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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1h

they're very nice signs, it'd be rude not to

Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 6h

what an incredible outfit to have worn while doing this bit

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9h

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21h

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 13h

ICE can arrest anyone at any time for any reason and detain them however long they feel like. This is the official stance of the U.S. government.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 14h

“like a daughter“ is definitely a very important legal distinction to woody allen

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

this is a recipe for a four year government shutdown

you simply cannot make deals with people who are telling you up front they are going to break those deals and claw back everything you won in them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 15h

Tracy headlines but accidentally breaks the contract because he forgets where he is; Jenna avoids like the plague due to a past sexual misadventure with a Saudi royal in which she participated in a war crime.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15h

the final boss of "imagine if obama did it"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 15h

I do find it kind of nice that they’ve stopped looking for arguments that it’s somehow bad for millions of people to have political representation and now they’re just like “those people vote wrong.”

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 15h

It should be used to meet needs, but fundamentally I don’t care if we’re throwing it in a pit and setting it on fire.

Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t agree with every point made here, but the main thesis — what we do with billionaires’ money is secondary to the fact that a free society simply cannot allow them to have it — accounts for most of my politics these days.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1d

Also worth noting that in an administration full of gutter racists, Ingrassia still stands out as one of the absolute worst.

www.pogo.org/policy-lette...

Good Government Groups to Senate: Oppose OSC nominee Paul Ingrassia

The Office of Special Council is responsible for protecting federal workers. Ingrassia would undermine their rights instead.

www.pogo.org

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1d

My theory these days is that Hollywood is now operating under a philosophy of "IP cannot fail, only be failed," and I think Tron is Exhibit A.

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1d

also a good reminder that no matter how nice they are to you in person, they are not your friends

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1d

what if laws but for rich people (and republicans)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1d

i'm gonna step out on a limb and predict that he's not gonna win

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1d

There is literally nothing they can do relative to the Giant Frog that doesn't make them look ridiculous.

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1d

I actually think one of the big things I've learned this year is how useful this kind of protest is from an optics perspective. It makes it nearly impossible for the administration to use any of the footage it gets on the ground for propaganda.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, they're just openly racist now! They're saying it in public! Seems to me that if they're proud of being racist the least we could do is acknowledge that they are in fact racist!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Matthew Triponey @matthewtriponey.bsky.social · 1d

Not how science works! And anyone who is doing actual science would know that!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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