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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 1m

Yeah that soundtrack is excellent. The movie well captured “adrift in your 20s” in a way I imagined I would be but never was, and if I had been I don’t think I’d want to see it reflected back at me at this age

Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 4m

I can’t think of a single circumstance in which it is or should be acceptable to describe your human opponents/enemies as non-human or subhuman.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 5m

Maybe one is psychologically better at incentivizing behavior even if there’s no accounting difference

Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 6m

Is there a substantive difference between tax subsidies for families with children and an additional tax for people without children?

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 9m

I loved that movie when I was 16, but I am like 95% sure I would find it intolerable now

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 16m

I tend to agree, and that’s also why I think journalists should not ever say anything like “these people are not human” about their perceived enemies. It’s morally reprehensible.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 22m

I think there should be statutory damages for phishing and phone fraud attempts, and one-way attorneys fee shifting

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 59m

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 29m

Public D demands being a single issue that resonates publicly that they’re already ahead on gives them more leverage on basically everything. In this specific moment, they are doing very well.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 40m

he was also accused of sexual assault of a married woman who went out drinking with him while her husband and children slept in the very same hotel.

he claims he merely had consensual sex with her while her husband and children slept elsewhere in the hotel.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 48m

It doesn’t seem like it’s landing. The same way Ds got caught completely flatfooted back in March, Rs seem to have been caught completely flatfooted on this fight and they are struggling to catch up on messaging.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 53m

Crucifixion of dogs?

Caesar’s Legion n the march again, I see. Storming the banks of the Colorado river.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 51m

He’s been spending too much time around Noem

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

That dynamic already happens a lot; from what I see, patents tend (sometimes successfully) to counterbalance it and give more bargaining power to an otherwise less-resourced party

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

I have more thoughts about it I may write up later. The present system basically requires new ventures to treat patents as an ongoing cost to build a portfolio, and without them, in competitive relationships, the winner would tend to be the party that already has more resources

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

Patent monopolies for most things are already pretty weak

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 9h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 10h

#KavanaughRaid
“federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning.”

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 9h

my kid’s elementary school is doing red ribbon week but it doesn’t seem to be associated with drugs in any obviously discernible way

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 9h

…*does* everyone know that? It isn’t my expectation. Maybe you know something I don’t.

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 10h

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 10h

based on who is currently running I will probably vote for Becerra in the primary

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think the CA (statewide) likes DSA candidates. I don't and wouldn't vote for one if I had any other reasonable D option.

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