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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently it was when he saw a chance to become whip.

Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 2h

A year after I moved to Massachusetts, I went back to Florida for a visit and couldn’t believe how slowly everyone was driving.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 2h

Always, but mostly in metro areas or places where people have to commute in tons of traffic.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 3h

She sought Trump’s endorsement to run for governor of Georgia next year and Trump said “no, you’ll lose”. That seems to have broken the spell.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 5h

This, from @attackerman.bsky.social, is brilliant and appropriately brutal. Must read.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies

As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

www.thenation.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h

He should be forced to quit and then he should be primaried.

An utter disgrace.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 6h

Chuck Schumer's office declines to say who he voted for

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6h

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

Let us remember who Dick
Cheney really was.

Me for Zeteo, with 🧾:
zeteo.com/p/dick-chene...

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 8h

My grandfather was Rumsfeld's XO and said he was the most unpleasant person he'd ever met.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 8h

"What does this have to do with... oh, nevermind"

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 9h

In his first term, there would always be a normal official statement followed by a deranged post on social media. I’m guessing we skip straight to the deranged post.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 11h

2025 hasn’t been *all* bad

bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 11h

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11h

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 13h

and when a centrist loses it's because someone said 'defund the police' in 2018

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 1d

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.

www.techdirt.com

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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

For the record, nothing prevents the House of Representatives from meeting during a shutdown.

Johnson could call the House back whenever he wants, swear in Grijalva, pass appropriations bills, advance other legislation...

Instead he's given Republicans a 7 week paid vacation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

BREAM: Can you not swear in Adelita Grijalva, though?

MIKE JOHNSON: There is a precedent for doing a pro forma session swearing in, but we are not engaging in regular business right now

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 3d

I am increasingly convinced many of us won’t be able to vote in 2026.

Trump is Planning Election Disruptions in 2026
youtu.be/UQg_zzTg9hg

Trump is Planning Election Disruptions in 2026

YouTube video by Straight White American Jesus Podcast

youtu.be

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26d

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3d

mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 3d

JFC

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 3d

Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.

A Halloween parade float with the gates of Auschwitz

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 3d

It's *really* incredible how polished he is, particularly compared to most of the Democrats with national profiles.

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Monkey Census Taker @automationbias.bsky.social · 3d

How old are they?

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