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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 2h

I'm also tickled by the notion that "anticommunism" is the "core of fascism." I think there might be a lot more to it, but I'm no tankie.

Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 5h

What is the plan when Dems win the House midterm by 5+ points and are still locked into the minority?

Or is there a plan?

Four years for the regime to consolidate power without any oversight. That's ballgame, and it's not something Dems even have concepts of a plan to address.

We're cooked.

Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 5h

Do we have time to act? My understanding is that we do not. To counter a Southern gerrymander would require redistricting various Blue States that have constitutional amendments that would delay any changes until well after 2026.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 9h

If the Supreme Court is going to hear a case from Lousiana about the Voting Rights Act, you’ve got to have a second line.

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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly what I fear.

They'll gerrymander New Orleans – an overwhelming Democratic city – so that Louisiana has zero Democratic districts.

Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 10h

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/upshot/supreme-court-voting-rights-gerrymander.html?smid=url-share

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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 10h

Where is Jake Tapper? Where are all the media and foreign policy elites who howled with indignation when Biden was not able to exfiltrate all of our Afghani partners? Where is the outage over the betrayal of America's credibility?

Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 12h

And Kansas looks nothing like Los Angeles

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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 15h

You did such a good job making the sponsored message entertaining, Rob. They owe you a bonus!

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CB @christopherburns.bsky.social · 1d

The heart of Covid occasionally feeling like the good ol’ days really doesn’t speak well for our current situation.

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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 1d

Your initial extension of a presumption of good faith to Dem Inc (and Mills) was unwarranted, as many of us insisted at the time. This type of shit is part of the reason the US is now a consolidating fascist dictatorship. Dem Inc must be dismantled.

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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 1d

It also serves as an additional source of (prestige!) wingnut welfare.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

A notice from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.

Will run in newspapers across the nation.

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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 2d

The great irony (inshallah) will be when the anti-MAGA liberal backlash is so extreme that we finally become the Marxists we've always been accused of being by expropriaring every single cent that our depraved oligarchs are currently hoarding.

Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 2d

I thought they would have saved this "bombshell" for the next Democratic administration. Perhaps they still will!

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 3d

“Alito has the opinion”

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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