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datarules.bsky.social
Former Sommelier; graduate student studying political science; PhD hopeful; thesis on immunity of billionaire wealth from federal law; BLIP proof forthcoming. Campaign management/policy/research consultant. I love my cats and dog. Our country is f***ed.
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There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

To be clear: Trump is dispatching the troops in response to protests *the Los Angeles Police Department* has described as peaceful

JD Vance now wants to use the chaos ICE is causing in Los Angeles as pretext to pressure politicians to pass the Republican budget bill that will saddle Americans with trillions of dollars of debt, skyrocket the deficit, take away people’s healthcare, and give massive tax breaks to the wealthy.

fucking babies

Trump is deploying the military on U.S. soil to crush the first amendment rights of citizens protesting his administration’s illegal abduction and trafficking, and detention of immigrants. This is the authoritarianism we warned about.

Dominican man thrown to the ground and arrested outside immigration courtroom just now, an activist, who is a US citizen was also taken away in the chaotic scene. A lawyer later tried to ask the remaining agents where the activist was taken. "you just arrested a US citizen which is illegal."

I think I have a winner for "least likely social media app I'm now seeing people organize anti-ICE protests on":

This is the second day in a row that federal agents shot us both

The number of people in ICE detention has grown, and detention facilities are over capacity. As a result, the government is intensifying its hunt for more space — and local police are playing a bigger role.

#ICE #Gestapo

With SCOTUS allowing DOGE access to sensitive social security information (while shielding DOGE from having to turn over its info), I'm ... feeling pretty good about some of the stuff I said on @thedailyshow.com (ca. 9:05): www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFE... & for more: bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...

Is this the Trump parade prep?

Joe Rogan always looks like he’s being viewed on the back of a spoon.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

i could go on another rant about why majoring in something based on job prospects is a fool's errand, or I could just say that you should major in what you love because it will help you enjoy learning—and getting better at learning itself is what will really serve you futurism.com/computer-sci...

NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

Creep.

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

If a Muslim in the US publicly called for a missile strike on a famous celebrity activist onboard a civilian ship or plane, the FBI would be investigating them for terrorism. But a rich white guy gets to incite violence without any consequences 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

AOC: "the girls are fighting aren't they". 🤣

She is a complete and utter idiot‼️🤦🏻‍♀️ There ARE And ALWAYS WILL BE 3 Branches of Government, Whether You Like It,Or NOT‼️ There WILL BE Checks and Balances‼️💯💥😡

“Harvard University’s $120B endowment is ammunition for our enemies, & we can’t let the enemy have that much ammunition or we’re gonna lose” - JD Vance, May 2021, at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life (Vance launched his US Senate campaign less than 2 months later. 1/

So sad to see @crooked.com platform that hack @jaketapper.bsky.social I’m no fan of Biden, whatsoever, but holy shit this book is a joke and just an attention/profit grab during some serious mayhem.

ABC reports that a federal grand jury has indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and that the Trump administration is planning to return him to the U.S., from El Salvador, to prosecute him: abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

81 years ago today, 100,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy to free Europe from fascist tyranny.

“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

Ridiculous. Absurd. He's inexperienced and incompetent, putting the nation's security at risk.

Newsmax basically said that Trump is a pedophile. bsky.app/profile/atru...

woah: “Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen…”

On the Trump-Musk feud, @aoc.bsky.social: “Oh man, the girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

When all is said and done, Azeen Ghorayshi at the New York Times will go down in history as helping to cause incalculable damage to an entire generation of trans kids. I hope advancing her career is worth dead trans kids. She's absolute scum.

"As we celebrate Pride let us pause for a moment to remember. This is an image of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget." #PRIDE #AIDS #HIV

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

One of the more revealing end-stage Biden stories was the WH trying to walk KJP out into a cushy Emily's List job, and KJP deciding -- no, I'll stay here and stand to the side while John Kirby takes questions. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Of members of Congress age 70+, note how many more are Democrats

We have a winner…..

It's a great day to be an American academic securing interviews with members of Merz's CDU. Not embarrassing at all.

Turning the NEH into an AEI research wing while also riddling the NEH website with dumb typos

They're kidnapping kids dawg

Ticket sales and subscription revenue at the Kennedy Center have fallen sharply since Trump made himself chairman. Single-ticket sales were down roughly 50%. Subscriptions revenue down 82% for theater and 57% for dance. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/a...