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Jessica Pieklo

@hegemommy.bsky.social

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SVP and Executive Editor at Rewire News Group. Co-host of the Boom! Lawyered podcast. SCOTUS whisperer. Dog lady. Soccer fan. Loud talker.

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Ummm hi I actually forgot to open Bluesky for.... a while now

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I really want to like and use this app more but I really need it to work better than Twitter in 2009 pls its barely better than Twitter now

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If opening statements are any indication, it's going to be a hell of an impeachment trial for Ken Paxton, whose entire counsel team appear to be either drunk or winging it, or possibly both

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Then NPR host asks, “do you get the feeling some of these Proud Boys feel real repentance?” Give me a break. This is the saccharine sentimentality of centrist journalism—“centrist” in the sense that it cannot even imagine the center won’t hold.

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Listening to an NPR correspondent say that Proud Boy judge Tim Kelly (Trump appointee, Grassley alum) has been giving “relatively high sentences”—um, no. He has time and again plunged beneath even basic sentencing guidelines.

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BIG NEWS: A federal court in the Milligan case is tired of the Alabama leg's refusal to draw a map that contains a 2nd majority Black district—even though the Alabama leg has been told time and again—so the map is out of the leg's hands and a special master and cartographer will draw it.

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Oh you know doing the very regular thing I do, talking about pronatalism and fascism in this country what about you

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Republicans' top plan to mitigate the devastating harm of abortion bans is to ... funnel taxpayer dollars back into their own pockets (and church groups) by increasing gov't funding for anti-abortion CPCs.

Thrilled to see @garnethenderson.bsky.social dig into the numbers:

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Wow: SELF magazine has published a series called “Let Them Play,” featuring stories about trans youth and sports, written and edited entirely by queer and trans people.

This is how you change media.

www.self.com/package/let-...

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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There's an elephant in the room at tonight's GOP debate, and all of the hot takes and round-ups and talking head reaction spots need to be read with that elephant in mind: What stops Trump from Big Lying the RNC?

@danshafer.bsky.social with the hard truths here:

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Extremely bad news for the South and Midwest this week. A total abortion ban went into effect in Indiana, and now a six-week ban will go into effect in South Carolina. These were two of the last states in their respective regions where abortion was more accessible.

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Okay I think we should consider a pasta group for 2023 where we share recipes and then it becomes a great excuse for a monthly video hang out with food and wine

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It's me, remembering to come over here and check things out again lord have mercy

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I don’t know who needs to hear this (besides Matt Yglesias), but if your response to a news cycle that includes a woman getting murdered for flying a Pride flag is to say maybe we need to not defend trans people so much, I hope you trip and fall on a thumbtack spill

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