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Dante Atkins

@danteatkins.bsky.social

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Fiona and Rowan's dad, basically. Spider guy, Lefty Dem, pragmatic progressive. Win elections with the majority you have, not the majority you wish you had.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · Jul 8

"Freedom of maneuver" is a military term designed to distinguish between pacified and hostile territory in an occupation setting, in case that helps inform you of how the federal government views American cities.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jul 7

Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.

After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.

Per the briefing:
"On order, 1-18th Cavalry Squadron provides static interagency site protection, mounted mobile security, and Joint Force Land Component Command UFLCC) Reserve support to Customs and Border Patrol (CRP) and supporting federal agencies, whose intent at MacArthur Park is to demonstrate, through a show of presence, the capacity and freedom of maneuver or federal law enforcement within the Los Angeles Joint Operations Area (JOA)."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 40m

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 50m

Again: "we randomly murder so many people that subsistence fishermen would rather starve than die" and he just says this shit out loud

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 58m

I used to believe that anything connecting Trump to Epstein was just embarrassing, not outright incriminating. But when the Attorney General refuses to answer the question "does the FBI have pictures of the President with naked girls" and the Speaker won't swear in a new member to avoid a vote...

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans have exactly one playbook, which is, inflict maximum cruelty at every occasion, and when that doesn't work they don't have a plan b

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

“.. I think they are absolutely struggling to figure out how they are going to get out of this.”

@politico.com #Shutdown
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 11h

They're ridding themselves of the meddlesome priests now

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11h

Much much better Chuck.

Gotta keep it going, keep it going, full steam!!

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 14h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19h

"Are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

"You're a poopyhead"

"I repeat, are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

Silence.

Bondi ain't defending Trump on this one.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 19h

Checking in on Matt Stoller's prediction that Trump is going to lead the antitrust revolution. Updates?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22h

Notice her non-answer.

This is explosive. Should be explosive. The US AG who said she had the Epstein files on her desk cannot say whether or not the FBI has pix of Trump with half-naked women, which one witness who knew Epstein has said he has seen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 23h

It is very telling that the answer from Bondi here is not "yes, I do, and nothing like that was ever found"

They know, and they're protecting a child rapist

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

WHITEHOUSE: Do you know if the FBI found photographs of Trump with half-naked young women in their search of Epstein's safe or premises?

BONDI: You're trying to slander President Trump when you're the one who was taking money from one of Epstein's closest confidants. I could be wrong. Correct me.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

Legacy newspapers: "Print media is dying, and the public will suffer for it."

Also legacy newspapers: "We can't offend the government with information and framing that helps the public."

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing to think about how we got here: The delusional mad king was watching Fox News b-roll, thought it was a current event, and decided to invade Portland--and now the entire MAGA movement is trying to turn Trump's delusions into reality.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's tweet that Portland is "war ravaged" just backfired. A Trump-picked judge cited it in blocking National Guard deployment to Portland, declaring him "untethered from facts."

On the pod, Oregon AG Dan Rayfield illuminatingly explains the ruling and what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss

As a judge’s blunt ruling blocks Trump from deploying troops in Portland, Oregon’s Attorney General tells us in an interview that Trump’s lawless threats are working against him—and discusses what com...

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Meme about how bad the Dodgers' bullpen is

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Dave Roberts going with season-long failure mega MAGA man Blake Treinen over Vesia or Sasaki is the type of stupidity that loses championships

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

No "assurance" or "promise" any Republican makes on anything is worth a single thing, at all. It has exactly zero value. Why would any Democrat agree to anything that's not a piece of legislative text, when even legislative text is ignored by the wannabe dictators of the Trump regime?

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

The Senator who enabled the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh is selling snake oil again. #MEPoltiics

Will some Democrats be stupid enough to buy?

Robert Costa screenshot from X:

"Robert Costa @costareports
Senator Collins says at the Capitol tonight that she’s circulating a bipartisan plan that will commit to moving to address health-care subsidies once the government is reopened… she showed reporters a folder that had a printout of what she said could be a way out of shutdown"

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah man great idea what if we used submerged state policies to raise everyone's taxes as a hidden cost and gave some of that money back to people stochastically in the form of a check with Trump's signature on it around election season, great freakin' plan, galaxy brain logic for the working class

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

It's also kind of nonsensical if you think about it for ten seconds. One party controls every branch of the federal government and is deploying that power to do something crazy and unprecedented about five times a day. There is just objectively a hell of a lot more to scrutinize.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

"6. Journalism that holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny."

Journalism that fits this description has not existed in the US for decades now and is effectively impossible within the informal social & economic constraints in which US journalism works.

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is literally a factual description of the end-times theology of much of evangelical Christianity. Suspending Erin for posting it is absurd.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal.

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"All the Jews have to die or convert to trigger the rapture. Then our dead bodies surround Jerusalem and they climb over us to reach Jesus, who will bring them to heaven. It's why they're all Zionists obsessed with Israel.
Cause they need Jews to go there so we can die"

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is complete nonsensical word salad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Some of the reasons that premiums are going up is because if you take people who didn't know they had insurance and therefore never put in any claims off the rolls, then you still have people who are charging enough to make up the difference. But I do think there are criminal elements."

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Being duped by an "official Antifa" account isn't like being duped by parody accounts, which many of us have. It requires already being so far down the right wing misinformation shithole to believe such a thing could possibly exist and THEN being duped by a parody of a thing that doesn't exist

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Scott--was just in SF this weekend and was reminded of just how gorgeous it is.

Transit suggestions:

1) would love it if Muni could accept GPay instead of just Clipper cards, or if the Muni ticket machines could dispense Clippers

2) Need better integration of Muni with high-attendance events!

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

These guys are scared now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

4/4 and since that becomes the new standard for "illegals receiving health benefits" Republicans now feel the need to propose and pass laws outlawing that, which, if they passed, would force hospitals to let people without ID bleed out outside the front doors.

"Evil" is a kind word to describe this

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

3) In order to justify that lie, Karoline Leavitt says "well, the undocumented can show up with a life-threatening condition at an ER and get charity care paid by taxpayers" which, like, literally anyone can. Tourists can and do, citizens can and do, that's the entire fucking point of an ER

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