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Alex Schmidt
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 8h
"What stood out were the words of power, of the willingness to fight, of revolution."

@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech, filled with the "inspiring hope-and-change flavor of Obama, but it was all gripped in a fist."
Zohran Mamdani's Win—A Rare and Beautiful Moment In War
Can good things happen? Last night's victory in New York City suggests they can.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h
gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it
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1-900-HOTDOG @1900hotdog.bsky.social · 12h
If you check out our YouTube channel, you might see Pierce Brosnan this week! He's not on it, but who knows anything is possible in the mystical realm of our YouTube podcast. @alexschmidty.bsky.social, @brockway.bsky.social, and @seanbaby.bsky.social will be there, though. youtu.be/hK40p3dKj2w
Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 252, BrosPod with Alex Schmidt
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1-900-HOTDOG @1900hotdog.bsky.social · 12h
It's our handsomest Hotdog origin story to date as @alexschmidty.bsky.social joins @seanbaby.bsky.social and @brockway.bsky.social to discuss his love for Pierce Brosnan. on.soundcloud.com/IzP3HxfuoDlv...
Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 252, BrosPod with Alex Schmidt
Pierce Brosnan: Own it, enjoy it, don't worry about it. Words our guest Alex Schmidt lives by. Join us as the DOGGZZONE dives into what may be the most handsome origin story of any guest!
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Aug 14
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21h
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
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Alex Schmidt @alexschmidty.bsky.social · 1d
the great @albertburneko.bsky.social on Dick Cheney, and everything: defector.com/dick-cheney-...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d
The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
can someone make a supercut of johnson saying he doesn't know anything
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
Raju: Last week, you were very critical of Biden, you said he didn’t even know who was pardoning. On 60 minutes, Trump admitted not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire guilty of money laundering. Is that also concerning?

Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d
📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.

➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8d
this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d
i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 8d
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
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Alex Schmidt @alexschmidty.bsky.social · 8d
Kabul? The city???
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The Daily Zeitgeist @dailyzeitgeist.bsky.social · 8d
Happy Hallowpeen! 🎃🍆 listen to @readingsmut.bsky.social @malloryomeara.bsky.social @jackob1.bsky.social @milesofgray.bsky.social @breagrant.bsky.social #halloween #reading #smut #podcast #comedy
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Ross Thompson (50ᵗʰ anniversary edition) @wintermute115.bsky.social · 9d
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Having carved at least one jack-o-lantern out of a turnip in my youth (pumpkins were pretty much unknown in Britain in the 80's), I can confirm that they're the absolute worst. If anything, you were too kind.
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Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 9d
Even his MISTAKE is wrong. The reason we all had chickenpox as kids was that our parents made sure of it because if you get it as an adult, it’s dangerous. Even if you had it as a kid, it can lead to shingles when you’re older. If you had a compromised immune system as a kid you were also not fine.
brianrosenworcel.bsky.social Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social · 10d
Joe Rogan is confusing measles with chicken pox
Measles kills people
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 12d
Ta Nehisi Coates saying "wow, that was really racist"
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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 13d
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 15d
Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.
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Jacob Whittaker @vonfunkenstein.bsky.social · 16d
It was always performative. Conservatives didn't ever love us vets, they just loved how good it looked to pretend like they did. They gleefully fire hard-working vets who took lower pay to continue to serve the government. They do nothing when vets are assaulted by power-tripping cowardly ICE dorks.
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Alex Schmidt @alexschmidty.bsky.social · 16d
“Republican lawmakers contacted by the Guardian declined to comment or did not respond to the Guardian’s inquiries.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Lawmakers slam Ice after US military veterans are arrested, injured
The Guardian revealed how US veterans have been injured and arrested at protests against Ice deportations
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17d
Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10
In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.
StatesmanJournal.com SERVING SALEM, KEIZER AND THE MID-VALLEY "If you don't say anything, you're accepting it." Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident OUT OF MY LOUR WALLET CHOICES LIMIT GOVERNMENT Oregon Taxpayers United FREEDOM gat TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol. Protesters slam Fed spending Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR. Statesman Journal Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation. Oregon State Police estimated more SCRAP THE CODE than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people. The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it." Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months. Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest. West Salem resident Steve Albin said he came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers. "They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim See Protest, 2A Inside Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A • ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.
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