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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 2h

If the CA National Guard showed up in a small Southern town, pointed guns at people, and started stealing neighbors off the street, they damn well would riot.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 2h

Like any other map in America... Obesity, literacy... etc. Overlap with Bible belt, correlation, or causation?

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 2h

In the end, these things are always about a fear of labor gaining power and leverage over capital

Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 2h

Not only that, but he is proven that he will hurt them anyway even if they cooperate.

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 3h

It's obvious you've already made up your mind, but for others here they should check out the statements where Platner disagrees with Fetterman on key issues.

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 3h

I suggest everyone concerned with this look up his public statements on why he left

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 3h

Damn right

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 5h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22h

Rome might not use those words but Rome has thrown open the door to them being used, and clearly backs them. Think about that.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23h

Huge mistake by Trump to let the 4'10 freak Stephen Miller take center stage during his Presidency. The more people hear and see from Mini Himmler the more they are repulsed. Plus the ICE raids are horrific and inhumane.

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 22h

I think it's also hard to put out innovative legal ideas when the cases they're given force them to argue that current well established precedents are correct and the majority is either out of their gd minds or blatantly partisan.

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 23h

It's wild watching the GOP blatantly do exactly what they accused the "woke left" of doing in secret

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of the blame here falls on the Democratic Party, which is (to use a technical term) mad up of pathetic lily-livered cowards who tremble uncontrollably in fear at the idea of any kind of public confrontation with the Trump administration on any issue beyond a self-selected Dull Policy Dispute.

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

I've never understood why the answer to a question like this isn't, "I don't feel the need to check out the genitalia under other people's clothing."

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

This, and they assumed they'd be protected by their whiteness from anything Trump might do

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

Or even just third places that don't require money to inhabit and aren't overrun by either a drug market or a tent city.

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

These people are just silly. If the US could dominate the world economy with 1/3 of the people China then why couldn't China do the same?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

China is experiencing a population decline on a scale and at a speed the world has never seen.

The impact could hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.

China’s demographic crisis means it’s going to run out of workers

China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely think one of the best ways to fight fascism in the US would be guarantee everyone at least a small safe place to sleep and keep their stuff without being harassed about their sexual and drug habits.

Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

People need to start realizing that when conservatives think crime is high, what they're really mad about is having to look at the homeless

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Billionaire Marc Benioff built a tower that dominates the San Francisco skyline like a giant dick. Apparently he aspires to be a giant dick himself. Crime is way down in San Francisco. No need for Trump to send troops and spread authoritarianism.

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

It's probably their way of encouraging use of bikes and public transportation

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

Every Trader Joes shopped at across 3 states has been the same way.

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Sandy James @sandyjamesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

Trump already sold us out to China. They are just haggling on price at this point

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

People need to start realizing that when conservatives think crime is high, what they're really mad about is having to look at the homeless

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Billionaire Marc Benioff built a tower that dominates the San Francisco skyline like a giant dick. Apparently he aspires to be a giant dick himself. Crime is way down in San Francisco. No need for Trump to send troops and spread authoritarianism.

Salesforce Tower, visible all over San Francisco and known affectionately as the giant penis.

NYT headline

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services. Now he’s fully behind Donald Trump

Table of crime rate change from 2024 to 2025 in a number of American cities. San Francisco dropped 14% in violent crime and 29% in property crime.

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

The South is about to start learning why all those northern labor laws their employers are ran away from over the last 40 years exist

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Breaking news: Investigators do not expect to find any survivors after a munitions plant in rural Tennessee exploded Friday morning, leaving more than a dozen people unaccounted for.

Authorities expect no survivors after Tennessee plant explosion left 18 missing

“Anyone that was inside that building ... we can assume that they are deceased at this point,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said Saturday.

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 1d

GOP voters are going to start realizing that these actions are hurting the "wrong" people and start putting pressure on them

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