Tayln Lang
@taylnlang.bsky.social
Marine, pacifist. Liberal, gun owner. Lover, fighter. My dogs are my favorite people.
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This morning, @hcrichardson.bsky.social brings it was some of the best "his company was no angel" coverage of the Brian Thompson assassination, tied in to Elon but also some highly relevant history from the first Gilded Age heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
December 5, 2024
Yesterday a gunman assassinated the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, as he arrived at a meeting of investors in New York City.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:43 AM
This morning, @hcrichardson.bsky.social brings it was some of the best "his company was no angel" coverage of the Brian Thompson assassination, tied in to Elon but also some highly relevant history from the first Gilded Age heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
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Every other democracy on Earth is doing s better job facing down the existential threat posed by Russian election interference, disinformation, and the far right authoritarianism than the US. Why are we so uniquely bad at this? apnews.com/article/roma...
Romania's top court annuls first round of presidential vote won by far-right candidate
A top Romanian court has annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after declassified intelligence alleged Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right...
apnews.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Every other democracy on Earth is doing s better job facing down the existential threat posed by Russian election interference, disinformation, and the far right authoritarianism than the US. Why are we so uniquely bad at this? apnews.com/article/roma...
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Mace should be censured for this.
December 6, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Mace should be censured for this.
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History Professor Heather Cox Richardson (@hcrichardson.bsky.social ), author of "Democracy Awakening" and the newsletter Letters from an American, looks to the past to help understand the present and future in an interview with WBUR's "On Point."
https://wbur.fm/3OBhIbZ
https://wbur.fm/3OBhIbZ
Historian Heather Cox Richardson makes sense of politics today by looking to the past
The political rehabilitation of William McKinley. A cabinet of TV stars. Heather Cox Richardson says she didn't have those things on her 2024 bingo card. The famed historian joins us to draw from the past to make sense of the future.
wbur.fm
December 6, 2024 at 5:12 PM
History Professor Heather Cox Richardson (@hcrichardson.bsky.social ), author of "Democracy Awakening" and the newsletter Letters from an American, looks to the past to help understand the present and future in an interview with WBUR's "On Point."
https://wbur.fm/3OBhIbZ
https://wbur.fm/3OBhIbZ
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If you're more upset with Biden being forced to consider the extraordinary step of peremptorily pardoning his own officials then you are about Trump appointing someone who’s promised to use the federal govt to exact personal retribution for Trump, then you need to think a little more critically.
December 6, 2024 at 4:17 PM
If you're more upset with Biden being forced to consider the extraordinary step of peremptorily pardoning his own officials then you are about Trump appointing someone who’s promised to use the federal govt to exact personal retribution for Trump, then you need to think a little more critically.
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While legacy media focuses on the umpeenth Hunter Biden story, they ignore that Republicans are *right now* trying to overturn the election in North Carolina by challenging 60,000 votes in the state Supreme Court race won by Democrat Allison Riggs.
I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:
I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:
BREAKING: Republicans try to UNDO Democratic win
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 3:22 AM
While legacy media focuses on the umpeenth Hunter Biden story, they ignore that Republicans are *right now* trying to overturn the election in North Carolina by challenging 60,000 votes in the state Supreme Court race won by Democrat Allison Riggs.
I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:
I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:
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Take your hate somewhere else.
The anti-LGBTQ+ account was suspended after just nine days on Bluesky—and users are applauding the X alternative for its actual content moderation.
MAGA Account 'Libs Of TikTok' Banned From Bluesky After Just 9 Days—And People Are Cheering
Take your hate somewhere else.
www.comicsands.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Take your hate somewhere else.
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Liberals own guns, too. We’re just not in romantic relationships with them.
December 3, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Liberals own guns, too. We’re just not in romantic relationships with them.
A prerequisite
Apparently, per the WSJ, Trump wants to replace, as his SecDef nominee, a guy accused of rape (Hegseth) with a guy he himself, Trump himself!, suggested once 'groomed' high school girls (DeSantis):
Exclusive | Trump Mulls Replacing Pete Hegseth With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Trump Mulls Replacing Pete Hegseth With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:16 AM
A prerequisite
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I mean the abuse allegations literally came from his own mother but okay.
December 4, 2024 at 12:28 AM
I mean the abuse allegations literally came from his own mother but okay.
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There's no longer any upside to Twitter over Bluesky. Twitter's engagement is terrible, it downranks external links, and you're subjected to straight nazi shit if you write even the most banal post. Why are we subjecting ourselves to this?
December 1, 2024 at 2:11 AM
There's no longer any upside to Twitter over Bluesky. Twitter's engagement is terrible, it downranks external links, and you're subjected to straight nazi shit if you write even the most banal post. Why are we subjecting ourselves to this?
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RFK Jr. is a fraud. Always has been.
December 1, 2024 at 2:32 AM
RFK Jr. is a fraud. Always has been.
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Putin, Xi, the alt right, christian nationalists, populist demagogues here and abroad, they all want one thing: you to feel like American institutions are so broken that they need to be burned to the ground. Defending and strengthening our liberal democracy and its institutions defies them all.
November 24, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Putin, Xi, the alt right, christian nationalists, populist demagogues here and abroad, they all want one thing: you to feel like American institutions are so broken that they need to be burned to the ground. Defending and strengthening our liberal democracy and its institutions defies them all.
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Turns out Trump’s own underlings hate him as much as we do
...
www.palmerreport.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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"Who's a good boi?"
Everyone knows who is running this show.
Vice President Trump
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
youtu.be
November 24, 2024 at 11:49 AM
"Who's a good boi?"
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When people tell me 'you have to listen to the voters! the voters are never wrong!' these are the kind of stats I think of.
“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?”
The results were hilarious.
Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%
The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...
The results were hilarious.
Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%
The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...
Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.
www.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:07 PM
When people tell me 'you have to listen to the voters! the voters are never wrong!' these are the kind of stats I think of.
This is a very important point. Please let everyone know.
November 25, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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Facts matter. Science saves lives. Anti-science destroys them.
November 24, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Facts matter. Science saves lives. Anti-science destroys them.
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Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.
The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.
This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.
This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
November 24, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.
The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.
This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.
This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
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What does it say about our politics when people writing articles about the fall of X and the rise of Blue Sky see the lack of hate speech over here and immediately think it must be a left wing site?
November 23, 2024 at 6:59 PM
What does it say about our politics when people writing articles about the fall of X and the rise of Blue Sky see the lack of hate speech over here and immediately think it must be a left wing site?
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November 24, 2024 at 6:21 AM