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volts.wtf
Because Trump is nothing, he is useful as a mirror. His success mirrors the dysfunctions of our politics & media. His support mirrors the resentments & fears of his supporters. His fearsome reputation mirrors the insecurities of the left.

He is showing us what *we* are.
December 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
A big tent could include everyone Zoe Leonard wants for president! bsky.app/profile/thra...
thrasherxy.bsky.social Dr. Thrasher wants you to pre-order The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Oct 22
For no reason, no reason at all, I’m sharing Zoe Leonard’s poem “I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president & I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance & I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste
I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn't have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn't the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down torest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no airconditioning, a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harrassed and gaybashed and deported.: I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and, been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn't possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught.
October 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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dabenner.bsky.social
Maine's current AG is 47, not sure why nobody 's looing at him. Maine senate president is 37 and owns a brewery. Platner and MIlls are not our only two guys.
September 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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tobellz.bsky.social
Gonna be funny to be on this site when Platner turns out to be Fetterman (redux).

Not really holding my breath for anything more than "Better than the Republican" out of Maine.
September 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
we are once again locked in a worldwide ideological struggle. kinda sucks but it is what it is. time to pick a side kids
October 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
ultimately what they want isn't the free speech of a fractious society, but the norms of an academic cocktail party--where any topic is fair game, so long as we all admit it kind of doesn't matter and this is just a little post-dinner diversion we're engaged in
September 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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dabenner.bsky.social
The lawsuit claims his business is worth $100 billion and generates "hundreds of millions of dollars" in income (less than 1%). The alleged defamation is that he is not good at business.
September 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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patrickwyman.bsky.social
Divide between people who think politics is an exercise in increasing status and career opportunities within a static system and those who think it's about creating the circumstances within which people can live well
September 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
bro just carry your papers on you. just show them to the masked guys who refuse to identify what agency they're with, let alone give you their name and badge number. what is the big deal?
September 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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jamellebouie.net
brett kavanaugh’s pretty little mind can’t be bothered to imagine the mother desperate to calm her sobbing child as ICE agents threaten to whisk her away to a secret jail for looking “illegal”
September 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."
The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction.
September 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM