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Ted S Raicer

@tdraicer.bsky.social

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Game designer, author, liberal Democrat, loather of the maga Right and the Jill Stein Left.

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Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social · Jul 5

Whenever I go after the Left someone replies "I'm on the Left and that doesn't describe me." My answer is, Fine, then I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about those Leftists it DOES describe. With that in mind:

By dividing politics into only two groups (those that agree with us about everything

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Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social · 2h

It could have been all over but it turned out they are as incompetent as they are evil.

Tom Watson @guitarwatson.bsky.social · 1d

The Project 25 bros thought it would all be over in 25. Only 11 weeks left. Not even close. Quite the opposite, actually. Grim as things are, they're running short of time. And they banked on far more popularity. Not happening.

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Tom Watson @guitarwatson.bsky.social · 1d

Great work by my friend @kenjenkinsny.bsky.social. More public officials should stand up the way Ken has in Westchester.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy

Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, fellow veterans and others gathered at t...

www.military.com

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 2d

the Brennan Center has a nice overview on the abuse that is NSPM-7

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

If GOP wants to abolish the filibuster over this, awesome. It helps Rs way more than Ds. It’s also a central reason for loss of faith in government over the last 25 yrs. Rs can reopen the govt tonight if they want. If they want to do it to make sure 15 million lose their health care that’s on them.

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 2d

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

We fired people we had no reason or budgetary need to fire and we actually screwed up and fired the wrong people and then rehired them the next day and all because of Chuck Schumer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social · 2h

Better VERY late than never.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 3h

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social · 2h

They put it in the garage.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 2d

What's amazing is how effortlessly GOP members lie.
They control the House, Senate, White House and Supreme Court.
GOP is basically telling the nation, 'Yes, I wrecked the car, but it's your fault. You never should have given me the keys.'
Don't blame the Dems for the shutdown. GOP is just inept.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Tom Emmer on Trump rescinding energy funds that were appropriated for Minnesota: "Literally this could end today if Chuck Schumer and the Democrats would reopen the government. What's happened is the White House has to make some very serious and difficult decisions."

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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 2d

This gentleman is a leading authority on chemical warfare. Heed his advice, and most particularly if you should happen to be in a position anytime soon where you're likely to get a faceful of tear gas.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 3d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Davis clerked for Neil Gorsuch, worked in DOJ and on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now he is an election denier troll who peddles conspiracies on Steve Bannon's show.

So, of course, all of that makes him a close ally of the Trump regime.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 3d

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Next Up: Letitia James

It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social · 3h

The explanation is they have been in the pocket of the GOP since long before Trump. How we got here.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.

Looking at you, all major news orgs.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2d

PRO TIP: If you want the Nobel Peace Prize, you might not wanna kidnap fathers, zip-tie kids, shoot priests, rip moms from carpool lines, and terrorize entire otherwise peaceful cities.

🖕

Oh yeah, and release the Epstein files.

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 2d

This. This. This.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 2d

Get your paperwork straightened out. Accounts Payable are overwhelmed with expense reports right now. The cleanest reqs will get their Soros Buccs 1st.
Check it b4 U Click It.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

I sure hope I get reimbursed by Soros for the inflatable frog costume I bought.

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 2d

More ways for DJT administration to shoot the US economy in the foot.
All self-inflicted.
Think about things like this when you vote.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

The largest solar project in Nevada has been canceled amidst the Trump administration's federal permitting freeze.
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power. heatmap.news/sparks/esmer...

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 2d

Here’s the simple truth that Republicans in DC don’t want you to know: The government is shut down because they are choosing to DOUBLE your health care premiums. There’s a bill that would end the shutdown today AND fund health care.

But Washington Republicans keep voting NO.

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Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social · 3h

For or against?

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 2d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social · 3h

There are Never Trumpers and people on the Left who both insist most Trump supporters are brainwashed, deluded, don't understand what they voted for. But alas, that isn't so. Most of them knew exactly what they voted for and if some are unhappy it blew up in their faces most will still support him.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

“So we fight on just the same. With Dylan Thomas, we refuse to go quietly into that good night, but rather rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Or, as another poet put it, ‘Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.’”

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like?

What if the Constitution *is* a suicide pact?

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 2d

Yasssss

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 2d

ANTIFA:

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