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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 31m

I think it was @janecoaston.bsky.social who said in 2024, the main argument Republicans would make for Trump was “he doesn’t mean that”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 58m

New in PN: He's never "just joking"

"Trump is an aspiring autocrat with obvious physical and mental issues, but Johnson and his Republican cronies are insulting our intelligence about it."

He's never "just joking"

And Republicans know it, even as they play dumb.

www.publicnotice.co

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 1h

BIG difference between using algorithmic tools to make life easier and using LLM-generated content because you’re lazy and/or trying to push an agenda. (Honestly it’s why I hate when people say “I used AI for this” for non-generative content because my first thought is that they didn’t do any work)

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 10h

Welp.

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jp @jpesq.bsky.social · 10h

The Mariners earned it, but of course it was Tommy Kahnle.

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 10h

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 10h

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 10h

Welp Flaherty’s pitching, we’re fucked

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 11h

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve never heard someone so excited about bunts before

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 11h

Spanker Porkelson

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 11h

Colt Keith is most valuable to me as having only the second most porny name on the Tigers

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 12h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 12h

Me: Big Dumper is the catcher
@elliotthausen.bsky.social: I figured he was the catcher with an ass like that

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h

Key thing here is the idea that Stephen Miller and others are absolutely thrilled that Trump has lost a step, since it makes him easier to manipulate:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Pritzker to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "Trump says a lot of crazy things. I genuinely think there's something wrong with him. I wish his family would intervene... I don’t think anybody around is going to do it bc they’re benefiting from his dementia"

Full interview: newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

There was never going to be a moment when everyone—everyone in government, everyone in media, everyone in the population—was roused to action at the same time. We're turning a battleship. And Pritzker understands that.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 1d

Lasting memory of going to an anti-war rally in DC after Katrina and a billboard truck had a picture of the 9th Ward beside Grover Norquist’s “government small enough I can drown it in a bathtub” quote

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 2d

When this is over you will be SHACKLED to him.

The Republican Party owns all of this and will not be allowed to forget it.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

Puck makes a point of noting that not one GOP member of the House attended Stephen Miller's big 40th birthday. Seems like they're afraid of being tied to the most obviously fascist "mainstream" character in the history of American politics.

archive.ph/DvsLD

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

It used to be understood that real estate developers were evil in movies, we gotta get back to that. Not just a politics thing it’s just a good plot device.

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Joanne Spetz @joannespetz.bsky.social · 3d

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3d

The power of an F2.8 70-200mm in the hands of someone that knows how to use it. Pay staff photographers. Expose corruption and greed.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Lenny Sundahl-Stewart @lennysundahl.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of people are gonna learn how much of high finance is just bullshit in the hardest way possible

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 3d

The Amazon Prime Days will continue until morale improves.

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