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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 2h

The last time someone did this much damage to the White House, the plaster required to shore it up from total collapse made it actually white, and gave it the name.

And the Brits at least had the excuse of being a foreign power we were at war with.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 5h

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h

but today the world has changed so much that neither side is willing to endorse the peace--the reactionaries can't stand the idea that the detente allowed women and blacks to de facto gain so much power, while progressives are dismayed by how much shit remains in our system

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

and yeah as meredith points out here, it's a mistake to see this question as totally divorced from "policy"

the right is selling people a *comprehensive vision* of life, the state, and the world--we need to be playing on the same field if we want to win

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 7h

It's a good essay! One thing that's really struck me about all of this is the degree to which it's seen by the elites as completely divorced from the business of actually running the state. Like, imagine trying to explain to a Confucian scholar-official that public conduct and moral formation

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

I'd like to think that there will be a reckoning for this. But I think that it will be, with some notable exceptions, like that post D-day joke among American GIs about how the occupation in France must have been about to fall even without them, seeing as how every frenchman they met was a partisan

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h

gonna thank @miniver.bsky.social for putting this neatly into words: the social justice detente has broken down. reactionary centrists just want to go back. the reactionary right wants to do turbo nazism. i do not think either of these have good prospects--

miniver.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

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Sysfin @sysfin.bsky.social · 6h

An amazing amount of journalists now are actually dumb or incurious of their own beat because their bosses demand certian conclusions so a huge amount of their work is playing nice to preserve access.

If thats all the journalists you meet... it might shock you when they dont jump for you.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 8h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

we should tax billionaires!

www.liberalcurrents.com/billionaires...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

The “No Kings” protests had one specific and concrete aim: breaking the mirage of Donald Trump’s supposed mass popular mandate. And that it achieved. www.thebulwark.com/p/long-live-...

Long Live ‘No Kings’

Saturday’s protests showed that a resistance can be large and organized. But can it be sustained?

www.thebulwark.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

legitimately one of the most insanely left-field endings to an rpg i can recollect

the entire series is about shepard finding ways for people to live together despite their differences and the ending is like "actually that's impossible. now choose your preferred explosion color"

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 9h

This, by the way, is why the "no demands" criticism of No Kings falls short. No Kings does not require promises from the government because the promises were already given and broken. The demands are that the promises in the form of the laws and Constitution of the United States are enforced.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 10h

Scholae cartae delendae sunt? Ceterum censeo scholae cartae esse delendas? "Ludus" might be more accurate than "schola" given that the debate usually involves primary schools, but "ludi cartae" sounds like "playing cards" so probably best avoided

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 11h

"please give us a white man who thinks charter schools are good & is Christian (but not too Christian if you know what I mean)"

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 11h

I am going insane that most of these are bog standard liberal stuff but the NYT ed board pretends is mOdErATiOn

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

like i think the Times Editorial Board gives the game away here

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 10h

the actual issue, of course, is that most actual Americans live near Americans who are much, much further to the liberal side on all of these issues, and we are being legally held back from the culture most of us we actually know want by troglodytes who are disproportionately represented

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

like i think the Times Editorial Board gives the game away here

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

interesting to read this because there is an unexamined — and i'd say unhelpful — conflation of partisanship, ideology and affect here

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

it's very funny to watch talmon argue in favor of M4A while Sulzberger's editorial board is like WE NEED CLINTONISM 2.0 now

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

we’re going to have to build a federal prison dedicated exclusively to trump administration officials and federal contractors before this is over

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 11h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 14h

The 'institutionalist instinct' to preserve my access to healthcare

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 1d

"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 20h

Ironically, the same group that so adamantly dismissed the idea of obtaining a permit,
also argued for a "diversity of tactics" and to use "every tool in the toolbox." These
phrases were less than genuine. They were not meant to be taken literally. Rather these
phrases-
-like the word liberal-stood in for bigger stories. What was meant, in effect, is
that everyone should unquestioningly accept a few participants' use of a particular style of
tactics, regardless of how, when, where, or to what effect these tactics were employed.
When it came down to it, the group was unwilling to consider at least one
"tool in the
toolbox"-obtaining a permit-even if it mav have been the most suitable means of
obtaining a permit-
achieving a clear shared objective. Indeed, disparaging such tactics and the groups that
used them was a regular conversation topic within this circle. As was extolling militant
tactics for the sake, it would seem, of militancy itself. Both the praise and disdain for these
respective tactics occurred absent any discussion of how specifically the tactics may or
may not contribute to a strategy to bring the group closer to achieving any political goals.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 20h

nways read theory

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

What we saw on No King's Day, with people on the streets was the tip of the iceberg of people who feel the way those crowds do. For every one who made it to the street, there is a host of others who wish they could have been there.

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Hans Noel @profhansnoel.bsky.social · 17h

The "it's a republic not a democracy" crowd is really leaning into "he won an election so he can't be doing anything wrong."

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 18h

Boy do i have news about how all those other political fights relate to the current authoritarianism....

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