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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4h

No Kings is like an order of magnitude bigger than the civil rights movement, if you want to place it on a scale of historically notable activism. What’s your plan though? I’m all ears!

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

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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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 2m

I hope that whoever runs against Kirsten Gillibrand in 2030 says something like "it was good when you told Al Franken to resign, and now you should too" or something to get his obnoxious fans to fuck all the way off from that primary.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 1h

Franken’s on a big rehab push as I can tell already from the spam texts and emails he sends constantly. Let’s move on! No more washed-up sex pests in the leadership of our party.

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 9h

Al Franken's campaign donated $100,000 to Jose Andres's World Central Kitchen in August, per new FEC filing.

Stands out as many defunct campaigns tend to donate to partisan causes or monuments to the candidate.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 52m

He’s just a young lad of 65 how could he possibly be expected to know anything about the Republican Party’s views on healthcare

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 57m

what did he think trump was gonna do, exactly. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Longtime Florida insurance agent Alan Reynolds, 65, predicts many of his customers will allow their policies to lapse when the price hikes become clear. An independent who leans conservative, Reynolds, of Port St. Lucie, called the Affordable Care Act flawed but said he favors the continuation of the enhanced subsidies “and not pulling the rug out from under people.”

His family is also affected. The loss of his wife’s subsidy means she is likely to pay about $1,200 or more each month, up from about $500 in 2024, he said. “I voted for Trump,” Reynolds said. “I didn’t expect this.”

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 9m

I'm still not convinced that James Talarico will actually win, but uhhhhhhhhh Texas is going to go back on course to being a swing state. Those 2024 shifts will not hold.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14m

this is the best it will get for Trump II, as you are reading this

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 48m

... i'm sorry, trump is 20pts under water IN TEXAS? www.economist.com/interactive/...

economist map showing turmp's net approval in texas is -19.3%

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 13m

Hot take: donating to this race isn't as bad as Amy McGrath or whoever is running against MTG. I wouldn't spend my money on it personally, but the Colorado Republican Party might go through a very thorough collapse and become an 8-0 Dem state in the next decade. Boebert's time in power is limited.

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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 9h

If you saw Obama as a threat

If you see Mamdani as a threat

If you see Tlaib, Omar, Crockett or AOC as a threat

Mr. Ackman, the problem is you, and your racism.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 32m

Pretending otherwise because it can get him more attention. Even Bill Maher is more of a Democrat than he is (and I view Bill Maher as being a Republican in denial these days).

Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 32m

Yeah if he just said he was MAGA, nobody would doom about how someone who Dems listen to (which is nobody because Ruben Gallego seems to have got his shit together) and just dismiss him as doing what every other conservative pundit does. Like he's not even a conservative Democrat, he's just MAGA.

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 1h

The Republican who runs for senate in New York in 2028 is going to get so much god damn money. And since Trump will likely be dead and unable to quickly set someone as the frontrunner in the primary, that could waste a lot of money too.

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 2h

This is why I can't help but like him even though I don't think he should be (or will be) president, his political career is really funny because of how unusual it is.

Kotu @kingoftheu.bsky.social · 2h

Buttigieg will bounce around Democratic Administrations till the end of time and our kids will ask "what was up with that" and we shall say "oh that was Mayor Pete" as if that explains anything at all.

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Kotu @kingoftheu.bsky.social · 2h

Buttigieg will bounce around Democratic Administrations till the end of time and our kids will ask "what was up with that" and we shall say "oh that was Mayor Pete" as if that explains anything at all.

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 3h

Once again I do not understand why is doesn't just switch to being a Republican. He would clearly be happier if he was one.

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ChatGPT Quantum Particle Physician @smullins3000.bsky.social · 1d

*This* is why I fucking hate Yggy and why he deserves to be hated. "haha here's some hack research by a DeSantis apparatchik, aren't trans people funny?" is something only a true piece of shit would post.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

Frying brains online

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Collins: Marjorie Taylor Greene—is she someone that you could see yourself working with?

AOC: On what? If she actually wants to support legislation and expanding healthcare… I'm more than open to doing that. But it's not just about talking the talk. We got to walk the walk.

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dilith 🎃 @flurrys.nekoweb.org · 4h

i mean idk man I feel like being on a more boring site beats this

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 4h

I genuinely think that if Kamala Harris had won, Chuck Schumer would have been fine retiring in 2028 and endorsing AOC as his replacement because he somehow doesn't have a protégé. Now it's going to be a contested primary because he feels the need to dig in.

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 5h

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

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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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 5h

This has been bothering me all day because the obvious point of No Kings is to show we have the power to do a color revolution if they don‘t honor the results of future elections.

The other point is to radicalize fence-sitters by having people who are *clearly doing nothing wrong* be tear gassed

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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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 5h

Ro Khanna is so fucking stupid lmao.

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah this is going to take a few years to have a big impact, but said impact could lead to a bunch more senate Dems winning in not as solid red states. Watch the primary to replace Ron Johnson in 2028 closely, that feels like a preview of what'll happen in the 2030s.

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 5h

And because most federal Democrats decided to be useless. People like AOC and Zohran Mamdani are the future of the party, and the next two cycles of primary elections will prove it.

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 5h

The reason why "Republican infighting will bring them down this time" hasn't really happened yet is because they always default to uniting behind Trump since he pulled off an upset that helped them a lot in 2016. But once he's gone, who are they going to try to get behind?

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