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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 6h

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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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 6h

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

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 5h

Spectacular. And let’s be clear anyone who voted for Trump’s boy Cuomo ought to be ashamed of themselves.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5h

let’s fucking gooooooo 🎊🎉🥳

an msnbc graphic showing mamdani as the projected winner of the NYC mayor’s race

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Marc Guggenheim @marcguggenheim.bsky.social · 1d

We’re living in a world where Mike Johnson has articulated a more compelling Democratic agenda than Chuck Schumer has…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Imagine a scenario where they were in charge and they didn't have the filibuster. We would have nationalized elections, they would infringe on our 2A rights, they'd pack the Supreme Court, and they'd make Puerto Rico and DC states."

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 1d

Important from @mjtoma.bsky.social

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

I have said this before, and I’ll say it again here: We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/ARRddzG

The Washington Post Has Become Right-Wing Even Faster Than I Thought

It’s not going to happen. It’s happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. What are wealthy liberals going to do about it?

trib.al

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Six Flags America officially closes after 50 years of operation

Six Flags America Officially Closes After 50 Years of Operation

The Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor amusement parks in Bowie, Md., have officially closed its gates for good. The company welcomed guests for one last time on Sunday, Nov. 2.

people.com

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 1d

What if the analysis that says Dems are in trouble because of weak brand and having lost in 2024 is totally wrong? Dems barely lost last year. There are more Dems than Republicans. Young voters skew heavily Dem and by 2028 the majority of voters will be under 40. Trump's approval rating is terrible.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. Dems barely lost last year. And this is with a candidate who only had 107 days to campaign. And against R’s information warfare that rivals vvPutin’s (x(sh)itter, MSM, Fox & unwittingly L-accomplices), gerrymandering, R-voter suppression and R-shenanigans unknown (but surely in play)!

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 1d

The Ballroom Blitz Should Be a Bigger Scandal

It is appalling for a president to accept private donations to fund a pet project. Just ask the Clintons.  

www.theatlantic.com

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

The Dems have won the popular vote in presidential elections six times since 1992 by roughly 5.5%(1992), 8.5%,(1996) .5%(2000), 7.3%(2008), 4%(2012), 2%(2016),and 4.5%(2020).
In that period the GOP presidential candidate has won the popular vote twice: 2.5%(2004) and 1.5%(2024).

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 10d

Comparing the relation between the presidential election results in 2020 and 2024 with the post-election commentary is a fascinating exercise.

2020
Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3%
Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8%

2024
Trump 77,302,580 49.8%
Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
bsky.app/profile/larr...

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 10d

Comparing the relation between the presidential election results in 2020 and 2024 with the post-election commentary is a fascinating exercise.

2020
Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3%
Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8%

2024
Trump 77,302,580 49.8%
Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d

The one person with the most resources to do good for humanity has devoted himself heart and soul to lying about people from ethnic groups he hates.

Money does not, clearly, make a man less simple, less gullible, less choked with bigotry.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

Pete Hegseth just murdered more people and we have to take his word for it that they deserved it.

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Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social · 6d

A happy ending to the story of the Lost Budgerigar: she was reported rescued this morning in Central Park and will be taken for veterinary care. Thanks to all for your concern, particularly those who observed her and tried to help her. 🦜 💛

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 6d

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

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Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · 8d

it's cool to see that this game's starting pitcher is still hanging in there

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 11d

when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country

James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 12d

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 13d

This photo of the American Kestrel I spotted yesterday in Central Park was just too cute not to share! I don't usually post shots of the same bird, but I'm making an exception today! 🥰🥰🥰 #Kestrel #CentralPark #birding

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13d

Note that other countries are talking soberly about whether or not it's possible to fill the vacuum left by the U.S. - not whether or not the U.S. is still looked to as a leader.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13d

Singapore’s prime minister warns of ‘messy’ transition to post-American order on.ft.com/4neYS9v

Singapore’s prime minister warns of ‘messy’ transition to post-American order

Lawrence Wong says no other country can fill vacuum left by US

on.ft.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13d

SecDef announcing another (9th) lethal strike, again in the Pacific against an unspecified "designated terrorist organization."

Claims these "DTOs are the 'Al Qaeda' of our hemisphere.

Nope.

No armed attack on US like 9/11.

No AUMF.

No armed conflict.

Just more lawless premeditated killing.

Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out yet another lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Yet again, the now-deceased terrorists were engaged in narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.

The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and was carrying narcotics. Three male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. All three terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

These strikes will continue, day after day. These are not simply drug runners—these are narco-terrorists bringing death and destruction to our cities. These DTOs are the “Al Qaeda” of our hemisphere and will not escape justice. We will find them and kill them, until the threat to the American people is extinguished.

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 14d

🎉🎉🎉 It's always a thrill to spot an American Kestrel in Central Park. Though it's still quite common, Kestrels are facin a steep decline--at least 50% since the 1970s. This beauty spent quite some time preening early this morning! 🧡🖤🧡 #Kestrel #CentralPark #birding

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Wendy Fry @wendyfry.bsky.social · 14d

For days, I’ve been talking to a woman whose loved one has disappeared into ICE system. The torture of not knowing where this person is and what’s going to happen to them - it reminds me of covering the parents searching for the bodies of their missing kids in Mexico. No answers. No good answers.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14d

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar

Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...

www.theguardian.com

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 16d

One of the fiercest-looking raptors--the Bald Eagle. Spotted fishing along the Deefield River in the Berkshires. Just after I took this shot, it flew off down the river. 🦅🦅🦅 #Eagle #Berkshires #birding

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