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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 2h

There is an entire cable channel my dad gets called "Grit TV" that's just 1950s westerns. They fill 24 hours of programing with westerns. There were so many fucking westerns.

BB OVAcel 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸🇵🇦🇺🇦 @2puru2partisan.bsky.social · 2h

You can tell because most of those Golden Age comics started out as anthology magazines, and they always had a cowboy story in there too, often more. If you’re tired of capeslop now you would not have survived the peak of westernslop in prewar America

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

Woooooo “Kavanaugh stop” broke into the major paper sphere

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 1d

Opponents of aggressive ICE enforcement are using a Supreme Court-inspired term to describe cases of racial profiling. Today's Starting Point explains.

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 21h

joe flacco please beat the packers twice it would be so funny

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

As during the first fight with the Slave Power there is no viable long-term compromise, because so long as one single whiff of free soil exists the sadistic paranoiac slavers and manhunters will continue to insist that its presence constitutes exceptional circumstances to justify their despotism

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

Immigration is by far the most important political issue of the century for the simple reason that it has the same origins and effects, the same scope of impact, and arouses the same passions with the same moral urgency as the issue of slavery did in 1850s America

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 15h

By not signing, these become law. FYI.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h

In none of these cases, when the federal government was openly and with good reason using military force, did Eisenhower or JFK or LBJ say "ok, we're sending the Vermont National Guard to Mississippi to handle this." That would have been understood as insane, it wasn't even considered.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h

For example, Alabama in 1963. George Wallace in the schoolhouse door, that one. JFK federalized the *Alabama* National Guard. The general who ordered Wallace to step aside, he was Alabama ANG. Or Little Rock 1957, that was Eisenhower sending in the 101st, regular Army.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran is good, almost everyone in the replies here should be locked into a portable toilet and set on fire.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23h

Most of the complaints about George III and his government were echoes, fairly faint echoes in some ways, of things Charles I had done, and that fact is what gave them their power as outrages worth taking up arms against.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23h

It's not a coincidence that some of the regicides famously escaped to New England where they lived out the rest of their lives in peace even after the Restoration.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23h

It tends to get underplayed in American historical imagination, but our Revolution was in a direct, conscious lineage from the Glorious Revolution and before that the English Civil Wars. The road to 1776 began outside the Banqueting House in 1649. We are, in that real sense, still Anglo-Americans.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 1d

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

anyway "all revenue collected by the US government is just the personal property of the president, who can do whatever he wants with it, Congress Shmongress" is not a sustainable form of governance and will collapse modern America.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 19h

ICE is literally shooting priests like it's 1905 or some shit

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s video of the incident

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20h

i like Platner too but just a quick reminder that Janet Mills is the governor who yelled "I'll see you in court" at Trump to his face over the trans sports executive order, so if you wanna trash her please be sure you're sending the signals you intended to send.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

the trump administration attempted to assassinate a critic and when she lived, they prosecuted her for surviving

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 2d

you have to admire the political genius of pointlessly delaying the seating of a progressive from a swing state border district so she has more time to do national media hits calling you pedophile enablers

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d

Q: When you are sworn in, do you intend to sign the discharge petition that would force a vote on the release of the Epstein files?

Rep. elect Grijalva: Yes, I do. I would be 218. These files are the only thing that is different in me getting sworn in versus Reps Walkinshaw, Patronis, or Fine

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

that mcmorrow feels the need to do this is one of the clearest signs yet that genocide denial and pro-israel politics are well on their way to becoming losing issues in democratic primaries

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

www.politico.com

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t Not Christianity because the church is innocent and us Mainliners want to be The Good Ones for the secularists

This is Not Christianity because it is just straight-up fucking devil worship from false prophets and deceivers

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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 1d

(Kool-Aid man intensifies)

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn’t Tapper one of the big “Biden’s team is hiding his senility” guys? And then he signs on for this???

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the world is more complicated than "diversity is so cool! All the colors are great, be nice to each other :)" but as a starting point is basically unimpeachable.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 1d

All Dem governors should stand in solidarity with Pritzker and say they will withdraw as well if this demand isn’t met.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being Angela Merkel, who spent her entire career being relentlessly mocked - in policy and in word - by Viktor Orbán. And here, in retirement, you go to Hungary to essentially run a little personal campaign to shore up all his narratives, even against your own old party in Germany. Just lol

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 2d

🇩🇪🤔🇭🇺 Merkel: I never saw Orbán as Putin’s Trojan horse in the EU. That’s absurd, nonsense.

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