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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

"my truck is a generous lover and I'll have you know that her name is Cynthia"

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

wondering if mike's porno patrol software has caught up to the fact that his inbox alone is a trove of humiliation porn

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1h

lol Johnson backs out of debate with Jeffries. Says govt has to reopen first. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1h

lol Johnson backs out of debate with Jeffries. Says govt has to reopen first. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

republicans release a flood of garbage polls every year as we get closer to elections, and media pretends to learn nothing about the practice every year because they like a horse race

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

spanberger is going to win by 10+ at minimum, nova is incandescently angry at trump and highly motivated to vote, and everyone in nova would crawl over glass to vote for jay jones despite his flaws because the opposition party consists of avowed nazis

GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 2h

1/ Because you people won't stop talking about our northeastmost state, I am forced to remind you of Virginia elections. In particular, noted partisan hack outfit Trafalgar's polling of it, because they are trying to tell us Virginia Republicans are on the verge of defending all 3 statewide offices.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

true, though it's less amazing when you consider who owns and runs the place

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

that's weird, it's almost as if no one wants to receive a personally engraved invitation to testify someday in front of The Hague

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

if anyone at that paper had a shred of dignity left, mikey would be given until 9am tomorrow to resign before he was publicly fired on monday's front page

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

the definitive look at kush already exists, it was written eight years ago by @drewmagary.bsky.social, and it is here: deadspin.com/look-at-this...

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

@dicknixon.bsky.social America's Paper of Record, sir.

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2h

this is like that simpsons episode in which homer tries to convince his boss that he can't come in to work because his baby beat him up, but here, homer's a prosecutor for the DOJ

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2h

pritzker's nominee for AG needs to come out of the gate with "none of the shadow docket decisions represent legitimate jurisprudence and they will be ignored entirely during my tenure in office"

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2h

schmitt and pager are paid to pretend to be credulous morons, but yeah, "i'd prefer not to be explaining myself in front of The Hague someday" is as good a reason as any to call it quits

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2h

oh gee, oh my stars and garters, once a communist you say? fuck, half the republican party right now consists of avowed nazis, i think he'll be fine

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 4h

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

Graham Platner’s Honeymoon Is Over

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2h

not so ghoul, "fuck the farmers" is definitely a plan

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Melanie Jean @princessmom122.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, wow, wow. I did a little digging and this blog post predates Ryan Walters’ resigning, but start here: the75yearoldjournalistmarkkelleyphd.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/w...

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 10h

I don't know anything special. What I do know is that Vought 1) seems angry all the time, 2) definitely seems particularly angry at women, and 3) has a tremendous amount of power rn, so his motivations for using that power are in the public interest.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 11h

Never happier to see a newspaper fail more than the now conservative Washington Post.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 12h

gonna keep saying it until reporters get clued in: the most underreported story in DC right now is the details of Russ Vought's divorce

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 12h

that, and Russ Vought’s divorce is the most underreported story in DC

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 13h

there are a few ways to describe a net approval of only 5.8% in NoDak, and "politically suicidal" is one of them

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18h

... i'm sorry, trump is 20pts under water IN TEXAS? www.economist.com/interactive/...

economist map showing turmp's net approval in texas is -19.3%

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 15h

hey @radiofreetom.bsky.social, i feel like you wrote a book (or two) about people like this

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 23h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 15h

VA, it'll be your turn to join as soon as Spanberger is elected.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 22h

everyone who writes for that place comes out of it a worse person than they entered

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 22h

personal theory: the NYT corrupts everyone who works there, and the reason that Kristol learned and Brooks did not is that Kristol's time at the NYT was relatively short

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