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Leonard Leo, perhaps the man most responsible for the federal judiciary's lurch to the right - including the SCOTUS right-wing supermajority - is now apparently a "sleazebag" in Trump's eyes. 🤷‍♀️ In 2023, @andykroll.bsky.social led a massive deep dive on Leo for @propublica.org :

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Trump turns heel on the Federalist Society

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Commentary: It isn’t just the DEI or climate grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board. This means Ohio students will be denied opportunities for cutting-edge careers given to previous generations buff.ly/rvom6rH

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Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

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Why dress your Heroforge minis, when you can just pre-paint them in segments...

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Unless I see an editorial about how the Democratic Party should handle trans issues called "Defend Trans Rights Because It's The Right Thing To Do" or similar, I'm not reading it.

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I know it doesn't stop them from being exhausting but please know the reason there's a relentless stream of thinkpieces from centrists or right-leaning dems going DITCH THE TRANSES is because the public opinion as a whole is "just leave them alone, jesus" and they fucking hate that

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we have failed as a society to train people to communicate, the way we teach students to write (when we bother to) is the most bland, anodyne crap, all while making them go to college for reasons that even we can't explain beyond "you need it to get a job." Kids don't get why they're going.

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Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

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Opinion: Let's Capitulate To The Right. Surely This Will Be Fine just call transphobes weird freaks. they're being weird freaks when they obsess over bathrooms and children and pretend to care about sports. they're being weird freaks when they won't shut up about our junk. they're just weird freaks

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At what point do we start to consider how inherently valuable the ability to talk to people or internet wikis and archives are and maybe shouldn't be monetized the way they have been for decades

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NEW: We're about to enter the year's busiest stretch of elections (minus November...), with major races for governor, attorney general, mayor, sheriff, prosecutor... & even a showdown between MAGA and librarians. So I put together this guide of the 40 elections you should be watching. Explore!

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Replacing those fake AI book recommendations with actual, you-can-read-them-for-real book recommendations.

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I do not have the mental capacity to deal with this. Will someone hound them about this? Create a whole vertical devoted to taking the controversy? Call them everyday to ask? Or is that just for Black women?

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🚨 EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: We are calling for a boycott of TCGplayer to demand that eBay keeps the Authentication Center open and keeps 200 unionized jobs in Syracuse. #LayoffEBay #GreedBay TCG enthusiasts: don’t buy your cardboard from TCGplayer. 🧵

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Impact! Senators Ask DOJ to Probe Potential DOGE Conflicts of Interest at CFPB

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Can confirm. The lie generator that the world's largest search engine has forced on all users because "AI is the future" is confidently convinced that ... we are currently in the past.

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The stress is going to all four corners of his head :(

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Never a great sign when someone starts with the isolation and abandonment stuff, but when it's a supposed family member who self-identifies as a witch? #Spoilers #NewChampionsSpoilers

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NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Democratic senators argued that the potential conflicts “underscore what appears to be a pervasive problem with Elon Musk and DOGE employees trampling ethics rules and laws.”

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This is what the internet was made for 💖

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Everything wrong with DC centrists, in one convenient article from @thirdway.bsky.social.

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This is a story about faith, faith that the AI will always give them the right answers (because it's "controlled" by their ideological allies) and faith that the real science is just out of frame [of rigorous peer review], supporting their madness, laughing too

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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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The last sentence is, of course, wholly inconsistent with the American tradition of judicial independence. Nominees don’t work for the president or his attorney general and they can’t dictate what they will or won’t do.

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“He’s taken two all-expenses-paid trips to Israel, but can’t drive down the street and hold a town hall.” theintercept.com/2025/05/28/j...

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the people here probably already know this but really spread this far and wide: tell your normal offline friends and family to stop using ChatGPT for legal advice. it's happening constantly now. I'm always explaining to people why the advice this silly thing gave them is not real legal advice.

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Reminder: DOGE was never about "efficiency."

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Late Wed., Sen. Amy Klobuchar told us there is bipartisan support for AI rules and bipartisan oppo to the moratorium: “By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."

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This is really the perfect use of generative AI: to create a report whose purpose is solely to exist as A Report, which no one is supposed to read because no one involved in its creation even pretends to have the slightest genuine interest in the actual facts at issue.

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On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

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Hey, cool. A huge chunk of The Real Ghostbusters is on The Roku Channel. Over 100 episodes for free. ghostbustersnews.com/2025/05/27/o...

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Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the videogames industry is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

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This should be handy.

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Thanks to Trump's latest flurry of pardons, he's now pardoned most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century. The new total is nine — and counting. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Look, I get some people are sad that Ed Gale (the actor in the Howard the Duck costume in the 1980s movie, as well as the actor who was sometimes Chucky in running scenes, etc) died... ... but he also got caught up in a child porn sting so honestly, fuckin' bye.

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Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

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