Tristan Palmgren

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Author of Marvel Prose Novels (Domino: Strays, Outlaw: Relentless, Siege of X-41), and Quietus and Terminus, science fiction novels set during the Black Death. Newest: Squirrel Girl Universe, out now! Somehow on Bluesky now. They/them.

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The Allied advance continues.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Ian Boudreau

I need someone to refill the juice reward mechanism please

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Jonathan Bernstein

my takeaway from a lot of this—substantive "what should the dems do" questions aside because I have no idea—is that people are incredibly weird about aging and disability

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Gentle reminder to all the protagonists out there to release the breath you don't know you're holding.

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Important to realize as we try to retain civility on Bluesky that all the stuff we say to each other will have literally zero impact on whether Biden bows out or not, we’re just hanging around yapping about politics like a bunch of old Greek guys at a sidewalk cafe, no need to take it personally

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Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit

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I still think this and I try to keep it in mind even while 80% of my feed is people expressing outrage and vitriol at anyone who isn’t wholeheartedly promoting some specific opinion about the best path forward for the world

I really do believe that most people are basically good, mean well, and want to have a positive impact on the world

A good day to stress out and carefully measure the pros and cons of a weighty problem that I have absolutely no control over whatsoever.

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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

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Every day I get closer to the exact amount of being on the computer that will cure anxiety

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Part of a good thread that illustrates why I don’t hang out on Twitter/X anymore

There was an even bigger difference in the comments received. All on Threads and all but one here were positive, constructive, or neutral (one person was just being a jerk, not a troll). Only 18% on X were positive or neutral. The rest were negative, many highly so.

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Just as fearlessness isn't "not having fear" it's "keeping going in spite of your fear" being hopeful isn't "being blind to the situation" it's "continuing to push despite the odds."

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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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It has been five days since the debate and I have yet to see a single working journalist or columnist even remark upon how almost every answer Trump gave at the debate was openly racist towards Hispanics/Latinos. We, apparently, are a demographic not worth defending. (NOTE: not a comment on Brooke)

Something real bad is happening over on Twitter holy shit. I just saw some real bad tweets about immigrants from folks I had previously thought were anti-racist progressives

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My new Arkham Horror novel, Herald of Ruin, is out today! It's got feuds, heists, banishments, treachery, non-Euclidean basements, and a variable number of dogs www.amazon.com/Herald-Ruin-...

Herald of Ruin: The Sanford Files (2) (Arkham Horror): Pratt, Tim: 9781839082979: Amazon.com: Bookswww.amazon.com Herald of Ruin: The Sanford Files (2) (Arkham Horror) [Pratt, Tim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Herald of Ruin: The Sanford Files (2) (Arkham Horror)

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the President's powers to help people's pocketbooks through, say, student loan forgiveness? overreach, tyrannical the President's powers to help his own pocketbook by selling pardons or using the awesome powers of his office to commit bald-faced fraud? approved, good, immune from prosecution

Wanna use it to do good? Too bad. It’s only if the President specifically wants to do some crimes, the only benefit of which would be personal enrichment.

It's sure been a long seven months since Thursday.

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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.

right. the president could order troops to suppress protesters using live fire and the supreme court would extend that absolute immunity

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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.”

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “Nanny Ogg was basically a law-abiding person when she had no reason to break the law, and therefore had that kind of person’s attitude to law-enforcement officers, which was one of deep and permanent distrust.”

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

6 Justices seem to think that a President Trump would never target them should they ever do anything he dislikes. The path to autocracy is littered with discarded quislings, none of whom ever thought *they* would be the ones underfoot.

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I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop

look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.

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This just about sums up the outcome of this SCOTUS term.

Federal agencies can't do anything, but a president can do anything.

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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.

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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.

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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

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Sotomayor: