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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 4h

You know it might make it less bad, technically speaking

Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 5h

I sincerely hope this a practical joke on either Meidas’s or the Trump admin’s part, but you know how strongmen are

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 5h

Like, I’m in full on “how can this possibly be real territory,” this is the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard, and I’m counting every time Stephen Miller has opened his mouth when I say that.

I sincerely hope this is some kind of practical joke

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 5h

As a Californian, I’m at a loss for words w/ how genuinely insane this is.

This seems like the dumbest plan ever to try to reduce turnout for No Kings (won’t work lol).

It’s the kind of thing a dictator pull before their own generals oust him. CA’s not going to rest until he’s removed from power

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6d

NYC doesn’t mess around.

It looks like they’ll be ready on Day 1 if the Trump regime attempts to occupy their city. More than 100 unions, faith leaders, and community organizers have pledged to stand with occupied cities, resist the regime, and protect New Yorkers.

Read their full statement here:

Hands Off NYC

We are over 100 unions, faith leaders, and community groups, standing together in nonviolent resistance to protect NYC.

HandsOffNYC.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16d

Yes on 50!

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50501CA ✨ YES ON 50 @50501ca.bsky.social · 16d

50501 California supports, Proposition 50 also known as the “Election Rigging Response Act,” and encourages Californians to register to vote on the redistricting effort by October 20, 2025.

To get involved, please visit 50501ca.org/yeson50

September 29th, 2025
Contact:
media@50501.ca

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

50501 California Announces Support for Proposition 50 ("The Election Rigging Response Act")

California - 50501 California supports Proposition 50, also known as the "Election Rigging Response Act," and encourages Californians to register to vote onn the redistricting effort by October 20, 2025.

Texas Republicans have already moved forward with their attempted election rigging effort, with Florida, Indiana, and Missouri Republicans close behind. this is a dangerous threat to democracy: if we do not fight back against this far-right gerrymander, U.S. elections will be little more than a dictator's vanity party.

The only way to protect American democracy is to force both sides to come to the table and end partisan redistricting once and for all. Democratic-run states have overwhelmingly created fair, independent redistricting commissions, while almost all Republican-run states have instituted maps drawn by the ruling elite.

If billionaire-bought politicians go low, while we go high, the GOP will continue to cheap-shot the American people until all federal elections become shams. The proof is in the pudding: this effort is terrifying oligarchs around the country, like anti-American billionaire megadonor Charles Munger, Jr., who is spending sacks of cash and intentionally misrepresenting groups like the League of Women Voters in the process. Is he the man you want deciding our congressional maps? We want the people to decide, not the corrupt elites destroying our country.

That is why 50501CA supports the California government's proposal to conditionally redistrict. We support it precisely because it is a temporary measure that will only take effect to combat another red state gerrymander, and because it is currently our best chance to force legislators to end the practice permanently. The only way forward is a fair democracy: people voting, not land - and definitely not land cut up into salamander-sized pieces by Greg Abbott.

Links to support:

1. Make sure you and everyone you know is registered to vote: https://registertovote.ca.gov/

2. Read the Congressional bills and review the maps: https://selc.senate.ca.gov/proposed-congressional-map

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 17d

and now somehow neither QB gets credit for a game winning drive, though maybe they BOTH get credit for a 4th quarter comeback?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17d

👇🎯 The polite way to say what this conversation reveals is that Coates is operating on a totally different moral plane & Klein is only vaguely able/willing to grasp that difference.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17d

Klein kept asking "what do you do when 30% of the country believes things that are beyond the pale?" and the answer is that you hold the line even more firmly!

He seems to think that we should should compromise with them but that's a doomed project electorally and indefensible morally.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17d

Yep. This entire interview with Coates was one massive Kinsley Gaffe.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17d

👇🎯 The polite way to say what this conversation reveals is that Coates is operating on a totally different moral plane & Klein is only vaguely able/willing to grasp that difference.

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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 17d

🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL
0:00 OT

This game has a 100.00% chance of ending in Scorigami.

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 17d

I’ll take it (also scorigami)

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 17d

SCORIGAMI TIE!!! INFINITELY FUNNIER

Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 17d

our comedic ending will be all the funnier for coming eight minutes later

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Hard Casual @hardcasual.bsky.social · 17d

I don't want him to bend the knee I want him to fucking resign

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 18d

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

english.elpais.com/culture/2022...

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

The political scientist, who at the beginning of the 1990s declared ‘the end of history,’ returns with a new book where he identifies the threats to classical liberalism: runaway capitalism and too mu...

english.elpais.com

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 19d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 22d

HOLY SHIT

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 24d

Nevermind wtf he just pulled a Baker Mayfield

Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 24d

Cowboys szn over

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 27d

a man with a mustache says " touche " in white letters

ALT: a man with a mustache says " touche " in white letters

media.tenor.com

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 27d

“Accused” is a correct descriptor before the verdict is rendered, at which point it becomes “found not guilty” or “convicted.”

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 27d

Charged =/= convicted. A charge is an accusation.

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 27d

The NYT said it that way, because that’s how newspapers always phrase it. They saw it that way so they don’t get sued because he hasn’t been put on trial yet.

We live in a country that (still, last I checked) runs on “innocent until proven guilty.”

Take up it with NYT and the legal system

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 27d

To kick it off, let’s start with a text from our Press Coordinator, @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social (if you can’t tell, he’s a bit of a Star Wars fan):

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 27d

Credit to our friend @jesscraven101.bsky.social :

For anyone who wants to let the Disney CEO know just how badly he messed up, here’s some good ways (allegedly) to contact him:

We’ll post the best messages y’all send to our social media pages:

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