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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 23h

Let me emphasize once again that if you’re inclined toward “no deal is possible with these guys” then trying to make a reasonable deal and getting this reaction demonstrates that far better than just asserting it and refusing to try would have.

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 1d

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 23h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 23h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 21h

"why didn't we simply have this fight during the *first* CR? that would have prevented healthcare cost rises altogether!"

Because every last median voter needs to see the reality of "Republicans took away your healthcare subsidies" hit their wallets.

They're seeing this *now*, and Dems are winning

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 21h

This. So many people On Here just assume that if you start from a public position of "these people are bad faith partners and no deal is possible" the general public will just jump on board.

The reality is that you have to *demonstrate* that they're bad partners by letting them touch the stove.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 23h

Let me emphasize once again that if you’re inclined toward “no deal is possible with these guys” then trying to make a reasonable deal and getting this reaction demonstrates that far better than just asserting it and refusing to try would have.

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 1d

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 21h

there are few pieces of pop wisdom held more dearly by the general public than the idea that the answers to our many problems are in fact easy and common sense and only partisan bickering keeps people from just working together to answer them. You have to work hard to overcome that

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Simon @simon-blone.bsky.social · 33m

man i forgot about that

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Annie D. Piombo @prostoserdov.bsky.social · 1h

Her former chief of staff, Jordan Wood, is in the Dem primary to face Susan Collins.

His answers about her are, shall we say, wooden.

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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 11h

Another good thing about Biden is he tried to keep people like this away from his administration.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 8h

by the way, I'm a bit of a realpolitker in that I think if this shit's gonna come out, far better now than later.

I don't think she had much of a shot to win anyway tbh. Not after the way the Senate race ended. I said that she and Beto both should've cooked in the House a while first...

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Tony @tiletony.bsky.social · 8h

She is a showboater that thought her social media popularity was going to propel her beyond her dreams. Got a fat head about it, and this is the results.

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 8h

Porter said that primary was rigged. She learned everything and nothing from Elizabeth Warren, a consummate politician.

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 10h

This directly speaks to her inability to properly represent Californians as Governor. It's not just a purity test. If the staffers are scared of abuse, how can I trust that the concerns from my calls are actually being told to the elected, and not silenced out of fear?

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 9h

My confederate neighbor told me the submarine keeps drowning his sailors so I asked how many sailors he has and he said he just goes to the navy and gets new sailors afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding sailors to the ocean and then his commanding officer started crying

“The confederacy sent into action the world’s first combat submarine, the CSS Huntley, which sank three times in trials, drowning the crew each time (including its inventor Horace Huntley) before sink a blockade ship near Charleston in 1864 while going down itself for the fourth and last time”

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CalmKitty @calmkitty.bsky.social · 21h

Dictatorship does require some measure of public buy-in, though, which is why most dictators or would-be dictators use a carrot-and-stick approach to shore up their support before going full hog.

Trump and Republicans generally have no carrot, and have not from the start.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 21h

the problem with "things were always this bad" is that it is rhetoric that exists, specifically and exclusively, to deny the lived reality that Republicans Fucking Make Shit Worse, and it usually comes from a place of "both parties serve the same masters!!" performative, weaponised cynicism

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 21h

I mean look I get that this is rhetoric and I get what she's saying but ACTUALLY most paid mercenaries are in fact human beings. That's typically who's available.

people running major media are not human beings

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 21h

And yet I was repeatedly told that we should just ignore the issue of antisemitism among the left because they're supposedly just a small, irrelevant minority of leftists.

Hmmmmmm

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 21h

the extent to which leftists are comfortable becoming outright anti-Jewish and saying things they would never say about any other marginalized group, usually while trivializing the Holocaust, is horrifying

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wine dad @winedad.bsky.social · 21h

Quite telling that every left leaning politician or pundit had to lock comments on their October 7th anniversary posts yesterday.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, the "you could not buy the lifestyle that $40k a year in 2025 America buys you for all the tea in China" aspect of it all

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21h

But this is why simple inflation calculations like this over long spans of time (basically anything pre-1950) is a bad idea and why actual comparative economic studies will use more sophisticated international dollar (or 'Geary-Khamis' dollars), though even those struggle pre-1900 or so.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21h

And of course that's before we consider any of the impacts of income transfers, SNAP benefits and such for the minimum wage family.

By contrast, Cratchet's government in 1843 is not only not helping him feed his family, through the Corn Laws, they are actively *raising* the price of grain.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21h

The pressures of poverty on these two households are very different. Cratchet has to be sincerely worried about getting enough raw nutrition for his children (implied by Tiny Tim, probably suffering rickets); the minimum wage household is poor, but not the same extreme kind of poor.

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