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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 15h

Elections matter

Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 15h

There is no reason to think another Democrat will ever get elected in our lifetimes. GOP reign for decades.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 17h

The degree to which the internet and social media radicalizes the young is indeed something new.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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realGuyFawkes. @realguyfawkes.bsky.social · 1d

If you have HBO, you should watch the most recent episode with John Oliver. He takes down Bari Weiss and shows her to be the disingenuous right wing POS she always was. How anyone ever gave her the time of day is beyond comprehension.

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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 1d

Gift for? Instructions from.

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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 2d

Boot licking par excellence

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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 2d

“What the hell do you have to lose?”

Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 3d

They were the ones that helped popularize the term. Think Richard Spencer setting himself up to be punched by “antifa”… all brilliant inorganic manipulation of language and shifting Overton windows

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 3d

This is grotesque beyond belief. And that Jews are involved this way makes me sick. We should ALL--every Jewish person--be fighting the dehumanization of Palestinians and immigrants, but instead we are committing and now abetting genocide.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 4d

Elections matter

Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 4d

The Times is not a passive vessel for rightist propaganda. It is an active enabler of it, a crucial knowing arm of the global rightist project.

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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 4d

The Times is a malign actor.

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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t use Google products. Because the product is actually you.

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Heroinsmoker @heroinsmoker.bsky.social · 4d

Poppy, scallion cream cheese, sable.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

All these oped writers think we should give the Nobel Peace Prize to the guy who’s gutting our medical infrastructure

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice: