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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 3h

She has several grandchildren now, a father in his 90s, and her family all living in the Twin Cities again and she says she wants to spend time with them. She’s our better senator by a mile, but I respect her for not clinging to power to the bitter end. And Peggy Flanagan will be a good replacement.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 4h

Josh being not a gen z kid but a graybeard was a good reveal.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 4h

Hank respects quality stitching.

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 4h

I’ll fucking sign Trumps Nobel Peace Prize myself if it ends the genocide, starts aid, prevents Israeli annexation and stops the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza. We are a long way from that. Still better than Biden’s crew of super-geniuses managed.

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Gaza's Tomorrow is Yesterday

Plus the latest from the MENA Academy Last week, the Trump White House announced a somewhat odd 20 point peace plan for Gaza; the language was so casual and the key points so vague that I at first as...

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 4h

The ogre must go.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

in retrospect it was just great how milquetoast centrists decided the best way to react to the AWESOME police corruption and brutality exposed by the George Floyd protests was to go "actually, defund the police is a bad slogan, the Unserious Left needs to shut up" bsky.app/profile/mcle...

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 16h

They've known they have little to no control over these forces since 2020 and all chose to ignore it during the Democratic administration that might have given them some cover to do something about it!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

he probably doesn't! most American police forces are some combo of rogue paramilitary and criminal gangster conspiracy! but that's all the more reason to start standing up some loyal formations bsky.app/profile/kitc...

kitconway.bsky.social @kitconway.bsky.social · 16h

Pritzker seems to be semi waving the white flag on that and acting like he doesn't control his state police. Hope he reconsiders.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 4h

Hell yeah, brother.

Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 7h

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 8h

Everytime I open Compact:

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 8h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 10h

We live in the dumbest dystopia.

Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 13h

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 11h

All conservative social thought is just more or less attenuated versions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It's the only explanation they have.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

A Turning Point spokesman confirmed that Charlie Kirk's texts about Jewish donors are real.

"I'm not even gonna get into what the stereotypes are."

@willsommer.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social talk Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, and Israel:

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h

I think this is probably correct

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 12h

I do not know how to convince the old people who used to live in my neighborhood and decamped to the suburbs 30 years ago that the city was much more dangerous when they lived there.

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · Dec 5

Massive failures of memory and imagination. People who ought to be old enough to remember what violence in America was like in the 80s/90s are terrified of our current levels of crime.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 15h

give in

Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 15h

It's a much darker, meaner story than the movie. Spielberg completely retooled it into a story about a repressed nerd getting bullied into heteronormativity by apex predators, a la Bringing up Baby.

Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 15h

The sheer indignity of raising enough money to run for high office selects for certain, bad, personalities.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15h

Former Congressman Matt Gaetz recalled that at his first AIPAC event, he and other attendees were given name badges with QR codes so donors could scan them and contribute instantly.

“It’s like literally purchasing,” a panelist remarked.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 16h

Things are bad, but simultaneously shutting down government services, calling up the militia for unpopular domestic deployments and not paying them, and causing a food crisis is not something regimes long for the world do.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 17h

Trump's just picking up all the loaded guns that we've been piling up for decades.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 17h

Reanimating Thaddeus Stevens

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 17h

Anthony Bourdain had a chapter in his first book called "Why Restaurant Food Tastes So Good" and a big chunk of it was just "butter."

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