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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 2d

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 3d

One of best signs I’ve seen today. (pulled from reddit-likely Los Angeles)

Man holding sign showing John Goodman as Uncle Sam with the words: Shut the fuck up, Donny. You’re out of your element.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 3d

Seems like reporters should start covering them like any other political figure, no?

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe it’s obvious to everyone but me, but I think it still needs to be said over and over: the Republican Party is dead. There is no rehabilitation of this party.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 4d

Bill Clinton might have been the rare exception

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d

completely out of the loop. not paying attention bsky.app/profile/unav...

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5d

Oh this is actually worse, we haven't had a judicial filibuster since 2013 dawg

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 13d

Another released just in time to celebrate prime day. bookshop.org/p/books/ensh...

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 13d

I’m grateful for having my brain fully developed before social media existed just like I imagine some of those who became adults before television were.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 13d

But that Ezra guy said we are not allowed to shun them.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 13d

some might! some might have the stirrings of something that resembles a conscience. Or have someone in their inner circle who does: parents, partners, friends, future employers. or don’t enjoy the public attention that these actions warrant.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 13d

Desperation

tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 13d

I’d feel a lot better if there was word that Democrats had the equivalent of a “war room”, coordinating with national and state pols, brainstorming strategies, gaming out scenarios.

tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 13d

I don’t know the level of economic pressure these foreign workers are under, but I imagine it’s not insignificant.

tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 13d

The article seems to imply that this might be just a ruse to employ foreign workers at lower wages and virtually no worker’s rights.

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It's not clear that there is an imminent workforce crisis in agriculture. While there were fears earlier this year that tighter immigration enforcement would lead to unharvested crops, the harvest went off relatively smoothly, as my colleague Bob Kuttner explained. Some commodity crops like grains are looking at a record harvest, in fact.
"What we see every day is that farm workers of all immigration statuses are continuing to go to work," said Antonio De Loera-Brust of the United Farm Workers. "To be blunt, this is not a workforce that can afford to stay home for days on end, let alone four years." Raids only disrupt the workforce for a couple days, De Loera-Brust said.
In this sense, immigration enforcement is working hand in hand with the H-2A program. Farm employers do not fear losing their immigrant workforce because they can import them, now at lower wages. from abroad.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 16d

To clarify: “eventually answer for” -> “give explanation to”

tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 16d

Will SCOTUS have to eventually answer for their shadow docket decisions on trump’s behalf? All of them? Some of them? Do you think “Kavanaugh Stops” be a term used during oral arguments?

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Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 20d

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 20d

At least they can say they did their best.

Quote from article: Patel's announcement followed criticism of the
ADL by right-wing activists and leaders, including billionaire Elon Musk, over its inclusion of Kirk's Turning Point USA in a "Glossary of Extremism and Hate" on its website. Kirk was assassinated on a college campus in September.
After that criticism, the ADL removed the entire glossary from its website. The glossary had said that Turning Point USA had a history of "bigoted statements," a charge the group rejects.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 21d

You should see Trump as a mariachi band.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 21d

Absolutely. I struggle to comprehend his blind spots given his
background and what seems obvious to the rest of us.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 21d

This part really got to me.

It might sound pessimistic to see, as Coates does, the likelihood of many losses looming ahead, even as we fight for wins. But if you consider the long history of the problem at hand, it releases you from bright-kid syndrome, from the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world. You understand that to do so is impossible. You are —at most-going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 21d

But as the piece discusses, history conflicts with Klein’s pragmatic find-a-solution-now approach. It not always easy for people to admit the problem will likely outlive them.

Text from piece: It might sound pessimistic to see, as Coates does, the likelihood of many losses looming ahead, even as we fight for wins. But if you consider the long history of the problem at hand, it releases you from bright-kid syndrome, from the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world. You understand that to do so is impossible. You are —at most-going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die.

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tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 21d

I don’t know why organizations do anything anymore bsky.app/profile/brad...

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 22d

The case YouTube settled with Trump, with a payment of more than $24 million, had already been closed for two years.

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