just said it’s a war.”

Mullin: *stammer

03.03.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 2244 πŸ” 618 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 171

Re-upping from yesterday: If you're in DC-land today, it's the final day of a phenomenal exhibit at National Gallery, treasures of Aboriginal art. You won't regret it.

01.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 160 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

The people behind this shit aren't thinking, "We could have it all!" They're thinking, "I could have it all!"

26.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

USAGM emails VOA staff (who mostly haven’t been allowed to work for nearly a year) offering them deferred resignations, warning of mass terminations (currently on hold due to court action) β€œas soon as we are able.”

26.02.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

If I may potentially make this worse - I think the risk here isn’t that AI is going to nuke us, it’s that there’s a kind of guy who is going to see this and think that we should be more willing to use nukes because the computer thinks it’s a good idea

25.02.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 1315 πŸ” 193 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 11

Set your calendar, I'm willing to bet some marketing folks put out a Super Bowl LXI advertisement with this premise

25.02.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I firmly believe, we gave morning people far too much power.

25.02.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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VSU Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process Campus security escorted the professorsβ€”five tenured and one tenure-trackβ€”to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals.

Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job

25.02.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 138 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 9

kind of like watching your car go up in flames on the side of the highway. undeniably mesmerizing, but also it's your car

07.04.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 3246 πŸ” 500 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 19
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

20.02.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 23763 πŸ” 4856 πŸ’¬ 175 πŸ“Œ 118
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Labi Siffre Announces First Album in 28 Years, Shares New Song The 80-year-old British folk musician will return with the appropriately titled Unfinished Business

Bruh. Labi Siffre has a new album?!!

pitchfork.com/news/labi-si...

17.02.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

The funny thing is that James Talarico comes off in the Colbert interview as an unremarkable Democratic state legislator, no real stand-out positions or drama.

His interview almost certainly would have flown entirely under the radar and been forgotten in a day if CBS hadn't Streisand-effected it.

17.02.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the guide πŸ‘‡

15.02.2026 05:21 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

RFK Jr.'s dismantling of vaccines and preventative care actually makes sense if you view it as a jobs program for health care providers.

11.02.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This now-canceled airspace shutdown, from the beginning, reeked of a decision made by people who did not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions.

The idea that this might be due to confused officials misunderstanding other confused officials isn't surprising at all.

11.02.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

10.02.2026 10:09 πŸ‘ 8386 πŸ” 4447 πŸ’¬ 161 πŸ“Œ 473
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FAA lifts temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, saying all flights to resume The agency says it will ground all flights to and from the airport for "special security reasons."

Weird!

11.02.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
Hi y’all. El Paso City Councilmember here but also fellow avgeek. Not a usual sub for me, but here we are. We’re all trying to work out why this crazy NOTAM was issued. What I know so far (as of midnight zero six local Wednesday):

β€’ It isn’t a typo or an error. FAA issued this NOTAM intentionally as written.

β€’ Nobody local got advance notice. And I mean nobody β€” neither civilian nor military leadership.

β€’ Military does not have carte blanche exemption. Army is fretting about their flights tomorrow just as much as everyone else.

β€’ Albuquerque Center did not get advance notice.

Hi y’all. El Paso City Councilmember here but also fellow avgeek. Not a usual sub for me, but here we are. We’re all trying to work out why this crazy NOTAM was issued. What I know so far (as of midnight zero six local Wednesday): β€’ It isn’t a typo or an error. FAA issued this NOTAM intentionally as written. β€’ Nobody local got advance notice. And I mean nobody β€” neither civilian nor military leadership. β€’ Military does not have carte blanche exemption. Army is fretting about their flights tomorrow just as much as everyone else. β€’ Albuquerque Center did not get advance notice.

Post from an El Paso city councilor on one of the aviation subreddits

11.02.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 1003 πŸ” 278 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 52

ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.

11.02.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 853 πŸ” 288 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 10
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im so sorry..

that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee

16.01.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 2097 πŸ” 555 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 79

Sorry, I am being told that is actually "Kid" Rock

09.02.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate the Weekend-at-Bernie's effort here, but Charlie Kirk's looking pretty rough in that picture

09.02.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

New Quinnipiac poll:

63% of voters disapprove of ICE

60% want ICE out of Minneapolis

58% want Kristi Noem removed from office

05.02.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 4945 πŸ” 1343 πŸ’¬ 204 πŸ“Œ 112
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Justice Department review found Trump ally Ed Martin improperly leaked grand jury material in probe of president’s foes | CNN Politics A Justice Department review found that Ed Martin improperly handled grand jury materials that were part of an investigation targeting Donald Trump’s political enemies, at least two sources familiar wi...

BREAKING: Ed Martin was found, per CNN below, by DOJ to have violated GJ secrecy and also apparently lied about it.

If the reporting is accurate, both are federal crimes. Will Martin be charged, given how quick a trigger this DOJ has re Letitia James & James Comey?
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/p...

05.02.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 795 πŸ” 268 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 13

i can't believe that after a decade of this bullshit the framing of all this trump authoritarian blather is still "omg what if he does this" and not "this is prohibited by 250 years of american history and also the constitution"

03.02.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 715 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

I can’t get over how increasingly desperate and worried district judges are β€” they are doing all the right things β€” and how they’re being betrayed by appellate judges and a Supreme Court, both too cowardly to stand behind their decisions.

31.01.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 2369 πŸ” 614 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 7

I've been happy this week to see that some people have caught up to the fact that in MN and across the country, the resistance to fascism has actually BUILT ON what came before. The networks created in 2020 and earlier have been reactivated, expanded etc...

01.02.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 847 πŸ” 154 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

sure they’re tear-gassing toddlers but what do the polls say

01.02.2026 04:32 πŸ‘ 3224 πŸ” 518 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 18

People need to understand that this protest was approved by city. The fact that the public still got gassed & flash bangs shows that city does NOT have the public’s back.

01.02.2026 03:18 πŸ‘ 442 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2