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Hamlet
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality.

Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d
why doesn’t stuff like this ever happen in my back yard
grantbrisbee.bsky.social Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 1d
@darthbluesky.bsky.social Thank goodness you're here, I need your advice. My neighbor, Max, is continually violating our privacy and spying on us in our backyard. I finally caught him in the act. How do I approach this situation?
Max. I can't remember what kind of dog he is, but he's not a lab. Just kinda looks like a tan lab. He's peeking over the backyard fence and into our yard. I have no idea how he's doing it. I'm picturing six other, smaller dogs underneath him.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d
“The virtual disappearance of the House for most of three months...is looking more and more essential to the authoritarian project of a movement that pleaded for a “red Caesar” to crush “woke” liberalism with unchecked executive power.””
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down

From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
www.inquirer.com
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hamletactual.bsky.social
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 1d
Ok, look: everyone lies. To tell a lie is a completely human thing. There are tons of different lies people tell and we all just sort of accept it and move through the world. Most of those lies are social lubricants.

Right-wing lies, however--from Elon to Mike Johnson--purely psychotic.
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Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 1d
I'm torn. I hate the Dodgers because of what they've done to baseball, but I feel weird rooting for the Blue Jays.

I almost think the Dodgers need to win to demonstrate how completely corrupt MLB is, but I hate it.
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Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 1d
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d
if you want to stay on twitter for some reason it's whatever i guess but you have to accept that people are going to call you a shitass baby brained coward and you can't bitch about it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d
Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely
spockresists.bsky.social Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 4d
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
www.whatimreading.net
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d
Border Patrol has a rancid culture, and a dark history

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 2d
This is actually kind of outstanding. It should embarrass everyone on the right once they get in to discovery and the trial.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4d
The campaign to label art "too woke" or "too liberal" has dark historical echoes. In my op-ed, I draw the parallel to Nazi Germany's "Degenerate Art" exhibitions and the Soviet doctrine of "Socialist Realism." When a government dictates what art is acceptable, we are on a dangerous path.
Trump’s Campaign to Defund the Arts—and Rewrite History
"The campaign to defund the arts, capture our museums, and rewrite our history is a prelude to silencing dissent."
time.com
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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d
Just the weakest people ever
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
WELKER: Why is the president setting trade policy based on a TV ad he doesn't like?

BESSENT: This is a kind of propaganda against US citizens. It's psyops
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 5d
I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison
cmdroverbite.bsky.social Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 5d
Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d
The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d
Another example of Big Tech’s favourite line, “Move fast and break things.” The things they’re ok breaking evidently include airplanes in flight full of people.

A sane system would be regulating all the stupid, dangerous stuff like this. But Big Tech says that’s “anti-future,” right?
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8d
A Palo Alto company has launched more than 4,000 of its "smart" balloons. Looks like one of them smashed into a United 737.

Everyone was OK, but the pilot did tell passengers, “The aircraft has collided with an object and a window in the cockpit has shattered"

www.sfchronicle.com/travel/artic...
Silicon Valley startup admits its balloon may have struck United jet, forcing emergency landing
A Silicon Valley company says one of its “smart” weather balloons may have struck a United Airlines flight, cracking the cockpit windshield and injuring a pilot.
www.sfchronicle.com
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d
The old rulebook is gone. It's not coming back and we all need to accept that. The DOJ is weaponized. the GOP is rigging elections. Trump is literally bulldozing the White House.

Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d
Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.

Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d
DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators
DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators
The agency denied making
gizmodo.com
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 7d
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.)
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d
"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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Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 7d
I LOVE A Christmas Carol and usually watch a couple iterations of it every year.

This will be utter dreck and an insult to Dickens.
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Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 7d
Yeah, it’s disappointing that the DNC/DSCC will probably fuck up and lose this race again, but this dude can’t go on.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d
It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.
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hamletactual.bsky.social
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 7d
Excellent.

I do wonder, or maybe I don't, idk, whether my fellow Americans will adopt the same dark cynicism as the Russians or whether we'll snap out of our torpor in time to right our ship.
nojoyman.bsky.social No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 8d
Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
jkass99.bsky.social Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 8d
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST