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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

the gop is going to try their damndest to make it illegal to be a democrat. and this is why as effective as the health care attack is, it cannot be the only thing democrats talk about.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2h

So the Dem proposal would take away $50b and give back $1500b? Someone who is good at economy please help me budget this my rural hospitals are dying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "Their counter-proposal CR would spend $1.5t and take away the $50b that we passed into law just on July 4 to prop up rural hospital. Who cares about healthcare here?"

cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2h

They're paid better BECAUSE they're ignorant and unprofessional. The guys paying their salary want people not bright enough to see the evils of the empire, or unscrupulous enough to not care.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4h

FFS "antifa" is just a bunch of guys.

It's not an organization. It's people who don't like what the government is doing to it's own people.

My media colleagues in this country are so fucking stupid.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Also worth noting that in this poll specifically, strong opposition outnumbers ALL support.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Who could have predicted this besides everyone paying attention?

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like they removed your quote and blocked you, now.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

He's an oaf, a brute, and socially unaware, but he's funny and usually makes for good TV. I don't know what you'd call it other than "charisma"

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

You can't even parody this shit anymore. It's identical to what you'd see @nytpitchbot.bsky.social post.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

The Washington Post is using bothsidesism to justify everything Trump is doing.

From yesterday on political purges in the military. They compared it to covid vaccine policies.

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A screenshot of a paragraph from an article with white text on a black background. The text discusses Hegseth’s actions since taking office, stating that he has challenged traditional norms by saying as recently as last week that generals and admirals should resign if they don’t support the Trump administration’s policies. It compares this to the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, which led to the dismissal of thousands of troops.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

OK? You asked what good it does for progressives to go on right wing media. That's the answer: to expose a new audience to your ideology.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

The left doesn't allow nazis on their platforms because it allows them to spread their ideology to a new audience. The exact same logic applies in reverse. Maybe 95% of people watching aren't convinced by it, but you're not going to convince anyone by preaching to your own choir every day.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Gaul received defacto independence near the end of the Roman Empire after legions were withdrawn from the area to deal with an incursion from Illyria

cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

They deserve even more than that. Fuck off with this shit.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Exclusive: A Post investigation reveals widespread fraud at the Department of Veterans Affairs’s $193 billion disability program, with veterans faking injuries for money.

The program’s reliance on an honor system makes it vulnerable to exploitation.

VA’s disability program is an ‘honor system.’ These veterans are defrauding it.

Post investigation finds VA’s $193 billion disability program has turned into a rich target for fraudsters. Some fake blindness or paralysis to get as much as $1 million.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

the world of republican congressional leadership, just constantly unaware of anything in the world

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

I very explicitly just said I'm not claiming it was purposeful

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

And Stalin's system of oppression bears no responsibility for discouraging bad news from reaching the central government? Please.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not going to argue that it was definitely on purpose, but it was at best deeply and deliberately neglectful to a known area of resistance to Stalin's rule.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

There is no famine, anywhere, without human intervention, there is just a food shortage. The Soviet government continued to export grain from Ukraine after it became clear there wasn't enough food to feed the population.

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

How many people do capitalist nations starve because they can't afford food? Britain let the Bengal famine occur unabated during WWII and had nearly a dozen famines occur across India during their colonial rule. Does that condemn Britain to the extent that the holodomor condemns the USSR?

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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 2d

The Satanists I know are all against ICE.