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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 20m

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1h

No particular negative feelings about Janet Mills, but I can't wait for Graham Platner to wipe the floor with Chuck's hand-picked septuagenarian. We don't need more people who should already be retired in the Senate, we need people with real fight.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 11h

The person with Rice in my guillotine league only survived because of the Daniels fumble lol

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 12h

3 of those aren't in the Senate. And Murphy's been pretty good but I don't trust him tbh. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but he's talked a big game then gone soft many times.

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 15h

Disagree. Schatz is learning at Chuck's knee. He's played a key part in selling Chuck's bullshit with a veneer of being young and cool.

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 18h

Schumer is spending his time convincing a 77(!) establishment candidate to run for the Maine Senate seat to prevent an exciting progressive from winning, meanwhile…..

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 19h

Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader.

We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 18h

I'll take my business elsewhere lol

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 19h

The Foundation is one of the most unreadable works of fiction in history and Isaac Asimov is a bore.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 19h

Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader.

We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 20h

I agree that they lacked votes to pass many measures they may have considered into law like HR1 or the PRO Act, but neither Joe Biden nor congressional leaders showed any kind of urgency to do the things they could have done without votes.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 20h

Biden could have done much more but he wanted to "look forward, not back." He resisted taking action to hold Trump accountable for his crimes. He thought the GOP was gonna have an epiphany. He refused to take decisive action on court reform. He didn't even move to fire Trump's hacks at USPS, FBI etc

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 22h

House Republicans: they imposed work requirements on Medicaid and SNAP enrollees in the name of "protect[ing] taxpayer dollars," and then peaced the f–– out of their duties at the Capitol for three months and counting.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 23h

Bari Weiss is building a right-wing CBS knockoff—mimicking the format, harvesting the credibility, but serving pure partisanship.

This is the Venture Capital fascism playbook: clone trusted institutions, staff them with right-wing ideological warriors, and call it ‘balance.’

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: After Bari Weiss was made Editor-in-Chief, CBS News is now uplifting stories from Weiss’s The Free Press.

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Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 1d

An optimistic book in a grueling time. @dskamper.bsky.social gives us hope with stories of strategic fights led with the awakening of worker power. Solidarity is essential and so is reading this book. I was honored to write the foreword of Who✊s Got the Power?

Cover of Dave Kamper’s book, “Who’s Got the Power? The Resurgence of American Unions”

Title page with a very kind note from Dave to Sara. Kind note covered by humbled Sara, but Solidarity with Dave’s signature is plain to see.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

I thought this was going to be about the inflatable protest costumes and was ready to be mad, but then I arrived at your entirely correct point and was relieved.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not much interested in defending Sean Duffy, but language evolves. If you want to get mad at people for "misusing" the phrase "beg the question" perhaps start with the person who translated the phrase into English so poorly that the common understanding of the phrase was essentially inevitable 🤷‍♂️

Screenshot from Miriam Webster Dot com that reads

Origin of Beg the Question
Beg the question is a phrase from formal logic. We have Aristotle to thank for it—or, actually, an anonymous 16th century translator who took Aristotle's phrase petitio principii and rendered it in English as "beg the question." A better translation would have been "assume the conclusion," as linguist Mark Liberman at Language Log explains; petitio principii is used to name the logical fallacy in which an argument assumes the very thing it's trying to prove. Here's an example:

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

One is correct

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

Back in America's only sane time zone praise Jeebus

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

—Declaration of Independence, 1776

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

DHS agent wounded in active combat, from shots fired by other DHS agents who decided DHS agents were actually antifa. The genius of Kristi Noem.

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

A truly unhinged film

a man in a duck mask is sitting at a table with his hands folded .

ALT: a man in a duck mask is sitting at a table with his hands folded .

media.tenor.com

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't seen that since it came out when I was a kid. Feel like I should rewatch now based on this. The late 80s and early 90s put some crazy shit in front of kids

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

Think it's pretty clear at this point that Kermit is the leader of antifa lol

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

A+