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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 40m

The Switch was an attempt to escape history, but the house always wins.

Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 41m

This is nothing new, this is just “The First White President.” But “The First White President” remains the best thing ever written about Donald Trump.

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 41m

Everything about the present era is a reaction formation against Barack Obama. There have been zero degrees of freedom since Barack Obama’s administration. American history has been overdetermined by the Obama decade and may well continue to be for some time.

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 44m

I am so obsessed with Barack Obama. Incredible that the most important eight years of my life felt so normal.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Nov 24

If grocery prices had gone down or voters started saying they trusted Harris on grocery prices, the result would not be Harris walking away with the election but the media choosing in a different bad-for-Harris economic issue as the number one issue of the campaign.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Nov 24

A way I can tell this is the case is that the Democrats responded pretty comprehensively to "is the president old" being the number one issue of the campaign and the result was that the issue disappeared from all coverage once that was the case.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 48m

(not ACTUALLY triggered but wow do I recognize this line of descriptions).

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 49m

Well this was painfully specific. I am, as the youths say, triggered.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 53m

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 53m

Consider there may also be a nonzero degree of difference of opinion re: the impact of the 2026 midterm elections.

I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 11h

Look I'm sorry if you're cheering on taking healthcare from 10s of millions of people, something that will literally kill hundreds of thousands, because you think it'll goose Dems' chances in the midterms, you need to log the fuck off & ask yourself what happened to turn you into a craven monster.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

Picking on Black women who had to claw their way through NYC machine politics to get to their positions is just not going to work out for old white senile fascists. That's all I will say on that.

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 9h

So, the president of the United States casually mentioned that he took away free speech. Just in case you missed that.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 9h

Some people find his lyrics sort of goofy and convoluted but he wrote As, so.

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 9h

Stevie Wonder.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3d

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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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 9h

To be fair, imperial free cities are basically the only way to make an upper chamber like ours not suck.

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 9h

@governor.ca.gov, what better way to celebrate California hitting a clean energy milestone than to sign SB 79, which legalizes more apartments near public transit!

letting more folks live within walking distance of existing public transit is one of the best things we can do to combat climate change

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 9h

“We’ll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs” like Obamacare? Like Social Security? Like Medicaid and Medicare? Like CHIP that allows expecting mothers to give birth safely without bankrupting new families? Like those programs, all of which were brought to us by Democrats?

Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 9h

The flapping fascist maw:

"We will be making cuts that will be permanent, and we're only going to cut Democrat Programs I hate to tell you..."

"We'll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs that aren't very popular with republicans frankly because that's the way it works"

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23h

CHI OSSE SAVE US
SAVE US CHI OSSE

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23h

I will actually find money somewhere we need to scare the shit out of Jeffries even if we can't beat him

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

Not for nothing but if you're high profile and need to flee the US, don't tell anyone in advance. It's also most certainly better to leave via a smaller land border crossing and catch your flight from Canada or Mexico. Much less ability for the feds to prevent you from leaving that way.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 10h

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 9h

And we need to do exactly that when we take power again!

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 9h

Like yeah you do have to care about Black people in Birmingham even tho Alabama is a fashy state bc like… Alabama built its fascism on oppressing the Black people in Birmingham. But also there are creative ways by which to take power away from fashy state gov’ts and empower normal cities.

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