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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2h

Unprecedented corruption - not just monetizing the presidency by selling branded products, but selling those products directly to government employees and having the Department of Homeland Security promote them to the media

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itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 1d

www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 2d

Why would they? They're heinous and villainous people:
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

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itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 3d

"'Vranyo' is a Russian term for a type of lie that is not meant to be believed, but which the speaker and listener both know is false."
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck. Off.

Deplatforming WORKS.

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itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 3d

A dysfunctional nation; the United States of Russia
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

How the GOP became the party of Putin | Brookings

I never expected that the Republican Party—which once stood for a muscular, moralistic approach to the world, and which helped bring down the Soviet Union—would become a willing accomplice of what the...

www.brookings.edu

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itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 4d

You'll never solve the problem with a scumbag DNC representative in a general election: That literally is what primaries are for. Take the fight there, because that might actually make it winnable.
Ceding territory to GOPniks is currently an irreplaceable loss for the American nation and democracy.

itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 4d

Manchin is an utter piece of shit... yet, he's voted yes on every single Democrat appointed judge so far.

Thus he IS better than any imaginable GOP senator WV. In fact, a sack of rocks or a rabid raccoon would be better than any of the openly and unashamed traitors that are the RepubliQan party now

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 4d

How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country

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Opinion | These Israeli Dissidents Can Show Americans How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country

And why it matters so much to try.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 4d

Farage is winning because politics has been reduced to clickbait.

It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists.

As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.”

But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻

The political entertainment industry

📝 A guest essay...

writesbright.substack.com

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Mickey Lenin @thepolitburo.bsky.social · 4d

Cosplay Noem is warning against the dangers of non-citizens driving on our nation’s highways.*

*Noem has over 20 citations for speeding plus tickets for ignoring stop signs and traffic lights and improperly registered vehicles. 🚗

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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · 5d

Here's WHY this is happening. This false view of Dem policies/issues is a RghtWng talking point. And MSMedia, which pundits consume, is dominated by RWng talking pnts. Bc MSM execs hire RWngers to appease the RWngers who work the refs

Ppl believe what's repeated

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusor...

Illusory truth effect - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 5d

You are neither offering solutions nor any new perspectives, rather just parroting the same old "dnc BAD!" mantra (which occasionally isn't even wrong, but no such nuance nor example can be found in your posts...): One that has already been objectively proven wrong in the posts you're responding to

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itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 5d

...with the help of some MASSIVE (and today, omnipresent) foreign assistance in the past 20(+) years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOY4...

www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

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itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 5d

Literally this: US media has been completely defunct and dysfunctional for well over a decade now (barely even a handful of exceptions existing, that are all thoroughly and studiously ignored on the national stage).

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically.

Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

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itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 5d

He's literally me.

itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 6d

It's been a wildly successful plan:
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
And it's practically been made possible thanks to "social" media, Facebook, Tiktok, etc, since 7+ MILLION voters stayed at home (or switched to GOP's convicted felon) 2024, compared to 2020.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOY4...

How the GOP became the party of Putin | Brookings

I never expected that the Republican Party—which once stood for a muscular, moralistic approach to the world, and which helped bring down the Soviet Union—would become a willing accomplice of what the...

www.brookings.edu

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