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I post about politics 🏛️🌹 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Elected Democratic Party Functionary (I know I can’t be believe it either) 🤜 Smash Fascism https://linktr.ee/roterotemedia https://www.tiktok.com/@roterotemedia

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · Aug 18

Read my new article in @liberalcurrents.com which features the groundbreaking @katmabu.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaigns and my answer to the massive challenge of remerging the progressive political and cultural spheres. It’s hopeful, heavy and is for the nerds.

Civic Campaigning Politics: A Muscular Mass Politics for Our Time

An approach for fighting Magafascism.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 9h

In Lower 48, "climate change" conjures images of hot summers, fires, storms, & flooding

In interior & northern AK, another effect is clear: permafrost melt. It destroys roads & structures, releases CO2 & methane, & awakens 40,000 year old microbes.

What could go wrong?

HT @shanahstone.bsky.social

Ancient Alaska microbes' thaw helps understanding of climate change feedback loop

Using samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active as far back as 40,000 years ago.

alaskapublic.org

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9h

I love, love, love MAGA crashing out over Trump selling out to Qatar.

I mean, it really gives me & so many Muslim American writers, commentators, & journalists, so much joy.

For 25 years, this country has accused us of being Hamas, terrorists, bla bla bla.

And Trump bear hugs Qatar.

I love it.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

let me guess: china won't back down and we end up with 250% tariffs

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

oh no

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

oh no

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 9h

If you make your own roux pay close attention and don’t get distracted or it will burn or pop and burn you. Gumbo is great and you can freeze your leftovers.

roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 9h

Macron:

roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly Emmanuelle is just fucking with all of Europe at this point. The man is radioactive waste

Albin Wagener @albinwagener.bsky.social · 9h

Macron est la réincarnation de Ceaucescu, je ne vois pas d'autre explication.

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Albin Wagener @albinwagener.bsky.social · 9h

Macron est la réincarnation de Ceaucescu, je ne vois pas d'autre explication.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 9h

I am not sure if this is insulting to Macron or Ceausescu more 😂 but it is hilarious either way.

roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 9h

Spicy Shepards Pie. Or Gumbo.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 9h

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign shows that democratic socialists can win support from all corners. The tens of thousands of DSA members turning out to canvas in NYC “are not only Zohran Mamdani’s socialists; they’re Michael Harrington’s socialists, too.” From Harold Meyerson: trib.al/xAWFNLZ

The Rift in American Socialism

Today on TAP: Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3d

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 9h

I appreciate that Peter has so low self-esteem that he doesn’t believe he is the antichrist

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 10h

Heartbreaking 💔

For the folks saying politics doesn’t affect you— this is proof that it does.
It impacts everyone.

Prayers up for the love ones, the community and first responders having to deal with this tragedy.

Advocacy Arena with Dee @desia.bsky.social · 10h

The blast in Hickman County is both a human disaster and a warning sign — of what happens when democracy dies piece by piece and communities lose control over their own lives.
#Project2025 #Deregulation
open.substack.com/pub/advocacy...

Tennessee’s Gag Order on Democracy

The Explosive Cost of Silencing Communities

open.substack.com

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 15h

What do you want me to ask the Democrats?

roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 18h

I am glad Trump is weird about medicine and blood so we don’t need to worry about him trying to become immortal through wacky implants like it seems Putin and Xi believe they can.

roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 18h

It is wild Starmer reached his "Hitler in the bunker shouting at his generals in Downfall” era, with a massive majority in just over a year. Like bruh what were you thinking cosplaying Nigel Farage for a year?

Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 19h

The continuing clearance of anyone who isn't a Labour right loyalist from the Starmer operation leaves only one possible scenario next year:

Any Labour catastrophe in the devolved and local elections will be entirely the fault of the Labour right.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

www.theguardian.com

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 18h

Bombing Computer Servers at Stanford University was a thing in the Vietnam War. It was done to slow the war machine as they were calculating military data. History is fun.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 19h

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.bsky.social · 1d

To phrase it more bluntly: Biden's own anti-Arab racism and rigid devotion to the Israeli project created a situation where he was willing to give the middle finger to a growing coalition within his own party even as the horrors occurring within Gaza became unavoidable.

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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.bsky.social · 1d

It was a glaring departure even in the moment. Right or wrong, the story of Biden's political career was generally to place himself in the center of wherever the party was moving ideologically. But on I/P, his own worldview was so rigid that he stubbornly stayed the course as the party moved away

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

We talk a lot about AIPAC and “the Israel lobby” but when it came to Israel, Biden had a genuine ideological commitment to the “hug Bibi” strategy even as others in his party didn’t like it.

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 1d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 19h

I mean if we want to be real he is literally Elena Ceaușescu. From the pettiness to the absurdity.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 19h

Instead of paying attention to how most people actually live in this country, Labour's leadership have wasted months following what the most toxic people on Musk's fascist website are saying, and respond to those trends instead. It would be comical were it not so reckless and dangerous.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 19h

He is a fascist, words mean things. And China hasn’t been remotely communist since the 1970s. Russia is literally an Orthodox Christian Fascist Dictatorship.

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, The Las Vegas Sun newspaper, @lasvegassun.bsky.social, is calling it like it is:

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Mac Fox @macfox.bsky.social · 2d

I have scrolled past my own video roughly three dozen times today, all uploaded by different accounts and all with like 30k likes each. I feel like I'm going insane.

Mac Fox @macfox.bsky.social · 2d

logging on to discover Gavin Newsom's press office used one of my videos for a meme

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Mac Fox @macfox.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, if you saw this video today: I filmed it, and it was just as much fun as it looks

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