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Captain Jack Absolute-ish @glasshoarder.bsky.social · 3h

Sexy do i need an rsv vaccine every year

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 19h

It's easy to be so distracted by all the things the President is doing, to miss one thing he's not doing:
Rallies.
After he first won election in 2016, he kept having rallies b/c he liked them so much. He did them all through his first term, even during COVID. (RIP Herman Cain.)

Why not?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

New polls from Gallup, YouGov, and out of Virginia show voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy. Nationally, Dems now have a 4-point margin on the issue — an 18-point shift away from Trump since 2023. Time to update your priors

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...

Polls show voters now trust Democrats more to handle the economy

The issue that sank Democrats in 2024 now threatens to do the same to Republicans in 2025 and the 2026 midterms

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump's wildly inappropriate reaction to this (quite impressive) piece of Reaganite advertising ought to cause so many people to view the ad he doesn't want them to see that we'll have to rename the Streisand Effect the Ontario Effect.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 3d

Ontario launches the perfect ad. Canadians are true brothers 💙🇨🇦

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Every few years, Democrats inch toward figuring out the existence of framing. This goes out the window the moment they get power and return to poll-driven triangulations aimed at pleasing right-wingers—who move aggressively to shift the Overton window the moment they taste power.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Politics is the art of making people care. Effective movements *shift the polls* by framing issues as moral questions.

If the fascists can make people care about conspiracy theories like QAnon, we can make people care about freedom and democracy.

(George Lakoff wrote several books on this.)

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

www.npr.org

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."

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Andrew S(poooky) 👻🎃 @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 1d

speaking of which, aren’t we just about due for the president‘s traditional monthly withdrawal from public events to take a revitalizing bath in goats’ blood

Department of Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

Dying President Focused Solely on Building Gaudy Mausoleum Ballroom

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Captain Jack Absolute-ish @glasshoarder.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I had no doubt you had seen them! 😂 Post was great when you & your colleagues were still there. It’s been sad for us readers, too. I delivered it when I was 10, worked in Circulation during college, and knew its 2 greatest theatre critics well. And btw, you’re a fantastic follow.

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Captain Jack Absolute-ish @glasshoarder.bsky.social · 1d

Ex-legal proofreader nitpicker here. In over 50 years of hometown Post readership, I do not recall seeing a misspelled headline in it. More oligarch enshittification.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

That normie Americans are being trained en masse to pullout their cameras and shout "what's your name" as their neighbors are being hauled away by ICE goons....

i just don't think we can anticipate how this manifests at the ballot box and everywhere.

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Captain Jack Absolute-ish @glasshoarder.bsky.social · 1d

Not hearing a lot about Trump Derangement Syndrome these days….

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most photographed buildings in the world, this should be a cinch

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2d

Never mind every other single abominable or corrupt thing to this miserable moment, the extrajudicial and unevidenced execution of 34 human beings by the U.S. Navy on the orders of a U.S. President acting in peacetime is sufficient for his impeachment and conviction.

If we were a republic, I mean.

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Max Flugrath🗳️ @maxflugrath.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Trump’s team is plotting to declare a fake "national emergency" to hijack elections.

One operative says they can “take steps without Congress” and mandate state election rules.

Independent, state-run elections are the last firewall between democracy and authoritarian rule.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 2d

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 3d

Trump wants us to believe he's unstoppable

But social scientists have found that 52% of all attempts to build autocracies are relatively quickly reversed by democratizing "U-Turns" — and, within the last 30 years, this number has risen to 73%

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

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Captain Jack Absolute-ish @glasshoarder.bsky.social · 2d

Suggested this myself yesterday—the American Museum of Tyranny.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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