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blakestacey.myatproto.social
Oh, and redesignate DOGE as the new Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which will have authority over Fox News, Sinclair and TikTok, all newly nationalized on grounds of national security.
blakestacey.myatproto.social
President AOC should shut down ICE, followed by turning off the electricity to Congress and the Supreme Court. And then sending in the troops to all the state capitals under the Guarantee Clause to force them to redistrict fairly.
blakestacey.myatproto.social
"It was September 11 in New York City, but due to a freak scheduling error at the Bureau of Temporal Alignment, it was Augtober 17.5 back home at my rural Ohio diner."
blakestacey.myatproto.social
A scenario that has been very much on my mind: the midterms being so ratfucked by multiple means (from gerrymandering to shutting down ActBlue to indicting candidates) that more than half the country views them as illegitimate.
Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...
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blakestacey.myatproto.social
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alternatively, trump's at 41% approval — that's pretty "sour" right?
dhopkins1776.bsky.social
In his interview w @jonfavs.bsky.social, @ezraklein.bsky.social asks, "why haven't the tariffs soured the public on Trump?"

An answer from my book on ACA opinions: the contemporary US economy is so diverse & complex that even sizable policy changes don't move opinions consistently.
blakestacey.myatproto.social
And the possibility of a worse epidemic than COVID is very much in the cards.

blacksky.community/profile/did:...
angierasmussen.bsky.social
A lot of people have been making claims about H5N1 being on the verge of “going pandemic.”

We don’t that, or how or if a pandemic with H5N1 would occur.

But we do know what the virus would need to do & there are ways we can stop it.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/what-would...
What Would it Take for Bird Flu to Go Pandemic?
How H5N1 could make the jump and what we can do to stop that
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blakestacey.myatproto.social
Don't forget "weaponizing the DOJ against prominent opposition figures" and "shutting down ActBlue before the midterms". Everything they want to do/already are doing is raising the temperature. Something might boil over.
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sireviscerate.myatproto.social
I was trying to find an old tweet about Hamlet and Ophelia. Google AI thought I was accusing it of killing my dad, and also screwed up the most famous line in The Princess Bride.
AI Overview

This phrase, "My father was also killed. by you," is famously from the movie The Princess Bride and is spoken by the character Inigo Montoya. It is a line used to express revenge and a lifelong quest for justice after a villain kills the hero's father. It is not a literal statement from a language model but a quote from a work of fiction, meaning Google did not kill your father.
blakestacey.myatproto.social
1 could be a contributing factor, but not by itself if they do an Alito to it and "keep" the VRA while imposing a standard that is impossible to meet.
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stephenwolf.bsky.social
Republicans could target up to 28 Dem House seats—including these 9 seats if SCOTUS kills the Voting Rights Act—& solidify a vulnerable GOP seat.

Dems might gain just up to 12 seats from new maps.

Not all of these states are likely to redraw, but the GOP effort to rig the House is a major threat
the-downballot.com
SCOTUS could eviscerate the last pillar of the Voting Rights Act in a case it's hearing right now.

If it does, Southern states could target around 9 Dem seats before 2026, shown in dark red.

That's in addition to many other non-VRA seats the GOP could go after. Dems have fewer options to respond.
blakestacey.myatproto.social
rahaeli.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom is a shitheel who should never be president, but the legislation he vetoed was unconstitutional, poorly written, both underinclusive and overexclusive, a severe privacy infringement for adults, and would have done nothing but cost California lots of money in court (to lose)
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kwcollins.bsky.social
"One party only needs 44% of the national popular vote to maintain control over the legislature" sure is a statement about the state of American democracy
emmbadger.bsky.social
If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
blakestacey.myatproto.social
I don't really expect to live through it. Maybe I catch a "nonlethal" munition in the head; maybe it's something else. I just don't see a future.
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andrewkarre.bsky.social
🧵It has been clear for years that a key difference between past instances of book banning and the present censorship cataclysm is that the banning happening now targets not only books, but librarianship as a profession and libraries as an institution. 1/4
blakestacey.myatproto.social
It's ... fine? Like, if you're stuck in on a rainy day, there are plenty of worse popcorn spectacles.
blakestacey.myatproto.social
Scheduling the arguments for October does rather give the impression that they want to scoot this one on through quickly.
blakestacey.myatproto.social
Sherrill seems to be spending more on advertising... but are the ads just not good?

xcancel.com/AdImpact_Pol...
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blakestacey.myatproto.social
Just waiting for the Quinnipiac poll this afternoon to show Ciatarelli in the lead
blakestacey.myatproto.social
Not what I needed to read today, but probably accurate.