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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8m

Daycares in our neighborhood are no longer answering their doors after morning drop-off. Parents have to call the daycare when they arrive and they let them in for pickup. It's insane how we live now.

Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 2h

ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.

#ice #chicago

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 3h

“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”

Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 8m

I have an idea.

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Nice Young Man @swolecialism.bsky.social · 7m

everybody knows you want to prioritize the guy with SPNKR launchers for these positions so they can handle the ghosts for you while you deal with the wraiths

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 20m

dawg what the fuck is this shit

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29m

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."

This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h

The Billionaires Who Tried—and Failed—to Stop Zohran Mamdani

Over 20 billionaires donated to super PACs supporting Cuomo or in opposition to the next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

time.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

The Israelis are genuinely not used to their relationship with the Anglosphere, and in particular the United States, being in any way contingent upon their treatment of the Palestinians. They do not know how to process that it will increasingly be the case and in all likelihood will just go crazier.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

You can't rebrand until you actually change the reality on the ground. It's bizarre that some people (on a variety of topics) don't seem to recognize this.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 3h

Full text of the Erdan post here. They are increasingly realizing that US-Israel relations are due for a change. I think they will struggle with the "rebrand" inasmuch as "younger" and "minority" Americans have protest repression in recent memory.

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 5h

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 1h

the thing about the Wide Awakes is not only is it a cool historical reference, but colloquially it's also resonant with, and a natural progression from, being woke

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Dunland National Party 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

When these people have lost we need to find a way to literally criminalise lying this much.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "The president is literally solving wars around the globe. I think we're up to nine."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

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The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 23h

“You’re all TRAITORS to your country!”

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 5h

if you start from the view that there's a policy compromise you can make that will calm people down, you can end up supporting some very authoritarian stuff very quickly

uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 2h

Destroying a lot of their own business in the process too!

Does RW CBS News still look like a good bet? Do audiences crave a RW WaPo? Is No DEI! really save your lagging sales?

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 2h

It's incredible to me how much last night showed how much most media and business leaders completely miscalculated by assuming a permanent shift.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

He's saying they're the most productive administration of all time while we're currently in the longest shutdown in the history of the country just 10 months into the term

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Johnson: When we go into the midterms, we’re very bullish on the outcome. We have an extraordinary record to run on. The first nine months of this Congress and this administration, arguably the most productive of all time.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3h

Do you have reason to believe that the services economy of the united states is structurally similar to the late soviets such that state operated grocers would result in shortages or are you just an economist making blithe and historically inaccurate comparisons for points online

Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 3h

This time will be different

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

remember all those 'project 2025 isn't actually real, you fools, you naifs' media pieces.

Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 4h

Amazing how much 2025 was a hyper correction for the fact that in 2024 voters clearly didn't know what they were voting for because the media didn't report on Trump's actual policies/voters refused to believe what they were voting for.

Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 6h

Between 2020 and 2024, no New Jersey county moved further right than Passaic County (11pts). At 43% it's also the most the most-Latino county in the state, and is among the least-white overall.

Last night, it moved 18pts to the left, surpassed only by Hudson County (the second-most Latino county)

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 4h

Mamdani won, and also Cuomo lost
aftermath.site/mamdani-cuomo-...

Zohran Mamdani walks down a street in Queens

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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 13h

A tweet from L Louise Lucas of a lace-trimmed heart with the text

Virginia is for Lovers
NOT SNITCHES

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 4h

i think the relentlessness has made the whole bit of transphobia really tiring for the average person. they see systems and structures failing them at every turn and then look to the news to see some ghoul wailing about "biological females" and it's like

hey man stop being weird i have bills

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14h

I don't know if it's just me, but I've gotten the sense recently that transphobia a political tool is already played out. Not only is it not a winner, but it really feels like the right overplayed their hand with anti-trans hate and people generally seem sick of it, sick of bulling running on hate.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 17h

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.

The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 5h

They thought "mass deportations" meant millions of cartel members getting shipped out, but now they're starting to realize that if Trump is going after random grandmas it's because either (A) there aren't millions of cartel members or (B) Trump is choosing not to deport them (and both are Bad).

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 6h

Every time Trump wins we get a round of takes that this is because American are all Nazis deep down but all the evidence is that Americans are morons who think “crime” is out of control and we just need to take down all the criminals, but don’t want it done to their neighbors.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.”

The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

I hope somebody had the sense to present tariffs as an unjustifiable violation of Native sovereignty to Gorsuch.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4h

If I had to guess right now (and it is premature!) I'd say the Supreme Court is going to strike down Trump's tariffs.

All three liberals are clearly against the government. Barrett too. Roberts leaning that way. And we haven't even gotten to tax-hater Gorsuch yet.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

This guy is seething so much that he's resorting back m to a racist smear that nobody has cared about since July

Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)
@agraybee
X.com
One day I hope Mamdani can explain why he kept his marriage a secret and what the plan was with that.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 4h

"but it's actually bad if SCOTUS stops the tariffs because it will make things suck less, thus blunting the blue wave" this might apply if Trump suddenly became a very sensible individual with a great sense of political strategy. if they strike them down he's gonna flip his shit & do bad things

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