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eke @eke.bsky.social · 6h

all of the above apparently

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump has died

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate how "prosecute" is appearing more and more

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

don't want EYES? too bad

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

we should've stopped with DeepDream, a perfectly good AI that took your picture and filled it with fractals full of eyes

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

yes, just like the earlier versions of Midjourney from like 2022 actually produced some pretty interesting surreal images, while the more recent versions largely just produce profoundly boring smooth-edges clip art slop

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

can't violate the injunction against arresting journalists without probable cause if you just lie about how they're all actually doing crimes

eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

hell at this point they'll be lucky to have a show of force in a few major cities unless they get started on hiring more national guards

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

they're calling it the Trump Doctrine, we're guarantors of the financial stability of anywhere in the hemisphere — stay away, European powers, we're doing all the bailouts now!

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

It’s not the UNITED STATES OF America first. Checkmate libs

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

a real lesson that you should get a billionaire to back you

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

only Bari would be smart enough to premiere her first thing at 2:30pm on a friday afternoon and also not put it on TV

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

tremendous piece, especially if (like me) you know nothing about the web of party alliances in japan

Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 1d

Japanese politics was rocked on Friday as the Kōmeitō announced it would leave its coalition with the LDP after twenty-six years. To understand why this happened and what it means, I wrote a guide for the perplexed.

open.substack.com/pub/observin...

Kōmeitō quits the coalition

A guide for the perplexed

open.substack.com

eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

more antisemitic though, which is saying something

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

the reason I despise Jeffries and Schumer the way I do is that they have a deep contempt for the very idea that politics may have changed beyond their extremely narrow understanding of campaigning and legislating.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

like it's all well and good to demand our leaders lead and such but like, none of this is normal! nothing any elected Democrat has experienced to this point could have prepared them for this, in fact it's almost the reverse

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely: what the fuck are you even talking about

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

feels like some kind of gas leak situation

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

yeah no shit. he should beat the 77 year old. if he can't do that, they were right

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

always appreciate the imaginary version of "The Democrats" that exert absolute control over primaries.

they're huge losers but also they're all powerful and if the left candidate loses it's because of their conspiracy

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

like this might be the most favorable environment in our lifetime lol

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

if an establishment centrist candidate can beat a progressive in a primary in 2026, that progressive 100% deserved to lose

Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 1d

Mills won her last two races in a purple state by nearly 10% each time and when the current admin tried to bully her about trans kids she publicly told them to piss up a rope and she'd see them in court. Do people want a senate majority? Because this is a must win seat and Mills has won statewide.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Shades of Bernie

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

i am posting a stupid joke online

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely prefer Platner to Mills but like if he can't beat her with Democrats that does not say good things about his odds in the general. So long as a primary doesn't devolve into a deathwar having it be a real contest is good!

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

I don't even care that much about the Maine race, but the whining from the "primary everyone" crowd about a contested primary is negatively polarizing me here. Just win the primary, man.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

"our silos are full of soybeans! we can't even sell them because the world market has abandoned us due to tariffs!"

okay well have you ever heard of tofu. get cooking. this all just sounds like whining to me

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

they've grown all these beans, let them eat them

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

bro what are the soybean farmers gonna do

Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 1d

ok, here's DJT on the rare earth export controls that China has proposed. sorry for sharing tr*th s*cial posts, but apparently that's how us policy gets done this administration.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

the Tariff Otaku says that China is not free trade enough

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

this is fucking deranged, man.

Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I …

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