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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 8h

Augustine, on 1 John (sermo 7, 6): Ergo habere sacramenta ista omnia et malus potest; habere autem caritatem, et malus esse, non potest. Hoc est ergo proprium donum; ipse est singularis fons. Ad hunc bibendum, vos hortatur Spiritus Dei; ad se bibendum vos hortatur Spiritus Dei.

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 11h

the political benefit is that if he traps the Republican Senators into ending the filibuster, the White House can then get them to pass whatever Enabling Acts he or Miller or Vance might desire.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

I’ve long thought Trump is good at picking fights that benefit him politically but the fact he’s fighting right now to starve Americans is making me reassess

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Lifelong Democrats for Zohran #ImWithHim 🌊🌊🌊 @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 9h

man

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 9h

there are things going on with his face that I don’t think medicine can quite explain.

but the gynecomastia and the unusual shape of his trunk suggest he’s using steroids in imprudent doses without a training program.

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · Jul 5

can’t wait to get strong

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 11h

Thune is effectively in the position of Pence in January of 2021

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 11h

the political benefit is that if he traps the Republican Senators into ending the filibuster, the White House can then get them to pass whatever Enabling Acts he or Miller or Vance might desire.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

I’ve long thought Trump is good at picking fights that benefit him politically but the fact he’s fighting right now to starve Americans is making me reassess

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 19h

Lotta good back and forth in the various strains of this thread about Jay Jacobs, but I really just want to focus on Brian's last line here. Nassau County Dems - Suozzi, Gillen, Jacobs - all spent more time melting down over Mamdani than boosting their own candidates. It's a huge failure.

Brian Edits @bubsc.bsky.social · 19h

Nassau Dem. I knew there was an election for County Executive. I knew I wanted Blakeman out.

I had no idea who was running against him until I searched it

Only AFTER that did I start to see any ads for Koslow.

My congressman Suozzi spent more time denouncing Mamdani than supporting Koslow.

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 13h

on the one hand, this was a beautiful example of my city’s diversity — on the other, ¡abran las escuelas!

fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 13h

I overheard a great conversation at the gym — one kid was telling another about where he goes to church, in unaccented English, except that all the words for church things were in Spanish.

I think he just didn’t realize we have English words for “misa” and “iglesia”

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 13h

I overheard a great conversation at the gym — one kid was telling another about where he goes to church, in unaccented English, except that all the words for church things were in Spanish.

I think he just didn’t realize we have English words for “misa” and “iglesia”

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 13h

just where the White House wants them — an Enabling Act or bust

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 14h

they did get Egypt back after the death of Khusrow II, but they didn’t have much time to enjoy it, certainly not enough to rebuild their prosperity, before they lost it again to the Muslims.

fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 15h

this was when the Sasanians had taken over Egypt, which was the main source of grain for the imperial heartland. conditions were bad in Constantinople but I don’t think there was famine, and the religious war against pagan Iran helped to hold morale together.

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 15h

we have ample proof that the Biden administration refused to look at evidence, however conclusive, that might have been inconvenient for our Most Important Ally.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

did no one in the garland DOJ look through the epstein files?

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 15h

“Integralists for Joe Biden” was a good joke; “Integralists for Andrew Cuomo” is a better one.

John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 16h

Very normal reactions happening all around

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 16h

this happened to Goldie recently; we moved John to a guest room and then we basically re-did sleep training. she’d get a brief visit if she woke up screaming, but then we’d leave her to calm down on her own. she had a few rough nights but after about a week she’s sleeping again.

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 17h

John says his brother looks like a “smiling pope”

Happy baby in a car seat, with a knit cap that has folded in a way that maybe sort of looks like a miter

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 17h

David, Jacques-Louis, né en 1748 à Paris, décédé en 1825 à Bruxelles

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 17h

you can be a professional Natsec Guy and understand why this is a bad idea in Venezuela, but you still have to pretend you think it’s a good idea in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17h

If anyone’s actually concerned about mass migration and/or drug trafficking, collapsing the Venezuelan government with no plan to stabilize the situation after would be, um, counterproductive.

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TYPE I • NORMAL POSITION @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 17h

what if he just falls asleep during one of these things and doesn't wake up. how great would that be, it finally dawning on Bessent or whoever that the big guy's not breathing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

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fka Big Dog @wuyongtang.bsky.social · 18h

there are a lot of reasons why the Empire collapsed, but when the Emperor Heraclius canceled the bread dole in the 620s everyone should have known it was over.

olive consumer @machete.gay · 18h

people made at recon haven't read enough books to understand that intentionally and publicly cutting off the food supply—especially primarily for the sake of some kind of political gain—to the working poor has never happened before and is easily the most baffling move in the history of civilization

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

Fighting courts to cut off the grain dole is facially an insane thing for a government to do! Just begging to get blamed for an extremely destabilizing move for no benefit!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

Claim: Mamdani is a communist.

False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20h

Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath

Nassau County Executive results: Nazi pig Bruce Blakeman defeats Democrat Seth Koslow 54/46

Nassau County District Attorney: ICE bootlicker Anne Donnelly beats Democrat Nicole Aloise 55/45

Nassau County Comptroller: GOP creature Elaine Phillips beats Democrat Wayne Wink Jr 55/45

Hempstead Town Executive: John Ferretti beats ex-troop ex-cop Democratic nominee Joe Scianablo 53/47

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 22h

Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

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Humanizing Through Story @yourstorymatters.bsky.social · 1d

A distraught man came to Broadview searching for his wife of five years after she was taken by ICE at her court hearing. He wasn’t told anything, tracked her by her phone, and was left weeping in the parking lot.

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