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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 13h

Tim Walz wanted to plainly call these guys weird but Kamala's Uber lobbyist brother in law muzzled him so they could do more rallies with Liz Cheney

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 19h

"No billionaires" needs to be at the top of any respectable 2028 Democratic candidate's agenda

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Is this anyone else's experience watching the NFL on Thursdays or is it just me

Mickey Mouse with a caved in head and text reading: "Amazon streaming Thursday Night Football" above an image of an unbelievably swole Mickey Mouse doing bicep curls with text reading "Amazon streaming the fucking ads"

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

I had a feeling I was gonna regret not starting Wan'dale Robinson on my fantasy team this week

Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

From what I'm reading she filed a complaint, then retracted it, then filed a complaint about the complaint that was filed? And there's an investigation but there's no investigation?

Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Hayes' guest intros are so funny

This is Ben Rhodes, he worked in the Obama administration as deputy national security advisor, and this is Jason Stanley, a professor at the University of Toronto,

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine the pressure of being Letitia James' defense lawyer. Just getting a call at 10 PM and your defendant being like "you need a lil help with that motion to dismiss or are you good"

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Regardless of how you feel about Lil Wayne he is undoubtedly one of the most creative lyricists alive. "Real G's move in silence like lasagna" is an incredible line and he's got a million more

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 2d

He really loves being the new Kyrsten Sinema, can't wait for him to get kicked to the curb in the 2028 primary

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 2d

Should bosses be nice to workers? Yes. But anyone who's worked in politics knows that most candidates will just as soon cuss you out as look at you

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 2d

That depends on your definition of a "vanity candidate," as I think there are going to be tons of people running the Democratic nomination in 2028 who have no chance of winning but who the establishment gushes over like Andy Beshear and Pete Buttigieg

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 2d

Keep going NYT I bet if you just publish one more bad faith right wing take then the worst people in America will finally stop calling you communist pedophiles

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 2d

I gotta say it is Very Cool And Good that badly informed right wingers with horrific values who are incapable of not arguing in bad faith will always have a home on the op-ed page of the leading national newspaper of record

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 2d

if your starting position is that integrating schools went Too Far, then yes, it's unsurprising that you think that what Hegseth said was "pretty good"

But the military of the 2020s has been as overburdened by the imperatives of progressivism as schools were by the duties of racial integration in the 1970s. And if, as Mr. Hegseth argues, the hallmark of the military is not order and hierarchy but the taking and saving of lives, then it is the wrong place for such experiments in the first place.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 2d

It takes an act of Congress to formally change the name of a federal agency. This is just a bitch-ass move from CNN's editors to voluntarily accept Trump's preferred name

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2d

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 2d

"But if we shut down the puppy burning machine then there won't be a giant machine to burn puppies"

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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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 3d

As a flood insurance adjuster I can tell you that coastal residents have NO IDEA how lucky they are we haven't had a major landfall storm yet this hurricane season. Because during a shutdown there won't be anybody at NFIP/FEMA to help insureds get paid from their claims

Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! @mollyjongfast.bsky.social please support local journalists

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 3d

Department chair / tenured professor / grad student lecturer

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d

Associate Professor / Full Professor / Assistant Professor

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 3d

I've read about that in Jack Reacher books, seems like a legit way to seriously maim if not kiII someone

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 3d

Marines are also scary af, last weekend I met a member of the USMC honor guard at a friend's funeral and while he was all smiles and professionalism, I knew from the moment I shook his hand and looked in his eyes that he had superhuman levels of strength and speed and could kill me in 67 diff ways

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 3d

Given that she literally thought a twitter account called "official Antifa" was real, I'm not optimistic. Her mediocrity is beyond comprehension x.com/bariweiss/st...

Bari Weiss on X: "I had missed @CraigSilverman's reporting on fake Antifa Twitter accounts and mistakenly linked to one in my piece. Mea culpa. The story has been corrected. https://t.co/hshV5HeP4m" / X

I had missed @CraigSilverman's reporting on fake Antifa Twitter accounts and mistakenly linked to one in my piece. Mea culpa. The story has been corrected. https://t.co/hshV5HeP4m

x.com

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