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Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 5d

This.

This is a far more elegant and clear way of describing what's necessary - what we need today - than I've been able to do. This is what absolutely claws at me from moderates & those who've already given up even trying to run another woman candidate.

Now is the time to dig in & double-down!!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5d

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

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Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

It’s so funny that we finally got confirmation it was an accident and even funnier that we didn’t know for sure because he tweets such crazy, criminal shit all the time

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 8h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 10h

Slava Ukraini!!!!!! Finally, even former Soviet "Republics" who have long suffered under Russia's imperialistic thumb are standing up to Putin & his crumbling country!

Even if some of these components still make their way to Russia, they will cost substantially more, meaning Russia can afford less.

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1d

One of Russia’s main supply routes from China has been shut down. From today, the border with Kazakhstan is fully stopped.. over 5,000 trucks are stuck, inspections are ongoing, and goods are being confiscated. Drones, EW gear, batteries, components, nothing is getting through.

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 10h

Nevermind actually helping fund the government's ballooning deficit. They're rapidly approaching some critical decisions that they have to make. Either keep the Ruble value high and let inflation go wild or lower it and bring in less revenue from already depleted fuel sales.

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 10h

Everything is a bit of a guess with Russia, you can't trust anything that come out of the country but you may want to check out @prune602.bsky.social's threads about how well their bond auctions are going.

The tl;dr is that they're barely keeping up with their own bond repayment obligations....

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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 15h

Simple principle: if it would be a war crime when done to enemy soldiers, then it shouldn’t be done to civilians by the US government

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 17h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo. @why-gestapo-shaped.bsky.social · 14h

We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Sickening.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 12h

Last week Illinois State Police were in Broadview attacking protestors alongside ICE goons. Where was Pritzker then? I haven't seen him say a word about that.

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 12h

Where was Pritzker last week when Illinois State Police took a field trip to Broadview to beat up and harass protestors?

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 12h

Where were you last week when the Illinois State Police were attacking protestors???? Saddam talked a big game too and troops found him in a hole.

Let's see you back your words up with real action.

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 13h

Plenary authority = absolute authority.

That's why Miller shut down and quit speaking until after the commercial break. Further proof that they're looking into the Insurrection Act as that's the only/most applicable "concrete" plenary authority he has under Title 10.

Diana 💙 @jstmeinmo.bsky.social · 18h

Light up BlueSky with this dip sh*ts mistake…
Repost!!! Show SM what an embarrassment he really is!!!

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 13h

Insane stat.

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 14h

The average pitch the Cubs batters have seen this postseason is 92.7 MPH.

Not the average "fastball." The average PITCH. All of them.

That's faster than the average -fastball- the 2008 Cubs saw in the playoffs: 92.4.

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 13h

I want to like him more, but he still hasn't said anything about why Illinois State Police were on site in Broadview last week participating in ICE violence against protestors.

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Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 13h

Just going to point out: Pritzker is absolutely right.

That said, he still owes answers for why Illinois State Police joined in on the ICE brutality last week.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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"

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 13h

@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Just put out a great bit on this.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18h

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical.

Reuters today. Fascism.

Reuters story headlines:

Trunp calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 17h

I am so tired of our media letting weaselly little shits like Mike Johnson slide on these evasions.

Why *aren’t* you aware of blatant violations of the Constitution, Mike?! What makes you at all capable of holding this job?? Why should anyone believe a word coming out of your shitty little mouth??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 16h

A red dot sight on a salt gun?

I bet Trump is going to give them all Combat Infantry Badges too.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

The people running our major media institutions are not human beings—they're paid mercenaries.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 19h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
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Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 16h

Portland is a god damn vibe.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 16h

This is giving me second hand embarrassment for him. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone better prepare a go-bag and get their passports ready. If Trump is going to declare an insurrection to keep power, this will be the Casus Belli.

Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 16h

I'm being dead serious here:

Prepare a go-bag and get your passport at the ready. This may be the justification Trump uses to enact the Insurrection Act - if it's real.

I don't think Swalwell is a liar, but I'll believe this when I see it.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19h

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Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸 @hawkattack.bsky.social · 16h

That's not gonna be why, he might claim courts ruling against him as part of the reason, but this case likely won't make or break anything. The lawsuits challenging NG presence in Chicago, Portland, and other cities like NYC that he wants to get into will have a much greater impact.