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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 25d

Friendly reminder that “both sides are the same” is a load of crap and anyone who says nonsense like that is either a MAGA stooge/Russian bot LARPing as a progressive or a useful idiot for the Trump regime.

Also, Kamala Harris would’ve been better for Gaza. Signed: a Palestinian American.

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Howard ✡🟦🎗 @howarda-atlaw.bsky.social · 3h

If all you have is "but Janet Mills in in her 70s!" (but elect Bernie when he's 89) you will need more than that to explain why you prefer a 0-experience ex-Blackwater mercenary over a woman who has twice proved she can win both the Left and moderates in Maine to defeat Collins.

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 2h

The problem was that while Harris went out of her way to try and educate voters on Project 2025, the media went out of its way to insist Trump had nothing to do with it just because he claimed he knew nothing about it. Then you had Project 2025 collaborators like Derek Hunter calling Harris a liar.

wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 2h

No, you don’t understand! Democrats are omnipotent! They could solve all the world’s problems if they wanted to, but they aren’t doing it because they love capitalism or something! /s

wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 2h

The “progressives” here who spent yesterday praising Trump for supposedly achieving peace look even more stupid now.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

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Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 2h

That was fast…

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Rupert Murdoch is awful, but he was an actual newspaper person who understood that alienating your core audience is not good business. For Bezos, the Post was a vanity project, and is now a loss leader to protect his other interests.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

What is with this leftist fascination of jerking Trump off while pretending they aren’t doing so?

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t think Trump deserves credit but I’m going to give him credit anyway”

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Blinken disclosing that the 20-point peace plan was pretty much word-for-word a copy of the peace plan that the Biden White House left for the incoming Trump administration *that they had printed out and left in a secured drawer for them* is one of the least surprising tidbits we've learned.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

They gave up their main leverage after eight months of a prolonged war that was supposed to have ended back in January.

wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

These are the same morons who tried to give Trump credit for the January ceasefire deal.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

One of Trump’s few consistent positions is pro-corruption.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

Those people don’t sound very smart.

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, Harris was objectively a far better choice for both the working class and for women and minorities compared to pretty much anyone in the Republican Party. Maybe you don’t consider that a high bar, but that still made it worthwhile to support her, in my opinion.

wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much every mainstream politician upholds capitalism, even the ones who identify as socialist.

wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

The decline in his approval began in August 2021. As for the cost of groceries, that was largely beyond his control.

wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn’t consider her right leaning at all, nor did the vast majority of people who voted either for or against her.

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

Gee, I wonder if his low approval ratings had something to do with the fact that the media went out of its way to attack him ever since the Afghanistan withdrawal!

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty funny that he seems to genuinely think he needed the Nobel to enter heaven but a bunch of Norwegian Eurocrats damned his soul to hell and gave some Venezuelan lady his ticket to the pearly gates.

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wordsornumbers.bsky.social @wordsornumbers.bsky.social · 1d

Obama and FDR were Presidents for eight and twelve years respectively and again, Covid was a pretty unprecedented situation that pretty much every world leader was struggling to deal with.

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Biden’s labor report card: Historian gives ‘Union Joe’ a higher grade than any president since FDR

COMMENTARY | President Joe Biden came into the White House intent on being "the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history." Four years later, he has shown ...