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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6h

Dawg what

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

LA Times now confirming our earlier reporting: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

and, like, to double down a little, i don’t think platner is another fetterman, he is significantly less conservative, and nothing i have seen from mills makes me think she even really wants the job, i think platner has a good chance! but it’s not a walk, he’s gotta prove he can play ball

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

i hope platner wins, but asserting that a complete unknown who has been campaigning for like 90 seconds is sure to win an election against one of the most formidable senators in congress is just an embarrassing childish fantasy and should be treated as such. it also does platner no favors.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 23h

my man, nobody is "sure to win" against Susan Collins, she is literally one of the most talented & successful Republican politicians of the last 60+ years. anyone who says ANY Democrat is a sure thing in Maine clearly has no clue what the fuck they're talking about other than their own vibes.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15h

it's like they're *trying* to increase turnout

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump on No Kings: "They have their day coming up. I hear very few people are gonna be there, by the way. But they have their day coming up and they want to have their day in the sun."

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 22h

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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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

i hope platner wins, but asserting that a complete unknown who has been campaigning for like 90 seconds is sure to win an election against one of the most formidable senators in congress is just an embarrassing childish fantasy and should be treated as such. it also does platner no favors.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 23h

my man, nobody is "sure to win" against Susan Collins, she is literally one of the most talented & successful Republican politicians of the last 60+ years. anyone who says ANY Democrat is a sure thing in Maine clearly has no clue what the fuck they're talking about other than their own vibes.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10h

Everybody wants to skip to the end of the movement where society retroactively agrees that it all worth it and everyone secretly supported it all along without actually spending any time in the trenches.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 15h

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

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 10h

What a 2025 sentence.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

musk personally allowed a nazi pedo doxxing cult to publish a bunch of leftists banking information, I think?

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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 16h

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 11h

I have no opinion about the Maine Senate primary but "my guy is a world-historic political talent, and if he gets a primary opponent this is tantamount to him being forced out of the race" is a singularly unpersuasive argument

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 23h

my man, nobody is "sure to win" against Susan Collins, she is literally one of the most talented & successful Republican politicians of the last 60+ years. anyone who says ANY Democrat is a sure thing in Maine clearly has no clue what the fuck they're talking about other than their own vibes.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · May 17

We are so close to Trump implementing price controls out of anger, I can feel it

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · May 17

The pivot to blaming companies for the obvious consequence of your tariffs has begun

Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, “EAT THE TARIFFS,” and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!

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marty 🐱💕💐🐰 @martyrockanthem.bsky.social · 12h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21h

Bring as many American flags to No Kings as you can.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

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 · 14h

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 · 15h

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

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 17h

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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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14h

The republican party is a quite hollow cult of personality around Trump funded by literal scams and six billionaires, and the democratic party is a diffuse extended network of about a million factions that won't have actual combined leadership until summer '28

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Gustavo Rinaldi @gusrinaldi.bsky.social · 14h

🔥🐉

#illustration #BRArt #fantasyart

Drawing of a dragon flying away from a huge forest fire.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 19h

"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 · 19h

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

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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Daniel Skelly @saffroncomic.com · 15h

How the hell are Democrats meant to negotiate with a man who openly says he won't keep his end of any bargain?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "We're getting rid of problems that we didn't like but that were negotiated in but we didn't like. We're terminating those programs. And they're gonna be terminated on a permanent basis."

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Daniel Skelly @saffroncomic.com · 15h

It's so fucking wild that they made a set with thirty different versions of "Spider-Man" that are all different characters with unique real names they inexplicably didn't use, despite being based on the Spider-Verse movies that *do* have unique names for everyone.

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Daniel Skelly @saffroncomic.com · 15h

And it botches the mainstream appeal, too! Half the cards don't even have the name of the character right! There is no character named "Spider-Gwen" or "Spider-Man 2099" or "Spider-Man India", those are the names of the *series*.

A card named "Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit", showing a picture of Ghost Spider

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

I’m not mad about it but I’m deeply confused that we’re getting a Twitter exodus today of all days

thought we’d basically reached the point that there was no line that place could cross that would chase anyone off of it at this point

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 29d

The unifying theory of all American conservatives is that they all demand that you be their friends at gunpoint, and tell them how handsome and special they are

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 29d

The conservative project always makes much more sense when you realize it's just run by upper middle class American christian nationalist who are basically completely fine in material position but furious the entire country doesn't bow to their weird cultural preferences.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Sep 16

oh no, on CBS no less

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