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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 11h

I kind of feel like there should be an avenue for bizarre, Rudyard Kipling style British racism that should point toward Churchill, but otherwise yeah

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 11h

It's myatproto.social! I had no idea until recently, but they make the switch pretty easy

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 12h

The number of pushups I would have had to do for flagging people with my weapon--let alone deliberately pointing it at them like this--that I have seen these ICE dipshits do just in the last couple of weeks would have me still in the front leaning rest all of these fifteen years later

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14h

Whichever way history turns, I have a feeling that this will be a historic photo

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

Want to see how corporate media that pretends to be objective sells right wing bullshit? Researchers found contributions to climate change from inhalers and suggested changes for how manufacturers could fix the problem. Rather than reporting that, CNN threw it onto the people with asthma

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

It is 100% because of the Big Lebowski

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

I keep thinking that there is something wrong with me that I can never remember that Thune is Senate Majority Leader, but then I remember that his one achievement has been to consign all of his power to Trump, and it makes a lot more sense

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

I don't even care about this campaign, but this is kind of what you get for resting on your laurels for 150 years, NYC 🤷

Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

Jerry Seinfeld (I know) had a joke about how, according to sci fi, everyone in the future will wear a unitard with some kind of stripe or whatever, which was kind of silly and fun, but here you're describing a sartorial future I can actually get behind

Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 15h

Artsy Black men and older Black women have the same wardrobe.

Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

Like to imagine that when I'm the first person executed by being dragged behind a patrol car for making an ICE agent sad one day, it will be a neat fact that I also lived next door to the actor who played Pryzbylewski on The Wire back in the old days when we thought the cops might be the bad guys

Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 13h

Samuel Beckett was neighbors with Andre the Giant when Andre was a child, and would sometimes give him a ride to school

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

I wish I could like this more than once

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

wut

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 15h

The VP and Senators are heavily invested in land speculation. Someone please call Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen because the dream of the 1790s are alive, just this time in DC

Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 15h

Vance invests in “venture capital firm that funded the farmland investment platform AcreTrader”

Kennedy in “a company that leases land for oil and gas extraction, commercial real estate, private equity”

Smith in one which “provides consulting services for farm sales...and conducts farm appraisals“

Civil Eats @civileats.com · 19h

We looked into the backgrounds of the most prominent individuals currently working on food and agriculture within federal agencies.

What follows is the first full accounting of those individuals’ past and present links to corporations.

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 17h

At some point, would it be weird to say that maybe we should just plug MAGA dipshits into some kind of Matrix-style alternative reality where they can just dunk on libs all the time regardless of reality while the rest of us live here in the real world and support each other? Feels like a win win

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

A government of trolls, by trolls, and for trolls.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18h

Yesterday brought news that country star Zach Bryan is dropping a song critical of ICE.

Today, the official DHS account trolls him by using one of his songs (without permission, one strongly presumes) over the kind of cinematic footage Trump loves, of masked federal agents clashing with Americans.

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 18h

I cannot believe that anyone treats this dipshit any more seriously than Theo Von or whatever the fuck his name is when he says he didn't vote for authoritarianism. The reason his stupid trolling campaign works is because Newsom is just as gross as Trump is, just with slightly better advisors

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 18h

The people he hurt will never forget, but the people he's trying to impress will always pick the genuine fascist over the plastic imitator.

And Republicans will make up some transphobic shit to smear on him ANYWAY.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 18h

At some point, it's entirely possible that this Court gets rid of standing requirements entirely and just starts receiving grievances directly from (right-wing) people free of any case or controversy

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 18h

Now that state National Guards can invade each other's states apparently, I call on Governor Ned Lamont to order the invasion of Rhode Island. We need real, ocean beaches not blocked by Long Island, and they're sitting on a ton of them!

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 18h

Thank you to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social for introducing me to @julianastratton.bsky.social, holy shit! Pritzker is great and all but it's been a minute since I've gotten emotional listening to a politician like that. Must be something in the water in IL, but I'm here for it

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 18h

The weird, downturned eyes lol. From (allegedly) killing bin Laden to this. MAGA will strip every ounce of dignity you have

Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 20h

The idea of Bari Weiss trying to do an Alec Baldwin "always be closing" speech but for radical centrists and right wingers who are afraid of their own shadows but also convinced that their opinions are important is really sending me lol

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 20h

Also like, all of the actual sitcoms from the 80s and 90s, created and executed by actual human beings from the time, are readily available via streaming services?

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 1d

As long as “working class” means:

“Owns a Boat, has season tickets to Auburn, daughter is a far right sorority influencer at Gudger College, he almost joined ROTC after nina leven, and has a Bucc-ees themed Christmas Tree”

yes they deserve $2,000, absolutely they do.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 3d

What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, is proposing $2,000 payments to Americans making under $100,000

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 1d

Oof yup

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 1d

Everything is terrible, but the Roberts Court building a juristocracy to enable a fascist who is now gunning for Marbury v. Madison is actually kind of hilarious

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen Miller: "It's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge assumes for him- or herself the powers that have been relegated or delegated by the Constitution to the president, that that is a form of illegal insurrection." ...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: You called the judge's ruling 'legal insurrection.' Are you recommending the president take action against judges who rule against him?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. It's simply a factually accurate statement

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