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Joshfrai @joshfrai.bsky.social · 15h

Make Abhorrent Ideas Socially Unacceptable Again

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23h

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.

Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

Jake P @jahre.bsky.social · 23h

Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.

The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.

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Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 15h

If a Democrat said this we'd be hearing how out of touch they are for months

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 15h

“I think most people are going to say, OK, I had a great deal during COVID,” said Club For Growth President David McIntosh. “But now it’s back to business as usual, and I should be paying for health care.”

Republicans Face Voter Anger Over Rising Health Care Premiums

Notices of rising health insurance premiums are landing in voters' mailboxes and sending some to Republican town halls to vent their frustration.

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Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine wanting to be First Lady this badly

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 17h

Man, being VP and publicly saying you want your Hindu wife to convert is so disrespectful

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 17h

The grain of truth in this is that the Germans had significant advantages in physics & chemistry research in the decades preceding World War II. Which which the Nazis squandered by driving Jewish & left-wing scientists into exile. Has anyone checked up on America's research capacity lately

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

motherfucker you are hollowing the industrial base out with anduril vaporware nonsense

You’re not going to win the war with software and A.I. It can increase your lethality. At the end of the day, you’re going to have to be able to build things. You’re going to need mass that you can bring to a fight that drives deterrence.

The analogy I would give you is World War II. The Germans were far better engineers than the Americans. They had really exquisite technology. They just couldn’t build it at any sort of scale. They could build one-off little things here or there.

What did we have? We had just incredible manufacturing capability. It even brought awe to Stalin. He couldn’t believe what we were capable of doing. Our things were less sophisticated, but quantity is a quality of its own.

If you look at the present moment, you might say, that sounds an awful lot like our adversary — so we need a high-low mix. And I think part of this is we have to be able to build these things here again with speed. That’s what the new entrants are really bringing.

I don’t think most people recognize that Gulf War I was a watershed moment for the Chinese. They could not believe how quickly the Americans rolled over the fourth-largest army in the world. Since that happened, they have been systematically investing in countering the key capabilities that enable us to do that, whether it’s in space, whether it’s our Navy.

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Andy Donaldson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @triplezero.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone who looks at the Second World War and thinks that German technology was better than Allied needs beaten to death with a cavity magnetron.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

motherfucker you are hollowing the industrial base out with anduril vaporware nonsense

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Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 17h

The fact that no one else is investing as much into AI doesn't mean what he thinks it does

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 18h

look, im not saying its endearing me to them but its a good sign when all the morally unethered dem moderates who’d knife their own mothers for a 1% poll bump are getting serious about fighting trump

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2d

Why has Gallego been cooking lately?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

HUNT: Dems have argued that the norms of our govt should be that you negotiate policy outside of a shutdown

GALLEGO: You're talking about norms in a time of Donald Trump?

H: But Ds have spent so much time arguing that maintaining norms is incredibly important

G: It's all out the window, Kasie. No

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 18h

The capital gains exclusion on home sales equals about half of all that HUD spends on affordable housing.

If that doesn't radicalize you, I don't know what will.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 20h

The US federal government's spending on housing—directly through the budget, or through tax expenditures—amounts to more than $400 billion a year.

Only about 1/4 of that goes to low-income renters. The majority is spent on subsidizing higher-income homeowners.

www.urban.org/research/pub...

The Federal Government Commits Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Annually to Reducing Housing Costs through a Variety of Mechanisms

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Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 18h

We should draft Chris evans to replace Markey

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18h

underrated aspect of the whole "we must chase polls" discussion is that such people, almost by definition, will be cringing and timid

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19h

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election.
Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024.
But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS

THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, Tony Pizza. That is correct

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

I also hate how Trump is simply reinforcing old stereotypes about how Americans will only eat McDonalds overseas, because I do think broader American culture has become WAY more culinarily adventurous in a pretty laudable way over the last 20 years

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

the reign of the Ethnic Cleansing Hamburglar is so deeply aesthetically offensive

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

Menus during President Trump's Asia tour showcased local cuisine while making sure that his tastes and America First agenda were met. There were beef patties with ketchup, and brownies decorated “with the color of gold that President Trump favors.”

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Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 19h

"Emmanuel is a boss who'll call on weekends and at all hours, but also encourages work life balance"

And you, an allegedly independent journalist, just accepted that formulation?

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19h

Wild to have your profile subject dictate precisely the kind of coverage he'd like from you and then just ... give it to him

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 21h

Trump’s campaign pitch to Americans used to include “what do you have to lose” and the answer is that no one has ever had more to lose and few have ever been so reckless with what they have

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 19h

Damn that sounds like a solid Title VII fact pattern.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 20h

"if you're upset about a nazi tattoo and want to see more contrition than 'covered it up only after it became politically untenable not to' then you are literally insane" -- a take from a person who believes in nothing, stands for nothing, and whose opinion is as such worth nothing

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22h

hello! my friend was assaulted and threatened by federal agents for the crime of "not liking them". please help him sue the shit out of these fascist thugs chuffed.org/project/free...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 19h

[middle-aged white pundit begins writing another column about how there's been a culture-wide 'vibe-shift' and everyone is into nazi tradwives now and anyone who doesn't see this is stuck in an echo chamber]

Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 1d

Twitter/X is a story on its own:

🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22h

Twitter was a left of center place by the partisanship of posters.

X is a Republican propaganda machine.

Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 1d

Twitter/X is a story on its own:

🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 21h

I think we’re underestimating the possibility the ballroom never gets built and there’s just a big pile of rubble for four years.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo is a bad man pulling on a dangerous thread because he wants to win a job he doesn’t actually want to do in a place he hates

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, i get a lot of this too. people straining to find socially acceptable rationalizations of what is just a raw aversion response to a muslim-american becoming mayor of a major american city

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine Trump said he was illegally stopping November Social Security payments & incorrectly blamed the shutdown

The frame should be “Trump illegally halts Social Security checks,” not “Shutdown means November 1 marks a Social Security cliff, Dems share blame?”

But that’s what’s happening w/ SNAP

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of reporting on SNAP getting the details wrong.

SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits.

The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.

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