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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

the civil rights movement is worth studying in terms of its actual reality--in terms of the strategical and tactical intention that went into its actions--not just as a sainted icon in the american pantheon.

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How to Win a Rigged Game

The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.

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Peter Chen @ptrchn1.bsky.social · 4h

New euphemism for blatantly violating the law just dropped

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Spooky Memes @spookymemesx.bsky.social · 10h

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 4h

This is how he pitches on 4 day’s rest?!?!

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 4h

FUCKING PULL KIRBY WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

i hope platner wins, but asserting that a complete unknown who has been campaigning for like 90 seconds is sure to win an election against one of the most formidable senators in congress is just an embarrassing childish fantasy and should be treated as such. it also does platner no favors.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 17h

my man, nobody is "sure to win" against Susan Collins, she is literally one of the most talented & successful Republican politicians of the last 60+ years. anyone who says ANY Democrat is a sure thing in Maine clearly has no clue what the fuck they're talking about other than their own vibes.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 4h

"This brilliant anti-establishment candidate can win only if he faces no opposition from the establishment" is a transparently self-refuting argument but you see it all the time

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

yeah it kind of bugs me when people go "don't you get it! acting respectable won't protect you from the cops! they're gonna attack you anyways!"

like yes. exactly. that's kind of the point

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 4h

…and there went another one

Get him out of there

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 16h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 4h

Gotta pull Kirby he just doesn’t have it tonight

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 5h

I think the one quote that defines him is from the VP debate: “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check.”

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 5h

Every time he’s on the defensive he comes across as a whiny, sniveling little shit with a victims complex

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 5h

WATCH OUT BIRDS!!!

Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 5h

Randy Johnson is here to throw out the first pitch!

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 6h

Oh definitely the story

I can’t remember the last time I watched one of the 3 local news broadcasts

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 9h

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 13h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 9h

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 7h

Love that local journalism still does the “hey this looks weird, maybe I should dig into it” beat

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 7h

I am locked into this weird story about local news and looking forward to seeing how/if it ends.

Erin Sellers @merrywanderer.bsky.social · 9h

Ok this actually gets even more interesting. When you google the lede of this story, it pops up also as a story by Anita Hollier at KHQ. So did someone plagiarize? But then you search Anita Hollier and she has stories across the country, in Montana, in Charlotte, in Spokane.

Erin Hut @imerinhut.bsky.social · 14h

A story written by…. the City of Spokane Valley about the City of Spokane? With a photo of Spokane Valley City Hall?

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 7h

Personally reinstated a Nazi doxxing ring

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Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 8h

Ok I have a new deranged thread idea

Famous literary figures from the past, and whether or not they knew about the clitoris

You can either go off vibes or research

Dan @knitdan.bsky.social · 12h

Part of me is amazed that Steinbeck knew about the clitoris

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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🛡 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 12h

Among Nuzzi’s defenders there’s this unspoken belief that being a journalist is an immutable quality of a person, rather than simply being a job that someone can have. They have no concept of a journalist being bad at their job.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

this is exactly why i think it is totally justified to criticize Nuzzi

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · Sep 20

The reason reporters are talking about the Nuzzi stuff so much, besides gawking at a car crash, is that there's a handful of prestige jobs like that left, and we've all been passed over and know other reporters who've been passed over for them in favor of well-networked barnacles.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

“they’ve always been like this” is such a lazy argument, it’s demonstrably untrue and pushing them back means understanding that it is untrue

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 13h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 13h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

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