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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 5m

woke 2 will not be as restrained as woke 1, and we won’t be stopped by “oh, but living in the boondocks so you can beat your kids more easily is just another way of life”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 35m

“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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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 23m

THAT'S WHERE THE PEOPLE LIVE I don't know what to tell you guys

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 35m

“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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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 18m

I mean, it won't ONLY be city folk protesting. I'm sure some people will drive in from the suburbs or the exurbs or the countryside to be a part of this. But again, they will drive TO the city, because THAT'S WHERE EVERYBODY IS. We're not gonna go out to THEIR place! That'd be stupid!

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 6m

at some point the country is going to wake up to the fact that most people in it live in cities, and that we are real america, and that we won’t subsidize the people who abuse and try to dominate us forever, and we will demand we be given the respect we have been denied by the rurals

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 18m

I mean, it won't ONLY be city folk protesting. I'm sure some people will drive in from the suburbs or the exurbs or the countryside to be a part of this. But again, they will drive TO the city, because THAT'S WHERE EVERYBODY IS. We're not gonna go out to THEIR place! That'd be stupid!

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 10m

“signing up for email lists is too scary, I have to practice good opsec like the activists of old” says person who puts their entire life online and also loves living under fascism because they enjoy seeing liberals suffer and get off on oppression

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 3m

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 38m

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 13m

Nobody tell Talia she used a big scary *email* to sign up for social media, where anyone can find out her exact political views!

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 8h

They don’t want to take risks, complains the person who thinks signing up for an email list is too high risk

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21m

George W Bush in 2004 ran aggressively against LGBT rights and yet George W Bush, fastidiously, avoided saying things that were openly inflammatory about gay people himself, a la Trump, but that wasn't because he was being nice to them

Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 20m

I'll definitely accept any "mea culpas" surrounding this, thanks, very excited to see the "this can't get any worse, at least things will be shut down" crowd find some new way to slam Democrats.

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

www.cbsnews.com

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 20m

I'll definitely accept any "mea culpas" surrounding this, thanks, very excited to see the "this can't get any worse, at least things will be shut down" crowd find some new way to slam Democrats.

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

www.cbsnews.com

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Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

www.cbsnews.com

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 23m

David Brooks talks about morality nonstop and left his wife for a hot young thing and it has not negatively impacted his brand one bit, which is the perfect spot of succinct and mean both to him and to his audience

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 32m

Let’s just open up the parts of government that are hurting people and close down the parts that are helping.

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

www.cbsnews.com

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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 · 2h

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

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 39m

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 · 2h

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

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 34m

I sure did warn folks that this would happen in the event of a government shutdown.

And that Republicans wouldn't even *attempt* to open the government back up.

Ah well, time to see how bad things can get, I guess.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 3h

You can tell today that several political news orgs are kinda giddy about the idea of Rs being able to do racial gerrymanders aggressively enough to lock Ds out of power (Jake Shermans probably drooling) but I'll again note that assuming a static landscape both for voters & Ds in response is v risky

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 3h

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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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 6h

"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 · 7h

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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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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