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GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · Mar 4

gonna be coming back to this one more than a few times

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · Mar 3

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 1h

No, I mean, when does it ever flow the other way, and we get MTG appearing in someone else's media? They would *never* allow that, and we should consider why that is.

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GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 1h

the car's on fire and GamemasterAnthony's at the wheel

GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 1h

good news, everyone!

GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 1h

I've always asked: okay, tell me which of these IPs would be better with a guest appearance from Elesh Norn

obviously there is no answer

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Radio Boo-ranoia 👻 @aftertheboop.bsky.social · 3h

people complain about power creep in mtg, but they aren't ready for jeff, powerpoint creep

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Marly Marie @marlymarieport.bsky.social · 4h

Every time I go to protests I’m surrounded by people in their 60-80’s who understand they had more rights than we do now. It’s never what maga is trying to portray.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h

A transition to green energy is way less scary for ExxonMobil than it is for Saudi Arabia

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

I think it matters that to whatever degree we want to credit Trump with doing this as-yet-tenuous deal, forget the ten months of ongoing support for genocide, the support for bombing Tehran, etc.; Trump helped accomplish this by telling Palestinians if they didn’t sign on he’d see them all destroyed

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely don’t think our political discourse is capable of talking about how Donald Trump—*Donald Trump*—just halted an ongoing genocide.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

I have strong doubts that the 'ceasefire' will hold and lead to an actual peace deal, but it seems like, maybe, somehow, Trump kinda learned a lesson here...?

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

Again, if the military of a Latin American country acted the way American cops act everyone would think what they were about to do ranged from "a mutiny" to "a coup d'etat"

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 13h

re: b

if they'd've won in '20 they would have gone into overdrive trying to get people to accept a third term bid

now they know, or at least strongly suspect, there isn't time left in him for that

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 21h

As always, the biggest failure and blame belongs to the Republican Party. Even beyond Trump himself. That party totally embraced authoritarianism and now we’re paying the price.

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GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 13h

in the golf sense, maybe

GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 13h

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21d

GOP have shifted from the party by the suburb country club lawyer to the party of and by and for the exurban used skidoo dealer

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 14h

hypothetically, a big enough wave might NOT be a deadlock :)

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 14h

saw someone rather professional on Twitter respond to a new $4 billion aid package to Israel with "what if we spent that money on Appalachia instead?"

i honestly couldn't tell if it was a joke because federal Medicaid spending in West Virginia is literally exactly $4 billion lol

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · Mar 20

Guys I’m starting to worry about the width of this gyre

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GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 1d

It's possible (consistent with observable data) that people vote on material problems but not material solutions - once something's fixed, it's on to the next thing.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting in itself that the public's default reaction to whatever the government is doing seems to be "stop doing that, try the opposite". It suggests something quite profound is going wrong.

Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 1d

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

if you never get a taste for the money they're paying you, they won't be able to pay you for anything you don't want to do

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

yeah this is on the level of the iraq war casus belli coverage

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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GOP Delenda Est @qed2.bsky.social · 1d

I believe the catch is that you have to actually repent, in your heart (which God can in fact know), not just mouth the words

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