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ACAB Rave @screw-reality.bsky.social · 14h

this mentality always ignores that Republicans don't respond to current popular sentiments, they drowned their base with a fire hose of propaganda until they've been terrified or enraged into believing what serves the Republican political project

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23h

There's also a weird conventional wisdom forming that the Democratic agenda is toxically unpopular and that Republicans are delivering what voters want.

This is laughably false. Trump is the most unpopular president in modern history and his entire agenda is underwater.

One worry I have about Democrats right now is that they do not want to confront how much of the country disagrees with them.

First, Trump did moderate the Republican Party in crucial areas: Medicare, Social Security and trade.

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Peter Aidan Byrne @peteraidanbyrne.bsky.social · 1d

In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis

Border Patrol chief Bovino, posing dramatically in his Nazi cosplay trenchcoat for a hospitable interview by CNN

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Anthrodiva is a Sagittarius @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 1d

Middle ground of touching a hot stove

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.

Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

Jake P @jahre.bsky.social · 4d

Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.

The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 2d

also to not only offer something better but *not* spend all your time trying to persuade these people into joining you. "If you build it, maybe they won't come, but a lot more other people will; and maybe they might eventually wonder what they're missing" > "giving brick walls all your energy"

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.

Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

Jake P @jahre.bsky.social · 4d

Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.

The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.

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Torville Redenbotter @travbot.bsky.social · 2d

You’re telling me the shitposting app is assigning homework now?

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 2d

A reminder that Musk is a mass murderer. It's not hyperbole.

Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Apr 22

“DOGE’s latest efficiency is halting $500 million in food deliveries to the nation's food banks.”
@joshtpm.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/josh...
bsky.app/profile/davm...

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Torville Redenbotter @travbot.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, pretty wild that this is the guy making decisions for decorating the White House.

Portrait of don mel and bar trump, bar on a stuffed lion, posed inside don’s fugly garish apartment. CeeLo in his odd gold costume from the Grammys has been edited in for comical effect.

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✨brit✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2d

postburger

farner @farnerbOcken.bsky.social • 10s
a whopper that makes you evil

happy new brick @bigblocks.bsk... • 18s
I think I hate photographs and videos

farner@farnerbOcken.bsky.social • 29s
evil whopper

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Torville Redenbotter @travbot.bsky.social · 2d

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 3d

occasionally I read a wikipedia entry that is so baldly self-promotional that I wonder how it came to be

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3d

Here is DHS making false allegations about @katmabu.bsky.social.

Read the affidavit and show me where it alleges that she assaulted anyone.

Spoiler: it doesn't.

The conspiracy charge / title of the statute is throwing people off / leading to a lot of bad faith attacks.

“If you assault or obstruct law enforcement, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law--regardless of who you are. Abughazaleh assaulted law enforcement and obstructed officers by directly blocking the pathway of a federal law enforcement officer vehicle outside our ICE Broadview facility. She is now facing the consequences of her stunt to earn 15 minutes of fame. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

On or about September 26, 2025, at Broadview, in the Northern District
of Illinois, Eastern Division,
KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH,
defendant herein, forcibly impeded, intimidated, and interfered with an officer of the
United States, namely, Agent A, while engaged in or on account of the performance
of his official duties;
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111(a)(1) and 2.

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Linus Banghart-Linn @linusrichard.bsky.social · 3d

Now this is a story all about how
A shattered visage lies half sunk with a frown
And I’d like you to look at that pedestal there,
It says “Look on my works ye mighty and despair.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

There once was a king, Ozymand
Who bragged about all he’d command.
Trying to fill his foes with fright he
Said “Look on my works, ye mighty!”
But now it’s all trunkless legs and sand.

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 4d

I heard there was a statue tall
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4d

This world record is brought to you by Jeffrey Epstein and his friends in the Republican Party. 🤝🤝

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app?

What?

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 4d

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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Dreams in the Sten House @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 4d

Screengrab from video game Hades saying BOONS OF HERMES- CHOOSE ONE

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alt4trees @repinuj.bsky.social · 7d

I painted ur dog

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

I think a major thing in our culture that changed is a bunch of Dem elites also now believe false things too because they're cooking their brains on Twitter, a fascist controlled brainwashing machine, all day.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 6d

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

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Torville Redenbotter @travbot.bsky.social · 7d

I’d believe that could blister fingers.

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Torville Redenbotter @travbot.bsky.social · 8d

I’m on the east coast and have a ten year old

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Torville Redenbotter @travbot.bsky.social · 8d

Alternative answer: get out ahead of them and call one of them a chudler

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Torville Redenbotter @travbot.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve never seen the word chudler before, so hopefully you’re safe

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 8d

I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.

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Torville Redenbotter @travbot.bsky.social · 8d

Opposite of a rizzler?

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