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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

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.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

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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Ben McCombe @benmccombe.bsky.social · 4h

Hopefully the will has been amended with a "fuck off Nazi" clause.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 7h

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

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Ben McCombe @benmccombe.bsky.social · 4h

Looks like it was Ackman.

Not surprised if that's the case

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12d

Sliwa himself said Ackman and his billionaire goon buddies have tried to bribe him to drop out of the race so “follow the money he’s doing this to embezzle city funds” is one of the most absurd things Ackman has said, and that’s a high bar.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13d

"follow the money" says the guy who had to settle a $290 million insider trading scandal

Also, it's super telling what happens when a Republican doesn't play ball with other Republicans. This is why they all fall in line. If you upset the donor class, you get attacked nonstop

Ben McCombe @benmccombe.bsky.social · 4h

Wouldn't this be a crime?

He should name whoever did this.

Maybe Tom Holman knows, I hear he's big in the bribe world..

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race

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Ben McCombe @benmccombe.bsky.social · 4h

Lots of xanax being popped tonight to calm MAGA nerves.

They need a good sleep so they can wake up fresh tomorrow with enough energy to keep attacking Americans, making them starve and cutting healthcare while they party like it's the Gilded Age.

It's a hard life.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

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Ben McCombe @benmccombe.bsky.social · 4h

Agree.

On a related note, has there been any information dug up on the politics of auspill's parents?

If he gets his hands on the family fortune, that could cause a problem down the track.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10h

I think this deserves more attn.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 21h

1/ Stephen McInerney -- ex-Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Guy & current Dean of Studies & Associate Professor of Literature at Catholic tertiary institution Campion College in Sydney -- urges support for Tom Sewell's incipient neo-Nazi political party.

'I'm not in the NSN but believe, for strategic reasons, people should become 'political supporters' of the White Australia Party. The creation of such parties is the only safeguard against White erasure. Other pro-White parties will follow in time. Sieze [sic] the day.'

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Ben McCombe @benmccombe.bsky.social · 5h

My family is RC, these types are a tiny percentage.

As is Campion. It has a few hundred students both under and post grad.

It's Skynews that has them on panels as "experts" that worries me most.

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Ben McCombe @benmccombe.bsky.social · 5h

Francoists doing Francoists things.

Thankfully most Catholics reject this ideology.

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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 8h

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: World outside America exists. Global economy is global. Picking trade fights with everyone at once rather than rallying allies to pressure China together still very stupid.

NYT graphic showing China’s reduced trade with the US and increased trade with almost everyone else.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11h

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 11h

A video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian man in prison was leaked. The Israeli government and its supporters are upset – not at the horrific assault, but at the fact that the tape was released.

Read Minnah Arshad’s full article: zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...