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Leah Friedman

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i'm not a cool kid but i play one on the internet

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Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · Dec 21

I am watching season 4 Law & Order and some of this dialogue is !!! Claire Kincaid tells a 19 year old raped by a rockstar that if she (the victim) doesn’t press charges, he’ll win and she’ll always feel like a whore!

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Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · 11h

a man in a suit is sitting on a green lawn mower in an office .

ALT: a man in a suit is sitting on a green lawn mower in an office .

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Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · 11h

The bus I take back to Alameda from Oakland has been getting busier and busier for months. I take it at the same time every day. Today I was the only one on it. Surreal.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 12h

It's called a "synecdouche", 'Tone, I learned about it from the movie nerds. It's one of 'em figures of speeches where one thing represents another bigger kinda thing. Sorta like when a big Bazzone makes you think of Johnny Boy and you get one of 'em panic attacks but that's between you and me, T.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

Going back in time to tell 2016 me that Donald Trump has razed the East Wing of the White House and Bernie Sanders is convinced the only way Democrats can take back power is by voting for a guy with a Nazi tattoo

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16h

I have seen the polls and I have decided that if my preferred party just adopted all the ideas that just so happen to align with what I like, that my party would win. All they have to do is abandon all the ideas I don't like.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t know that choosing Alameda means anything other than that’s where the Coast Guard base is.

Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 19h

...staging ICE in Alameda would suggest this, yeah

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Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · 20h

Fuck this

Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · 20h

It is a bit weird that they chose Coast Guard Island (which has one road in/out) as a staging point but I did read that article about all of those recruits failing open book tests so what do I know

Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · 20h

Surreal seeing my little island town be the ICE flashpoint in the Bay Area (Gift link) www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Protest of Bay Area immigration crackdown met with apparent stun grenades at Coast Guard base

Law enforcement officials deployed what appeared to be stun grenades to break up a group of protesters attempting to block traffic to Coast Guard Island.

www.sfchronicle.com

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 1d

We've constructed the Discourse Nexus from beloved sequel Oh My God Absolutely Do Not Create Another Nexus

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing’s funny anymore, but “23% of Americans yearn for the White House East Wing to be demolished” is sort of funny.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

“YouGov polling conducted Tuesday found that 53 percent opposed demolishing part of the East Wing, 23 percent supported it and the remainder were unsure.”

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

this article gets to some of the questions I've had about this www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Platner needs to just go away. Fuck him and fuck his defenders.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

“Working class” in a lot of political discourses is a polite euphemism for white male.

CHOAM Nomsky (frightening) @samthielman.com · 1d

lmao just one fucking second please

Early life
Platner was born in 1984 in Blue Hill, Maine. 111[21 He was raised in Sullivan, a coastal town in rural Maine near Acadia National Park, and Ellsworth. 131 14] 151 He is the elder of two sons born to restaurant owner Leslie Harlow and lawyer Bronson Platner. (51 (31 121
His grandfather was the modernist architect Warren Platner.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

These were the same people who were like “I would never vote for Kamala because she welcomed former Republicans”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Lot of guys just coming out and saying that Nazism is not a big deal to them. Very much a tell us who you are moment.

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Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · 1d

real joshua from community energy

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Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · 1d

real joshua from community energy

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

'the Democratic Party should be less dominated by out-of-touch gerontocrats' is a principle that also applies to Bernie Sanders, 84.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 2d

I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop.

This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground

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Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · 2d

These are the vibes I get from you

a cartoon of a man asking if someone sleeps in a racing car

ALT: a cartoon of a man asking if someone sleeps in a racing car

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Leah Friedman @televisionarie.bsky.social · 2d

When your brain isn’t just cooked, but caramelized

John Tuscany @clownpilled.bsky.social · 2d

Instead of trying to "SMASH WHITE SUPREMACY", manage it. Tell them "you can be racist over there. over here we arent doing that".

Cause its never going away. And its not just Whites. Lots of people prefer the company of their own race, will always root for their own race, and thats okay.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

I agree with this. There are a lot of people out there who think both parties are the same and if Democrats put a show of pushing out people with Nazi tattoos and shitty text messages and abused employees then all of a sudden you're making inroads.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

every day i grow more grateful that i never succumbed to the millennial cultural zeitgeist around getting tattoos

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