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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2d

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, good.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 8h

"Italian producers wary as Trump's war against pasta comes to a boil" would have been a better headline.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe he'll ask for a $20 billion bailout.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 8h

"In the Middle East it often does."

Almost like cavalierly drawing geopolitical boundaries and centuries of imperialist skullduggery aren't great ingredients for stability.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

Drewsky for sketchers

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

Defeat the many grasping tentacles of fascism!

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

Bread and circuses except you have to pay for both, and also the circus tents are tax-exempt.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

Now I'm thinking of her King of the Hill cameo and also her line about George W. Bush being "born with a silver foot in his mouth."

a man with a beard says now that 's a name i ve not heard in a long time

ALT: a man with a beard says now that 's a name i ve not heard in a long time

media.tenor.com

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

We have an electorate of the eternally adolescent.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

In homes and Facebook groups, our friends and family continually buy in to conspiracy theorizing and casual racism, and pushback never happens for the sake of "civility." The unserious nature of American political discourse is an endpoint, not a start.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

There is no substance to our discourse; we have educational institutions where students aren't given what they need to meet proficiency standards, but are still promoted anyway. We have churches where the prosperity gospel and cheap grace are the order of the day.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

There are so many mediocrities who run for office. Almost none of them can look past the next election cycle. Awareness of long-term trends is alien to them. The odds are not in our favor any more, and rah-rahing a bloated military complex and doing performative patriotism is doing fuck-all for us.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

We need someone who has the slightest goddamn awareness of how America's economic and geopolitical influence is slowly waning due to a variety of factors, some irreversible, and can triangulate a course to slow this decline for as long as possible. They need an ounce of fucking vision.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

Same with the Trump-era tariffs (a misuse of tariff authority) that Biden opted to keep in place even though Congress didn't approve them.

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Real Person @gremlingussy.bsky.social · 10h

Shadow Docket. This Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump an appalling number of times without explaining themselves and they worked against the Biden administration. They are not impartial and their corruption is open and flagrant.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_...

Shadow docket - Wikipedia

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 15h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h

It's so important to nip the framing of this reporting in the bud right now.

Don't accept the narrative that Trump and his team only just started discussing invoking the Insurrection Act. January 6 happened because his White House was in conversation with radicals about what it'd take to invoke it.

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington