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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 2d

The Republican leaders of North Carolina's state legislature called everyone back to Raleigh to find a way to rig another US House seat for Donald Trump, but not to pass a state budget, or fund our state's Medicaid system.

Do you get it now? 🤡

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 6h

This isn't a new insight, but: the people who are always ready to put a Black teenager on trial as an adult sure do like extending the "youth will be youth" excuse in other contexts— not just to college students like Kavanaugh, but to, e.g., 35-year-olds on a Young Republicans group chat.

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 23h

It's hard to imagine that there's a bigger story than America's fall towards fascism, a brewing Third World War, or the economy on the brink of a massive global recession...

but there is.

Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 1d

You ain't seen nothin' yet. Wait until the Trump effect kicks in in 2025 and beyond.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 4d

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24d

IT IS TIME.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

buff.ly

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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 7d

Couldn’t be prouder!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 10d

The land of the brave

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10d

Stephen Miller is portraying opposition to Donald Trump in any form, including by judges issuing legal rulings, as an illegal rebellion, Jonathan Chait argues:

Stephen Miller Lays Out the Plan in Public

The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11d

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 11d

At the Asheville regional airport. Fuck these people.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 11d

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

Stephen Miller
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Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide).
This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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@JoyceWhiteVance • 3h
1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland.
IMMERGUT, District Judge.
This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our
constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government
and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and
domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring
that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative
branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three
relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11d

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

Stephen Miller
@StephenM
The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.
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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 12d

This complaint about people who “just quit when things get hard” is strikingly similar to the complaint about people who “just don’t want to work” in that in both cases, the maligned people actually just want to have a life outside of work and to not be abused/underpaid/overworked by their employers

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 12d

Blue states need to really start thinking about investing in parallel non-federalized infrastructure. Because there’s a real chance, if the fascists continue to amp up their war against the states that those infrastructure systems are intentionally targeted to cause pain.

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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 13d

Ahem.

Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 13d

Bluesky: what’s the greatest example of someone naming something (animal, landmark, whatever) after a famous person not just because the person is famous but also because the thing is clearly somehow representative of the person?

Antelope @wovenantelope.bsky.social · 13d

Nick Saban now has an ancient crab named after him.

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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 14d

If you are interested in the climate crisis and how to prepare yourself, you need to be listening to, reading, and following Alex Steffen. This thread is a great place to start.
@alexsteffen.bsky.social

Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote this a year ago. It stands up pretty well.

In the year since, tho, I think we may have crossed a threshold of inability—as societies and individuals—to fully meet the climate crisis.

Understanding what's changing will help you make better decisions under accelerating climate pressures.

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · Sep 30

Climate chaos is coming for us.

Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.

I'm a climate futurist.

Let me level with you about what this means.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 15d

Would be great if all Democrats used the privilege and power of their position to say this stuff on TV, to reporters, over and over and over again. Buy ads! Promote social posts!

I'll never understand why pols don't have pressers every day. Explain to Americans why things are the way they are!

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16d

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d

Trump lacks the capacity to distinguish what he sees on television from reality and those around him (most likely especially Stephen Miller) are encouraging his resulting delusions—a very dangerous situation.

Mister.Nobody @ytregaws.bsky.social · 17d

LOL

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

www.kgw.com

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17d

A pretty common thing you find with moderates in politics and in the media is that they can't get through a conversation or interview without mentioning the "hate" and "anger" they get on social media

They're obsessed with it because they are so paper thin and have never encountered pushback before

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Laura Prochnow Phillips @laurahooq.bsky.social · 18d

This thread is brilliant and so, so important. Please read it and raise it up.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 18d

I couldn’t listen after Klein replied to Coates that a long view of history and and sense of ones place in a line of ancestors who have struggled against political violence for generations is
too “wide” and “deterministic” a lens and thats why we should grieve a hate monger.

GOOD LORD EZRA.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 18d

At some point the Democrats will realize they’re Charlie Brown and Trump is Lucy pulling the football away every damn time, but it won’t happen any time soon.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Kaine: "We're just asking if we do a deal, please Mr President don't sign the deal and then immediately start taking away funds, rescinding agreements that you just made yesterday. A deal should be a deal."

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