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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 33m

Wanna know what to watch on Election Night on Tuesday to see how things will go? Of course you do! Here are some places I'm watching in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and California 1/

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 2h

Really, by the 1750s he was already moving towards abolitionism, due to his friendship with the abolitionist renegade Quaker hermit Benjamin Lay.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

White Christian Nationalism

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1h

When I wrote about militant fundamentalism in the US military in my book C St, I was talking to select colonels & generals who saw the US as waging Christian holy war. Christian fascism has since gotten a promotion.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 6h

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

WIRED headline reads: Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 7h

I'd totally missed this:

In Tumwater, WA, a HS student complained about a trans basketball player. Then, the local school board passed a resolution to ban trans girls from girl sports.

Now, the mother of that student is running against the sole school board member to vote against the resolution.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 4h

It has been 20 years since any Pennsylvania judge has lost a retention election.

But the GOP is campaigning for voters to remove three Democratic justices from the state supreme court in Tuesday.

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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neilpostman.bsky.social @neilpostman.bsky.social · 3h

Lafleur is certainly hot seat and it's not wrong

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neilpostman.bsky.social @neilpostman.bsky.social · 4h

Lafleur not beating the suspect allegations.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

remember the reactionary centrist common wisdom on the shutdown?

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❤️‍🔥 🍁 Otoño 🚫 👑 @llfarm.bsky.social · 1d

The people of Little Village showed the nation what courage looks like: standing unarmed, united, ＆ unafraid in the face of ICE’s tear gas ＆ violence. They protected their neighbors, not with weapons, but with peaceful ＆ fierce solidarity.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 12h

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 13h

The Democratic Party has many faults but alleging that the party’s declining popularity or success is rooted in some sort of global leftward ideological drift is pretty funny.

A pundit makes a claim about ideology divorced from what the data imply: democrats have objectively not become some bogeyman bunch of left wing loonies.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is reshaping election control by installing loyalists and stripping state power, a sweeping federal grab that could let the White House decide how America votes and who counts the ballots.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 20h

So the World Series MVP is an… immigrant

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 11h

Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.

A United States that is disintegrating and no longer a leader in Asia

As Trump 2.0 hollows out US state capacity, the Asia Pacific must prepare for a world without US leadership

eastasiaforum.org

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 11h

DOGE boys coldly killed USAID, a move that’s already condemned thousands to their dearth, because of this kind of thinking. They want unthinking drone children who’ll carry out evil without thinking or talking back.

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 11h

The older I get the more I value conscientiousness over raw intelligence or anything like that — when someone has completed college that’s a stronger signal of being able to handle tasks in an independent environment on a consistent basis: www.wsj.com/business/pal...

Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.

Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization

www.wsj.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump Administration is basically claiming the right to kill anyone anywhere for any reason or for no reason, with no evidence provided or accountability to Congress or the American people.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s a wild claim of executive authority…It is usurping Congress’s authority over the use of military force.”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump administration tells Congress war law doesn’t apply to cartel strikes

The Office of Legal Counsel told select lawmakers that the executive branch is not bound by the War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional approval for any military action that exceeds 60 day...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 11h

POV: Your city’s team wins a major championship and you put armed cops on horses to beat people who are just enjoying the moment

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 16h

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

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Crash Outstein @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · Oct 6

I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 20h

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 21h

Blake Treinen in the bullpen watching a six-hour YouTube video about chemtrails and who REALLY profits from weather modification on his phone. This is part of his process. He can't give up three straight doubles unless he's in the right mindset.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21h

Baseball player physiognomies:

-I smoke weed

-cultured apex asethete

-dan from jiffy lube

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 5d

The US on December 7, 1941

Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 5d

YAMAMOTO?????????????

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