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Nancy Friedman @queenief.bsky.social · 4h

A long “journey” for Nobel chemistry winner born to Palestinian refugees - The Washington Post

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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 5h

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We Have Two Options

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 11h

He does control the state police, and yet

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

ISP just shoved an elderly woman to the ground. Trooper here declares an unlawful assembly and is screaming at people to stay out of the road (they were...already out of the road).

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RevolutionaryRadish @revoradish.bsky.social · 12h

Dems take note. This is what your constituents want to see. We know you don’t control every lever of power, so it’s less right now about triangulation and strategy, and more about what you’re willing to put on the line. Please show us you’re willing to stand up for and with us.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 12h

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”

… but what is plenary authority?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 5h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Bob Meier @bmeier79.bsky.social · 1d

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 8h

President Snooze Beast is back!

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 6h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Howie @howardbr.bsky.social · 1d

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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 9h

MTG is QAnon first, MAGA second, and she knows what's coming when the Epstein files finally get out.

Travie 🍂 @tzgrey78.bsky.social · 9h

Holy shit
If MTG is making sense

Then things have gotten really bad 😭

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 8h

trump crossed the line to objectively fascist a long time ago but it's funny that he can have an anti-anti-fascist task force and people still treat it like an open question

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

Real quandary for Rubio: how do you pull your boss out of a meeting with Andy Ngo and other esteemed pro-fascist personages?

Secretary of State Marco Rubio whispers in the ear of President Donald Trump after handing him a note about a Middle East deal saying "Very close. We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first"

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

had never before considered that the inflatable costumes offer pepper ball protection

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Brannigan Has Arrived @brannigan.bsky.social · 5h

The key to this argument is near the end of the piece: politicians are not supposed to be entertainment. Yet Trump got elected twice in part because of his entertainment value. Arguably this is a larger cultural issue: not the swearing per se but our constant need to be entertained.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 7h

Seriously, politicians need to cut the f'n swearing:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Politicians Aren’t Cool Enough to Curse This Much

Political leaders once watched their language. Now they delight in using obscenity.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nancy Friedman @queenief.bsky.social · 4h

They are not a good idea

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4h

Well, helps to read the article, but I think after Amy McGrath and Jaime Harrison raised a total of 220 million dollars and then lost by double-digits in no-hoper campaigns, it's a reasonable question to ask whether those kinds of candidates are a good idea.

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 4h

The party central committee is upset that people dare question their wise leadership?

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 16h

pritzker’s campaign theme is going to be won’t back down by tom petty mark this prophesy

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15h

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

Oh this is not great

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Not how I remember it

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

Greg Abbott is a lackey of Donald Trump.

He’s going against exactly what he said he would do last year.

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