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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

it doesn’t work on any level at all, like, it is, at best, stupid and confusing, and at worst, murderously offensive

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3h

No kings no paychecks is literally one of the dumbest political slogans I have ever heard.

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Drunk On Mystery @drunkonmystery.bsky.social · 1h

Confronting real evil makes "radicals" of normal people.

It's how you ended up with someone whose qualifications in life were "random dude from Iowa" giving absolutely insanely metal quotes about fighting like: "By God, I'll fight till hell freezes over, and then I'll cut the ice and fight on"

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Drunk On Mystery @drunkonmystery.bsky.social · 1h

It's obviously not a 1-to-1 comparison, but a lot of soldiers in the Union army during the Civil War left the North thinking "Slavery is bad, but not like...BAD bad", then got one look at what it actually was in practice, and became staunch abolitionists almost immediately.

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1h

I actually think "radlib" is a pretty good term for myself, and I feel like appropriating it. Like I've referred to myself sarcastically as a "neolib" but that's *actually inaccurate*; I think "radlib" 100% describes my views. I am radically in favor of freedom

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Fuss @semperfitrex.bsky.social · 1h

The protests are still good, even if I'm significantly to the left of most people in them.

Political organization and radicalization in our favor is, in fact, good.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1h

I am going to apply the wisdom of Solomon here, some were like this, and some were not. What happened was internal competition among republican factions kept this stuff from spilling out, and complete subservience to Trump made them think (erroneously, I guess) no intra-squad rules needed.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 4h

Every single person who actually shows up to a protest is contributing more than all the online protest critiquers combined

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 4h

"who he right attacks, we defend"

How hard is this??? Its a very simply rule!

If the right is attacking, we are defending.

Anyway, i will be there are Saturday in my portland frog costume

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 4h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1h

Parliamentary supremacy or bust. We don't need kings, and I'll go ahead and say we don't need a president.

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 1h

The legislature needs to reassert control or we will no longer have a functioning democracy

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 3h

Barrett is now suggesting that the Voting Rights Act may be BEYOND CONGRESS’S POWER TO ENFORCE THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS.

Neoconfederate stuff here.

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Dandy G🍌 @dangyd.bsky.social · 1h

private group chats are awesome places where everybody sends all their best posts and funniest bits to that one guy everybody knows will be outed as a sexual predator in a few months

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 11d

one of the features everyone wants here is one of the features that consistently drives posters insane: group chats. absolute fetid breeding grounds for the most pointless folie a deux

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 2h

Some things are strict tradeoffs with test scores. But others (eg: "is there good communication with parents about schedule changes", "are kids above grade level being engaged/redirected appropriately", "do kids spend half the lunch period waiting in the lunch line") are strictly QOL things.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 2h

Gonna tack on a reply - a lack of funding is not what causes this (it does obviously hurt school quality in other ways). Even very well-funded/well-respected schools suffer from the same problem.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 3h

The solution is to not have schools suck.

Public education in this country is how every child and parent gets exposed to the idea that the government runs a Kafkaesque and labyrinthine bureaucracy that resists oversight and intervention.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

Sorry I’m gonna go back on my bullshit here: National Consersvatism’s entire ethos boils down to “this problem, that we created, exacerbated, and oppose any effort to combat, is very bad. We will solve it by making it worse”

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

I suspect populist parties bootstrapped their own political support by weaponizing the residual, ambient distrust present in all societies & MAKING MORE OF IT, spreading & intensifying it, by propagating narratives of distrust & corruption. By repetition & uptake by other political actors, it rose.

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 2h

I don’t think people will know what to do with themselves in the not-that-unlikely event the GOP just straight up retains the house and senate in a manner the public considers to be legitimate

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 2h

6-3 that majority-minority districts violate the VRA, every red state has its redistricting plan drawn up and ready to go as soon as its official, GOP slight favorites to retain the house with a D+5 generic ballot

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 2h

cancel culture was a desperate rearguard action in defense of shared norms whose obsolescence was revealed via the backlash to cancel culture.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3h

Talia doesn't want us to save democracy, she wants to make sure the people who show up to protests are still people she wants to date. I'm going to keep observing this about everyone who posts stuff like this, because it's true. These people are socialites, not activists.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 4h

This is where theory gets you

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

The president freely admits he's using your tax money to repress you and interfere with your free choice of representatives. He's looking into the camera and telling you he's a tyrant bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3h

Photo from the Trumpist Insurrection on 6 January 2021, showing various Trump supporters climbing the walls outside the Capitol Building amid attacks on law enforcement attempting to secure the location

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Nom de Plume Brett @maverickbrett.bsky.social · 3h

This feels like important legal maneuvering, but also the last time this thought occurred to an absolute–monarchist in the American legal tradition he had his head removed so I don’t know where it is going.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h

U.S. TSY SECY BESSENT: TARIFFS ARE A SURCHARGE, NOT A TAX

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 4h

Wow surely nobody would keep repeatedly increasing the tariffs then

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h

BESSENT: ONE TIME PRICE ADJUSTMENT FROM TARIFFS IS NOT INFLATIONARY

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

A stabilization force in an area with nearly two million people, way too little functioning infrastructure, and armed groups would need something like 100,000 troops.

And that’s assuming both Israel and Hamas are on board with the whole thing, which it doesn’t look like now, let alone indefinitely.

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