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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 10h

Capable of it, but chooses not to.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 22h

Opinion: Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It.

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

DON'T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 11h

Mainstream journalism's new motto "They say it, we repeat it!"

Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 16h

In other words, rules are only for Democrats.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 16h

Alternatively, what they're doing might give the impression that they're allowing Trump to do whatever illegal things he desires without establishing a written precedent that might be exploited by future Democratic presidents.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 16h

It's crazy that the national media decided that flagrant, vicious, insanely idiotic lies by the president of the United States are no longer newsworthy. It's like they all just decided that lies by Republicans are okay because nobody expects anything else.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 16h

I believe the media should still treat it as big news when the president tells flagrant lies in order to conceal his own role in leading a violent insurrection against the United States. I know, I know, Trump lies every day — which is exactly why it should be a big story.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 20h

Reminder that "crime" is not an "insurrection".

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 20h

And that the pinky finger does not attach directly to the wrist below the middle finger.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 23h

Polls show that she clearly doesn't have a strong base of Democratic support. If she makes an early move to win Republican votes, she'll probably get leapfrogged by other Democrats in the primary.

Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 23h

True, but that seems very unlikely. Porter isn't eager to piss off Republicans, she's just pushing back against the assertion that a Democratic candidate for governor in California has to aggressively court Republican voters.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 23h

It's not plausible that all the Republicans are going to vote for the same Democratic candidate in a contest between two reasonably mainstream Democratic candidates. There's not going to be a Blue Dog Democrat running against a Democratic Socialist.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 23h

Secretary Noem claimed, without evidence, that the sky was filled with hippos, but experts disputed that claim.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 23h

1000x yes. Simply posing it as a question automatically grants the presumption of plausibility to inane claims.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 1d

Not that simple. Appealing to conservative voters would likely cost you support among Democratic voters, who are more numerous. Much better to get 60% of Democrats and 40% of Republicans than the other way around. Because there are more Democrats than Republicans.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 1d

If the general election is between two Democrats, then the main task is to get most of the Democratic votes, since most California voters are Democrats.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 1d

Not even pretending it's anything other than flagrant corruption. The opposite, in fact: telegraphing to the world that if you want to play, you have to pay.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 2d

When a president stands at a microphone telling insane lies to justify sending the US military to attack American cities, it should be the giant-font #1 top headline every single day. EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 3d

Shorter answer: No, we do not have a plan to fix Obamacare.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 3d

It's just a convoluted way of saying "private universities should be controlled by the federal government, but only when Republicans are in control, which is why we need them to sign this compact before Democrats take over again".

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 3d

Target stock dropped 35% in just 2 months after it announced it was terminating all of its DEI programs the week of Trump's inauguration. It hasn't recovered.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile, the law firms haven't really done much for Trump because he has the attention span of a gnat. But they've lost top people, lost major business clients, and damaged their reputations. I haven't heard of anything like that happening at law firms that told Trump to go pound sand.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 3d

Trump stole $400 million in grant money from Columbia; Columbia paid him a $221 million ransom to get it back, and also gave Trump veto power over their hiring, admissions, and curriculum. They gave Trump everything he asked for.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 3d

It turns out that threatening to kill the hostages isn't very popular with the hostages. They bet it all on Stockholm Syndrome and lost. Oh well, on to Plan B: keep lying until someone comes up with another clever idea.

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