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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 12h

a position held by a minority of GOP voters, but a majority of GOP electeds!

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 12h

AS: My opponent has also previously said that she thinks it’s okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay. That is discrimination.

WES: That’s not discrimination! (2/2)

igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 12h

imo its a sign of provincialism. in a way, American intelligentsia tends to be very provincial.

igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 13h

You don’t have to like a writer without being a dumbass about it.

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 13h

He’s making fun of lit Nobel winner because he think his style is inaccessible or pretentious

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 13h

Why are people such proud philistines? Like I can’t even imagine what spiritual poverty would force a person to proudly post a thing like this.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded
Nobel Prize in Literature
The prize committee said the Hungarian writer's work "reaffirms
the power of art."

His latest novel to appear in English is "Herscht 07769," published last year in the United States. The book, which unfolds in a single sentence, evokes fears about the rise of fascism in Europe, and imagines a graffiti cleaner in Germany who writes letters to Chancellor Angela Merkel to alert her to the world's impending destruction. It features only one period in its 400 pages.

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Dawn Humphrey @dhumph.bsky.social · 17h

It's government by the wealthy for the wealthy and the rest of of can suck it.

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 18h

An obscure IL congressman is planning a DCCC campaign that will gain House democrats 30+ seats. But we know nothing about that yet. Because it’s 2005 and it sucks.

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 18h

It’s 2005. All the swing states have just voted for GWB and passed constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. Things look really dark, but somewhere out there, a US senator from IL with a funny name is planning a far-fetched presidential campaign that will reset the political system.

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 18h

lol this is so early 2000s coded. very retro.

Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 19h

No, WaPo, we are not doing a repeat of creating social pressure for gay people to get straight married, and no, it's not, "redefining what it means to be in a relationship."

Also, could that kiss in the thumbnail be any more awkward?

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.

Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.

www.washingtonpost.com

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 21h

“UnHerd columnist”

bugs bunny from looney tunes is making a funny face with his mouth open and says no .

ALT: bugs bunny from looney tunes is making a funny face with his mouth open and says no .

media.tenor.com

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

Surpassing even Bernie Sanders’s own latent nativism, I do not believe there is a darker stain on 21st century progressive politics than this racist ogre or the people who supported him because he refused to dress appropriately for his station

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

Conor Lamb would not have done this shit

Consensus among both the Working Class Heroes of Pennsylvania and the deft online lefty politics knowers was that his vibes were too faggy

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

Even better, I’d prefer them to withdraw from public life and never utter another word affecting the public sphere since they’ve already done so much harm.

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

I know this is petty, but I want to hear anti-Trump people who were defending his candidacy to come out and say “I was wrong, this is wrong.”

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

Did Shadi write this op-ed lol?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

is dream of the nineties still alive in Portland?

a group of people are walking down a street and one man is wearing a top hat

ALT: a group of people are walking down a street and one man is wearing a top hat

media.tenor.com

igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

what’s the difference between a liturgist and a terrorist? you can negotiate with a terrorist! 🫣😵😇

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

♥️♥️♥️

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

And the new translation of the liturgy of the hours is completely abandoning even the simple common responses from “Glory to the Father…” for “Glory be to the Father…” etc.

igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

Omg so I have this whole pet peeve with churches abandoning the common liturgical texts efforts from the middle of 20th century. Catholics are especially bad at this since Liturgiam authenticam.

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

“There is no one who is righteous, not even one”!

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igor @ansellscow.bsky.social · 1d

this is the way! embrace consumerism (buying Bibles and prayer books that you’ll never use). tbf I do sometimes give them away!

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