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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 2h

It has seemed to buy Dems good will with the political press tbf. I still wouldn’t have funded the government of course.

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 6h

fetterman is a straightforwardly evil person

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 5h

I know it is impossible for our political culture and press to imagine but conservatives can have media bubbles too.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 12h

i don't think the news media believes that things actually happen anymore

they're only aware of people *saying* a thing happened, and perhaps some other people saying something different

but the thing itself? they all suddenly become hardline kantians: "no no no, we can't perceive the *noumenal*"

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 17h

Also no one (for good reason) campaigns there

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah we really do need a grassroots movement in the Democratic Party to take this stuff seriously

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Caldwell dates this to 1993 rather than 1948 but is of course making the exact argument that was made against the Truman administration's desegregation order.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2d

what has to be better understood is that for reactionaries and reactionary centrists across the country, 2020's summer of protests never ended and this is their bid to finally *win*

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 3d

NYT headline somehow makes Oregon officials sound like the out of control aggressors

NYT: Oregon officials vent fury as California national guard heads to Portland

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 2d

Matt Yglecias

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

politicians should moderate on exactly the issues that are most important to me, personally -- and that's why kamala lost. not because of "the economy"

Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 2d

2024 was an anti-incumbent year around the globe largely because of forces beyond any one lawmaker's control and I feel like that's where all analyses should start and I don't really know how much more complicated it should get than that.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 2d

Uncharacteristically for me couching my words bc sincerely above all else they’re just not worth my vitriol.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 2d

Should clarify that I heard this before but just couldn’t resist that gif it was too perfect.

But yeah they’re not great and give unions a bad name.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a suit and tie is making a surprised face .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a surprised face .

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 2d

Piracy is a moral obligation

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: Paramount is buying The Free Press for $150 million and appointing Bari Weiss, the news site's co-founder, as the editor in chief of CBS News. nyti.ms/4gUnu5D

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t usually engage in this kind of activism but I did just cancel this one and left “Bari Weiss” as the comment on why.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 2d

Genuine question I’ve been wondering- do you think climate change is real?

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Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social · 2d

As you read this puff piece about how brave and steadfast Amy Coney Barrett is, keep in mind that the house of South Carolina circuit court judge Diane Goodstein exploded over the weekend and some of her family members barely escaped with their lives. She had recently ruled against the admin.

As justices confront harassment, death threats and an assassination attempt, Barrett declares "I'm not afraid"

In an interview with CBS News, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said of the Supreme Court's emergency orders in the Trump cases, "This isn't the final decision."

www.cbsnews.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Other states need to begin intentional punishment of the hostile Texas government, including cancelling state government contracts with Texas companies and interfering with their commerce such as by imposing onerous Texas-company-specific certifications and licensing.

Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 2d

This is both true and also we need to note how eager Texas has shown itself to be to send its own NG into blue states to try and forcibly occupy them. The Texas GOP is a source of evil in this country snd the next Dem administration needs to go about breaking them as an R power center.

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 3d

okay but its kinda funny that every time Trump is like "I'm going to war with America's cities!" it just kinda falls apart and a judge dunks on him for being a criminal moron

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 3d

OK, so this is going to be tough to hear, but it needs to be said.

Now that Trump has been enjoined from sending *any* NG to Oregon, ICE is going to go gangbusters in Oregon, dialing everything up to 1000%.

Because they need riots. They need someone punching an ICE officer.

DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

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hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I want Del Torro to win, but I will be gutted when Regina Hall loses.

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