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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 12h

I think the path would have had to be a bit different for Biden. Probably would have had to involve getting Europe to block trade and uncomfortable weapons sales to gulf monarchies

William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 13h

I think Jeffries knows at this point that he has to take this stance or he both has a chance of losing a primary and if he survives the primary not getting to be speaker because dem primary voters have sent him a bunch of new house members that want heads on stakes and don’t think he will deliver

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 13h

Hell in a number of cases it isn’t even programs that the Dems can take credit for creating.

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 15h

Do either Stevens or Mills have any grassroots support?

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 15h

It’s not so much I think that they wish they were republicans but there are I think a number of electeds that wish that they had voters that were more like the Republican voters where they can talk about something on TV and the base of voters gets behind it

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 15h

It’s part donors and lobbyists, part the data people they like, part revolt of the bosses, and part resentment of the voter base that they have

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 16h

"Amero-Wagner alum has better FP positions than the replacement-level Democrat" is a replacement-level Democrat problem

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah he was in a PMC and I really don't care. I wish we had more YPG vets willing to run instead

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 17h

“But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.”

Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid dispute over student newspaper's content

The director of student media was fired after he pushed back against a university directive over what gets printed in the Indiana Daily Student.

www.indystar.com

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 17h

Feels like something that would make checked out people that benefit from a program that gets cut become partisan Dems

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 18h

I would like a simple answer but I sort of like her framing it this way because it makes anyone that want to deny it confront the evidence that exists instead of just arguing over a term. It both asserts the position and defends the position

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 18h

I think it is more important for the Brits to try to seize on it than the Americans at this point. Trump being in power and Biden being out off office makes it less damaging for the entirety of dem politics because Dems are willing to break from the line when out of power. Labour has a tougher time

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 19h

He is posthumously awarding him the presidential medal of freedom

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Rep. Morgan McGarvey @repmcgarvey.bsky.social · 19h

Black lung is incurable but 100% preventable.

After decades of work, there's a solution on the table— but the Trump administration refuses to implement it.

While they drag their feet, lives are at stake. I'm calling them out.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 20h

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 20h

Frying brains online

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 20h

It tends to feel good when you aren’t paying attention but when you realize how much you miss it sort of can be a brain worm where it starts to make you worry about missing something

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 22h

Great if she wants to run but DSCC really should not be doing fundraising for anyone in a primary

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 22h

His frame of thinking is deals and the more out there a possibility is, the more likely he is to want it because it strikes his ego

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 22h

If it’s anything like the PS4 I think it does that if it powers off improperly the last time it was turned off

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23h

(Arguably the biggest problem with neoliberalism is that it refuses to centrally plan things that should be centrally planned, like railroads and internet connections and a healthcare system, because it has such an aversion to spreadsheet centralization)

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 1d

Allegedly multi year appropriations for R&D

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 1d

The end times theology is the basis of it but currently I think the majority of the reason is just wanting to kill Arabs and Muslims because of 9/11

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

Alway enjoy when the camera cuts to Arthur Blank on the field and he looks like he's just arrived from a ribbon cutting for a steam engine that will usher in the next phase of the industrial revolution

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

The story of how a holiday originally instituted to celebrate an embattled immigrant community seen as culturally and at times racially distinct from Anglo Protestants, has become associated with the same political coalition that hates immigrants today, is the story of whiteness in America.

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 1d

I think if Trump fucks over the farm and energy sectors like it appears he will, we may have some odd states that get negatively polarized against voting for republicans in statewide federal races for a bit

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

"How do we make every Republican candidate into Curtis Sliwa?"

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