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eke @eke.bsky.social · 11h

yeah, this is a first presidential campaign speech

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 11h

"I stand on solid rock and I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend, I will not capitulate, I will not give in, I will not give up."

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks out after being indicted by the Trump DOJ.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 14h

oh haha different interpretation of what it is to be Someone's Waluigi

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 14h

they're both bad so i'm afraid we've just got two Waluigis

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 14h

Olivia Reingold is Olivia Nuzzi’s Waluigi

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 14h

it's such an insane hill to take this racist stand on, too, Derek's position he's so mad about is basically "we should onshore the more skilled parts of garment production that make better wages, because it makes more sense than trying to make cheap tees here."

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 14h

I have been reliably told that nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 14h

yeah look this may be influenced by living in a college town but the arms race right now seems to be selling tallboys of 10% flavored IPAs to kids

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 15h

yeah nowhere doesn't have a lager lol. also they're just objectively harder to make because they require so much more temperature control, it's no surprise some truly small places can't prioritize them

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 15h

1. general strike
2. ?????

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 16h

funnily enough, Ranger, which their whole product line was based on, had a pretty clear and replicable garlic flavor note

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 16h

the market here's college kids not beer snobs

eke @eke.bsky.social · 16h

also: IPAs largely DON'T taste like grapefruit and pine anymore and that's why they exploded

the insane mass popularity is precisely because you can turn them into fruity high-gravity beers to get fucked up. New Belgium used to be a normie brewery and now they make all their money from shit like

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 16h

"there's too many IPAs, you should make lagers" is a timeless piece that could be written at any point in the last twenty years, completely unrelated to the actual problem that there's like 1 microbrewery for every 30 people now

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 16h

using dogfish 120, a beer old enough to drink, as the example of the current problem with craft beer lol

Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 18h

absolute skill issue (the bit later in the article about needing more 12oz cans is correct though)

There are a few simple steps the craft beer industry can take to immediately address its downturn. For starters, it must abandon the I.P.A. arms race. Craft beer's obsession with hops has gone too tar, as what started as a rebellion against bland lagers has spiraled into a bitter, boozy blur. Double I.P.A.s.
Triple I.P.A.s. Hazy. Juicy. Dank. West Coast. New England. Most taste like pine resin with a splash of grapefruit pith, and not in a good way.

Craft breweries also cranked up the alcohol: 10 percent to 12 percent alcohol by volume is common now, more than double a standard beer. Dogfish Head's 120 Minute I.P.A. hits 18 percent - a sweet, heavy nightcap. But beer isn't bourbon. You don't swirl it in a snifter and reflect on your childhood. You drink a few, with friends, and it's supposed to refresh, not knock you out. Brewers chasing complexity are losing the people who just want something cold, crisp and repeatable. I love a good I.P.A., but bring back the pilsner, the amber, the pale ale, or reinvent the lager, as many have.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 16h

now will this podcast cover milves of history or will that continue to be primarily Masters of Our Domain

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 17h

WaPo not exactly judged by its daily Nielsen ratings, either!

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 17h

i think CBS news' demo is like average age 65, as well. It's enough silver-haired run-of-the-mill liberals that are going to despise anything that sounds like pro-Trump propaganda to make any change in that direction deeply unpopular

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

"The liberty and security of our fellow citizens is our great object, and not the prompt execution of the laws. Indecision, delay, blunders, nay villainous actions in the administration of government, are trifles compared to legalizing the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition."

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 19h

"Isn't it your job to know how the Executive is using money allocated by Congress?"

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

like, have the information ready, read it them directly and ask for their reaction, say 'why are you evading the question?' instead of moving on to the next point.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 20h

Trump's also going to see His Guys on fox news and start posting about it, signaling to the other freaks that they should also freak out about it, and making it snowball further

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

Freaking about No Kings is catastrophic for them! It’s a virtual certainty the protests will be enormous, and by turning them into a live issue, the GOP effectively gives news media permission to focus on them.

Both sites agree: nationwide anti-Trump protests are the most important story right now

William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 21h

Complete own goal by the republicans. Not a ton of media attention for the first big protest day and now you have the republicans bringing it up and effectively telling the media to cover it

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 22h

like our entire job this election is to defy the democratic establishment and take power from them lol, not sure why people think they'll cooperate and just hand over the reins

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 23h

Your people have spent the last hundreds of years migrating from Siberia across Beringia, following continent-sized icebergs down the coast from beach to beach, exploding into the temperate Americas. You see a new red berry you've never seen before and change human history.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 23h

this is very unfair. states are only allowed to do this in the Fifth Circuit

Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 23h

This is essentially my way of summing up why I've been so busy running to court this year in Boston. The courts within the 1st Circuit now have the second most litigation over Trump policies, behind only D.C., and have more than half of the multistate lawsuits state AGs have filed this year.

Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 1d

New: How the federal courts in New England including Massachusetts and Rhode Island became popular venues to sue Trump's administration in and win injunctions blocking his agenda. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

sanker has been just utterly fucking owned twice tonight (three times if you count how he got beat twice last play)

Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 1d

Newspaper headline suggestion: Saints Fail Sanker Swim Moment

eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

these are the kind of small civil society groups integral to any republic

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