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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

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Brandon Hoàng @brandonhoang.bsky.social · 1h

everyone is saying how wonderful it is to think about how Cuomo and Trump are crying, shaking with anger, and throwing up at the thought of an immigrant humiliating them tonight BUT lets not forget Stephen Miller!

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 2h

I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.

DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.

His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County

Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 2h

Johnson really needs to feel some pressure to bring back the House, at least.

He may be too stupid, but there's going to be at least some in his caucus recognizing the political emergency to stop being awful.

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2h

After blustering and threatening for weeks, the Republicans are going to fold on the Government shutdown like cheap lawn furniture.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2h

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2h

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

bit.ly

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

I want the rest of us to know this.

I want folks to speak to their lives , to the diversity of who we are, the sustenance of our future and the immediacy of this moment

That if you start talking and seeing and LISTENING to people

who work ?

We can do this

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3h

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 4h

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 4h

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3h

Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3h

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 3h

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3h

CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*

The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.

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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 4h

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly we all needed this civics lesson: authoritarian regimes actually suck at running an economy, one of the many virtues of democracy is you tend to put people who know how to do things and listen to people who know even more in charge.

Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 4h

could be both. But more "this asshole is fucking up the government which is fucking the economy"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7h

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Nick Pettigrew
@Nick_Pettigrew
Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act.
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Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
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Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:

(Published 2019)

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

www.propublica.org

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 6h

the fash talking heads are aligning their talking points on Zohran, arguing that... downwardly mobile people are more likely to support left policy... (gasp) I'm not sure where they could have gotten this idea. It's almost like Z ran on affordability

batya ungar sargon

Mamdani’s base is the over-credentialed, downwardly mobile 20-30 something hipster who thinks they are working class because they have student loans. Mamdani is the patron saint of the nepo baby socialists, the Pied Piper of Buschwick. They don’t actually need Mamdani to deliver on his promises; these people wouldn’t be caught dead in an Aldi, let alone a government owned supermarket! Great joining
@Timcast
to discuss elections!

MI’s
@robkhenderson
argues that fears of downward mobility among the elite are fueling young progressives’ turn toward socialism.

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 6h

budget.canada.ca/2025/report-... While there are a couple hundred mentions of Indigenous people, it's all genuflection - little substantial. Look past this fiscal year, and it's all zeroes... where do they think we're going?

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Bi Bi Biiiiiiiii. 🩷💜💙 blanket TW: fucking breakdown. 🍞 & 🌹 @mistresssatan.bsky.social · 6h

take heed, friends. impacts TJs, any Kroger chain, and wallyworld. across many states.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h

FYI

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

6 dead, 25 hospitalized in nationwide listeria outbreak linked to precooked pasta meals

The recalled products were sold at stores nationwide, including Trader Joe's, Walmart and Kroger.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com · 6h

I don't care what the polls say.
I don't care what the odds say.
I don't care what the online and TV pundits say.

NYC, if you haven't voted for Zohran Mamdani, please go.
If you voted, please ask your friends.

Let's leave no stone unturned. The movement is now.

zohranfornyc.com/vote

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 11h

If you appreciated Teen Vogue’s incisive and vital reporting on race and culture, thank the Black editors and journalists who did that work. If you read their stories on trans youth and queer liberation and disability, thank the queer and trans and disabled writers who wrote them. It’s simple math!!

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demotivational speaker. 💕 @heysita.bsky.social · 8h

Damn, even the cat voting?

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Big Natural Resources @dagnificent.bsky.social · 7h

Holy SHIT

Delaney King (She/Her/Ho Ho Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 9h

The world seems like we are going backwards at the moment, so it is important to take the time to spread awareness of advances.

Scientists have developed an enzyme that converts organs into universal 'O' type. This is huge.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal...

Scientists Changed the Blood Type of a Kidney. That’s Extraordinary.

Transforming organs from any blood type into the universal donor Type O could help patients receive transplants faster.

www.popularmechanics.com

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Ethan Nichtern @ethannichtern.com · 7h

Mamdani *should* easily clear 50% tonight with these turnout numbers. Not that he needs to, but it'll send a message that NYC is ready to get off the dystopian American billionaire death spiral.

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