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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 10h

So, you don’t agree with this thread.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 16h

This is happening right now, to a friend of mine in Chicago. This is a peaceful area, with no previous unrest or crime problem. Just people trying to live their lives. My heart hurts. They're having conversations no family should have to have.

A white box with text. "Y'all. They're tear gassing my neighborhood. Right by the place we get hummus from. Right by where we get the extra large pizzas for sleep overs. Tell your people."

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 11h

I still believe that Trump voters lie along an idiocy-malevolence spectrum. Some are more stupid than evil. Others, the reverse. But all are both. All are equally culpable.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine being able to say with a straight face "They didn't know how bad the guy who has been the most famous person in the world for a decade really was." Not only being able to say it, but, in many cases, to make a *career* out of saying it. And there are so many such people.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 11h

But it's not. It's moral failure. The people who say that shit, even if they vote against Trump, feel some kind of kinship with the MAGAs. They're so beholden to the idea that the MAGAs are well-intentioned that they're willing to appear to be either delusional or profoundly stupid.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 11h

This doesn't even require any thought. "It was inflation." Or "some Republicans just vote automatically vote Republican and didn't really know what he was like."

Are you fucking kidding me? This is why the excuse-making for MAGA seems like pure delusion to me. Like, some kind of psychosis.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 11h

"Many of them are just ignorant."

Dude ran for president three times. And was president when he attempted a coup.

They knew what he was. If someone didn't vote and was "ignorant" of Trump, well...I mean, fine. But if someone actually made the effort, their choice was very, very conscious.

Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 14h

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." Great essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 14h

The film "NO" about the plebiscite that took down Pinochet has definitely influenced my advocacy. The lesson was, if you seem fun and upbeat, even in very serious times, the public is much more likely to stand with you.

These folks are doing it right!

The Tennessee Holler @handle.invalid · 19h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like Politico going even further right hasn’t worked so far. Huh.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

TRUMP: Boy, she asks a lot of questions. Who are you with?

BURNS: Politico. Dasha Burns, sir

TRUMP: Dasha, Politico, ugh. Politico has gone bad. They've been so wrong about everything. Let's get somebody else to ask some questions. You mind? Politico is fake news.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

if “you could kill a bunch of people and go to jail for approximately forever” isn’t a good enough reason not to shine lasers at aircraft, may I also note that it’ll be trivially easy to catch you doing it

James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 16h

There's also the fact that, assuming its night time, you are putting up a giant laser arrow to your exact location. No one interested in protesting this crap is going to be stupid enough to do this, I hope. More likely they're baiting people into trouble

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly this, as I have said many times.

If someone has “contrarian” in their bio, I see as being no different than if it said “feeble-minded.”

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 19h

A thing I have learned from being online since 1995:

If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19h

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

Sally Jenkins post with a link to whatever awful Atlantic piece about Bari Weiss reading "Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. "

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks. I’m such a naïf on these things.

Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 19h

If so, that’s horrendous.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 20h

There is nothing in this story indicating that any federal workers "aren't scared." The story focuses on one woman and how deeply troubled she is.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

Why some federal workers aren't scared by the threat of shutdown layoffs

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

n.pr

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 20h

I'm confused. How does this headline match the story?

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Farb @efarb.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, but everyone in this article deserves to be single for life. If you can’t have a conversation with someone, then maybe the problem is you and not dating apps

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places.

But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

yeah; Elon Musk isn't a Christian. He's coming from weird millenarian atheist circles...and again, his cuts to USAID are probably going to kill 14 million people.

absolutely as bad as anything the christians have done.

AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 1d

One of the themes in the replies here is that "At least atheist aren't ruining the country like the Christians." And like, a significant part of the Trump movement comes from GamerGate, which had serious over lap with the mid 2010s capital A Atheism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in this weird period in which everyone is afraid of people that almost everyone despises

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Actually circulating videos of Candace Owens that make her seem reasonable because she’s correct on *one* issue is not good work

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