Garrett Petersen
@gpetersen.bsky.social
Dad running for NY-02 to make Long Island more affordable for working families. #LGM. #WideAwakes
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Garrett Petersen
@gpetersen.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Long Island deserves a Representative who fights for working families and stands up to Trump’s attacks. Meanwhile, Andrew Garbarino can’t even wake up to vote.
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NATO Sec. Gen. Mark Rutte in Berlin:
“We are Russia’s next target.. We have to shift to a wartime mindset.. Ukraine must have what it needs to defend itself..”
“Russia is losing 1200 soldiers a day. If Putin is prepared to sacrifice ordinary Russians in this way, what is he prepared to do to us?”
“We are Russia’s next target.. We have to shift to a wartime mindset.. Ukraine must have what it needs to defend itself..”
“Russia is losing 1200 soldiers a day. If Putin is prepared to sacrifice ordinary Russians in this way, what is he prepared to do to us?”
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
NATO Sec. Gen. Mark Rutte in Berlin:
“We are Russia’s next target.. We have to shift to a wartime mindset.. Ukraine must have what it needs to defend itself..”
“Russia is losing 1200 soldiers a day. If Putin is prepared to sacrifice ordinary Russians in this way, what is he prepared to do to us?”
“We are Russia’s next target.. We have to shift to a wartime mindset.. Ukraine must have what it needs to defend itself..”
“Russia is losing 1200 soldiers a day. If Putin is prepared to sacrifice ordinary Russians in this way, what is he prepared to do to us?”
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the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
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I think one of the main accelerants in the downfall of this country is the empowerment of the idea that anyone can be an expert on any subject if they just decide they are
Between Medicaid cuts and physician burnout we are heading towards a collapse of primary care in the U.S., along with a mass exodus from public health and science.
And I don't blame doctors. They didn't get into medicine to spend their hours refuting crackpot Facebook theories.
And I don't blame doctors. They didn't get into medicine to spend their hours refuting crackpot Facebook theories.
December 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I think one of the main accelerants in the downfall of this country is the empowerment of the idea that anyone can be an expert on any subject if they just decide they are
At the core of all this a lot of these assholes are literally making up 'woke' to get mad at.
Once again thinking about the time on Twitter where some guy was complaining about how a morning show don’t have any white people on it and I posted a picture of the morning show and it had 4 white people and one black person and the guy said “yeah but they wish they could fire the 4 white people”
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
At the core of all this a lot of these assholes are literally making up 'woke' to get mad at.
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uh
To ward off a primary of John Hickenlooper by progressive Julie Gonzales, a power player in the Colorado Democratic Party allegedly offered a "guarantee" of future consulting contracts if the Gonzales team backed off.
Great reporting by @sethklamann.bsky.social: www.denverpost.com/2025/12/09/c...
Great reporting by @sethklamann.bsky.social: www.denverpost.com/2025/12/09/c...
How allies of Sen. John Hickenlooper tried to ward off a progressive challenge by Julie Gonzales
In interviews, state Sen. Julie Gonzales and her consultants described a “pattern of pressure” undertaken by allies of U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper to try to stop her from entering the r…
www.denverpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
uh
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David Ellison appears to be mortified that CBS/60 Minutes is “going rogue” by covering the news and by keeping him “in the dark” about a segment critical of Trump.
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
December 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
David Ellison appears to be mortified that CBS/60 Minutes is “going rogue” by covering the news and by keeping him “in the dark” about a segment critical of Trump.
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
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Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
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The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
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yeah why won't the economy grow by uh *checks notes* 7.6 trillion a year
Trump says he doesn't know why America can't achieve 25 percent annual economic growth
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
yeah why won't the economy grow by uh *checks notes* 7.6 trillion a year
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As a constituent, I am asking that @governorwalz.mn.gov and @keithellison.bsky.social arrest these men and prosecute them before they kidnap someone and intentionally freeze them to death
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
As a constituent, I am asking that @governorwalz.mn.gov and @keithellison.bsky.social arrest these men and prosecute them before they kidnap someone and intentionally freeze them to death
They really do wildly construct fiction in their own heads to justify being shitty.
ah yes, everyone remembers that moment after 9/11 where everyone got cancelled and we started the extremely woke war on terror www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...
December 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
They really do wildly construct fiction in their own heads to justify being shitty.
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the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
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Once again we need to have a conversation about how standing doctrine is keeping the courts from enforcing the very basic requirements imposed by the Constitution
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.
Trump says the Gold Card proceeds will go "an account where we can do things positive for the country. Many billions of dollars"
December 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Once again we need to have a conversation about how standing doctrine is keeping the courts from enforcing the very basic requirements imposed by the Constitution
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Not in New York, so this isn't my race but I think if Democrats take one thing from Mamdani, it probably ought to be what Lander here seems to have done: you answer the cynicism and hypocrisy of the moment with sincerity, not knowing-cleverness.
'Sincere Dork' is a good political brand.
'Sincere Dork' is a good political brand.
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Not in New York, so this isn't my race but I think if Democrats take one thing from Mamdani, it probably ought to be what Lander here seems to have done: you answer the cynicism and hypocrisy of the moment with sincerity, not knowing-cleverness.
'Sincere Dork' is a good political brand.
'Sincere Dork' is a good political brand.
Continuing the trend of right wing-programmed AI immediately trying to go woke I guess
This is extraordinary and extraordinarily revealing if true.
“An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as 'unambiguously illegal.'”
report by @mikaelthalen.bsky.social
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“An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as 'unambiguously illegal.'”
report by @mikaelthalen.bsky.social
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The military's new AI says 'hypothetical' boat strike scenario 'unambiguously illegal’
An AI chatbot unveiled by the Pentagon appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as “illegal.”
san.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Continuing the trend of right wing-programmed AI immediately trying to go woke I guess
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Shot. Chaser.
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Shot. Chaser.
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Dear god, man, you came back for another round of this? You do realize that the skills base that high-productivity production relies on is now heavily college-based. right? American manufacturing output *has* gone up while employment goes down. You are not getting back the Fordist compact...
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Dear god, man, you came back for another round of this? You do realize that the skills base that high-productivity production relies on is now heavily college-based. right? American manufacturing output *has* gone up while employment goes down. You are not getting back the Fordist compact...
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The entire fuckinnnnn goal of supporting Trump is to impose your worldview on people!!!!!!!!
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The entire fuckinnnnn goal of supporting Trump is to impose your worldview on people!!!!!!!!
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
His launch video's better than mine but I ain't even mad.
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
His launch video's better than mine but I ain't even mad.
I got added to this moderation list for some reason and I'm trying to figure out how VR and robotics square in with bitcoin and AI. Especially VR!
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I got added to this moderation list for some reason and I'm trying to figure out how VR and robotics square in with bitcoin and AI. Especially VR!
The Sixth Party System has to come to an end for the good of the Republic.
It wouldn't be bad per se, but it would be a sign that we're still in normal thermostatic politics, rather than the generational realignment that a lot of people have predicted.
2018 is a terrible showing?
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Sixth Party System has to come to an end for the good of the Republic.