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Redback @redback.bsky.social · Apr 9

This is a relatively short and clarifying read.

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Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly

Trump's blunderbuss tariff policies are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn’t vote for him.

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Redback @redback.bsky.social · 12h

See also: Trump

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."

-Anne Frank

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Redback @redback.bsky.social · 4d

‘He’s killing me!’

No, he’s clubbing you with a bat.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 5d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

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Redback @redback.bsky.social · 6d

Geeze, You guys are going full apocalypse over there aren’t you?

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Redback @redback.bsky.social · 8d

I suspected it was going to rapidly fade into the ether like every other shooting. For once it’s grimly appropriate.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6d

Trump: we will do project 2025
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 6d

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

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Redback @redback.bsky.social · 6d

It's their one weird trick.

Shame it seems to work.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 19d

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

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Redback @redback.bsky.social · 7d

I showed District 9 to my (younger) kids a few weeks ago and forgot how much of it is body horror!

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Don Moore @capture907.bsky.social · 8d

There were several nice bursts last night. The first was around 930pm (what an early treat!). This is another bigger one about 125am. This timelapse covers about 5 minutes of time.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 7d

let the gourd times roll

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Redback @redback.bsky.social · 7d

Yes! Get everyone behind this messaging of trumps unstable behaviour, which everyone can see and hear for themselves

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 7d

Here's what I think Pritzker is trying to do.

- Reframe Trump's authoritarianism in seemingly non-ideological terms. It's no longer "He looks like a clown, but trust me: he wants to be king" it's "The reason he's acting like a king is because he's lost it, he's gone — demented. It's almost sad."

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 7d

As regular readers of my bad posts know, this account is very interested in Gov. Pritzker as not only a 2028 candidate on-paper but as someone who is trying to model a kind of post-Trump version of 'wartime liberalism' that makes concessions to things Trump exposed but tries to use them for good 1/n

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 7d

Here's the part that struck me most. And here's the reason I'll be fascinated to see if other Ds start following Pritzker's lead here and therefore whether we end up seeing polling about the effectiveness of the re-framing that *I think* Pritzker is trying to do here.