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Alex Holt

@skatingtomato.bsky.social

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Still your friendly neighborhood geek/“propogandist.” Baltimore/Maryland correspondent for GGW. He/him. Vocal advocacy classist. Tranist. #ActuallyAutistic

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Alex Holt @skatingtomato.bsky.social · Feb 20

My latest article for @ggwash.org takes a look at some of the biggest urbanist bills of #MDGA25, especially in transit, housing, & even the environment. Check it out, there's a lot of good stuff being discussed in Annapolis, even amidst all the chaos in Washington: ggwash.org/view/98490/w...

What to watch in the 2025 Maryland General Assembly

Between a budget crunch, a housing crisis, and a new appetite in Annapolis for tackling longstanding energy and environmental issues, this year’s Maryland General Assembly session could be a very prod...

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Oh they mad

Aidan @aidanxitter
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A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit
One of the people in here, he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil
All over some useless YR beef
And then the GOP condemned them
Fuck these people
The GOP treated to fire my friend and vice chairman from his AG job because of tiktoks I posted about immigration
I wasn't allowed to talk about "replacement theory" or any mainline immigration stans They asked me to resign over Trump's gr card diploma mill comments

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9m

where I am as well. pleasantly surprised, asking for more and not optimistic I'll get it

Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

look, in all seriousness, right now I’ll take it, they’re actually doing a good job, the healthcare focus has given them a solid framework to keep everyone on board for this fight

but also guys can we talk about the national guard shit, this is ridiculous

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11m

the Stove is Gender to the extent that men need to touch it with far more alacrity and severity

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 48m

>eleven percentage point lead among male voters

Men are never beating the allegations

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 5h

"NJ Governor's Race: Sherrill 50%, Ciattarelli 44%, Quinnipiac University New Jersey Poll Finds; Ciattarelli Holds Edge On Enthusiasm" -- poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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Chris Wightman 🧟‍♂️ @wymancr.bsky.social · 12m

Fuck it, if they're just going to treat Congressional appropriations as advisory then pull the trigger on the debt ceiling and see what the bond vigilantes have to say.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 34m

It's funny how this has been an open secret among plugged in political types for the better part of a decade but no media outlet had bothered to report on it until now

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wanderer above the sea of pho @pierogibeast.bsky.social · 5h

Itamar Ben-Gvir, may your house be live on CNN

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h

Greta is an immensely impressive human being and despite her well-intentioned downplaying of her experience what she endured was torture. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Nuke @nuclearneo577.bsky.social · 17h

I'm really starting to wonder if Booker could actually lose in 2026 now. Ras Baraka save us.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

from clips i've seen this is underselling it honestly, he was completely clowned by questions about Bibi and AIPAC

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Re: Booker's non-answer about Netanyahu on I've Had It

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 8h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 5h

he is one million percent in these chats

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 5h

Some of the participants in the pro-Hitler Young Republican group chart are in their 30s and 40s. They're quite literally JD Vance's age.

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 5h

The corrupt Trump Justice Department is trying to cover the tracks of its wrongful arrest by charging Oriana Korol with a spurious crime. She will be arraigned before a US magistrate judge this afteroon. This outrageous abuse of criminal law is going to backfire badly for the regime.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 5h

She's probably going to win but it's a real indictment of NJ Dems that the VA race is a runaway and this is a nail-biter.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 5h

Fossilized Northeast Democratic machines running sclerotic candidates is going to be the death of America

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 5h

"NJ Governor's Race: Sherrill 50%, Ciattarelli 44%, Quinnipiac University New Jersey Poll Finds; Ciattarelli Holds Edge On Enthusiasm" -- poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

NJ Governor's Race: Sherrill 50%, Ciattarelli 44%, Quinnipiac University New Jersey Poll Finds; Ciattarelli Holds Edge On Enthusiasm | Quinnipiac University Poll

"While Jack Ciattarelli holds a fairly solid eleven percentage point lead among male voters, Mikie Sherrill has nearly double that lead with female voters," said Quinnipiac University Polling Analys...

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 5h

His admin is currently kidnapping and torturing children because they crossed a line in the sand, sometimes before they even could form words to speak

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 6h

Vance is desperate to personally machine gun protestors this weekend

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

JD Vance: "Because we have such a big problem with left-wing political violence, we have to train the investigatory and law enforcement powers of the govt to focus on that particular problem ... we really have to retrain the entire govt to focus on this left-wing violence problem. We are doing it."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

In complete seriousness, what does the government think this will do in terms of suppressing pro Palestinian sentiment long term? In fact it seems like it would only further concretize the tenacity of those who feel so strongly.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 8h

A British couple who are members of a grassroots pro-Palestine organisation which had its bank account frozen have had their joint personal account closed without explanation.

John Nicholson, 70, and Norma Turner, 76, barrister and nurse, received no explanation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 6h

remember if we object to our ally torturing people, our other allies might think they also can't torture people, which would be bad for some reason

Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 6h

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry I’m gonna go back on my bullshit here: National Consersvatism’s entire ethos boils down to “this problem, that we created, exacerbated, and oppose any effort to combat, is very bad. We will solve it by making it worse”

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8h

I suspect populist parties bootstrapped their own political support by weaponizing the residual, ambient distrust present in all societies & MAKING MORE OF IT, spreading & intensifying it, by propagating narratives of distrust & corruption. By repetition & uptake by other political actors, it rose.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

they're just blasting boats at random out there

David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 6h

Not just Venezuela. Colombia, too. And not just extra-judicial, but indiscriminate: "the Pentagon was unable to determine the individual identities of each person on the boats before they struck them."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6h

Dawg _what_

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 6h

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 6h

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

Article also demonstrates how far Sweden's gov is willing to go to cover up a crime against its most famous citizen in the world.

Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 7h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

Any comment now that Swedish media confirmed it?

ralphbunchonumbers.bsky.social @ralphbunchonumbers.bsky.social · 11d

Jesus, you people are unbelievable in your hatred. This is on the same level as accusations of blood libel and host desecration in the middle ages.

And yet you lap it up and vomit this "information" to your followers. Sickening.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

essentially their idea is to create a desert and call it peace, primarily because they think where Bush went wrong was trying to build democracy instead of just breaking things

Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 4h

Vance and co. like to insist it’s not “regime change” because there’s no plan to shore up a successor government — the aim is to leave a vacuum that we periodically bomb into submission

Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 4h

“The new authority would allow the C.I.A. to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela…The agency would be able to take covert action against Mr. Maduro or his government either unilaterally or in conjunction with a larger military operation.”

Regime change is back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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