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Citizens waving American flags protest Trump violating the Constitution.

MAGA: They’re Marxists who hate America.

GOP operatives praise Hitler and joke about rape and gas chambers in their group chat.

MAGA: Boys will be boys!

October 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM

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useR! - The R User Conference

@user-conf.bsky.social

You can watch Hadley's keynote at this link: www.youtube.com/live/ctc2kx3...

#useR2025

August 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM

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Pete Buttigieg

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

These Americans served with honor for more than a decade. Put their lives on the line. Trump fired them, just for being who they are-and now is denying retirement benefits our nation promised them for their service.

Treating troops this way is dishonorable, unfair, & harmful to national security.

US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service

The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.

apnews.com

August 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM

Brent Crossman

@bcrossman.bsky.social

Just to post something not political. Universal Studios did an amazing job with the new Epic Park. Each universe is as immersive as the Harry Potter sections of the older parks. Dining in particular has been good food and a great experience.

August 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM

Brent Crossman

@bcrossman.bsky.social

This is a very important question and you scan the responses and not see a single good solution. I don't have great ideas either but I do know the solution has to involve helping young guys understand the socially acceptable steps to a) express interest in a girl b) get girls interested in them.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Aug 1

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

August 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM

Brent Crossman

@bcrossman.bsky.social

This is really well done.

Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · Jul 10

Republicans just voted to give billionaires like Linda McMahon a giant tax cut.

I asked her what she needed the money for.

I’m still waiting for her answer.

July 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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Katelyn Burns

@katelynburns.com

"I asked them what costume I was supposed to wear, as there are rules around how much fabric can be on your body," Coombes told the Reading Chronicle. "They confirmed that I need to wear a female swimming costume despite having to compete with the men." www.advocate.com/news/trans-w...

A trans woman, forced to compete against men, swims topless in protest

Anne Isabella Coombes stood up to Swim England's gender policies in an innovative way.

www.advocate.com

June 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.

June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM

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Kate Starbird

@katestarbird.bsky.social

The solution to the Democrats messaging problem isn’t to replicate the rw media ecosystem, but to recognize what makes it powerful, including the participatory storytelling and sense of agency it provides to its audiences, and to adapt those dynamics in ways that align w/ Dem/progressive values.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 20

Democratic strategists are pushing the party's megadonors to invest in an army of left-leaning online influencers, pushing to “find the next Joe Rogan,” to help the party capture the digital mojo that helped President Trump win, documents show.

Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online

www.nytimes.com

May 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM

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Jake Grumbach

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Zucman and co were proven exactly right—extreme wealth inequality makes democracy and the rule of law untenable. A global wealth tax is probably the most pro-democracy policy out there.

www.ft.com/content/859e...