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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1h

I think dystopian fiction has done a great disservice to America because everyone thinks a constitutional crisis involved tank parades, grey skies and giant banners whereas it really is just other branches of government standing by as a president declares himself dictator.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund
Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse
Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance
Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund
Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds
Nov 1: no funds go out
Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

The president says he will defy court orders and illegally withhold SNAP benefits despite there being money in the SNAP contingency fund that the Trump is required to use.

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🎵 ⚽ Thomas ⚽ 🎵 @niandralades94.bsky.social · 2h

It's the winners' mindset. CR7's brand requires only the most elite bootlickers available.

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 1h

This is one of those things I just never think about as a non-recipe person. Like, my thought would be to find some place to use it in the next couple days.

Thinking about it, having random ingredients to use up drives my cooking choices more than I would've thought.

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 2h

Shoutout to Greg, who got traded...somewhere

NFL Fantasy News @nflfantasynews.bsky.social · 2h

@AdamSchefter tweeted
Current NFL trade deadline tally (October/November):

🏈Jakobi Meyers: JAX
🏈Jaelan Phillips: PHI
🏈Dre'Mont Jones: BAL
🏈Logan Wilson: DAL
🏈Jaire Alexander: PHI
🏈Michael Carter II: PHI
🏈John Metchie III: NYJ
🏈Keion White: SF
🏈Kyle Dugger: PIT
🏈Roger McCreary: LAR
🏈Greg

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rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social · 2h

the fundamental central operating premise of this entire dominant ecosystem of what passes for the institutional "left" in this country is that you must carefully calibrate what you believe in light of what you perceive certain demographics to believe. but what wins elections is believing in shit

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rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social · 2h

how do people like this reckon with the fact that these voters last voted for you when you put barack obama in front of them masquerading as a radical lefty outsider and then a few years later voted for nazis? i guess they're not persuadable!

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3h

Good gracious Third Way

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

Screenshot of article that reads: “A Mamdani victory is a serious political problem for those in the party who believe, as we do, that our primary focus must be on flipping red and purple seats blue, expanding the map for Democrats, and creating a path back to Congress and the White House,” Matt Bennett, executive vice president of center-left think tank Third Way, told MSNBC. “The [Democratic Socialists of America] platform — which Mamdani has not repudiated — hands a potent set of weapons to Republican ad makers eager to tie Mamdani-style politics to Democrats running in much tougher places than deep blue New York.”

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 3h

“In case you were wondering, it is us, the Republicans, making you touch the stove.”

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Trump announces he will refuse to follow the court order to provide SNAP benefits to needy families.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

80% of the food I ate when I was 9 years old in 1998 was blue

jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 14h

A friend showed me this screenshot and I started cackling, I was staining my tongue three different colors with OtterPops in 1998 are you fucking kidding me

A meme showing an example of a TikTok trend through two screenshots, one of a swingset captioned "Summer, 1998" and the other of a pot of jam on the stove captioned "Where sweets are baked, not bought." Under both screenshots is someone commenting "loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s"

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S.W.B. Folsom @swbfolsom.bsky.social · 3h

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3h

oh, you know the ones

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 5h

I think the American right is in fact correct about several things and it would be wise to concede that.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 6h

Dick is gone, Bush remains.

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andré, but scarier @838carlisle.bsky.social · 4h

woke dick cheney died to protect the dolls

Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sure Fox and Friends will still have Liz Eddy on tomorrow and she'll still get to jumpstart her silly little grifter career but it's funny as hell that she got bumped today

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 3h

bsky.app/profile/c-so... the thing that's really noticeable about this is he knows to shut the fuck up

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 6h

Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

i think the president has an inherent inability to conceptualize an organization larger than the Trump Organization, and so does not value the existence of a bureaucracy. in fact he cannot imagine that any such thing exists. this is why the government is now run by one hundred guys who you can name.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 13h

The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars

If polls hold, Spanberger is looking more

likely to clear 50% in her more swingy state than Mamdani is in a city so Democratic that only 6 of 51 city council members are Republicans.

Dems nationally say that matters a lot for thinking what comes next.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 7h

Really really resent the world in which we found ourselves meaning that I only disagreed with the vast vast vast majority of what this man stood for instead of absolutely everything.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7h

Dick Cheney dies: www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...

Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies | CNN Politics

Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, accordin...

www.cnn.com

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 8h

It might be that interesting intermediate size of crisis that we discovered with Silicon Valley Bank; "not really systemic but capable of being tricked up into a systemic crisis by various socially detrimental people who have realized this is the only way to get bailed out from their losses"

Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 8h

I’m still not sold a private credit implosion is a systemic issue but it would definitely imperil a real mosaic of university endowments and whatnot as.ft.com/r/ebee3411-3...

UBS chair warns of ‘looming systemic risk’ from private credit ratings

[FREE TO READ] Colm Kelleher says insurers are shopping for grades as banks did before 2008 financial crisis

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 3h

I have a moderately-priced Breville one with maybe $100 in aftermarket accessories.

I know I can and would like to have something better, but I'm also very aware of the gaping financial and mental effort abyss that would be.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

the fun thing about home espresso brewing is it will absolutely not save you money, especially if you are the kind of person who tends to become obsessive about technical details

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 6h

"We never did recover from the things Dick Cheney did to the United States. And now the precedents he established have empowered a madman."

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Dick Cheney, Gone But Not Forgotten

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/04/d...

Dick Cheney, Gone But Not Forgotten - emptywheel

The precedents Dick Cheney established as Vice President have empowered the madness and authoritarianism of Donald Trump.

www.emptywheel.net

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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 6h

The no-look knighting, always risky

Arise, Sir David: Beckham knighted by King Charles at Windsor Castle ceremony

Sir David Beckham received a knighthood at Windsor Castle on Tuesday for his services to sport and charity

www.theguardian.com

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 5h

[bursts in door] never forget that Dick Van Dyke once got rescued by porpoises after he drifted out to sea on a surfboard

Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 7h

Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney

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Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5h

It is also worth saying that everyone who mocks some supposedly fake discipline like “gender studies“ or “Africana studies“ is also really excited about degree programs in things like “AI prompt engineering.”

Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 5h

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)

www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 6h

The problem with most of Yglesias’s advice for Democrats is that Republicans do the opposite and win all the time. So it’s either bad advice or evidence of an asymmetric playing field, which he never addresses.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 6h

My working hypothesis is that the reason Matt Yglesias was booed off of Bluesky isn’t because Bluesky is too leftist or too toxic.

It’s because he sucks.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

bomb threats to dem leaning polling locations on election day have somehow become normalized

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h

Breaking from NJ AG Platkin:

"Early this morning, law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email involving certain polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties. Law enforcement … have worked swiftly to secure these polling locations."

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