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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

I'm forming a new heresy: universalism with one exception.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

ghost of yotei has sold at least 1.6 million copies.

Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 14h

This, but unironically

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Michael Anderson @michaelander45.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe you shouldn’t be doing controversial changes to precedent or reversals of reasoned lower court opinions using it then?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 13h

Does it matter what Schumer thinks? If y’all just lock in and give Platner the platform and support he needs, we can win this

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 14h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ progressive Mainers, please for the love of fuck back Platner up during the primaries

substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-platn...

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

substack.perfectunion.us

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

bf opened to a genuinely random page of the Eric Adams child crime prevention book and stumbled on the 110th Mayor of the City of New York instructing you on how to do PCP

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

Is it really a bad thing to prepare for when the Left is full of purity testing do nothings who want to look as “pure” as possible by arguing that Pritzker and Newsom are the same kind of candidate?

We should be shaming these idiots for drooling over the opportunity to not vote

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna be kinda shocked if this doesn't come back to haunt them in the midterms.

They gave 20b to Argentina while your farm went bankrupt is, uh, not a hard line to land.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

www.motherjones.com

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is suing Trump to stop the national guard from assaulting people you dunce

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck are you talking about Jesse

thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker supports trans rights. Illinois has laws protecting trans people.

Newsom agrees with sentiment about the “unfairness” of trans women participating in womens’ sports.

Which one would you prefer seeing as President?

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

OK then

thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

Ow the edge. Does it matter if I’m white? I want to ensure that the US can pull itself out of the white nationalist hellscape that we’re lurching into

thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

In the scenario I’m laying out (which isn’t the only one, genius. It’s just in case the primaries narrow down to being a race between Pritzker and Newsom), I want people to support the candidate who has shown more gusto and progressive ideals than the opportunist who was friendly with Charlie Kirk

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

You’re a fucking clown if you think that the 2028 Dem primaries are going to be between two candidates when there’s a gaping black hole in Dem leadership currently

🫩 @blackatit.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, we only have two candidates?

That’s it. No one has even so much as announced a run but these are our choices.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF YOU SUCH FECKLESS BITCHES?

thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, anyone who says Pritzker won’t be getting their primary vote because he’s not perfect enough for them is practically allowing Newsom to win the nomination.

So you could say that they’re allowing the Democratic party to become fully transphobic in a sense

thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

I’m just trying to prepare people to get on board with Pritzker in the scenario where we don’t have anyone further to the left who’s running, and AOC declines to run in the presidential race

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

So you want the transphobe to win the nomination huh

thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, anyone who says Pritzker won’t be getting their primary vote because he’s not perfect enough for them is practically allowing Newsom to win the nomination.

So you could say that they’re allowing the Democratic party to become fully transphobic in a sense

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ people, support this man over fucking Newsom. Please, for the love of all the remaining decency on this world

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

Neocons come home to socialism

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"What FIFA has done is created another layer of gambling on top of gambling. Who would have thought that FIFA would become a creator of exotic financial instruments?" This is not unrelated to the fate of democracy.

Late-Stage Capitalism and Late-Stage Democracy

A unified theory of everything.

www.thebulwark.com

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thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 1d

I desperately hope people will flood the primary polls to get you nominated

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