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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h

I tell you what, though: I've come to have a very basic problem with the formulation "if liberal government doesn't do XYZ, fascism rises." This to me reflects one of the deepest & most enduring blind spots among the broad left coalition, namely ... they don't believe in the right.

Lemme explain.

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 17h

What's so telling to me is the extent to which people like you and Andrew Lawrence and others - people with no specialized training beyond actually consuming right wing media and knowing they believe it - have been 5+ years ahead in understanding this moment in politics.

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 1d

Truly, truly one of the worst people in political life.

Brahm Resnik @brahmresnik.bsky.social · 4d

Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 2d

The entire Natty Dread album by Bob Marley was covered by Charlie Hunter for Blue Note and every song is amazing.

youtu.be/xHsmgdiV8Mc

Lively Up Yourself

YouTube video by Charlie Hunter - Topic

youtu.be

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely think it's very good writing but it is also painfully dour and self-serious.

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 3d

No I think the answer (and it's happened to Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Esposito and many others) is over time they get hired to do a caricature of their best roles. That's how you go from Pacino's brief Godfather yelling "In my house?!" to the parody of it in Heat.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 4d

Generational image for this app.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 5d

come get me, ronald reagan presidential foundation

Reagan and a horse.
“I’m about to jack off this horse”
-Ronald Reagan

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 4d

theonion.com/report-we-do...

Report: We Don’t Make Any Money If You Don’t Click The Fucking Link

CHICAGO—Informing readers that it was one of the sole means for a digital publication to generate revenue, a report released Thursday indicated that The Onion doesn’t make any money if you don’t click...

theonion.com

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 4d

theonion.com/report-we-do...

Report: We Don’t Make Any Money If You Don’t Click The Fucking Link

CHICAGO—Informing readers that it was one of the sole means for a digital publication to generate revenue, a report released Thursday indicated that The Onion doesn’t make any money if you don’t click...

theonion.com

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 4d

I completely agree that the details of his plans were standard Republican fare. But he was also repeatedly saying things in public like promising to raise his own taxes or giving everyone better health care coverage to confuse the issue for less engaged voters. Or just, y'know, morons like Dowd.

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 4d

Trump was promising to replace Obamacare with a cheaper plan on day one, and repeatedly said he was open to raising taxes on the wealthy.

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting. And which party is Peltola - the person who won that race - a member of again?

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 5d

Even if it was completely innocent - if Trump puts up a judge with a large nazi tattoo, do we want to be able to take the moral high ground and say that's unacceptable or not? Look no further than the GOP texts: If we don't draw a line at nazi tattoos RIGHT FUCKING NOW we will regret it very soon.

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 5d

The only thing Republicans didn't like about Byrd was that he stopped supporting them after opposing the VRA and became a Democrat. If he was a Trump appointee exposed as a KKK member today then JD Vance would go out and yell at you for caring about minutiae.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

When I say the MAGA movement is post-truth, this is the sort of thing I mean. Push blatant lies in advance of an event, see overwhelming evidence that the lies were false, know that others saw it too, but plow ahead with the same lies, opposed to the notion that living in factual reality matters.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson calls No Kings the "Hate America Rally" and claims "it was funded by George Soros and co-sponsored by the Communist Party and many other nefarious groups"

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 6d

That's a cool edit. Jordan seems to be more tightly guarded by 2 people than whoever is by 1, but it's very cool regardless.

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 6d

Stream that bitch on twitch

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 6d

"How does someone come across on TV" remains undefeated since the 1960 Presidential debates.

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 6d

Why the trans-Portland railway of course! (I apologize and good luck in your future endeavors)

joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 6d

Weird Al should come out with his first original songs about how he is Weird A-L NOT Weird A-i, because it looks indistinguishable.

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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 6d

the image is a tweet of trump saying, "I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent....." at 3:46 AM · Jun 23, 2020

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 7d

"Let ye without nazi tattoos cast the first-" [stones rain in from all directions]

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

Sopranos bust out episode

Literally looting the Treasury

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING

President Trump is demanding that the DOJ pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Any settlement will ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.

Full Story: nyti.ms/3WNm2sv

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joshz2012.bsky.social @joshz2012.bsky.social · 12d

Conservatives: What we need is liberalism without all the libs.