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in Jorts City, there's only one rule. american in milano 🇮🇹 (formerly: indy). returning ~2028. engineer/PM in green energy mfg PIVOT TO WIKI! 🧦🔰 WIKI -> publish.obsidian.md/pivot-point DMs open for wiki submissions

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 5d

blinken overrode state dept findings to falsify the Leahy report so that they could continue selling weapons to Israel. he lied to congress about it.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5h

I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 11h

smacked a mosquito. but it was on my bed and full of my blood. even in death the mosquito has won

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 11h

the thing to do with self-censoring facts is just to build unassailable large comprehensive sources for them- nothing that's a stretch or that needs lots of explaining, as honest as you can get- and try and go through them with folks. it won't work orally.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 12h

#boat #news

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 12h

yep I see that now I was just not putting 3 and 3 together

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 12h

OHHHHH thanks Doc. now I get it

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 12h

this whole thread, but this especially, is PIVOT TO WIKI.

@vortexegg.com please consider the following!:

publish.obsidian.md/pivot-point/...

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 12h

I don't get it

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

you can just read the interview, you know.

So I see this election as very critical to who we are as a nation - the character of America, democracy. And they may not like hearing that, but I don't like what they're saying either. And what they're - the assault that they are making on - no one is above the law. That's been what America has been about, except if you're Donald Trump.

KELLY: When you say they, you're talking about who? Republicans?

PELOSI: Yeah. I'm talking...

KELLY: People who support Trump?

PELOSI: ...About the cult that the Republican Party has become - a cult to a thug. And that thug would be Donald Trump. So I wish they'd take back their part of - the country needs a strong Republican Party. It has had a strong Republican Party with great leaders for America. And that is really not what we're seeing there. It's up to them, though.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 14h

ok thanks it's just been drowned out by Chicago Portland coverage

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 14h

hey can you retract this please Hawley is a fascist

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 2d

Fuck off

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 14h

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 1d

hey so are the national guard still in DC?

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 14h

Much to consider

우리가이긴다 @yanquigohome.bsky.social · 14h

has the national DSA organization endorse and sent out comms about No Kings protest?

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 15h

please do not accept a half-measure on either the premiums or the illegality. if you have to compromise, do it somewhere else

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

4/ Ok, so then the obvious next step is to negotiate a compromise. That's how we've always avoided shutdowns. And Republicans need to convene those talks, bc they're in charge.

But here's the kicker - Trump is telling them to BOYCOTT NEGOTIATING. And they are following orders.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

2/ Democrats aren't going to vote for a budget that throws millions off health care and funds Trump's growing totalitarianism. At least I'm not.

Why work so hard to get to the Senate if you don't use your power to fight for what you believe in? Especially at a time like this.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 15h

these people could live any sort of life they wanted to and they choose to immiserate themselves and others. nothing funny about it

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 15h

fuck you @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

fuck you @schiff.senate.gov

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 15h

incredible

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15h

i'm getting insane nausea inducing vertigo as i realize that i may have met both of these people while they were secretly together at an impromptu picnic of random twitter people at delores park and i'm realizing that this was largely faded because i accidentally ate half of an insane weed brownie

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 15h

should the author of this article [REDACTED]? Bluesky investigates

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 16h

a state can only lose legitimacy if people prop up competing violence. this is tautological. that means militias/an army, violently resisting all arrests, etc etc. and/or it means state govts deploying their national guard against federal agents

bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 16h

the republic can have ended and been replaced with something different. we can agree that the new thing is a legitimate state, even if it sucks, and we can ALSO agree to end this one and replace it, too.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 16h

we should be careful about using "lost legitimacy". the state's legitimacy comes from our agreement to grant it the monopoly on violence. this is a different question than "has the 2nd (1st) American Republic as established by the Constitution ended?"

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 16h

No, it is not lost legitimacy yet. It's rapidly declining but isn't there yet.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 17h

average republican

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 18h

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Democrats @democrats.org · Jun 25

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

Onward to November.

Image of Zohran Mamdani smiling behind a yellow cab with overlaid text, "Zohran Mamdani becomes Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

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Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

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