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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 6d

What if POTUS decided to simply demo the entire White House, pave it over, and conduct all business from some other location.

Camp David. NYC. Moscow.

If he just allowed to do that? No notice? No permission?

The answer now seems to be: Sure.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 4d

The rest of the world knows what time it is. Only American voters are clueless.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Sep 17

I've always hated "the partied are the same" trope, but when Dems go along with the game, it starts to make you wonder.
Or they're just that weak and worthless

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Sep 3

american taliban
minority rule
we must make this regime the agonal breath of this nonsense

onion person @junlper.beer · Sep 2

we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before

Bobby Cole @bobbyfortx.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ken Paxton is now "recommending" that Texas school children recite the Lord's Prayer at school.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Aug 30

I can

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 29

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

newrepublic.com/article/1996...

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins

Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

newrepublic.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 29

People are misreading him when they say he’s going to appeal Trump voters by *avoiding* “culture war” issues. He just doesn’t want to debate them because, to him, there’s no debate.

Reportedly, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is wooing Maine Governor Janet Mills to run for the nomination. At 77, a win against Collins would make her the oldest senate freshman in history. (Platner is 40.)
Platner's campaign only becomes an insurgency against Susan Collins if he first survives the Democratic establishment. His pointed critiques of party inaction have already set the tone. His candidacy isn't just about beating Republicans, it's about forcing Democrats to do more than fundraise off of their failures.
"I've not gotten a single phone call from anybody in the Democratic Party outside of the state of Maine. Nobody's followed up with me from D.C. Nobody's reached out.
Nothing," he says. "Which I take as a
Nothing, compliment."

Perhaps he should let those calls go to voicemail. Platner sees no reason to fear spooking a Trump voter on issues the Democratic consultant class has deemed to be politically radioactive. "I stand right in the fucking way of anyone who's going to try to come after the freedoms of the LGBTQIA+ community," he wrote in a Reddit AMA. On X, he put it baldly: "There is a genocide happening in Palestine."
Don't run away from what you believe, he says. Plant the flag and move on. "Talk about health care affordability, about housing affordability, about basic material issues," he says. "Be who you are and stick to it and don't get dragged into the nonsense.

Before I'd pulled out my notebook, Platner and I talked about our favorite science fiction franchises. Platner told me that Star Trek's optimism had inspired his earliest interest in policy. "This brings us back to Star Trek," he says to wrap up his philosophy on culture war issues. "You have to solve scarcity. I believe that if you solve scarcity issues, no one gives a fuck about these other things."

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just let it all happen. The President is the king.
He has spoken.
JFC!!!

God Emperor Leto II @ghosttornado.bsky.social · Aug 30

NASA now primarily does "intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work." per this latest EO.

Further Exclusions from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7103(b)(1) of title 5,

www.whitehouse.gov

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 30

Is this a union- busting effort?

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Aug 21

Excellent research by my colleague @hannahomestead.bsky.social!

Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · Aug 20

NEW: Trump's National Guard deployment in D.C. is costing taxpayers up to and over $1 million per day, IPS @nationalpriorities.bsky.social researcher @hannahomestead.bsky.social calculated in newly released findings. “It’s unconscionable."

@nickturse.bsky.social in @theintercept.com:

Price Tag for Trump’s D.C. Military Surge: At Least $1 Million a Day

An analysis conducted for the Intercept found that the militarization of D.C. could end up costing hundreds of millions.

theintercept.com

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · Aug 30

Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces?

Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Aug 21

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 22

When even a Supreme Court justice is using the term “Calvinball” it feels like we can drop the pretense that laws are real

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 21

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 19

Republicans have long sought to cripple government efforts so they can turn around and say "look they're so worthless!" deregulate! privatize!
Good luck, America, is right.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · Aug 17

I’m pretty sure SCOTUS will see that the transfer of power won’t happen and so will find a way to “legally” un-require it.

Because if a coup is legal it’s not a coup.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6.

How will the next legally required transition of power go?

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 19

No one wants to protect sex offenders. It's bullshit that wealthy have a different justice system 🤬😡

California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · Aug 18

Somewhere out there are very powerful men using every privilege and leverage they have to keep their Epstein-affiliation under wraps. Yep, it probably includes Clinton and other Dems. I don’t care who these fuckers are or what the fallout will be. I despise being of a country that covers this up.

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 15

Meatpacking jobs used to be desirable, good-paying, difficult job. So many in ag have taken advantage of these undocumented or temp doc workers for decades-- using them while simultaneously scapegoating them.
Dems need to stop going along with this. Make them citizens. Stop caving in

Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · Aug 15

@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social spoke to @gallego.senate.gov about the Democratic Party's failures on immigration.

Only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/senator-ru...

Gallego Gets Candid About His Party’s Immigration Failures

Democrats should be paying attention.

www.thebulwark.com

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 15

fckng jackboots

A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our closest was Godfather's in Worthington, Minnesota. Personal pan pizzas. Then to the skating rink afterwards!
🛼🛼🛼🥘🥘🥘

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 15

Farmers animals have better airflow requirements.
Boycott Florida and anyone who supports this.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Aug 14

Attorney James Hollis says that over 80% of people in Alligator Alcatraz are sick, many with Covid symptoms.

This is eugenics.

People have already died in ICE custody. Many will be disabled.

The inhumane conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 13

seriously, the ghost of D6 past! the horror 😱

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Aug 12

Every activated Guardsman has a family, a job, school, or something that they are leaving to do their duty.

It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days.

But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.

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A K Urban @urbanzoo.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm going to have to watch this nightly for inspiration

Helli⭕️n Raiser #NoKings @raisinghellions.bsky.social · Aug 12

By popular demand, the Yakety Sax edit

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Aug 12

Anyone downplaying what is going on in this moment by claiming correct analysis is “alarmist” is not a safe person to be around especially as people grasp for any kind of stability they can in the rising tide of open fascism and its accompanying ambiguity, atomization and unreality.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Aug 13

It truly cannot be overstated how deep Americans are in the hold of what I have been coming to call authoritarian entropy, basically the infrastructure building and hardening phase of state power being reconstructed as a fascist force.

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