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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 11h

Looks like a homemade Wide Awakes sticker, spotted in the wild in Philly!

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Homemade Wide Awakes sticker seen on a Philadelphia lamppost

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 4d

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 4d

Lookin good, little dude!

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 4d

Man, it is just intolerable. Every day a new outrage. I don’t know how this ends.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, politics is not the lecture hall, and rolling up to the protest with reviewer #2 and a bibliography seems unlikely to get results.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 7d

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 7d

I greatly appreciate how you explain the rationale behind ideas other people would present as simple rules. Understanding these things has really helped me improve my wardrobe.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 7d

You’re telling me sucking up to fascists while they go after other groups doesn’t work? And then they just come after you? Damn, somebody should write a poem about it.

Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 7d

“Gotta nuke somethin’”

“No particular hopes or dreams”

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 7d

let the gourd times roll

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 8d

I'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 8d

Fuckin yikes, man

Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 8d

Which one is your favorite? I like 94, but I have a soft spot for Viral.

Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 9d

My dude really is built different

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 9d

I want an anti corruption effort so vicious it makes Javert look like a police abolitionist

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 11d

My most conservative belief is that the Amtrak quiet car is a sacred space and people who talk in it represent a breakdown of social order.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 11d

When I was younger, and in a different line of work, I thought it was sophisticated to talk about all the ins and outs that led political actors to do what they do. Now that I’m older things are simpler: if I like something I say it’s good, and if I think something is bad I say so. It’s liberating.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11d

Can’t emphasize how good it is to have moral clarity on issues that are clearly night and day. Some stuff? Complicated. But the stuff that isn’t? Gosh. It’s nice to not clown yourself, to look back and know you weren’t doing genocide apologia.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 12d

Our system suffers under parties that are more or less ideologically sorted. True in the mid 19th century and now.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 12d

They are just lying. I know some people were flatly incredulous that the “anti-ICE” inscription in TX was faked, but things like this make trusting federal law enforcement shall we say challenging.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 15d

glhf!

Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 15d

You don’t just join a union like joining the ACLU. The greatest predictor of union membership is taking a job in a unionized workplace. This is not generally a decision driven by ideological considerations.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah, that and other demographic factors (race and gender especially) account for most of the differences. That said, my understanding is even accounting for that, union workers support democrats at greater rates than comparable workers. That’s apart from the other political benefits of unionizing.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 15d

Unions are more or less the only aspect of civil society not captured by the right, and union members go Democratic 59% to 39%. This compares to 48% D to 49% R for non-union voters. If for no other reason, Democrats should support unionization because it benefits them.

Partisanship by family income, home ownership, union membership and veteran status

Democrats have an edge among registered voters in the lowest and highest income tiers, union members and voters who rent their home.

www.pewresearch.org

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 15d

Amazing

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15d

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

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