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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 21h

Trump vs. US was the final straw imo. You cannot read that ruling and continue believing they have legitimacy. It is not only against the plain text of the constitution, it is anathema to the national ethos. It is offensively, insultingly un-American and they ceded legitimacy by committing that sin.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

Animal cruelty is the no 1 indicator for sociopathy but I’ve been lobbying for “popular streamer” to be added to the DSM.

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 1d

Hasan Piker is a piece of shit (not news) but using a shock collar on the highest setting (they're for alerting your dog, it should never get a pain/fear response) because it sets one paw outside of its teeny tiny dog bed as it tries to stretch while on multi-hour streams? Pure asshole behavior.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 11h

Benjamin Franklin and Kate Bush.

Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

You’re trapped in a time loop with one historical figure and one pop star. Who’s your chaos duo?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13h

"The consensus forged in the aftermath of World War II effectively closed with Jan. 6. What followed is the reemergence of older tendencies in American conservatism: protectionism, isolationism, and a growing hostility to pluralism and liberal democracy itself."
www.theunpopulist.net/p/is-a-liber...

Is a Liberal Realignment Emerging from the Rubble of MAGA Authoritarianism?

Democrats have an opportunity to champion a confident, forward-looking market liberalism given that the GOP has fully returned to its reactionary roots

www.theunpopulist.net

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13h

"We have a WWE president...Kash Patel: He’s a performer. Hegseth: He’s a performer. People leading a lot of these agencies are performers. Everything we’re seeing is a performance, but with real guns and destroying real people’s lives.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive

MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.

www.thebulwark.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 1d

It features snorting snuff off a bayonet so you know it is accurate.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 1d

This is a genuinely good article about re-enacting. Captures the absurdity without just gawking at the participants.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor

Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.

www.theatlantic.com

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 2d

One of the clearer illustrations of Marxism where labor provides value and capital extracts a surplus. There are other cases where it may be more complicated but sports is like, Das Capital distilled.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 2d

Through his holy prophets he promised of old, that he would save us from our enemies

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism but specifically Imperial Japan in the Showa Era.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 2d

A large part of why American right-wing efforts to create their own versions of all the social institutions they hate - not just media, but also academia, film and TV, etc - inevitably produce such noticeably low-quality output is simply that they just don't want to put the work in.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2d

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 2d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

Zohran making a statement that he had to know would enrage the more deranged of his supporters is more evidence of him juice-having I think.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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