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Kawika
@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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Only 8 justices will take the bench for the 1st argument of the term

Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County follows a trend of environmental cases where justices have recused after their financial connections to oil companies were questioned www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
Supreme Court spotlights fight against climate action in term opener
Climate change is on the docket next week as the justices confront limits on pollution controls and who should face consequences for the effects of fossil fuel emissions.
www.courthousenews.com
October 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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JD Vance defends Trump's taxpayer-funded propaganda videos: "If you look at the message of those advertisements, they are not partisan, it's not like we're advocating for a particular candidate"
October 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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October 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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October 5, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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To be scrupulously fair to Alito, he doesn't really believe women are people, so I guess it isn't surprising that he doesn't think they have concrete reliance interests.
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests.

Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade.

Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
www.cbsnews.com
October 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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Listen to Willie 🎶🇺🇸
October 4, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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Trump: "I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than anybody in this room. Anybody anywhere in the world. Well, there's a woman sitting over there. She's a housewife but she's very good. She got a natural instinct for business. She perhaps knows more than I do but I don't think so"
October 4, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Trump tells his fans in Ohio that "refund checks for $500 each" from the government to them are "already in the mail"
October 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Does he not realize he is warning of a Trump Great Depression
Trump: "Trump: "If the Democrats win, you will end up in a 1929-style economic depression. We will have a disaster on our hands. Had I lost the election, had we had Kamala win, I believe our country would be destroyed. If the Republicans win, you will each have $5,000 in your pocket."
October 4, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Trump: "Vote yes on Issue 3 to require voter ID…Even if you hate Jon Husted, even if you hate Vivek Ramaswamy, you're going to go out, you're going to vote, and then you're going to pull their triggers, but nobody hates them."
October 4, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Trump: "Would anybody like the hear The Snake? We gotta whip it out. This is in honor of Springfield, Ohio, a quaint little town of 32,000 where they took in 35,000 and put them into Springfield. It didn't work out too well and they're being removed."

The crowd starts chanting "De-port! De-port!"
October 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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Trump: "Talafreako in Texas. He's been a VAGEN all his life. He's campaigned on it. He's a VAGEN. VAGEN. I didn't even know what the hell a VAGEN was. A VAGEN is vegetables."
October 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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"I mean, I can't stand the guy, but trust me you're gonna love him!!!!"

How stupid do they think these Republican voters are?

Er, don't answer that ...
October 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Post-human necropolitics by the numbers
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration
www.economist.com
October 4, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Trump: "I was the one that did Space Force. That was me in the first term. When Sleepy Joe came in, he had no idea what the hell it was. He wanted to end it and the military said, 'No, we're not gonna let you do that.' Can you believe it? They told him no."
October 4, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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According to NASA: Arctic sea ice area/volume are shrinking by about 4.7%-12.1% per decade, with a total loss of over 50% since satellite records began. The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing roughly 261 to 264bn tons of ice pa. The Antarctic Ice Sheet sheds approximately 130 to 135bn tons of ice pa
Trump: "Remember the global warming hoax? But the problem is the ice caps have gotten bigger. Everybody said 'we're all gonna be dead.' I think it was AOC."
October 4, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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The popular 386-mg high dose aspirin you find at the CVS
Trump: "I take an aspirin a day. I don't know if it works but psychologically I need it. It thins the hell out of your blood I guess ... They want me to go down to the 80. I take the 386. I don't know what the hell it is. It's a monster. They said, 'Sir, you don't need that!'"
October 4, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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Democratic senators: "We seek common ground with our Republican colleagues so that we may collaborate on bipartisan legislation"
Trump: "We're gonna win big, and we've gonna shove it up their ass"
October 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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Trump shouts out Jon Gruden, who is in the crowd for the Trump rally in Dayton, Ohio
October 3, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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“.. The cost to insure the debt of both companies against default .. is increasingly moving in lock-step, a sign investors are beginning to treat the two credits as intertwined.

“.. You have to consider your total Larry Ellison risk,” Goodman said.

#$ORCL #$PSKY
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
October 3, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Trump: "They've impeached me, they arrested me, and they even tried to kill me, I guess"
October 3, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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October 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Imagine if President Obama had flown around the country with a substitute wife because Michelle hated his guts. The media would have filed impeachment papers themselves
Trump's human binky made the trip to Alabama with him

#TravelWithNatalie

(Brendan Smialowski/Getty)
October 3, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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Startup Star Catcher is launching a system that, if successful, would be the first time energy has been beamed between two separate spacecraft.
Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy
Startup Star Catcher is launching a system that, if successful, would be the first time energy has been beamed between two separate spacecraft.
buff.ly
October 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM