Weftage
@weftage.bsky.social
Resident of USA, Oregon, Portland (which has not, in fact, burned to the ground, despite what you may have been told.)
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If you see someone blaming Democrats more than they blame Republicans don’t interact with them, just block or just press not interested. The more we engage the more the algorithms will promote their content. Saturday was awful but let’s make it a wake up call.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:35 AM
If you see someone blaming Democrats more than they blame Republicans don’t interact with them, just block or just press not interested. The more we engage the more the algorithms will promote their content. Saturday was awful but let’s make it a wake up call.
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THEY LITERALLY *ARE* FORCING A VOTE ON THE ACA SUBSIDIES THIS WEEK.
Folks, I don't know what to tell you, but people's brains are fucking broken and there's nothing you can do to out-message this kind of deranged mindset.
January 5, 2026 at 11:09 PM
THEY LITERALLY *ARE* FORCING A VOTE ON THE ACA SUBSIDIES THIS WEEK.
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The problem is the Republican Party, full stop.
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The problem is the Republican Party, full stop.
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The analogy is unintentionally revealing. It works if you believe:
Minority Dems have the power to destroy the GOP but aren't using it
And it doesn't require talking to the other side
And their only task is the one you want, so compromising their ability to do what anyone else wants doesn't matter.
Minority Dems have the power to destroy the GOP but aren't using it
And it doesn't require talking to the other side
And their only task is the one you want, so compromising their ability to do what anyone else wants doesn't matter.
January 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM
The analogy is unintentionally revealing. It works if you believe:
Minority Dems have the power to destroy the GOP but aren't using it
And it doesn't require talking to the other side
And their only task is the one you want, so compromising their ability to do what anyone else wants doesn't matter.
Minority Dems have the power to destroy the GOP but aren't using it
And it doesn't require talking to the other side
And their only task is the one you want, so compromising their ability to do what anyone else wants doesn't matter.
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Hi, former recruiter here.
A lot of misconceptions here that really should be corrected if you actually want to you know, keep your kid from joining the military.
Let's delve into how recruiting ACTUALLY works, and maybe that way we can create an actual playbook, shall we?
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A lot of misconceptions here that really should be corrected if you actually want to you know, keep your kid from joining the military.
Let's delve into how recruiting ACTUALLY works, and maybe that way we can create an actual playbook, shall we?
1/x
January 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Hi, former recruiter here.
A lot of misconceptions here that really should be corrected if you actually want to you know, keep your kid from joining the military.
Let's delve into how recruiting ACTUALLY works, and maybe that way we can create an actual playbook, shall we?
1/x
A lot of misconceptions here that really should be corrected if you actually want to you know, keep your kid from joining the military.
Let's delve into how recruiting ACTUALLY works, and maybe that way we can create an actual playbook, shall we?
1/x
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Below is a 🧵⬇️ of 🌟50🌟 instances of Democrats speaking up today against the illegal military actions in Venezuela, often detailing what they plan to do about it (without simply becoming dictators we agree with).
Plus, a BlueSky feed you can pin to keep up for yourself: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Plus, a BlueSky feed you can pin to keep up for yourself: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Oh look, a Democrat.
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Rep. Seth Moulton comes on CNN and starts by saying: "Is anyone going to just stop for a second and be honest? This is insane. What the hell are we doing? We've got a lot of problems in America today, and invading / occupying / running Venezuela does not solve any of them."
January 4, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Below is a 🧵⬇️ of 🌟50🌟 instances of Democrats speaking up today against the illegal military actions in Venezuela, often detailing what they plan to do about it (without simply becoming dictators we agree with).
Plus, a BlueSky feed you can pin to keep up for yourself: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Plus, a BlueSky feed you can pin to keep up for yourself: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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The biggest problem is that we watched Democrats speedrun an impeachment, get every Democrat to vote in favor, get every Democrat to vote in favor of conviction and removal with bipartisan support only to killed by Republicans - and voters blamed Democrats for "letting Trump go free."
No upside.
No upside.
This is a very interesting thread. I think the one part I zero in on is impeachment, and how partisanship has functionally repealed it. But that has implications far beyond just that provision. There’s *lots* of stuff in there whose only means of redress is impeachment.
A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The biggest problem is that we watched Democrats speedrun an impeachment, get every Democrat to vote in favor, get every Democrat to vote in favor of conviction and removal with bipartisan support only to killed by Republicans - and voters blamed Democrats for "letting Trump go free."
No upside.
No upside.
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The only thing I *will* say about this shitshow is that self-flagellating in public going "wehhh the world should boycott America and all Americans as monsters forever and ever for this" is just performative bullshit trying to absolve yourself of responsibility of doing anything actually helpful
January 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
The only thing I *will* say about this shitshow is that self-flagellating in public going "wehhh the world should boycott America and all Americans as monsters forever and ever for this" is just performative bullshit trying to absolve yourself of responsibility of doing anything actually helpful
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"she could have just"
No.
Fucking no.
Take responsibility.
Take responsibility for your words and actions.
*You* could have "just".
But you didn't.
No.
Fucking no.
Take responsibility.
Take responsibility for your words and actions.
*You* could have "just".
But you didn't.
January 3, 2026 at 7:27 AM
"she could have just"
No.
Fucking no.
Take responsibility.
Take responsibility for your words and actions.
*You* could have "just".
But you didn't.
No.
Fucking no.
Take responsibility.
Take responsibility for your words and actions.
*You* could have "just".
But you didn't.
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Not necessarily, it’s not a good assumption to make
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January 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Not necessarily, it’s not a good assumption to make
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SO, keep this in mind when the GOP starts claiming that "average premiums "only" went up half as much as KFF claimed" (or something along those lines) after the dust settles on the 2026 Open Enrollment Period.
I guarantee they're gonna try it ahead of the upcoming gov't shutdown 2.0 battle...
I guarantee they're gonna try it ahead of the upcoming gov't shutdown 2.0 battle...
January 2, 2026 at 12:51 AM
SO, keep this in mind when the GOP starts claiming that "average premiums "only" went up half as much as KFF claimed" (or something along those lines) after the dust settles on the 2026 Open Enrollment Period.
I guarantee they're gonna try it ahead of the upcoming gov't shutdown 2.0 battle...
I guarantee they're gonna try it ahead of the upcoming gov't shutdown 2.0 battle...
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Going to stop saying "if dems flip the house" and start saying "if voters flip the house to dem", and similar constructs. Language matters. This approach puts the onus where it belongs: on voters.
December 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Going to stop saying "if dems flip the house" and start saying "if voters flip the house to dem", and similar constructs. Language matters. This approach puts the onus where it belongs: on voters.
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"we should have more insular and openly corrupt politics because it's worked for the right"
No it hasn't! The right, even though they control every lever of power, is in shambles and can't stop attacking itself and/or eating shit at every conceivable opportunity!
We don't want that for Dems!
No it hasn't! The right, even though they control every lever of power, is in shambles and can't stop attacking itself and/or eating shit at every conceivable opportunity!
We don't want that for Dems!
December 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"we should have more insular and openly corrupt politics because it's worked for the right"
No it hasn't! The right, even though they control every lever of power, is in shambles and can't stop attacking itself and/or eating shit at every conceivable opportunity!
We don't want that for Dems!
No it hasn't! The right, even though they control every lever of power, is in shambles and can't stop attacking itself and/or eating shit at every conceivable opportunity!
We don't want that for Dems!
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This is what people are bitching about. Not one sentence of this article claims that Jews are indigenous to Australia.
Jews are Schroedingers indigenous: Absolutely under no circumstances allowed to claim indigeneity to Israel. Absolutely under no circumstances to claim anywhere else as home.
Jews are Schroedingers indigenous: Absolutely under no circumstances allowed to claim indigeneity to Israel. Absolutely under no circumstances to claim anywhere else as home.
Bondi has long been the spiritual home of Sydney’s Jews. Now it will be a place of remembrance and grief | Michael Visontay
Bondi has long been the spiritual home of Sydney’s Jews. Now it will be a place of remembrance and grief | Michael Visontay
The magnet that first drew émigrés, including my own parents, was the opportunity to pray and congregate in a beautiful, innocent new environment
For as long as anyone can remember, Bondi beach has been the symbol of Australia’s sunkissed lifestyle, its sweeping crescent of sand attracting busloads of tourists, backpackers and locals all year-long.
But for Sydney’s Jews, Bondi has always been something more. The suburb is the spiritual home of the community, a hub where Jews from all generations gather to eat, meet and schmooze. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is what people are bitching about. Not one sentence of this article claims that Jews are indigenous to Australia.
Jews are Schroedingers indigenous: Absolutely under no circumstances allowed to claim indigeneity to Israel. Absolutely under no circumstances to claim anywhere else as home.
Jews are Schroedingers indigenous: Absolutely under no circumstances allowed to claim indigeneity to Israel. Absolutely under no circumstances to claim anywhere else as home.
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Happy birthday to Anthony S. Fauci! He won a #LaskerAward in 2007 for his role as the principal architect of two major U.S. governmental programs — one aimed at #AIDS and the other at biodefense. 🧪 ow.ly/gYBZ30mlgJf #NIAIDNews
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy birthday to Anthony S. Fauci! He won a #LaskerAward in 2007 for his role as the principal architect of two major U.S. governmental programs — one aimed at #AIDS and the other at biodefense. 🧪 ow.ly/gYBZ30mlgJf #NIAIDNews
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If you’ve got status & credentials & tens of thousands of followers you have an obligation to try to get things right & to admit when you’re wrong.
Don’t bullshit & then dig in & defend your bullshit.
Don’t bullshit & then dig in & defend your bullshit.
December 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
If you’ve got status & credentials & tens of thousands of followers you have an obligation to try to get things right & to admit when you’re wrong.
Don’t bullshit & then dig in & defend your bullshit.
Don’t bullshit & then dig in & defend your bullshit.
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…a public intellectual then you better be prepared to defend in public what you say & write in public. If you can’t, as an intellectual & as a scholar you should interrogate your beliefs & your thinking & figure out what’s wrong, or just don’t opine on shit about which at best you know fuckall.
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
…a public intellectual then you better be prepared to defend in public what you say & write in public. If you can’t, as an intellectual & as a scholar you should interrogate your beliefs & your thinking & figure out what’s wrong, or just don’t opine on shit about which at best you know fuckall.
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There’s a kind of academic who just says shit about Democrats because…whatever, they want people to think they’re not in the bag for a party, or they have theories or something, don’t want to be kept down by the man, whatever
But they don’t get to just fucking make shit up
If you want to be…
But they don’t get to just fucking make shit up
If you want to be…
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
There’s a kind of academic who just says shit about Democrats because…whatever, they want people to think they’re not in the bag for a party, or they have theories or something, don’t want to be kept down by the man, whatever
But they don’t get to just fucking make shit up
If you want to be…
But they don’t get to just fucking make shit up
If you want to be…
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The US right wouldn’t be what it is today without the help of an old Australian media baron & the vast Russian propaganda machine that’s behind so much of the worldwide return of far-right/fascist politics. The MAGA GOP is part of a truly international fascist movement
December 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The US right wouldn’t be what it is today without the help of an old Australian media baron & the vast Russian propaganda machine that’s behind so much of the worldwide return of far-right/fascist politics. The MAGA GOP is part of a truly international fascist movement
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No, we don't.
We need people to vote in every special, off-year, midterm & presidential election instead of treating a civic duty like a chore.
We already have the Greens & Libertarians & even if a member of either party won, they'd still have to caucus with either the Democrats or Republicans.
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We need people to vote in every special, off-year, midterm & presidential election instead of treating a civic duty like a chore.
We already have the Greens & Libertarians & even if a member of either party won, they'd still have to caucus with either the Democrats or Republicans.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
No, we don't.
We need people to vote in every special, off-year, midterm & presidential election instead of treating a civic duty like a chore.
We already have the Greens & Libertarians & even if a member of either party won, they'd still have to caucus with either the Democrats or Republicans.
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We need people to vote in every special, off-year, midterm & presidential election instead of treating a civic duty like a chore.
We already have the Greens & Libertarians & even if a member of either party won, they'd still have to caucus with either the Democrats or Republicans.
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h/t nicokow.bsky.social
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This quotation is outstanding. Reposted with alt-text.
December 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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This quotation is outstanding. Reposted with alt-text.
This quotation is outstanding. Reposted with alt-text.
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I'd like to see journalists investigate the companies/guys that are doing this work. Who are they? Do they know this is illegal? Are they worried about being held responsible for defacing a federal building? How did they get the letters so fast, given that the "decision" was only made yesterday?
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I'd like to see journalists investigate the companies/guys that are doing this work. Who are they? Do they know this is illegal? Are they worried about being held responsible for defacing a federal building? How did they get the letters so fast, given that the "decision" was only made yesterday?
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It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.
"I am mad at Dems because they are not controlling the weather. The shelters and umbrellas they offered were just not inspiring, so it's their fault I am wet. I have no choice but to broadcast my displeasure 24/7"
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"I am mad at Dems because they are not controlling the weather. The shelters and umbrellas they offered were just not inspiring, so it's their fault I am wet. I have no choice but to broadcast my displeasure 24/7"
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The Skagit and Snoqualmie Rivers, as just two examples, are both expected to surpass major flood stage, cresting today and tomorrow. We're also expecting winds up to 60 mph.
I want to remind Washingtonians to stay alert, listen to evacuation orders, and obey road closure signs.
I want to remind Washingtonians to stay alert, listen to evacuation orders, and obey road closure signs.
December 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The Skagit and Snoqualmie Rivers, as just two examples, are both expected to surpass major flood stage, cresting today and tomorrow. We're also expecting winds up to 60 mph.
I want to remind Washingtonians to stay alert, listen to evacuation orders, and obey road closure signs.
I want to remind Washingtonians to stay alert, listen to evacuation orders, and obey road closure signs.