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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 1h

Yes.

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 2h

Huh. Well, hardly anyone is entirely evil or without principle?

Just MAGA.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: Dick Cheney, who died Monday, was an early GOP voice for treating same-sex couples fairly.

"Freedom means freedom for everybody," Cheney said at the 2000 vice presidential debate. It doesn't change his legacy, but it is something we should remember today.

This evening, at Law Dork:

Dick Cheney, who died Monday, was an early GOP voice for treating same-sex couples fairly

"Freedom means freedom for everybody," Cheney said at the 2000 vice presidential debate. It doesn't change his legacy, but it is something we should remember today.

www.lawdork.com

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 2h

I have exactly zero counter-arguments or hot takes dunking on you. BUUUT.

Man, you presented that information with no bias or expectation, and I have nothing but respect for that. For some reason, just for a second it made me mad.

That’s on the people reacting, though, not you.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Oh — the situation has escalated.

Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in.

"Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 2h

I can’t even remember at this point, I remember being aware that a lot of people yelled at him about… things?

But this is the guy who people made a bunch of memes about later, right? “So how’s that working out, NYC? Have you managed to find a mayor who doesn’t suck ass (/perjorative)??”

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 4h

If you mainly consume/conduct your politics online it’s easy to conflate “national elected Democrats” with “Democrats”

I have to assure you, we party organizers and voters are far better than our leaders and we deserve fighters. You don’t hate “Democrats” - you hate a few Congressional reps

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

“It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid.”

Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani

"It's so ugly, it's so cowardly, it's so stupid."

www.motherjones.com

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 3h

Those are rookie numbers! Get out there and help!

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 4h

Still time to pump up those totals! Polls are open until 9pm! Most places I’ve checked have less than a 20 minute wait, quick in and out! vote.nyc

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 3h

That’s a wonderful picture, but everything else is so bad these days that I had .56 seconds of “Z? Like the Russians invading Ukra… oh.”

Thanks for posting. ;)

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4h

Oh

Perhaps most significantly, researchers have learned that queer people were largely reported by people in their own communities. As many as a third of LGBTQ+ people who were arrested were denounced, that is reported to the Nazis, by their friends and family.

”That really changes the understanding of the Nazi period, because it’s easier to think that this was just a top-down hard line or dictatorial regime implementing all these policies, and they’re the ones doing the hunting down and finding of the so-called enemies of the state,” said Newsome. “But what we’re actually seeing is that most Germans just did nothing to protect LGBTQ folks.”

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, it’s because Mr. Schumer is a political leader. He’s actually got a very high-level elected position and is one of the current “leading” Democrats.

They aren’t asking some random person here, they’re asking one of the people whose failures helped let Trump come back.

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, a couple days ago he was complaining about how normal people have friends and enjoy life instead of stewing in a toxic mix of fear and anger.

A lot of people laughed at him about it. :)

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 12h

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 5h

On the plus side, you got him to do the “I’m not listening, I’m not listening, nanananananananana!!!” thing faster than anybody.

a close up of a statue with the words " i 'm not listening " on it

Alt: a close up of a Toxic Male Gollum with the words " i 'm not listening "

media.tenor.com

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 6h

That’s a lie and you know it.

You need to stop using the word “hypocrite” until you can use it correctly. I know you don’t want to learn anything about how the law works, are you interested in understanding the definition of a word you use a lot?

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 6h

Actually, I’ve noticed he doesn’t even try. He keeps waiting a few hours in between trying *different* versions of “the only thing you thought I was wrong about” or “the only thing you *claimed I was lying about” and just ignores everything else.

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Joe Poulin @joepoulin.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, “wow, everyone who knows what they’re talking about and understands this subject says I’m wrong and has offered to explain how. This proves I’m right and that there’s a conspiracy against me!”

Not great, Bob!

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