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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 21h

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 7h

We live in a world infected with the overuse of unnecessary hyperbole that inevitably creates the opposite of the intended effect one is trying to emphasize, which is incredibly disappointing because you could literally build a little free library using my boner for this as a hammer right now

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 8h

They FINALLY put out a trailer for the James Garfield assassination show. And it looks good!
youtu.be/6jopqrSojQE?...

Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11h

An unspoken but huge problem in the courts right now is Alito and Thomas are both pretty old so every single judge Trump ever appointed now considers any hearing they participate in as a possible audition

Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 12h

Two Trump judges (Nelson, Bade) on 9th circuit panel really trying to outperform each other in their eagerness to give Trump the ability to deploy the Guard to unwilling states based on events that occurred months earlier. Lotttt of beating up on Oregon's Judge Immergut, who blocked deployments

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Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli @ofwp.bsky.social · 1d

Rand Paul has on average shown more principle and backbone than John Fetterman. And Rand Paul is a real piece of shit.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

They appear to think “authentic” means “said things I like to hear,” well yes that is the purpose of image consultants, it was like 20% of the entire Gore 2000 campaign budget

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

I think my favorite moment of Kamala Harris’ authentic instinct to take the right action was when she just put out a book a fucking week ago where she admitted how she didn’t do that

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question to a handful of people in my replies: do you own a dictionary

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

A couple making $82k implies two people each making $41k a year, which is $7,000 below the average individual cost of living in the United States. You know what would help that a lot? Not needing to spend that seven grand on health insurance.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

I know I’m being That Guy™️ guy here but it’s wild how the Democratic talking point is “we want to keep your healthcare premiums at $500 a month” instead of wanting to make it, you know, zero.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

My brother in Christ if you’re a young, pregnant, American citizen who shows up at the hospital you won’t have to worry about paying at all because your party passed a bunch of bills that guarantee hospitals won’t even treat you anymore

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

It’s considered a “bad thing” in politics at least for Democrats, because Pritzger embodies the Republican talking point of how the party is beholden to elitists (coughJews) and his Chicago politics (coughBlack people).

Also, only Republicans are allowed to be fat.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, well this is not really a new discussion, half of left social media is pointing out the Democrats destroy themselves by insisting leadership is a hereditary entertainment. They gave a guy a committee ranking membership who died six months later because he was “next in line.”

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn’t matter anymore that Pritzker is an untelegenic billionaire, a thing that should make him political poison. Unless he’s the greatest actor of our generation, he appears genuinely serious about the threat to his constituency while Newsome is, again, good at tweeting.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

This is ironically, or perhaps hilariously, why Newsome is screwed, because it’s great that he’s doing funny tweets, but by its very nature it’s inauthentic. The real, serious politician Gavin Newsome is vetoing LGBT rights and losing every under 30 voter in America

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

I get that three years is eons away, but in a Zeitgeist vacuum is there anybody even close to looking like the leader of the Democrats than him, like imagine he does this for two more years and thinking everyone in Iowa then goes “yeah, Buttigieg seems cool”

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

What truly amazes me most about Pritzker is how long it took a Democrat to realize that if you simply did the right thing and kept doing it authentically, all you need to do is keep doing that and you’re going to become the president

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

asking people for permission to take their wallets would 'kill' the mugging industry, too

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

President Trump literally signed the law that says it’s not a choice.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

President Trump doesn't commit to back pay for furloughed federal workers when the government shutdown ends. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/46DIVEI

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

A year or so after they fired me they hired a plucky, 24 year old go getter to be their new editor to promote their deeply held ideals for the furtherment of progressive change in America's youth.

His name was Jesse Singal.

I'm going to stop talking about the Center for American Progress now

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

I fought like hell to publish an amazing roster of then-babies Matt, @mcfadden.bsky.social, Mikhaela Reid, and @jensorensen.bsky.social and devoted large percentages of my week to convincing editors their comics that week weren't "too partisan to violate our nonprofit status." College kids LOVE that

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

They also had a student oriented website focused on promoting progressive outreach and group support for colleges. The average viewer age was in the mid-50s. The only thing it did of any lasting cultural and political impact was hiring @mattbors.bsky.social and not paying him enough

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

They have a 501c4 branch (the non-tax exempt status for entities that can do direct partisan lobbying and activism), its most successful outlet from the website ThinkProgress which at one point was one of the ten largest news blogs on the internet. They shut it down six years ago because reasons

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who worked there, the reason CAP isn't trying is because they're not a liberal Heritage Foundation devoted to generational furtherment of liberal ideals. They were a 501c3 dedicated to making Hillary Clinton and possibly her daughter president and they catastrophically failed at it

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

The very well funded Center for American Progress has been in operation since 2004. The Democrats do not have “nothing” they’re just not trying.

LouFromBoston @loufromboston.bsky.social · 2d

The Republicans have a very well organized think-tank (Heritage Foundation) for strategizing and coordination of messaging. They control what we are seeing day to day.

The Democrats have nothing. No sense of leadership, no direction, no messaging. We need a think-tank asap!!

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

It's not a high bar but there are a handful of Republican Senators you could ostensibly refer to as "the smarter ones" and Kennedy is among them in realizing that no, these files aren't going to be stonewalled forever and it's going to get worse and worst for the people trying to keep doing that

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