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Señor Juanton @senorjuanton.bsky.social · 7h

Dedicated Carly Rae Jepsen Stan Account @tfwaffleman.bsky.social · 15h

In 2025, "crossing the aisle" and "bipartisan" should be read with the same connotations and disdain as "crossing the picket line" and "scab"

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18h

What's "small" here is John Fetterman, a person so weak of mind and devoid of principles, so used to the lazy grift he switched to after winning office, that he won't even criticize corruption so brazen it has no parallel in American history, the President literally paying himself a fortune.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Fetterman describes Trump trying to steal $230 million from taxpayers as "small ball, and I think we have much bigger problems than worrying about those things."

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1d

This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 1d

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I’m putting “purity test” on the big board of bullshit terms right next to “polarized.” Terms that, when you hear them, the odds the person using them is talking bullshit approaches 100%.

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2d

like, for example, just say political transphobia isn't a deal breaker for you instead of whining about purity tests

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Dedicated Carly Rae Jepsen Stan Account @tfwaffleman.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I have The Urge to Post about some kind of Discourse happening that doesn't really pertain to me personally. Fortunately, I always have my friend Nunya to consult, and Nunya has never steered me wrong

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 1d

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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Dedicated Carly Rae Jepsen Stan Account @tfwaffleman.bsky.social · 2d

Spotify fed me tracks from it liberally and I liked basically every one I heard

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Worse

Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 2d

@walshfreedom.bsky.social I thought you'd want to see this. People are waking up. I hope it's more numerous than that. But it looks like we're seeing people starting to wake up.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 3d

America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel?

my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

All of this is true, and on top of it:

Since when is it unusual for an opposition party to run against a sitting executive with a net approval rating of -13?

It's the most obvious and logical strategy! The burden of persuasion is on anyone suggesting they don't do that.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.

It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

No Republicans should ever be permitted to live down Trump. It should be a generational shame that haunts their descendants.

The idea that we should move on from this open criminal who waged war against his own country and global democracy *while he is still waging it* is quantum complicity.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3d

Lead front-page story in today's NYT

Time-travel dept:

-I don't remember front-page NYT stories "It's 1993, and GOP Is Still Running Against Clinton." That's what they did, for huge mid-term win.

-Nor "It's 2009, and GOP Is Still Running Against Obama." Which they did, for huge win.

Weird.

Headline: "It's 2025, and Democrats Are Still Still Running Against Trump"

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

This government suffers from severe loser stench. Everything they say and do is a barely veiled form of "I'm the BOSS and you have to RESPECT ME!" and nobody does. Millions of people are going outside tomorrow just to say so

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 5d

I realize things have never been great but it does feel especially lately like the main job of many people is to not know things, in an age where every day we're all knowing more things we'd rather not know so that takes genuine effort

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Dedicated Carly Rae Jepsen Stan Account @tfwaffleman.bsky.social · 5d

HAPPY EMOTION 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION DAY #E-MO-TION #EMOTION10 #CARLYRAEJEPSEN #CRJ

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 6d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6d

*Talking to a Wired reporter who is writing down what I say* I am the proud owner of a Cybertruck, it has an AI in it that I talk to for therapy, I am now divorced and yes it's because of the truck

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