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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 17h

These people love spectacle, and there is no larger audience than the Super Bowl. Specifically, the halftime show. They will try something.

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 1d

Any musical artist that emerged after the switch to streaming in the late 2010s has been locked out of megastardom. It makes more sense for labels to push the older, bigger artists who have back catalogs to binge than to invest heavily in younger artists who don't have a dedicated fanbase yet.

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 5d

Gen X will be 17 forever and instead of dying they will
be Raptured. What can Dems offer that could possibly be better than that?

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 5d

Does she sing it like Chino Moreno does in Change (In the House of Flies)

Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 6d

Real working towards the Führer vibes

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 7d

This Mamdani advisor is trying to distract us from kitchen table issues like Obamacare subsidies

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d

A top Mamdani adviser tells me internal data shows taking on Trump's authoritarian abuses resonates. It appeals to working class voters across all demographics, countering the frequent claim that this is a "distraction" from issues working people "really" care about.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 12d

He's somehow more annoying than the Zero HP Lovecraft, the gay nazi that writes awful scifi and works on Candy Crush

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 14d

Century of humiliation

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 14d

*US OPENS 232 PROBE INTO ROBOTICS, MACHINERY, MEDICAL DEVICES

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Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 19d

Right wing crazies want me arrested because they know I won't back down. Too bad.

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 20d

Wile E. Coyote looking down at the lack of cliff below his feet.

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 21d

It's dooming to say that this is humiliating

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 21d

And I don't mean they won't press the button because they're cowards or whatever; there are things that simply cannot be fixed. Those soybean farmers are never getting that business back.

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 21d

The issue is that people will think that a Dem administration will be able to press the magic Make It 2019 Again button. When that doesn't happen, they'll vote for the new guy the Republicans roll out. (Chris Pratt maybe?)

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 24d

It's like grafting with trees

Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · 29d

See but they're recruits from the general population, which means you can't call this consolidation.

Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 29d

Pretty stunning numbers here.

Leaked data shows that ICE has ballooned its deportation force 4x by diverting 25,000 cops from other agencies.

www.cato.org/blog/ice-has...

ICE Has Diverted Over 25,000 Officers from Their Jobs

New data highlight how widespread this misuse of government personnel and resources is. Congress should prevent this diversion of appropriated funds in the next government spending bill.

www.cato.org

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · Sep 4

How long before they declare an official government like Venezuela or Mexico to be a narcoterrorist group?

Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · Sep 4

I wonder how they square away Evola with that middle leg.

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not to mention that in many states flipping the SCs isn't possible because they're not elected, and in Wisconsin they were just two Assembly seats away from being able to remove SC judges for no reason at all.

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · Sep 2

Can't be true, I was told that ICE would have trouble hiring new agents and would have a morale crisis and mass resignations

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Sep 2

“I keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs,” said Ely, 36. “So I said, ‘Oh yeah? Well I’m going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.’” wapo.st/3VrzEJg

At an ICE career expo, thousands line up to ‘defend the homeland’

An ex-Marine, a former professional MMA fighter, a retired officer: Meet the men angling to join ICE and carry out President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

wapo.st

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · Sep 2

COVID was bad enough with rural hospitals; H5N1 rolling through after they're gone would be apocalyptic.

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · Sep 1

Houston is too blue for that. I think they chose Austin because that's where UT's flagship campus is.

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · Sep 1

"having a plausible locally beneficent option friendly to USA put in place"
"boots on the ground aren't necessary"

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Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is why she was charged with perjury

Sparky @sparkylombardi.bsky.social · Aug 22