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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 1h

I love how "I dunno, we might run in the next primary against him" is positioned as some sort of coup attempt lol

Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 6h

"our new business model at USA Today is asking people to pay for the paper when they check in at Hampton inn" lmao

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 8h

GOP: haha kids will be kids, ah you can't hold this 40 year old lawyer accountable for loving Hitler, that's just being edgy! Gas chambers, it's just jokes people!

GOP: WHAT? YOU QUOTED CHARLIE KIRK IN A WAY THAT MADE HIM LOOK BAD AFTER HE DIED ... DEPORTATION!

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 7h

surely a coincidence that this is coming out after schumer's hand-picked candidate with full DSCC backing jumped in the race. crazy how that happens and not a reflection of how quickly the party can mobilize when they want something done.

CNN @cnn.com · 9h

A Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising Democratic Senate candidate once called himself a “communist,” dismissed “all” police as bastards, and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts seen by CNN. https://cnn.it/47sXon6

‘I got older and became a communist': Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful's raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

www.cnn.com

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The Last Bastion... @twainspatriot.bsky.social · 1d

The Republican coalition has shrunk itself into a corner, where they can’t afford to lose any element of it— no matter how corrupt or detestable they may be.

The rest of us should see that as a weakness to exploit, and act accordingly.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance’s unwillingness to condemn the Nazi GOP groupchat provides the press corps yet another opportunity to probe his personal associations, and take note of how the whole administration exists to please them and make sadistic content go viral. www.offmessage.net/p/governing-...

Governing For The Gram

Republicans are obsessed with finding non-existent connections between Democrats and "the violent left" Meanwhile...

www.offmessage.net

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 1d

sports fans respect:
1) hardcore fans of their team
2) hardcore fans of other teams, including their rivals
3) people not into sports
1,502) people who transparently try to pander or avoid saying anything

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Sowing in the modern attention economy? Hell yeah.

Reaping in the modern attention economy? Fuck. What the fuck.

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

the entire conservative project these days is built off of making it illegal to dislike them or say rude things about them even in private

it is not enough to be in charge, or even feared, they must be adored

or else

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

maybe reporters should take another look at some of the people the vice president of the united states follows on twitter and the things they say in public

just saying

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1d

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

cancel culture was a desperate rearguard action in defense of shared norms whose obsolescence was revealed via the backlash to cancel culture.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 1d

Same. I think he wants it, I don't think PSU is that crazy/stupid to pull that lever on the slot machine

Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 1d

He's not near the top of mine, but wouldn't Meyer or someone not currently coaching be the highest floor for 26 because they could start early? (Meyer is also not high on my list)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

read: Vance is also saying Nazi shit in group chats bsky.app/profile/radl...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

Having sex with some weird person you took a liking to is your business. Having sex with a source for a story and not disclosing it to your editor is something else entirely.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 1d

actual lol

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 2d

How many customers are they driving away by making them run the gauntlet of chatbots that cannot solve their problems?

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 2d

This is exactly what I was very wary of the "no, Mills in the primary is good! Competition is good!" stuff

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

I had planned to stay out of the Maine Senate race for a while and respectfully consider the competing visions of both major candidates.

But I can’t do that now.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

I had planned to stay out of the Maine Senate race for a while and respectfully consider the competing visions of both major candidates.

But I can’t do that now.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

It is wildly inappropriate for the DSCC to jump into a competitive primary in such a brazen and shameless way, eight months before voters go to the polls.

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