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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 18h

Listen, I try not to be too disillusioned by The Fetterman Experience, but I'm also not putting a lot of faith in a 'rising star' who also literally signed up to be a PMC in Afghanistan. "White guy likes the feeling of holding a gun on Those People" is a big red flag even if he says the right stuff

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

"We have a rising new Dem star who really engages with people, and is sure to win their next election."

DEM LEADERSHIP: That's fantastic.

"What are the next steps?"

DEM LEADERSHIP: Simple. Force them to step aside and throw their support behind this 80-year-old lifetime politician.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 56m

“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 59m

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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

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august.thoughtify.space @august.thoughtify.space · 11h

Given that neither party actually signed anything, and that things on the ground broke down within 24 hours, I think your priors here are right. Whatever this may be is certainly better than open war, but it’s no peace.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 10h

okay

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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🔞 Manda @ammakis.bsky.social · 13d

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 19h

Definitely gonna get worse before we ever see better.

Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 20h

But we surviving and could be in significantly worse situations.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 20h

Look around. Badly!

We in a full SNAFU!

I'm doing work to fight this mess. Never feels like enough. Rest where I can. Blocking liberally on here.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 20h

@electricaikido.bsky.social YO Welcome back!

Been a minute.

Good to see ya. Hope ya holding in there alright.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 1d

I've also got my day job where I work in a community agency so I'm on the front line of a lot of shit in a different way.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 1d

Right! Especially when the folks running things DESPERATELY want violence to justify their actions.

Why are so many of these accounts actively advocating playing into these guys' hands?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

People advocating against peace without strategy or tactics do not want you to *win*. They want you to be delegitimized.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 1d

In this instance I'm keeping my Black ass home.

HOWEVER, I am playing man in the chair for multiple white friends going.

Coordinating a few support measures for the frontliners just in case.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

turns out it's all narrative warfare

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 2d

And yet we're already seeing fools turn on this man because they don't understand what is and isn't in his control.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 3d

Okay.

Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 3d

Fucking agreed. So many times. So many times in the last few fucking years I've had people tell me citizens have no responsibility for unfavorable outcomes in our system.

It's bullshit.

There is no way for citizens in a republic to abdicate their responsibilities.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Democrats In Array Thanks Joe Biden @demsinarray.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone who told you to support John Fetterman in that primary, is now telling you to support an ex-Blackwater mercenary with no voting record in the Maine primary.

When are you going to catch on?

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 3d

I agree. But if the metaphor fits Imma use it.

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Art Demon @incubusintraining.bsky.social · 3d

Anime has this niche pretty handled but you've gotta wade through a LOT of schlock isekai to get the gems.

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