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Chris

@chrismatic.bsky.social

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🇺🇦🌻Amateur astrophotographer, immature TTRPG gamer with The AARPG Podast, science enthusiast. I voted for her, and also her. I stand with Ukraine. Formerly @speerwerfer on the bird site circling the drain.

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Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 3d

I'll have you know I just bought one of yours! Kitties gonna get fed and high tonight!

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Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 4d

Right? It's so exhausting.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 7d

Hahaha, yes!! OMG, I had forgotten all about it...

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 9d

Pissin' me off that all these good people keep getting called up but we're stuck with mango Mussolini still.

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Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 9d

And probably illegal.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 13d

Man, them 2A fanatics worried about an authoritarian government sure are super quiet these days.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 15d

Republicans have yet to find an unjust law they didn't like.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 15d

We should be seeing Dem ads of ICE raids everywhere, saying "does this look like America to you?"

C'mon, @democrats.org these are easy layups.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 15d

People should start reporting every ICE agent's families as possible illegals.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 16d

My wife and I just got back from the horrors of southeast DC. It was terrible. We walked hand in hand, and had ice cream, and everyone was friendly. The most difficult part was deciding between Korean, Peruvian, Salvadorean, or diner food.

Such a warzone, these blue cities. I will never understand.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 16d

Hey, you idiots normalized and sane washed and both-sides'd this guy into power, utterly abrogating your responsibilities as serious journalists.

The paper should be reporting GOP lies NONSTOP, but here we are.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 18d

And, ultimately, it will be because he doesn't hate the right people ENOUGH.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 19d

You get it.

It's meaningless posturing.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 19d

Same. Like, how are these people so scared of everything?

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 19d

"you're not even getting PAID to violate the constitution. You MUST just be a Nazi."

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 19d

Ted Cruz: "How about we all come together and say let's stop attacking pedophiles?"

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Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 19d

Wow, I see the one revered @washingtonpost.com has just completely sold out. What an atrociously disingenuous line.

What about the Republicans blocking the Dem bill?

You're a disgrace to the legacy.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 22d

Perhaps the NYT doesn't know what the word "memoir" means?

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 23d

An actual journalist should try and follow up with these idiots...

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 24d

Assumptions take us bad places.

People are always worth attempting to educate. It's when they refuse that it's not worth the bother.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 24d

Dem purity testing is also absolutely a problem, but it's borne of the same sentiment. "These Dems aren't good enough" while Republicans say "let's vote for every Republican, and deal with the purity when we win."

Hammer the Republicans the way they hammer everyone to the left of Ronald Reagan.

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 24d

You say it is obvious, but to a shockingly large number of politically uninvolved, indifferent, or otherwise uninformed, it very much is not. Even amongst those who experience harm by the GOP firsthand say "both sides are equally bad/two sides of the same coin."

Even though they definitely are not

Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 25d

Both sides are far from perfect, but one side is "I speed and jaywalk and shoplift gum" while the other side is "I steal from kids with cancer and take food from the hungry and make seniors paupers and vets homeless and bathe in the blood of schoolkids cmfor campaign money." Phrasing matters.

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Chris @chrismatic.bsky.social · 25d

Well so even if all the Dems voted against, the nomination still would have passed. Saying "the congress" instead of "the Republicans" pushes the narrative that both sides are equally bad, when the responsibility lies wholly on the GOP.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 26d

SEVEN YEARS ago, Deadspin produced this mashup of dozens of #Sinclair affiliates regurgitating identical scripts.

It has only gotten worse.

This is why we're targeting advertisers on their stations. Demand they uphold #1A by suspending ads until they air #Kimmel.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHf...

Sinclair's Soldiers in Trump's War on Media

YouTube video by Deadspin

www.youtube.com

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