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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, ffs. 🙄🙄🙄

NY Times headline and deck:

For Dick Cheney, a Journey From Champion of War to Voice of Resistance

Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some longtime critics.

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 1d

¡Jajajajaja!

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 1d

(Half of this exododus will comprise the entire population of Staten Island.) 😳

Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 1d

… Cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re born,
You’re never gonna see no exododus! 😞

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

New York Post headline:

Nearly a million New
Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor
- possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Two dopey ideas I hope to hear less of:

1. Zohran Mamdani’s goals for NYC are impossible.
2. He’ll fail completely if he doesn’t manage to implement 100% absolutely everything on his list.

MAGA set big goals and are achieving many of them. How about we non-fascists try that? (Omitting the evil.)

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 3d

She posted this, if anybody wants to go yuck HER yum! 🤗

“I-Michelle @i-michelle.bsky.social • 3h #coppernote pRESCOTT this is called the copper bowl, quinoa cannellini beans, broccoli squash, tomatoes in a tomato sauce space comes with pita bread delicious recommend”

Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 3d

Haggis scotch eggs: Help yourself!

Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 5d

My comment was about a specific sentence from the Politico article that smacks of bothsidesism.

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 5d

Politico said Platner’s tattoo has forced *Dems* to confront anti-semitism within their party, not within the pod-adjacent left.

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 5d

But even if Platner did do it to evoke Nazi imagery, does it expose a deeper vein of Nazi sympathizers in the Democratic Party?

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 5d

“And that was before Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol forced Democrats to confront antisemitism within their party.”

Did it, though? Seems more like an edgelord flex by Platner many years ago, not a smoking gun for his anti-semitism or anybody else’s.

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 5d

Unless the party gets over its “centrism” fetish, I just don’t see them actually flipping much Trump policy 180 degrees. Instead, they’ll try to triangulate some awful Third Way.

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 5d

What if the Dems were to seize back control of executive and legislative branches in 2028? (SCOTUS will be MAGA for a generation.)

I fear the extent of their pushback would be moves like improving the plumbing in the concentration camps and bodycams for ICE.

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 6d

This is a nice little counterpoint to all the right-wing insurgencies pretty much everywhere else! 😬

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Centrist D66 party will win most seats in Dutch election, exit poll suggests

Result would pave the way for the Netherlands’ first out gay prime minister and end far-right populist Geert Wilders’ time in power

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 9d

If you put a Zionist frame on the Trump administrations acts against immigrants and POC in general, you arrive at the question, “Does the U.S. have the right to exist as a white Christian state?”

And your response to that IMO should inform your response to Israel.

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 13d

Remember when @lizzobeeating.bsky.social played James Madison’s Crystal flute and Republicans lost their minds? What happened to all that historical agita? 🤔

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 13d

All those people who got upset about the removal of Confederate monuments seem kinda quiet about the destruction of the East Wing! 😳

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 17d

(Singing this to the tune of “Raspberry Beret”!) 🎶

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 17d

No question about that … But POC have sure been doing the work/putting themselves on the line at anti-ICE rallies and such! ❤️

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 17d

RE No Kings demonstrations: To paraphrase Chris Rock, I haven't seen white people this mad since they cancelled M*A*S*H!

So far, all the photos I’m finding from places like Atlanta and Baltimore are super-Caucasian … Is it a question of coverage or a real thing?

Many white people say “No Kings!” at a demonstration in Grand Rapids.

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Politico @politico.com · 21d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 22d

Starmer’s narrowly beating Truss!

Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 26d

Perfect headline! 😇

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 26d

The baby isn’t in her PLACENTA, silly! It’s in her TUMMY.

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Matthew Rothenberg @mmrothenberg.bsky.social · 29d

No! Sounds like I should be! 🙂

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