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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 7h

Gen Z: “we are never touching that stove again”

Gen X: “I bet that stove has cooled down. I don’t need to check it, I’ll just place my hand flat on top of it again.”

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7h

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 8h

If a pardon happens and the President says he doesn't know anything about it, did it happen?

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 2h

After tomorrow, both the "national security moms" of the centrist wing of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Socialist-wing of the party, will have cause for celebration. 2026 is coming right up.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22h

Trump parties, he’s making a shitload of money for himself, he’s building golden bathrooms & ballrooms, all while the American people lose their jobs, lose their healthcare, & go hungry. Trump doesn’t give a damn. He thinks he’s untouchable. This piece.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

Exclusive: Trump Parties. The People Pay.

42 million lives were gambled by the Trump Administration. They're still at risk.

open.substack.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

Congratulations to the secret Democratic mole at Mar-a-Lago who suggested Trump hold a “Great Gatsby” themed party during a government shutdown just as food assistance was being suspended and federal employees were missing another paycheck. Masterfully done, sir.

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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 7h

As someone who has children in special education, this is an especially gut punching dehumanization. And with most everything Trump has done policy wise, lawless.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11h

The Trump administration has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children, Pepper Stetler argues. But this attack isn’t new—Congress has been weakening the transformative law that governs education for disabled students for decades:

The Slow Death of Special Education

The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children—if it ever had one.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

“The end of the liberal world order” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in conference rooms and lecture halls. But in war-ravaged Sudan, it’s a reality. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social traveled there and spoke with those who are living in this post-American world: https://theatln.tc/y99eBkQu

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 21h

Quick reminder that polls about voters’ intentions in an election that is more than a year away are almost completely meaningless.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h

NBC's new poll say the most important issue for deciding who to support for Congress is: "Protecting constitutional rights/protecting democracy."

If you agree, I suggest you subscribe the news outlet that focuses like a laser on just that. Sign up for Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16h

"If you want a picture of the future of war, imagine a guy jumping through a flaming hoop to assuage the masculinity-anxiety of his boss - forever."

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

Still of Dept of Defense video posted to X showing Pete Hegseth and a marine flipping a tire.

Post text:

Early morning PT with the Secretary of War. This is what READINESS looks like.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

I served proudly in the US military. But there is something so blasphemous, so idolatrous, so hubristic about identifying our own military power with God's will.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21h

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h

I very much think it does. I talked about this a bit in the middle section of this essay, including how obsessed with male bodies influencers like Bronze Age Pervert are.

www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

These people hate Christianity much more than the most vehement atheist.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21h

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 12h

Every day of the week

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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone go rediscover Juan Linz's 1990 paper: "The Perils of Presidentialism"

www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...

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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 13h

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More importantly, money plays far less of a role in proportional parliamentary elections. Mostly this is due to very different incentives of membership based multiparty politics. If the Dems just needed 40%, they would need little extra money. 40% is a gov't forming landslide in Germany.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17h

It's genuinely impressive how Pete cannot see his job as anything other than Toxic Terminal O-4 behavior with Fox Anchor Characteristics

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 17h

Speaking of which, does anyone have any better sense of the Trump administration’s policy toward China after the Asia trip this week?

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h

Anyway I recently wrote some thoughts about all this www.liberalcurrents.com/war-fighters...

War Fighters and the Enemy Within: Trump, Hegseth, and the Assault on the American People

Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 16h

I like the time you've taken into thinking 🤔 about this. This is the reform frame of mind we need to be in.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h

So I’m kind of thinking this deserves a fleshed-out treatment. Because it’s not only testosterone but the increasingly known health risks of all the protein and other health supplements that have flooded our marketplace and diets.

And fitness influencing is especially popular on the right.

Dr. Rosenpenis @drrosenpenis.bsky.social · 17h

A huge problem with our country is middle aged dipshits mainlining testosterone.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 16h

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More importantly, money plays far less of a role in proportional parliamentary elections. Mostly this is due to very different incentives of membership based multiparty politics. If the Dems just needed 40%, they would need little extra money. 40% is a gov't forming landslide in Germany.

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Peter Aidan Byrne @peteraidanbyrne.bsky.social · 1d

In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis

Border Patrol chief Bovino, posing dramatically in his Nazi cosplay trenchcoat for a hospitable interview by CNN

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