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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone with any familiarity with the history of Jewish people in Europe should be aware that Euros didn’t need to learn about segregation from us (if anything we, perhaps unconsciously, picked it up from them)

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 7h

Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide:

Cærsten (@cara.city) posted:

"we didn't cause Nazism" dude Hitler based the Nuremberg Laws on the Jim Crow south and Lebensraum was partially inspired by the native genocide of the 19th century idk what to tell you
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Will Stancil‬ (@whstancil.bsky.social‬):

we didn’t cause Nazism. whatever caused incumbents to tank in 2024, it wasn’t unique to us. we aren’t uniquely corrupt, or violent, or authoritarian. there are good things and bad things about our country like any other, and Americans work a lot like people anywhere

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1h

the kind of film where i had to lay in my bed for 30 minutes afterwards just to recharge. is that good

📽️ screenshot of my letterboxd review for lawrence of arabia (1962)

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 1h

even if I wanted a frog costume if I put one on in Phoenix I'd probably die

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 5h

thanks for reminding me of this

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 7h

Putting aside African American evangelicals, white Evangelical Protestants were a driving force in abolitionism and later the progressive movement

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 11h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 8h

I’m never going to get over the fact that donald trump announced the most flagrantly impeachable act in a century and the “opposition” party is responding by supporting it

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 14h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

You see this all the time online, some originally well-based bounded criticism or point gets magnified and stripped of all that context, “some Nazis admired Jim Crow” gets turned into “the 1930s US was literally as bad Nazi Germany”, it’s so fucking dumb and it happens all the time

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

It’s just example # 486 of “reasonable nuanced critique of liberalism gets flattened to meaninglessness through a game of telephone”. Cogent critiques of aspects of respectability politics get turned into “it makes you a brave revolutionary to be the biggest asshole possible to everyone”

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

note that since mid-2010s you can always get a standing ovation in blue social media by denouncing the idea of civility or politeness more broadly. the experiment in how this has worked out keeps on yielding predictably unpleasant results

Ed @ed3d.net · 3d

I lack the words to describe what is wrong with these people.

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Sy Nakamura @electricaikido.bsky.social · 11h

Catholic gays and Catholic milfs will unify and destroy anyone who dares harm Father What a Waste

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 9h

Good news he's Presbyterian

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9h

The guy who planted the first flag on the Reichstag (not the propaganda photo) was a Kazakh

He was never awarded Hero of the Soviet Union for exactly the reasons you might expect

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9h

The reason why I get so furious at the people who use "Soviet" and "Russian" interchangeably is because there were a lot of non-Russian Soviets who fought in the Red Army and the Russian Federation wants you to think they're all Russians

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 10h

Genuinely what the fuck is the reason why leftists are so eager to write off the contributions of ethnic and national minorities to allied victory in WWII because they do this with the Americans and the Soviets

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t like that the president can impose his own taxes and determine how those taxes should be spent independent of Congress.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10d

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 1d

like i said the dude who runs the channel seems like an openminded considerate dude but good lord, the polls he does are terrifying

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Ben 🇺🇦 @bskolo.bsky.social · 1d

Americans could not live like this for even two days let alone over 3 years. Ukrainians deserve our support and admiration. And they deserve a dignified future of peace and self determination. Send them the fucking tomahawks already.

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

After 24 hours electricity is back we are so back I wanna cry this doesn’t feel real

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 1d

to put it bluntly, as I learn more about Christian belief and theology I am rapidly being transformed into a reddit athiest

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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