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Airwolf!

@airwolf.bsky.social

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Normalcy Bias is a hell of a drug. And overdoses can be fatal. Reformed finance bro, hobby chef, and dog person. #corgicrew Pro-decency. My politics are: fuck the motherfuckers.

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · Apr 29

Remember: “If conservatives become convinced they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” — David Frum

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 19m

But American Fascism goes back much further.

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Reaganism is MAGA’s father, don’t ever let anybody forget that.

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 22m

I could give two fucks if an ideologically driven and illegitimate SCOTUS agrees.

Declaring an insurrection when there is no crisis at all is illegitimate.

Call bullshit on all of it.

Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 25m

Not a single use after Grant’s was appropriate

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Oh, right, except for the problems we created and exacerbated in the name of banana and sugar cane profits for American colonialism/agribusiness!

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 32m

Any day now.

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You know, the ones the CIA supported? The ones whose leaders went to the School of the Americas.

I can’t think of too many problems in Latin America that we didn’t either create or exacerbate in the name of either anti-communism or the War on Drugs.

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 37m

He’ll grow into the job, I can feel it. — some pundit tomorrow morning

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 38m

I wonder if the Trump Administration will be as aggressive with the Colombian narcos who are also Right Wing paramilitaries?

Hahaha, I don’t really wonder that.

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 41m

The Colombian President committed the sin of caring that his citizens were murdered for clout by Trump

Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 44m

Despite his breeding, Huck is not down with horses.

“Get me the FLUFF outa here!” #corgicrew

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 3h

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 9h

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 4h

Anybody running for office who says “we will punish everybody who broke the law in support of this” gets my total support.

Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 4h

One of my most visited Wikipedia articles:

Trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu

Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 5h

It’s “simply” faulty logic

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

This is bad for a variety of reasons, including one that self-absorbed rich people refuse to understand: an economy that depends upon discretionary spending by a small number of people is far less resilient. A couple bad weeks for financial markets will threaten the whole economy.

Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.

www.nytimes.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

This is a matter for The Hague

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 11h

With alt text.

Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 5h

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 8h

*taps mic*

The median Democratic voter is FAR more Progressive than the typical Dem pol or candidate. It’s like that because of corporate money.

This is simple and should be obvious, but the amount of discourse that goes on that seems to ignore these basic facts is absurd.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h

[checks calendar]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.

It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 5h

“bad people can still choose to do heroic things”

Oh my gosh, is that Liz Cheney’s entry music?

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N.S. Dolkart, elected official @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 14h

This is important! Markey is running for reelection against a “generational change” Democrat whose position on trans rights is cynical wishy-washiness. It matters that his response hasn’t been to “moderate his position.”

Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, I just saw you on a video podcast that my wife showed me talking with a couple of smart middle aged Progressive women and you came across as a corporate shill and bad joke.

It was also clear that you bristled at being called on your bullshit to your face.

Just thought you’d like feedback.

Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 5h

I agree 100%. I guess my point is that feeling that reluctance is anchoring to an old understanding of our country and times.

Sorry if I came across as a pedantic scold. It wasn’t my intent.