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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d
Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer. A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising qz.com/tgt-wmt-earn...
Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer
A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising
qz.com
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 2h
RJ Matson presents Eau de Trump
Eau de Trump
A cartoon by RJ Matson
contrarian.substack.com
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2h
"Patriotism is loving your country all the time, and your government...when it deserves it."

-Mark Twain
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 5h
"Bury him face down." This barn burner of an obit might feel hyperbolic to people who entered the world in the wake of 9/11; it's not. Cheney was one of the architects of today's American Christian conservatism. He was directly responsible for millions of deaths. Salt the earth where he's buried.
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blessedhawk70.bsky.social @blessedhawk70.bsky.social · 8h
Kind of ironic, really, that the creator of DILBERT - who was a Trump booster (and a wacko to boot) - has to beg for help like this.

The leopards continue to eat faces.
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blessedhawk70.bsky.social @blessedhawk70.bsky.social · 8h
STAR WARS: GENESIS is actually shaping up to be a pretty good total conversion mod for STARFIELD. It may be worth buying that game just to play it!

genesismodlist.com
Star Wars Genesis
A Total Conversion Modlist for the game Starfield
genesismodlist.com
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12h
TODAY: Don't BOO... VOTE! ✅

CA: YES on PROP 50 ✅You poke the Bear, the Bear bites back!

NJ: MIKIE SHERRILL for GOV. ✅

VA: ABIGAIL SPANBERGER for GOV. ✅
GHAZALA HASHMI for Lt. GOV. ✅

Let's All Stick Together & #StickItTo_tRUMP!!!!!
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 1d
U.S. Steel. Nvidia. Intel. Westinghouse. By squeezing one company after another, Trump "is literally seizing the means of production," writes @jvl.bsky.social.

He's "a socialist...trying to make the American economy function more like Communist China." And all the while calling Mamdani a communist.
Donald Trump Is a Commie
Bernie’s democratic socialism is still compatible with liberal democracy. Trump’s national socialism is not. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
www.thebulwark.com
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d
There is ample historical, political, and economic research about policies that help combat fascism.

Are Democratic Party leaders promoting these policies? No. You know who is? Democratic Socialists.

And—again—these used to be policies that fit VERY comfortably within the Democratic Party tent.
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d
“What is needed is anti-fascist economic policy—an economic policy that offers a solution to socioeconomic decline and can ease people’s fears about the future. We need a concrete, democratic alternative to the status quo.”

#MustRead by @isabellamweber.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
To Defeat the Far Right, We Must Adopt an Anti-Fascist Economic Policy
Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für Deutschland.
www.thenation.com
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
Data from ICE shows that none of its agents have ever been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s more than two-decade history.
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 1d
60 Minutes Removes Trump’s Threat to ‘Walk Away’ from Interview During Corruption Questioning

www.mediaite.com/media/tv/60-...
60 Minutes Removes Trump’s Threat to ‘Walk Away’ from Interview During Corruption Questioning
Trump threatened to leave his interview with 60 Minutes' Norah O'Donnell, which was not only omitted from broadcast, but also the extended version release.
www.mediaite.com
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 4d
Does lead exposure make you a MAGA Republican? A non-controlled N=1 investigative study
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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 1d
It's not a coincidence that the loudest doomers are low-info lefties who want fascism but leftistly.
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 1d
NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 2d
After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 2d
JD Vance’s couch watching that Erika Kirk hug
A discarded love seat that looks shocked
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blessedhawk70.bsky.social @blessedhawk70.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks for bringing this one up. I was about to.🙂
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Sooner or later, someone is going to respond to one of these ICE goons by returning the violence and it's not going to end well -- not for the goon, not for the victim, not for any of us.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
Steven Lockjaw???
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d
Col Steven Lockjaw, or the man who served as his model, Greg Bovino, has videographers from DHS's Office of Public Affairs following him around Chicagoland, with the purpose of creating propaganda. Because everything he does is designed to entertain the MAGA base.
Creating Content in Broadview
Tear gas looks cool as hell on camera
www.turtlediaries.net
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2d
The moment Trump dies, this will be the sum total of the GOP. It took them 60 years, but the Dixiecrats finally took over the entire party.
wajali.bsky.social Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d
America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling
The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.
www.theatlantic.com
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d
I hope this is the start of something big for Democrats‼️

NEW: Barack Obama personally called Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner for NYC mayor, to praise his campaign and offer to be a “sounding board.”

Democrats, take notes…
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 3d
Democratic policies are much more popular policies than Republicans. But because they have little advocacy infrastructure, the public generally doesn't know that it agrees with Democrats.

Messages and policies don't matter if they can't be heard.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.

The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!

The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
It is completely obvious that the party lost in 2024 because it overcommitted to a range of unpopular left-wing positions, some of which yielded disastrous policy results (like the Biden migration wave) while others merely persuaded constituencies that had voted Democratic in the past (like blue-collar Midwesterners or culturally conservative Latino men) that the party now cared more about climate change In poll after poll, Americans have said that they know little to nothing about the IRA, with the most recent poll, out in April 2024, finding that 4 in 10 people say that they don’t know enough about the law’s provisions to have an opinion on them. At the same time, a July 2023 Data for Progress poll found that large numbers of Americans support provisions in the IRA when asked specifically about them, including tax credits for businesses that produce clean electricity, electric vehicles, and new clean energy technologies (69%); rebates up to $14,000 per household to improve home energy efficiency (71%); and ramping up production of American-made clean energy technologies (73%). And perhaps most significantly, support for these key IRA provisions has grown over time among all likely voters, especially Republican voters.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 4d
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 3d
can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence
Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement
progressivegrocer.com
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