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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

The New York Times editorial board thinks Democrats should “move to the center.”

Where the hell is the center between democracy and fascism?

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Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @tonysomo.bsky.social · 58m

Only the NYT knows.
But if anyone wants to get a feel for it, they can read today’s Opinion Page.
Antiemetics will help.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

My "radical" agenda?

Make this city affordable, keep New York safe and turn the page on the billionaire-backed politics of Andrew Cuomo.

New ad now running on Fox News.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone knows that when you have a building full of asbestos, you should immediately knock it down and release that shit into the air. It's just common sense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

WELKER: Why didn't the president tell the public he was going to tear down the entire East Wing, which as you know is part of the people's house?

BESSENT: Well, I think this was a judgment call on the president. The president is a master builder. It could've been asbestos. It could've been mold.

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Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @tonysomo.bsky.social · 2h

“The President is a Master Builder.”
See the Master Builder by Ibsen.
It didn’t turn out well.

Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @tonysomo.bsky.social · 2h

You KNOW that Trump has some really damning Kompromat on Johnson… and Johnson knows and fears its release.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

He got the Speaker he wanted - a cuck who will sit in the corner and let him do whatever he pleases whenever he wants.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 5h

Second day of early voting. Find your poll site here and take 10 minutes out of your day to vote today findmypollsite.vote.nyc

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Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @tonysomo.bsky.social · 2h

The Thought Police are active and successful in Oklahoma.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.

By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools

Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 2h

We just want to know who gave the devil a protection spell.

—Tongo Eisen-Martin, from “Newly Arranged Appetite”

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 2h

(The answer is John Roberts.)

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

NBC wants you to trust its coverage of the East Wing demolition even though NBC's parent company helped pay for the destruction.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

well, that's awkward

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

Filth from the NYDN that on top of everything else ignores Cuomo's gutter racism and Islamophobia. Cuomo's campaign just posted maybe the most racist, bigoted video I've ever seen in NY politics. Inexcusable.

New York Daily News @nydailynews.com · 3h

The Daily News Endorsement: Cuomo offers NYC a path forward while Mamdani peddles hollow promises buff.ly/tHHM3Qj

The Daily News Endorsement: Cuomo offers NYC a path forward while Mamdani peddles hollow promises

Zohran Mamdani’s dithering performance in the final mayoral debate pointed up the ongoing problem with his campaign. It’s a house of cards built on sound bites and laced with antisemiti…

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h

Why is Vought’s role as Trump’s budget director so key to the president’s plans?

“Every goddam thing in the executive branch goes through OMB,” a former official explained. The agency is the choke point for $7 trillion in federal spending.

What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

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Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @tonysomo.bsky.social · 3h

What if Universities hadn’t caved and allowed students & faculty to peacefully protest the War in Gaza and demand a cease fire.
(Gee I wonder how it would have all turned out?!)

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3h

If major U.S. law firms had not so quickly surrendered to Donald Trump, this spring, his lawlessness might have been curbed, Fabio Bertoni writes.

What if the Big Law Firms Hadn’t Caved to Trump?

It’s not inconceivable that, had the firms resisted the President’s executive orders, his momentum for lawlessness might have been curbed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 3h

I’m increasingly convinced you could teach an entire undergrad research methods course around the question “what are the electoral effects of moderation?”. Just need survey experiments to enter the chat

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 2d

NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is.

Very proud of my pal’s public work.

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The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion

After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Kelly: "You gotta remember in Trump's big legislation they added $4t to the debt to give a big tax cut for wealthy people on the backs of the American people & what their healthcare costs. That's why these [subsidies] have gone away. They didn't want it to be $6t. They wanted it to just be $4t."

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Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @tonysomo.bsky.social · 3h

See farmers, he’s just like you.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3h

This is true—Bessent owns $25 million of farmland in North Dakota—and a reminder of why farm bailouts are nothing more than a giveaway to feudal lords who demand the government grossly distort agricultural economics to make their tax haven "farms" even more valuable to them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."

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Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @tonysomo.bsky.social · 3h

“Terrible things are happening…”.
And WE all know it.
And we continue to patronize the corporations like Amazon, etc that help to make it all possible.
A General Strike as has been pointed out may hurt poorer folks but focused boycotts can make a difference.
We learned nothing from Kimmel/Disney!

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14h

ACLU reporting that “several of the 6 women detained at South Louisiana ICE Center in Basile, LA, & Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA were pregnant & have miscarried while in custody.”

0 outrage from MAGAs about these fetuses. They were never about life. They are only about control of women.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

Prodding everyone to look up Scott Bessent’s wealth. 🤡

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."

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