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Tyler Mathiasen @tylermathiasen.bsky.social · 1h

What if, and hear me out, we have an election ahead of the general so that people registered with the party can choose who they want? We could call it a….a primary maybe?

Yes, would that work for everyone or is couch fainting and sowing division the more fun option?

Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 1h

ME's Senate field includes at least 3 plausible younger Democrats, most notably the viral populist oyster farmer Graham Platner, 41. Janet Mills is 77. Why are top Dems so set on her? So resistant to new blood? @danpfeiffer.bsky.social asks the right questions. www.messageboxnews.com/p/are-democr...

Are Democrats About to Blow It in Maine?

By backing Janet Mills over a grassroots outsider, party leaders may be repeating the same mistakes from 2024

www.messageboxnews.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2h

And who was President on January 6th? His idiocy is always dwarfed by his dishonesty.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

There is exceptionally little patience within the Democratic party at this moment for campaigns that are viewed as money sucks, vanity projects, or unnecessary risks. ICYMI @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Democrats Are Done With Vanity Candidates

Party insiders worry about running long-shots or no-shots who’ll drain money and energy.

www.thebulwark.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 15h

Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide:

Cærsten (@cara.city) posted:

"we didn't cause Nazism" dude Hitler based the Nuremberg Laws on the Jim Crow south and Lebensraum was partially inspired by the native genocide of the 19th century idk what to tell you
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Will Stancil‬ (@whstancil.bsky.social‬):

we didn’t cause Nazism. whatever caused incumbents to tank in 2024, it wasn’t unique to us. we aren’t uniquely corrupt, or violent, or authoritarian. there are good things and bad things about our country like any other, and Americans work a lot like people anywhere

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 19h

I have often found myself explaining this to people.

Blue state America is still close to the best place in the world to be trans. And that’s worth fighting for.

Emma-Rose DeLeon 🔞🏳️‍⚧️ 4HS Solis Year @emrosedeleon.bsky.social · 21h

Compared to every other option, the US is pretty damn good.

Especially for racial minorities and queers.

Europe, Canada and Mexico compete with us for average quality of life, but however bad it is for marginalized people in the US, it's worse almost everywhere else.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 21h

When Obama was president the right wing acted like masked government agents were coming to kidnap them and take all their rights away.

Then Republicans get elected and actually do that shit for real.

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Tyler Mathiasen @tylermathiasen.bsky.social · 1d

One of my all time favorite cities.

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Tyler Mathiasen @tylermathiasen.bsky.social · 1d

Even as a gay, it’s nice to get checked out by beautiful cougars in the gym.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1d

Reminder that NONE of these workers need to be fired because of this shutdown — Trump is just using them as pawns because he views people as expendable if it serves his interests.

Russ Vought @russvought
The RIFs have begun.

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 2d

We’re watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time.

This isn’t just silence—it’s complicity at the highest level.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Basically, the situation is that smart Americans rigged the entire world to prevent dumb Americans from tasting the fruits of their own incompetence, but didn’t count on the masses voting to eat the turd apple.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 1d

F these nazis.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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share chemo GFM link (Jules) @juleshghn.bsky.social · 8d

SOS CRISIS: EMERGENCY SURVIVAL FUND. Daily panic attacks are destroying me. I'm choosing between medication and food - life or death choices. Every day. Applying for roles from CX, admin, QA and customer service but getting destroyed by AI. Sharing means the world and everything counts. Cheers!

Donate to Help me get through a rough patch, organized by J H

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Tyler Mathiasen @tylermathiasen.bsky.social · 2d

He does love that musical and I can’t tell if it is because a satire about vapid fascist cosplayers is too subtle or not subtle at all.

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Tyler Mathiasen @tylermathiasen.bsky.social · 2d

Mark McCousinsAreParents is the “Dem whisperer? Are they all high?

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like we should see clips of Milei's concert in attack ads - just name anything he cut funding for and show Milei rocking out at his vanity performance when it comes to 'what did we use that money for instead?'

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly:

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Tyler Mathiasen @tylermathiasen.bsky.social · 2d

The maga right has basically subsumed the fringiest features of the new age left since Covid and I suppose it isn’t all that surprising.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Paves the way for the Monster Under the Bed Act

RepMTG:

The Sunshine State is getting it RIGHT! 🌞

Florida is shutting down dangerous weather modification and geoengineering schemes because our skies belong to the people, not globalist elites and their experiments.

Now it’s time to do the same nationwide. My Clear Skies Act will END chemical spraying, geoengineering, and weather manipulation across America for good.

No more tampering. No more lies. Just clear, God-given skies! 🇺🇸☀️
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🚨 BREAKING: Florida's airports are now closed to any weather modification and geoengineering activities under new state law, Florida AG says.

Tyler Mathiasen @tylermathiasen.bsky.social · 2d

Because Candace Owens commands an army of conspiracy brained zoomers and has the power to cleave the maga movement in two?

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Tyler Mathiasen @tylermathiasen.bsky.social · 2d

Look at these absolute queens.

Terrance @stickysweett.bsky.social · 2d

my teenage gay heart is so happy.
They look amazing 🤍✨

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Tyler Mathiasen @tylermathiasen.bsky.social · 2d

I need people to understand that the regime is failing badly and losing on many fronts, and that their behavior is likely to get more wreckless and insane as they lose more, but they are losing. Buckle up.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 2d

It’s why they’re desperately grabbing at power while they can.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

They are going to lose control of the country. They have the debased billionaire class, they have a small army of violent bigots. But they don’t have most Americans. They absolutely don’t have enough guys and they know it

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