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Analytical Left

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Tolerance is an agreement, not a suicide pact. We AGREE to tolerate each other. If one aide refuses to tolerate the other, then there IS NO AGREEMENT to uphold, and we are NOT called to tolerate their intolerance. No paradox at all.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · Feb 10

For those wondering: we *are* morally obligated to extend the *offer* of a tolerance agreement, and accept it *if agreed*.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 7h

Trump calls his magic wand "Tariffs"

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 12h

"Angry Yeti Roundtable"

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 17h

Trump is for Trump, nothing more, nothing less.

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 17h

Hagerty: "Back when I was born, Obama and the FBI surveilled me - I KNEW they were hiding under the bed and in the closet!!

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 17h

Every MAGAt loser is a Hero in their mind's novel

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 17h

This is not only amazingly racist but deeply anti-Christian. Fuck this shit.

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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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 18h

And, of course, his lying weasel word response is entirely unchallenged. Yay brave journalists.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 18h

In Trump's America, you're an order of magnitude more likely to get attacked on the street by ICE and the National Guard than by any foreign gang member.

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Bad Faith Times @dennycarter.badfaithtimes.com.ap.brid.gy · 5d

OK Tough Guy

Stephen Miller wants you to tremble before him. Laugh instead.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 1d

We could hear them laughing

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

3/ it's really better to say the presidential is either delusional or suffering from dementia. people don't have to play the emperors clothes game. on top of that political fight is good. but this doesn't even get to that.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

the way he fuckin talks it sounds like he’s going to murder them

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

President Trump addressed backpay for furloughed workers, saying that some "don't deserve to be taken care of" and that he'll take care of them in a different way.

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

"we reject your reality, and substitute our own"

MAGA Marching Hymn

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

"Chicago will be Saved"... From what? Malort?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Snotty Mean Girl lies. In other news, water is wet.

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

"we reject your reality, and substitute our own"

MAGA Marching Hymn

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Like all MAGAt conspiracies... Made up just-so stories. No more real than "the elephant got a long nose because an alligator grabbed and pulled it's nose"

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi Defense: Snotty Mean Girl

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Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 2d

"We reject your reality, and substitute our own."

MAGA Marching Hymn

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 2d

"We reject your reality, and substitute our own."

MAGA Marching Hymn

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 2d

As always, Trump's relationships are ENTIRELY transactional. "Hey, god; I'll do this for you, you do that for me"

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