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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 1h

3) we give billions of dollars every year to Israel to keep them going, especially their war machine. So clearly there's a big difference between Israel-Gaza and the Sudanese civil war.

Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 1h

The reason people care so much about Israel is 1) it's been a perennial conflict for decades and constantly in the news, 2) tens of thousands of people have been killed BY Israel and whole cities turned to dust, and

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 1h

1) it just doesn't get the same news attention as Isreal-Gaza for whatever reason, hardly anyone knows about the Sudan civil war, but more importantly, 2) I'm not aware of the US massively funding and giving weapons to one side of the Sudanese conflict.

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 1h

I've heard other people make this argument too. These women didn't really respond to the Sudan example, but did say they were against what Obama support of bombing and his drone attacks on civilians, like I was. The Sudan example is current but there are big differences.

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 1h

One thing he did as a deflection was say like "oh, why aren't people like you so upset about other horrible wars like in Sudan and where were you when Obama was giving the Saudis US bombs to bomb Yemen?" (paraphrasing, but that was the general idea, a whataboutism)

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 1h

I listened to this whole pod earlier today & saw this article by chance. It was a good exchange of hard questions and answers. Booker is a really good guy overall but is clearly afraid for whatever reason, to speak harshly about Netanyahu and the Gaza situation.
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‘What in the Actual F*ck?!’ Cory Booker Confronted on AIPAC Cash in Explosive Interview

Welch confronted Booker on the $800,000 he’d received from AIPAC after he boasted he was “one of a handful” of lawmakers not taking cash from corporate PACs.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 1h

it's absolutely infurating

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 3h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 4h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 2h

Agree

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2h

this would end us up with a democracy more rigged than Hungary's. actually, between 2010 and 2020, our democracy WAS more rigged than Hungary's. there isn't any international example of elections as rigged as Wisconsin's.

Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 9h

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

The plan to force taxpayers to cover emergency medical costs for non-citizens is a law called EMTALA: signed into law by the infamous democrat Ronald Reagan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5h

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 3h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Geo Resists 🇺🇸 @geo-resists.bsky.social · 5h

ICE arrested a Clarinet player in Portland just for playing "Ghostbusters!

A
Clarinet
Player

Let that sink in a moment. 🤨
#AbolishIceNow
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Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents: ‘Why are they targeting a clarinetist?’ - NewsBreak

A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility , which has rec

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Armed federal agents want you to believe they were assaulted by a mom dressed as a banana playing the Ghostbusters theme on the clarinet

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 4h

that picture showing the piece of the clarinet hits hard as a former clarinet player and the father of a clarinet player

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Last night, John Oliver destroyed Bari Weiss and specifically called out her inaccurate and targeted coverage of transgender people.

It's the latest of several shows Oliver has done in defense of trans people.

Weiss at CBS is a disaster for trans people.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense Of Transgender People

The right-wing commentator is now the head of CBS.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

They arrested a giraffe.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 6h

Justice JACKSON standing up for voting rights. 🔥

Louisiana: Plaintiffs said 'we want another majority-black district.'

Jackson: No. They said 'we aren't receiving equal electoral opportunity because our votes are being diluted.'

Louisiana: Same thing.

Jackson: No, it’s not.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: A federal judge just temporarily blocked the Trump admin's plans to lay off thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown — siding with unions, which have argued that the dismissals were illegal.

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Mark Kaplan @statfourwork.bsky.social · 14d

🧬 Do you know how your immune system works every day?

Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info.

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 4h

😂😂