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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 8h

I wish @aaronnarraph.bsky.social posted here more than the bad place! I miss seeing his insight regularly

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 12h

hell yeaj

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 11h

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Are they antisemites?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

Tel Aviv football derby between Hapoel and Maccabi called off after rioting

Israeli police make nine arrests, citing ‘disorderly conduct, riots, injured police officers’ and infrastructure damage The Tel Aviv football derby between Hapoel and Maccabi has been called off after rioting and “risks to human life”, Israeli police said. The match was due to take place on Sunday night at Bloomfield Stadium, a ground the two sides share, as a home fixture for Hapoel. Continue reading...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13h

one interesting thing is the collapse of mass support for trump before he took office. his in-person events were sparsely attended. his conventional fundraising (donations in the dollar to thousand dollar range) was more or less nonexistent.

Trump I was a grassroots phenomenon. Trump II was elite.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14h

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 13h

Could not be clearer that we’re in a moment of almost universal elite rebellion against any kind of restriction or limit. You saw this shift in all the rhetoric too; Trump I was all about the little guy but everyone dropped that and started talking about grindset and being “aristocratic.”

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13h

one interesting thing is the collapse of mass support for trump before he took office. his in-person events were sparsely attended. his conventional fundraising (donations in the dollar to thousand dollar range) was more or less nonexistent.

Trump I was a grassroots phenomenon. Trump II was elite.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14h

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 14h

Hmmmm

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 19h

Man mugs grandmother in test of laws

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21h

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 18h

ZOHRAN’S ON FIRE
YOU FASCISTS ARE TERRIFIED

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 18h

I would argue that a truly left position is one of optimism, even in the face of a reactionary onslaught. So keep going please.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 19h

I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 22h

Ed Milliband show me you’re disingenuous without telling me you’re disingenuous

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 1d

3 cops trying to handjob this lady

Sickos

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s really noticeable on first viewing

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 1d

I also think the problem is deep

One thing you notice quickly if you watch MLS youth academy teams is that the players are big and strong. That’s the type being favored and it’s not a recipe for creating players on the caliber of Euro leagues. Big and strong kids will win games today tho!

🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine the scandal if this was Obama / Tea Party

🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe! But myself and others I know used to at least watch a lot of games on TV when access was greater. The Apple deal limited access and I wasn’t going to get a sub, nor did most people I know. One example of how they aren’t building long term.

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 1d

This will be a tiny footnote in Messi’s career and is further proof that a star here and there can’t save a league. MLS can’t get out of its own way. America is filled with soccer fans and very few care about MLS and MLS has no idea how to fix that problem.

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t wait to read the court transcript

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🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 1d

Would’ve been a scandal of massive proportions had this been Obama / Tea Party

🎃 Two-Headed Thomas in Queens 👻 @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 1d

I was at the Manhattan march today and I think of all protests I’ve been to (starting in ‘91, Gulf War) it had the greatest range. Trots and wine moms 🤝.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

For the crowd who STILL thinks activism cannot be absurd if it is to be effective, may I remind you that ACT UP—perhaps the most effective activist group in US history not just on AIDS but on medicine in general—once covered Sen. Jesse Helms’s house with with a giant condom