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Kindler

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After decades working in public policy on sustainability, gaining advanced degrees in Poli Sci & Environmental Policy, blogging on Virginia politics at Blue Virginia and more, I’ve launched my own journal on Substack (https://kindler.substack.com)

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Trump’s 'Smash Sparrows' Campaigns: Because Dictatorships are Really, Really Stupid." My latest on Substack:

Trump’s “Smash Sparrows” Campaigns

Because Dictatorships are Really, Really Stupid

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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 6h

She’s a talented and focused suckup. The fact that that’s the most rewarded skill in our society is a problem

David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 6h

Man if this isn't the perfect quote re Weiss: “She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

Kind of wonder what the media reaction would have been if Biden accidentally publicly ordered Garland to prosecute his enemies.

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 6h

Quick, send in Miss Piggy as a honeytrap!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 6h

I cancelled my @washingtonpost.com subscription back when Bozos announced the new right wing editorial policy but I also just deleted the WaPo app so they don’t get any benefit from tracking me.

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 8h

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 6h

Round up the usual suspects.

Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 6h

Trademark that idea before Marvel steals it!

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 6h

I think the message is that we need to leapfrog over this awful moment in history.

Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 6h

The Fetterman experiment has failed. Start the long term planning for his replacement (or I hope it’s already underway)…

Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 7h

Good thing we made sure not to have a senile president in the White House anymore!

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 9h

Southern right whales are growing in number after being on the brink of extinction.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 9h

We are ruled by criminal morons

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 10h

Even if they torture you, please don’t give away the secret handshake!

Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 10h

Attn all Virginia state elected officials and candidates - we can rein in Dominion Energy’s out of control political spending - $86 million to date - if we exert the political will.
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David Pomerantz @davidpomerantz.bsky.social · 20h

It's not the only or even the main reason @governor.ca.gov
should sign it, but this bill is tailor-made for him to say "I will stand up to powerful interests to lower your monthly bills."

Seems like the kinda thing he wants to communicate!

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California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending

State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 11h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 11h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social does fact the President is living in a fantasy world, and deploying military based on delusions a problem for US? Or only a problem if he were a Democrat?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 12h

Help Democrats absolutely demolish the Repubs in Virginia and New Jersey over the next month and we get to send a very loud message to these lunatics about what we think of them and how we are working to send them back to the fever swamps from whence they came.

Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 12h

Looking forward to the upcoming White House Reptilian Summit!

Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 12h

Is there any oxygen left flowing to that brain?

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Ernesto O. @ernest33141.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still NOT been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
#EpsteinFiles #FuckTrump

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 14h

Lame story does not even mention that crime is at 30 YEAR LOWS, instead does a lazy both sides hack job.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 14h

Jeffries says Dems "have made clear privately and publicly" to Mike Johnson that Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) must be sworn in.

"Why the delay?" he asks. "Does it have anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files from the American people?"

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 15h

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) a bit more blunt in his message to Republicans:

"Show up to Congress and do your goddamn job."

"Millions of people are about to lose their health care. This is a serious crisis we're in. We can avoid. it."

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