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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 2h

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 2h

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2h

More premeditated killing at sea.

The "designated terrorist organization" supposedly operating this vessel is unidentified.

The basis for labeling the victims "narco-terrorists" is unspecified.

Cloaking lawless killing in the guise of counterterrorism doesn't actually make it counterterrorism.

Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO).

Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. The strike was conducted in international waters in the Eastern Pacific.

No U.S. forces were harmed in the strike, and two male narco-terrorists — who were aboard the vessel — were killed.

We will find and terminate EVERY vessel with the intention of trafficking drugs to America to poison our citizens. Protecting the homeland is our TOP priority. NO cartel terrorist stands a chance against the American military.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump confirms he is weaponizing hunger

SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous term in office (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly “handed” to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT

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New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 3h

access to non government support. Labour simply is not doing the best they can. They are actively hurting the most vulnerable even when it cost more.

New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 3h

Labour saying — we will find the e tra money to force refugees into barracks really does not fit this narrative. Starmer just didn't present the cuts to disability programs as an budget necessity encouraging the community and families to pick up the slack. He slandered the disabled reducing

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

In light of today's trial in United States of America I decided to finish the lyrics to this 👉

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 14

I threw the sandwich, but I did not throw the condiments
I threw the sandwich, but I didn't throw the condiments

All around Washington D.C.
They're trying to track me down
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the spilling of some mayonnaise
For wasting all the dijon, but I say

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Aug 13

The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off.

"I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 4h

Mamdani's whole message of "I'm gonna try to do some things when I get in office" is terrifying to establishment democrats who seem to believe that their job ends when the polls close. Like what if they had to do some things too!?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Ah. So it's not just that particular Dems have to run as moderates, it's that *no Dem anywhere can do anything overtly progressive*, lest it affect the party's reputation and make it more difficult for those moderates to win.

Little bit clearer what the larger project is, eh?

There’s more to politics than what you “run on”

Voters rightly consider everything you and your party say and do.

www.slowboring.com

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

I’m going to keep mentioning how heavily people leaned on the “actually, poor Black people don’t go to elite schools, we need more investment at the community level” argument when affirmative action was before the court, and how fucking silent they are now.

Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 7h

Pell Grant Cuts Linked To Drop In Black Student Enrollment Rates
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Pell Grant Cuts Linked To Drop In Black Student Enrollment Rates

Inconsistent Pell Grant funding and state budget cuts contribute to a nearly half-million decline in Black student enrollment at U.S. colleges over the past decade.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5h

JD Vance is out there openly defending the Immigration Act of 1924, which effectively banned Jewish immigration from eastern Europe and prevented hundreds of thousands of Jews from escaping to the US prior to the Holocaust. www.youtube.com/watch?si=BAo...

Vice President JD Vance Responds to Emotional Question on Faith and Immigration

YouTube video by Turning Point USA

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h

Really can't be exaggerated how poisonous it is that @mattyglesias.bsky.social has taken up the "climate vs material prosperity" framing. It's empirically false. It's straightforwardly right-wing. It's going to make it harder to pass good policies. It's going to set that whole debate back.

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

Part of what’s happening here is the idea that supporting candidates like Obama and Harris is itself somehow “far left” as if they never won contested elections or had any political talent of their own and supporting any prominent Black person is somehow “radical”

Wingofbenu @wingofbenu.bsky.social · 9h

yeah their premise only works because theyve convinced themselves the democratic party has been catering to far left goals despite all evidence to the contrary

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 7h

Again there are actual numbers you can subtract the number of people that died before the war from those that died over the same period after. This is a normal thing to do and useful. This is exactly kind of thing we do with the Soviet and Chinese famines.

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New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 7h

Hussein killed to mata in order from those who died after he was deposed and consider the excess deaths. And Remember this is exactly the kind of analysis the proponents of the war begged to be used before the war. They promised the world would be transformed. It was and should be judged.

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New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 7h

Look around every society has guys that will grab up pregnant women thrown them in a cell and let them miscarry lying in the own filth on a concrete floor. There is real value in determining the but for conditions that allow them to do so. It is meaningful to subtract the number of

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New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 7h

Telling is how obsessed he is with a race neutral policy that increases the % of students who are competent in math and reduces racial disparities. Yglesias's pitch has really become Trump won because racism — Trump won because racism and transphobia ROCK!!!! No Matt they don't rock.

New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 8h

This is the normal way we attribute deaths. Rome falls and then vassal kingdoms fall into civil war or are overrun by barbarians. The normal way to attribute these deaths is to the collapse of the original order.

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New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 9h

This isn't how we explain history. While the causes of WWI are complicated we don't considering infantilizing to attribute the decisions of countries all over the world to reaction to actions of the great powers.

New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 10h

by soldiers. Two of the top mathematicians of the millennium starved to death during WWI one on a mental asylum and the other a Hindu couldn't get vegetarian protein. Things like lack of access to insulin will kill you just as dead as bullet.

New Orleans Wiz @neworleanswiz.bsky.social · 10h

A huge percentage of deaths caused by war are from disease. My parents were fort nuts. In fort after fort it was like no shots were fired but 50% of soldiers died and f yellow fever. Plaque that wiped out 50% of Europe came from bodies launched at Roman soldiers. The great flu epidemic was spread by

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Patron saint of knife-sharpeners & librarians @daisyrazor.bsky.social · 10h

After about ten minutes where it sounded like she was destroying a bedroom rockstar-style, my extremely adorable, extremely stupid cat trotted downstairs and dropped a mini can of Play-doh at my feet like the mighty hunter she is.

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maximally entangled sarah @sarahnemy.bsky.social · 10h

matt being fixated on preserving the death penalty is bizarre. there’s something wrong with him

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