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Allyn Gibson @allyngibson.bsky.social · 1h

I voted for Joe Khan in the Attorney General primary last year. I didn't know who he was, but his campaign sent out a Superman-themed mailer, and that decided it for me.

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 8h

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

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Allyn Gibson @allyngibson.bsky.social · 1h

In the cold light of morning, I'm still kinda agog that Spanberger won rural Nelson County

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10h

Every race. It’s basically been every race.

Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.

Just everything.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12h

So I feel like the obvious GOP strategic choice now is, "outrage wave is real, so find a way to fold on the shutdown and give back those ACA subsidies to blunt the wave."

And what they'll actually do is send ICE to invade NYC and N.Va, which will backfire spectacularly.

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 12h

absolute bloodbath for Republicans. One easy takeaway: maybe don't send Virginia specifically sliding towards a recession if you're hoping to win there

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 13h

My professional political opinion is that people who want to stay in power should not take glee in their constituents losing jobs and children going hungry.

Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 13h

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

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Amy Mebberson @amymebberson.bsky.social · 12h

Zoran’s win is a sign. It’s a manifestation of the will of the people, saying ‘no more bullshit.’ We’re sick of the establishment ‘left’ that every other first world democracy would consider center-right.
Do you want cool shit like Canada/Australia have? Elect more people like AOC & Zoran.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Jun 25

It's always amazing to me how American politics vilifies someone like Mamdani or AOC for their outrageous, dangerous, socialist takes, and meanwhile in Canada there are candidates like them in every election, anywhere. It really is okay to care about people and the world you're building together

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Allyn Gibson @allyngibson.bsky.social · 14h

I think my spine would pop out of place if I tried to turn like that Greg Land cover.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 18h

Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

Reporter: Today is election day in New York City. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: Look, I voted. And I look forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

In Chicago, DHS refused to pause the raids and arrests so kids could go trick-or-treating without the risk of getting tear-gassed or subjected to violence.

Meanwhile, DHS agents in Los Angeles celebrated the holiday by conducting raids while wearing horror movie masks.

Sadism as public policy.

We Asked DHS if Federal Agents Wore Horror Masks on Raids. They Responded ‘Happy Halloween! ~ L.A. TACO

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols, who snapped the photo of the ...

lataco.com

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 21h

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies

As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

www.thenation.com

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Allyn Gibson @allyngibson.bsky.social · 21h

If Henry did not die before 1902, then this is his grave in Baltimore. It's the flat stone at the front with the flag (which I left). Henry and his wife Helen are there, and the two identical sons in the background are their two sons, both of whom died within a month of turning 21. :(

Grave of Henry Hardy and family in Baltimore's Loudon Park Cemetery. The front stone I call a "railroad tie" -- it's flat and thin and long and has no useful information on it, except that it says "Henry Hardy." In the background are two identical stones for Henry and Helen's two sons, Thomas (left), died June 26, 1907; John (right), died June 5, 1909. As mentioned in the post, both were within a month of turning 21; Thomas died nine days after his birthday, John thirty. Downhill and maybe twenty yards to the right well outside thid image is a daughter, Mary Kyle, who lived in the 1940s and had a few children.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

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William Leisner @wleisner.bsky.social · 1d

I've decided to retroactively switch 10 million votes from Trump to Harris. (This works, right?)

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has retroactively appointed former Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan as a "special attorney" for DOJ and has "ratified" all of her actions to date, including her presentations to the grand juries that indicted Trump's foes.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3d

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

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Allyn Gibson @allyngibson.bsky.social · 1d

IIRC he would have died at 60 or 61.

My mother's cousin remembers her father talking about how her grandfather (ie., my great-grandfather Allyn) would speak on the phone in German to someone named Henry.

This was a century after my German ancestor arrived.

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Allyn Gibson @allyngibson.bsky.social · 1d

I like Matt Wagner's Grendel, but good lord, I would not give out Grendel comics at Halloween!

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 1d

A retailer in Sunset Beach. North Carolina has been arrested and charged with a felony after giving out a comic that contained male nudity

North Carolina retailer arrested after giving out comics for Halloween

A retailer in Sunset Beach. North Carolina has been arrested and charged with a felony after giving out a comic that contained male nudity

www.comicsbeat.com

Allyn Gibson @allyngibson.bsky.social · 1d

Was fixing my computer this simple?

My Wifi and Bluetooth could not walk and chew gum at the same time; my 'net connection is Wifi and my speakers are Bluetooth, and when both were active my speakers would frquently cut out.

I changed the Wifi to the 5ghz band, and now all is good.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 1d

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

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Allyn Gibson @allyngibson.bsky.social · 2d

I remember when that Wilburys album came out. That was, what, ten years ago? Fifteen? Where's my cane? :)

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