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Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 33m

"So what you're telling me is you need less evidence to kill someone than to hold them?" is a cursed sentence

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 36m

Writers getting real lazy and just doing reruns of a century ago

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12h

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 37m

The optimus bots don't need air, so there you go

Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 40m

It's amazing that Douthat has made a whole career out of the "this thing supports my priors" meme

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2h

Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.

The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!

The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.

It is completely obvious that the party lost in 2024 because it overcommitted to a range of unpopular left-wing positions, some of which yielded disastrous policy results (like the Biden migration wave) while others merely persuaded constituencies that had voted Democratic in the past (like blue-collar Midwesterners or culturally conservative Latino men) that the party now cared more about climate change

In poll after poll, Americans have said that they know little to nothing about the IRA, with the most recent poll, out in April 2024, finding that 4 in 10 people say that they don’t know enough about the law’s provisions to have an opinion on them. At the same time, a July 2023 Data for Progress poll found that large numbers of Americans support provisions in the IRA when asked specifically about them, including tax credits for businesses that produce clean electricity, electric vehicles, and new clean energy technologies (69%); rebates up to $14,000 per household to improve home energy efficiency (71%); and ramping up production of American-made clean energy technologies (73%). And perhaps most significantly, support for these key IRA provisions has grown over time among all likely voters, especially Republican voters.

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Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 42m

They conceded what they were already doing before, like buying soybeans.

Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 45m

I live in upstate NY and the winters have become noticeably more moderate in the last 10 years. We also don't get hurricanes, floods, or wildfires. Buy now!

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Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 10h

So are they over 1k yet?

Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 10h

Is this about the Lincoln bathroom? Was that not real?

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Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 10h

It’s all so tacky. It’s what trashy people think rich classy people have.

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Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 11h

Didn’t Kristi Noem say just yesterday that any reports of US citizens being detained were false as well?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 19h

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

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Canary @canarydied.bsky.social · 11h

Also if you want to punish people for crimes you have to make a case for it, not just blow them up

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."