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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 57m

Really seems like a thing that a consortium of blue states could set up in exile, maybe with corporate donation help.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

chat is it good to alienate federal workers just before a DMV election

Dallas Marcella @dallasmarcella.bsky.social · 19h

The DMV economy is going to really suffer this month huh

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Lee Harveryscary @valleyguitarist.bsky.social · 4h

People say snake oil salesperson derogatorily but it's actually a really difficult job, because so few people have snakes that require lubricaction

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

There is something reassuringly wholesome about contraptions in this era of data centres and AI slop.

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Riding a bike is one of the few
activities left to modern man that gives the experience of operating a contraption, rather than a gadget or a
gizmo

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 15h

In fairness to the hogs, I’d be pretty hyped too if I was a Canadian swine and heard there was an entire country down south ran by pigs.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

Fingers crossed we never have to deal with the US hog/Canadian hog mix:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 8h

When the Kadoories relocated to Hong Kong from Shanghai in 1949, one of their big projects was the Agricultural Aid Association, which worked with small farmers in the New Territories to improve their yields and livelihoods. One of their initiatives was importing new strains of Australian pigs.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

China raises so many pigs that pork is the #1 meat worldwide even though like a quarter of people are religiously prohibited from eating it

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

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Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

the day that it finally happens is gonna be surreal because the way they report it will be fucking deranged

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 9h

You know what might have helped, senators? People to help you enforce your legal authority

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 9h

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog is all of us! 🐸✊🏼

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 10h

It's funny because even my most libertarian friends will agree that monitoring infectious disease outbreaks is one of the few things you need a government for and can't really privatize, and these guys just want to burn it all down, anyway.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 21h

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 22h

This is the correct take, by the way. Why I have come around to some form of a wealth tax is not because I fantasise that it can pay for the government programs I want (it won’t) or moral disgust at wealth (don’t care), but because of very rich people using their money to warp the body politic

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22h

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20h

one sort of interesting contradiction here is that a lot of this policy/political goal could be accomplished with progressive taxation on political spending specifically, and not caring if they spent the money on a yacht. But that runs into 1A issues, while just taking it away doesn’t.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 22h

This is the correct take, by the way. Why I have come around to some form of a wealth tax is not because I fantasise that it can pay for the government programs I want (it won’t) or moral disgust at wealth (don’t care), but because of very rich people using their money to warp the body politic

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22h

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 16h

On the one hand this would be good because anything that breaks the power of MAGA and its gestalt Evangelical Christian religious wing is good. On the other, how well will the liberal Christians play with non-Christians? I did not become an apostate to be dragged back to the Church by "liberals."

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

it'd be funny if Trump II gave us the rebirth of the social gospel and a woke Great Awakening

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 16h

I have friends (of christ) everywhere

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 9h

Reality moves much slower than social media, but social media updates its priors even slower.

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EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 1d

Keep Portland Frog

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13h

Someone who is good at the regime consolidation help me budget this

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h

chat I'm not sure they're thinking things through

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Congress erupts at Trump's shutdown mass firings: "This is a disaster"

Democrats are warning that Trump officials who carry out the layoffs could be prosecuted.

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Chris Mooney @chriskmooney.bsky.social · 19h

Me texting my fiancé (a doctor) at work asking what she wants from comic con

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

one interesting thing about the elite capitulation to trump is that it started to happen long before he actually became president. like around when chris rufo became the new york times' assignment editor, in 2022.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 12h

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19h

god i wish

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

this is fundamentally the problem with ross barkanism

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

i don't think there's any way to productively use them. "win a majority and appoint judges who will mulch those powers immediately" is, i think, the ideal outcome.

depose schumer @glosson.bsky.social · 12h

"how will you leverage the extreme powers that the Roberts court has given to the president in order to ruthlessly address the supreme court's illegitimacy crisis?"

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