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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

This was a bleakly funny part of the group chat story.
“How do we sink our rivals in the party?”
“Let’s have them appear in ostensible fascist propaganda!”
“Great!—wait, no. People from our party will be into that.”

scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

I’m not super plugged into right-wing discourse now for obvious reasons, but I haven’t noticed any narratives taking off about why this is fine or examples of Democrats doing the same thing, etc.

scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

wild that this still hasn’t happened.

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 10h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

this is really true. the words have the sense of self-awareness, but he actually seems to treat it all as a big joke.

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

If you guys are only reading the transcripts and not listening to him actually say it you might be surprised at how jovially he says this thing. He might be even less religious than I thought (which would make him less religious than even the committed atheists I know)

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 10h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 10h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

Also, this genre of progressive writer shares the problem of the Jacobin set following 2016: they’re bores, reciting the same hackneyed phrases regardless of the context. The Inquirer could well replace Mr. Bunch with AI.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 4h

this is a person without a grip on reality.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 5h

Janet Mills provided one of the early examples in this admin. of an opposition figure who would fight back.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20h

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race

Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins.

www.politico.com

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 12h

This is a vile lie at this point and people who know this guy should tell him to knock it the fuck off.

FWIW, the meaning of the quote, which is a paraphrase of Ziblatt, is that the Republican Party be strong enough to eject Nazis. It’s not a comment about giving them power.

The Pelosi quote means the opposite of what this asshole claims.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the people running it are doing basically the same thing as the people in the group chats.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder how many people run the DHS Twitter account & who they are. Presumably some reporting could determine this!

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 6h

Anyway, I will say there is a lot of rhetoric among youngish left-wing people that is also just purely antisocial. Tends to be more self-righteous, though.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 6h

More young people who are centrist should get involved in politics. Unfortunately, few young people in politics aren’t radicals of one kind or another, & the ones who aren’t are usually freakish in another way.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 6h

it’s crazy how much better Mike Johnson looks (physically) than the young Republicans.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 6h

(another thing going on here is that people who aren’t plugged in are inclined to discount whatever college students do unless it’s very publicly disruptive.)

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 6h

right. people who aren’t already left of center literally will not believe how bad the situation is in this respect (arguably it’s a necessary coping mechanism for people as individuals, but the net effect is bad & frustrating).
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 6h

cool cool.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

(also, no one knows what “political machines” are. they are not texts from various organizations trying to elect Democrats.)

scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

it is, of course, an ongoing struggle, but I have achieved nearly complete freedom from political fundraising texts at present.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

you guys have to try responding “STOP” or blocking the numbers.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

diplomatically, the focus is very much ”how do we get the next good headline“ which can be an uneasy fit with “resolving complex issues involving conflicting interests & beliefs.“

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

haha, damn, yes. good catch.

scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

It’s harder to make the case for someone in Ed Markey’s circumstances, which is unfortunate since otherwise I have nothing but high regard for Markey.

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scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 7h

If I was in Maine, I would definitely vote for Mills. As a general rule, I don’t think people nearing eighty should run, but exceptions can apply in difficult races for someone with a successful record.

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