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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 14h

Too many words. Boil it down.

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 2d

If you really want to send Donald Trump into a RAGE, then make this idea go viral across America.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 2d

He’s trying to elicit another shooter like the one back in June on No Kings Day.

Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 2d

Get some ointment for that burn.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 3d

Up from 7 yesterday.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds good to me!

a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him

ALT: a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4d

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 5d

ATTN: PA VOTERS

🚨IMPORTANT🚨

VOTE YES TO RETAIN 💥DEM MAJORITY 💥 PA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
Christine Donohue
Kevin Dougherty
David Wecht

‼️If using mail in ballots, the Supreme Court Justices are
located on the flip side.

‼️In the voting booth, they will be located at the bottom of the screen.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 4d

It was not what I expected at all at the end of the movie.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 4d

People here argue with me that this dude is the future of the Democratic Party, but he’s just another status quo dude who hates Trump. Gets into arguments all the time but doesn’t want to do much different than Biden or Bill Clinton.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 5d

Cool Zemeckis flick.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

The GOP has done nothing on healthcare in the 21st century other than stop Dems from improving it. Literally nothing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 6d

She has such sights to show him.

a picture of a man with spikes on his head and the words " i have centuries to discover the things that make you wimp

ALT: a picture of a man with spikes on his head and the words " i have centuries to discover the things that make you wimp

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 6d

So he thinks people are paying for insurance and not using it? And they are now using it or cancelling. This makes no sense.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 6d

At the Army thing they asked if the service members would support the pres. Anyone who isn’t a moron gets told not to show up.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8d

Kat spent the week protesting and getting brutalized at Broadview and now she’s out here today doing this for the community.

Elect her, Illinois. She does not quit.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8d

KIYAC — the Kat for Illinois Youth Advisory Council — is putting on its first campaign event!

Come get a free car wash, drop off your winter clothes, and pick up a yard sign at Double Clutch Brewing Company in Evanston til 10:30!

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 9d

Is @govpritzker.illinois.gov telling the ISP to protect the people, or to protect ICE?

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9d

This morning outside of the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois State Police arrested a woman who was attempting to block ICE.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 9d

If he loves it so much, he should move there.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t think that voters will be excited to vote for the party that intentionally “harms” them.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 10d

Who does he mean by “we”? Him and his friends are the most callow snowflakes on the planet.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 11d

Cuomo has no substance or temerity whatsoever.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 16d

Exactly. Capitulation is what they want, the slightest resistance and they fold.

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Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.social · 16d

Just finished tonight’s episode. Fantastic. The Vig was doing an amazing job, what range!

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