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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3h

Dominos meme
White Sox fan forced to accept Cubs jersey

Assyrian bishops refuse to condemn Nestorius's 431 challenge to the use of the title Theotokos ('Bearer of God'") for Mary.

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tallpaulor.bsky.social @tallpaulor.bsky.social · 1h

This is wonderful!!

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 3h

This is my favorite thing that has ever happened in the history of Christian schisms

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 5h

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 7h

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

How would you describe that worldview?
My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10h

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 7h

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 7h

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes

a day in an american life

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10h

"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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tallpaulor.bsky.social @tallpaulor.bsky.social · 8h

Harris lost because they didn't inspire the voters to get off their ass and vote. And yes, that's the job of any politician in the US. To convince people to vote for them. Dem turnout was *historically* bad compared to the previous election. Look it up. It wasn't because she wasn't centrist enough.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15h

"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Every one of these analyses that the centrist consultants produce reads like the result of a dare: "write about US politics as though media doesn't exist." They just carefully talk around it. The American people "came to believe" things. They "blamed" immigrants. Why? Don't ask! Just accept.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Numbers here:

www.usaspending.gov/search?hash=...

USAspending.gov

www.usaspending.gov

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tallpaulor.bsky.social @tallpaulor.bsky.social · 14h

Back when Terry Bradshaw's brain had not yet decayed to its present state, the Washington Redskins offensive line was known as "The Hogs", so he's probably flashing back to the late 80's/early 90's.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.

“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”

So good!! 🔥

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

Explain it like I never saw Schoolhouse Rock: Dems and GOP legislate and pass a budget, compromise enough to allocate spending across all states. President signs budget. Then new president cuts stuff to the Dem states, pockets cash. Constitutional? And why should Dems ever engage in process again?

Late555 @late555.bsky.social · 3d

I'm starting to think maybe we shouldn't have voted this guy in as President of Earth

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

ACLU reporting that “several of the 6 women detained at South Louisiana ICE Center in Basile, LA, & Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA were pregnant & have miscarried while in custody.”

0 outrage from MAGAs about these fetuses. They were never about life. They are only about control of women.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d

"What are you going to do, shoot me? I would die for this shit."

Until congress responds with the rage, fear, and courage of this man, they are letting me down and they are letting you down.

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 6d

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Your liberal media at work.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:

1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad

Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 2d

No one makes it entirely on their own. If you benefit from a functioning society, you owe something back.

#TaxBillionaires

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 2d

JESUS CHRIST DUDE

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 2d