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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 37m

This is about as clear that Fox signaling gets. Audience of one and all that, and trying to get through his head that he's fucking it all up.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 40m

Fox: A new poll finds about 70% of Americans say groceries are more expensive now than they were a year ago. About 60% of them are blaming Trump.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Wyden and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi have formally requested that the FTC open an investigation into Flock Safety for unnecessarily exposing billions of instances of civilian's vehicle location data to hackers and foreign adversaires.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 42m

based on the polling data, can democrats afford to run on cis activist issues?

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 44m

The more Dems can unify, the more they can exploit & deepen GOP splits. Last night showed the extent of Dem unity.
It's not about being the same. That's what authoritarians require. But it is about being clear who's on our side vs who's against us. And who can be persuaded vs who must be fought.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

For those keeping score at home, Oregon now has THREE ultra-MAGA organizations that all dislike & distrust each other. There’s the United Conservatives of Josephine County, the OR GOP, & the Oregon Conservative Caucus. The latter is probably the most closely tied to Trump. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 8

Interestingly, this MAGA activist--with close connections to Trump, David Sacks, etc.--has formed a pro-Trump organization in Oregon that is functioning as a parallel alternative to the official OR GOP. "Why does a blue state like Oregon need TWO statewide pro-Trump groups?" you might ask.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 38m

There goes Andrea Pitzer, writing one of those things you may have thought before but could never put so clear.

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My belief is that we’ve never truly dealt with our fundamental denial of rights to whole groups of people, having built a country on disenfranchisement from power for vulnerable communities from our founding forward. This is the deep abyss in our country, into which we have thrown so many people—particularly Native Americans, Black folks, and immigrants. It’s the kind of deep societal weakness that antisemitism was in Nazi Germany.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 38m

This is what I’m talking about when I say these signs and locked doors are coming to a city near you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 38m

"A lot of us are going to come under direct attack, and a lot of us are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary": the solidarity with those under attack has been one of the most beautiful responses to the consequences of the 2024 election.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 41m

Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈

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Michael B @parkeffects.bsky.social · 33m

I’m still waiting on the “taco truck on every corner” promise…

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 37m

Reseeding the Chesapeake Bay’s underwater grasses takes combined state, volunteer effort | News From The States 🦑🧪🌎

Reseeding the Chesapeake Bay’s underwater grasses takes combined state, volunteer effort

Planting underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay is easier than you might think.After mixing the plants’ tiny, spherical seeds with a bucket of sand, the mixture is simply tossed off a boat into a…

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Michael B @parkeffects.bsky.social · 35m

Adding this other Walsh gem to the thread

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

they're scared of zohran so bad

There's been a lot of cope among conservatives about how the "extremists" and "radicals" on the Left have driven Leftism into ruination and defeat. In reality, the Left just put their most radical and extreme guy in charge of the most important city in our country.

The Left is not ruined. It is not defeated. They lost precisely one election. But they have not moderated. In fact they are leaning into their radicalism even more. They just elected an Attorney General who is guilty of the most extreme violent rhetoric we've ever heard from a major party candidate at any level in any race.

Wokeness is not dead. The term may be dead, but the thing itself is very much alive and well. We have to meet it aggressively and unapologetically to defeat it.

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Expected Own Goals @xowngoals.com · 2h

Sadly, it won’t be bigotry that bounces you from the league.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 16h

This is incredibly important:

we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself

and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats

we must be relentless, we must not shut up

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5h

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1h

it's insanely funny for people to be talking like this about New York of all places, the city with a big metal lady in the harbor holding a sign that says "we love immigrants"

Michael B @parkeffects.bsky.social · 14h

Screenshot of Tweet from Matt Walsh

“A third world communist won in New York because New York is a third world city now.
This is mass migration working exactly as intended. It isn't anymore complicated than that.”

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 1h

make racism cringe again

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Michael B @parkeffects.bsky.social · 1h

Lady Liberty *is* pretty subtle tbh, good point

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mst3kharris.bsky.social @mst3kharris.bsky.social · 11h

For a moment I was like, “who were the other two world communists?” And then I realized what he meant.

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 15h

TRANS RIGHTS ARE A WINNING POLITICAL ISSUE

Every single centrist claiming we must all compromise our bodily autonomy for their personal comfort is a traitor to American democracy & rational human decency.

They have no place in a modern Democratic Party, toss them out. Total liberation for all.

esti @estibass.com · Jun 25

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13h

There's no reason that similarly aspirational politics can't work in places with less progressive politics: Affordable groceries and transit. Childcare. I'm sold that if you articulate a politics that fights for the working class you'll find supporters well across our late capitalist hellscape

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 12h

This person took this when they called the race

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 14h

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

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depose schumer @glosson.bsky.social · 13h

hell yeah dawg i mass migrated from Wasco, Illinois for this

Michael B @parkeffects.bsky.social · 14h

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