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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 2m

too true

Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 2h

“Are you surprised?” said the least interesting reply guy.

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 22h

“Immigration creates job” is an economic truth that gets basically no mainstream respect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Powell on Trump's immigration policies: "Stronger policy than most people had expected. We've seen a very sharp decline in growth of the labor force and in and people entering the country ... new people that come into the workforce create supply but they also create their own demand."

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 23h

Yup

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

I have really no horse in this race, I think Platner is actually probably pretty strong in Maine, but this idea that everyone should just bow out so the anti-incumbency forces can have a senate seat as a treat is bizarre.

You don't get given power, you take it.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

I think if Platner is capable of beating Collins, he can beat Mills. This idea that "oh our bold progressive ideas can't survive the tribulations of a senate primary" is kind of lame, imho.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

they have been trying to do meme authoritarianism, and that means generating the right kinds of content--the forces of Order vs the forces of Chaos, riots and violence and burning shit and ""antifa supersoldiers""

the kind of imagery to justify the kind of powers they aspire to

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

like shit after her 2020 campaign did crash and burn i thought it was true even if i liked her, but she did really lock in '24 and pulled the party back from the brink

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Joe “Halloween” Garland 🦋 @bsky.dad · 2d

I WILL NOT BE SILENCED BY THE LIBRARIAN WHO SAYS I CANT BRING A CROCKPOT INTO NONFICTION. RUN THE EXTENSION CORD COWARD. LET THE STEW LEARN

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 2d

Meme:

OP: why do you need a specific word for being thrown out of a window

The burgomaster of Prague: i be in situations

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 2d

The 2028 GOP primary will be a bloodbath compared to the Dems.

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 2d

he‘s not wrong

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

TRUMP: Boy, she asks a lot of questions. Who are you with?

BURNS: Politico. Dasha Burns, sir

TRUMP: Dasha, Politico, ugh. Politico has gone bad. They've been so wrong about everything. Let's get somebody else to ask some questions. You mind? Politico is fake news.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Me: [some farrago of vapid twatwafflery]

Everyone: [rolls eyes, snorts, shakes head]

Me: IS THIS AN INTELLECTUAL DONUT SHOP BECAUSE I SMELL THE THOUGHT POLICE

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 2d

Ruth Cruz

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 3d

The Thiel stuff is a real advertisement for the virtues of analytic philosophy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 3d

this liberal, being able to actually read and do math, knows that people who fought in WWII were in their late thirties and forties when this picture was taken

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 3d

The biggest Dem ”messaging“ problem remains they have no microphone of their own.

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 3d

But they’re all powerful!

Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 4d

Not rebutting, just noting.

Agreed

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 4d

Duckworth and Durbin were at the ICE facility outside Chicago yesterday

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Dr. Vytautas MALICE (spooky) @vytau.bsky.social · 4d

Know what keeps me going? The U-Turn.

MOST countries in the last 100 years (esp. the last 30) that slide towards authoritarianism swing back the other way *with a vengeance*.

I believe that is possible here.

We just have to work to make it *likely*.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 4d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4d

i think this fundamentally misstates the constraint: if he uses the police to directly obstruct ICE operations, he gets hit with the Insurrection Act. if he puts the cops in a position where they have to choose which orders to follow, they will currently not pick the governor.

starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 4d

this kind of wishcasting around pritzker ignores that he hasn't once wielded the power of the state in a creative way since DHS and ICE invaded us

the rhetoric's good and he plays a governor on TV very well, but there's no evidence of a capacity for clever use of power, unfortunately

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4d

i think that the best way to use the police as Pritzker would be to figure out how to associate them with protests such that the protesters don't mess with them but they get gassed or shot if the feds fire

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