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Jesus drank. @biancatempt.bsky.social · 1h

"This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because "we are going to have to live here with each other" is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about, and . . . Klein . . .
excises this reality entirely."

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsk... • 2d
"I don't think we can mitigate for climate change."
- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

The political project of the Trump Admin is mass death. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. This is the real threat, not the people they target to justify their actions.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17h

Guess they are counting on the troops to murder their fellow citizens for free.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17h

I always skip Bayless

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18h

It always looks silly from these guys but this basic logic where the most marginalized people are actually elites representing “the machine” is also the shared understanding people running newsrooms and universities believe as well.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19h

No it’s a greater honor for me

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19h

She was so damn funny.

Dianne Keaton pulls a face on the set of Love & Death

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19h

“Yes but judgement of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract and empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.”

RIP to a great one.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

The very mangy failed "lion" Aslan talks a big "game" but he and the radical antiwi were very unfair to the white witch. The witch—they call her a witch but she was a queen, she was a queen from the great land of Charn—was very white. Very white, and that's OK. They say not OK but I say OK.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

they're coming through wardrobes, folks, and they're coming over through portals on train platforms and schoolyard walls, and by using rings of various colors, and they're saying "oh bother" and "by Jove" and they're taking over narnia folks and eating all the turkish delight, they eat the delight

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I am hereby putting a 200% tariff on all fauns dryads and talking beavers as well as turkish delight. Narnia has been very bad to us.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

jesus, why do this when there are so many real examples

i mean, I know why but enough with the guff folks

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

I'm sorry I reposted this last night without seeing that it's "A.i." generated bullshit (the "reporter" has three arms).

I'm blocking the OP. No time for disinfo pushers.

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 1d

Tweet from @dril: turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Unreasoned opinions are impossible to follow in any case presenting even slightly different facts from the case decided. Further, a Supreme Court at war with its lower courts will impair its own effectiveness and, by extension, the entire judiciary.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

"Nobody will do that though." Oh I guess there's nothing to be done, then. Very convenient if what you'd like is to avoid having to do anything.

I've noticed "we're cooked, it's over" is often the call of the person whose strategy is to hope they will not be in the oven.

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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 1d

My plan is that I do not answer that question on this site anymore because "What is your plan" translates out of Weimar dickrider to "give me something to argue against so I don't have to confront my continuing role in allowing this to happen."

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

"OK but what is your PLAN?" Bish I am sitting at the back of this plane. I'm just willing to point out that the driver is gargling everclear and flying directly at the ground while reading a book titled HOW TO FLY AIRPLANES INTO THE GROUND.

What is MY plan? What is OUR plan? You're here too.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I'd start by pressuring elected officials to stop recognizing the authority of the court. Supporting officials who promise to fix it once in power and to refuse to recognize any of its rulings since at least 2015 as valid. And investigate, charge, prosecute, and convict its extremist members.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

"OK but what is your PLAN?" Bish I am sitting at the back of this plane. I'm just willing to point out that the driver is gargling everclear and flying directly at the ground while reading a book titled HOW TO FLY AIRPLANES INTO THE GROUND.

What is MY plan? What is OUR plan? You're here too.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

It's dangerous to say, but since it is true, it's more dangerous to not say: The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body. It's been deliberately and systematically captured by ideologues on behalf of an anti-Constitutional project, and its extremist members have been bribed.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I'm suggesting all this because you seem to be pointed in the right direction in many ways, and yet this is the way you choose to engage, and you do it to play devil's advocate for positions probably not worth considering. Might be worth thinking about.

Going to re-mute you now. Hope you improve!

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