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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 43m

That's what they've been doing, to the point that people on here constantly yell at them for being too narrowly focused on these issues.

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 52m

I don't really care because Trump is a coward and its recent black letter law but this is an as-usual disgusting sentiment from an as-usually disgusting President

NER430 @ner430.bsky.social · 2h

Barely two hours later, Trump sent a different message: “I would say it depends who we’re talking about,” he told reporters when asked about guaranteeing back pay. “For the most part, we’re going to take care of our people, but for some people they don’t deserve to be taken care of.”

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 55m

So Donald Trump, the notoriously unreliable and dishonest negotiator, has tried to fuck over EU after they supposedly put together a trade deal & breaking the agreement and pushing for more? I'm shocked.

Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 3h

Washington has asked Brussels to scrap requirements for non-EU companies to provide “climate transition plans” and to change supply chain legislation to exclude US companies “with high-quality corporate due diligence”, according to a document seen by @financialtimes.com

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US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal

[FREE TO READ] Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1h

I met Samantha after Trump’s agents took her mom off the street yesterday, which she confirmed by watching video we showed her.

“She looks ready to cry… she wanted to go to the store. She wanted to make some albondigas which is basically a meatball stew” youtu.be/9dx266qOOic?...

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

The single most important lesson Democrats can actually learn is to banish the grifter podcaster class from their circles and ignore the armchair strategizing from know nothing dipshits on social media

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

This sort of wrong rock concern trolling is especially funny to see while we are in the midst of Democrats succeeding atm by (sticking with the metaphor here) playing a better game of chess

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If you sit down to play a game of chess and your opponent punches you in the face, you're not going to prevail by getting better at chess.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 21h

Another example of TPUSA ‘doing politics the right way’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

The credulousness of our elites will be our undoing

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1h

yeah like Miller (and his equivalent for monpol, Miran) are just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. The problem isn't that they have some great savy, it's that people who should know better are being credulous. @convolutedname.bsky.social

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

This era is marked by a lot of ppl being unable to reconcile with the fact that dumb/sloppy/lazy ppl can sometimes win & even be successful for a time but that doesnt make them not dumb/sloppy/lazy.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

A thing I've noticed a bunch over the last several years is that ppl in very elite/educated spaces look at ppl outside of that doing stupid shit & think "well they must have some savvy method here that i'm not privy to" and like, nah, sometimes things are as they appear & ppl are just stupid

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

I say that not because of credentialism or anything, but that his ideas of how to use the law are basic at best and not some genius way to interpret it.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

I think all this stuff gives a guy who does not have a law degree (or a graduate degree in general) way too much credit and I do not think Dems need to reckon with his "understanding" at all.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

Portlandia is a central document of the American anti-fascist movement.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

This is I think worth noting. Last week Politico, Axios, & co were quite gleefully saying that Democrats were going to get blame for the shutdown, now theyre sounding the alarm for Republicans. This shutdown hasnt turned out the way they thought it would for their GOP allies.

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

this is as much a message from politico to the GOP as anything else: politico would be happy to launder any message the GOP offered if it had one to launder; they don't, so this is politico's execs telling the GOP to either shit or get off the pot

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 1h

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 10h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

Whats there to struggle over? Vote for the bill to save ppls healthcare. Its very easy.

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

“.. a swift reversal of what had been a hopeful sign of a revival in the US housing market.”

@bloomberg.com $XHB
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3h

The Unofficial Jobs Numbers Are In and It’s Rough Out There

In a federal data blackout, Wall Street numbers and surveys are filling the void

WSJ: www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 9h

Funny how the media turns on the GOP riiiigghhhtt about the time they detonate safe flights.

Suzanne Kelleher @srkelleher.bsky.social · 17h

“The air traffic system, in general, is stressed to the max,” a veteran air traffic controller working at a major East Coast airport told Forbes on Tuesday, adding “sick outs will continue to happen because the [controllers] aren’t fit for duty.”

www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

Overstressed, Unpaid Air Traffic Controllers ‘Aren’t Fit For Duty,’ Says Agency Veteran

Cracks in the air travel system are widening, as air traffic controllers bear the strain of an understaffed system and no pay until the government shutdown ends.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 10h

Doctors pointing to healthcare CEO pay when anyone brings up healthcare costs is kind of like AirBnB owners making six figures pointing at the Hilton CEO’s pay package when you ask why hotels and Airbnbs cost what they do

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10h

This is the kind of person who’s going to keep picking fights and that’s not the kind of person you should be listening to online

Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 12h

Straight-up, if you want this person's respect, I do not want yours

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so where l'm at is basically that everyone on this website is insane about Al and also Hailey deserved every single ounce of hatred she received because that thread was horrendously written and intended to provoke outrage, and I do not feel the slightest bit of sympathy for her.

as a lawyer I'm particular about word choice and Hailey made a series of terrible choices that resulted in her deserving the full consequences of her words. sucks to suck.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 10h

btw, his belated realization during the primary that he had fucked himself over with his arrogance also resulted in the conclusion of "time to get nasty." It didnt work then and it wont work now, mostly bc Cuomos nastiness is exactly what ppl hate about him. Cannot wait for him to lose again.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 10h

For everyone paying attention, this is, yet again, the same dynamic from the primary. Every day Cuomo doesnt run a real campaign (which he isnt) he slips further behind. There are 27 days left until election day & he is apparently only just now realizing how he's wasted the last several months.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11h

3/ Here's the full Cuomo death watch story.
“Voters have decided it’s time for new blood."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

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