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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 4h

What, do you ask, is the point of all the theater around the laughable announcement that an obviously unwell man is in the pink of health?

Because if he succumbs to his illnesses, it will help reinforce a conspiracy theory.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 23h

I would add that I've done taxes for twenty years and if you're a liberal and give to charity you're in the very very noticeable minority.

Republicans give to charity, and to rw agitprop

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

it has a lot to do with incentives.

to rightwing plutocrats, a D admin is an intolerable threat to their wealth & power, so writing blank checks for agitprop makes sense and is in fact honorable self-defense.

to their lib counterparts such a thing would be gauche, a social capital-negative

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

this has been a periodic complaint for decades and I'm curious what is standing in the way of fixing it

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 1d

Yet the press will hem and haw and equivocate regardless.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

“We refuse to pay the troops and also we’re doing indiscriminate firings of people for no reason”

I’ve never seen an administration so faithfully committed to self-immolation in my entire life

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1d

I think the "They're trying to make Charlie Kirk their George Floyd" comparisons are wrong. They tried to make him their Dr. King.

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 1d

When he was 44, Allen played a man “dating” a 17 year old girl in his film Manhattan - and he was very open about it being a semiautobiographical account of himself at age 42 when he “dated” a 16 year old employee who worked on his previous film, Annie Hall.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 1d

The Qataris have biught themselves a presidential administration.

You are either ok with it or you aint.
I aint.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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

people do not get that the difference between a million and a billion is approximately 1 billion

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 1d

It's not hyperbole to say that the United States doing this to its own citizens is Nazi-like.

Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 1d

"They disappeared her." This story from @timdickinson.bsky.social is so upsetting. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

www.rollingstone.com

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

i actually think someone who would be 79 years old when they take office should not just be discouraged from running but be prohibited from running

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 1d

The trouble NIMBYs have is that they are almost invariably the least sympathetic people you can possibly imagine. The cleverest YIMBY activist in the world could not invent a less likeable antagonist than the median NIMBY.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

it's funny how the vast majority of these articles find the absolute worst opponents

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

won't anyone think of the uhhhh sales executives who will be harmed by transit-oriented development in California

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M.Sfinbar @sfinbar.bsky.social · 1d

If Obama did this, 1/2 the grandpas would have died of spontaneous combustion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 1d

Yasssssss

Facing dismissal over Kirk comment, Iowa teacher cites pro-GOP posts by superintendent

A high school English teacher from Creston, facing termination for a social-media comment regarding the killing of Charlie Kirk, is fighting back, citing a series of pro-Republican posts by the superi...

www.kcci.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

New Trump Golf Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like "a bunch of ICE new hires are actually registered sex offenders" is a shoe waiting to drop given how certainly little vetting anyone is doing of these guys.

♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 1d

half these people aren't even allowed to be this close to an elementary school

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 1d

Blown away by how good an idea the costumes are. More shareable and fun than pics of a regular protest, and it’s immediately clear that the protestors are non-violent.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

it was obvious from the moment the attack happened that this was not only a tragedy for Israel but was going to become a tragedy for Palestine, and I still remember who was cheering it on.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1d

If you were online on October 7, 2023, this is no surprise.

Overshadowed by the fact that Israel retaliated with a genocidal war is the reality that amid the attack seemingly professional/moral people spent days praising every report they found of Israelis, including children, being murdered.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, let's always try to emphasize the festival dimension of mass protest

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Like sometimes you need scrappers to scrap but like it's a lot harder to get the turnout you need if you frame protest as equivalent to a street fight (and plays into Republican framing about protests)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I know we all like to think that other countries are sophisticated and special, but the United States has at least three and a half thousand public pianos. There's a ton in the Atlanta metro system, for instance. It's been a common idea worldwide since the 2000s.

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