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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14h

Wrote about why it *really* feels like Stephen Miller's nuclear-level on-air gaffe should be getting more attention.
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The Stephen Miller Gaffe Every Judge Needs To Bookmark

Maybe Miller realizes the 2024 election did not mark the end of history.

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 44m

I mean, that's good, but do you have to announce it by sitting down with a far right influencer?

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1h

Of fucking course they fucking dropped Marwan Barghouti from the prisoner release list.

Who is Marwan Barghouti? Marwan Barghouti is the most beloved politician in Palestine. He has been in Israeli prison for over 20 years and has continued to advocate for a two-state solution even behind bars.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3h

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, and project 2025 was published more than a year before the election.

Planning is not a strong suit for the Democratic party.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 1d

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 4h

I understand strategic voting, but the Democratic party is the party of wealthy interests, like the GOP.

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 4h

working class, including people who are trans and immigrants? Medicare for all. UBI. Eliminating ICE. A wealth tax. Green New Deal. Breaking up media and tech consolidation.

Dems have run against all of these ideas.

Please note, I tend to vote Democratic, because they are less bad than the GOP and

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 4h

No.

I'm saying that the Dems need to do more than just check a box and they have failed to do that.

But it's not because they have centered trans and immigrant issues (they really haven't), it's because they tend to be focused on protecting the wealthy, just like the GOP.

You know what helps the

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 4h

Trans people and immigrants are working class.

Dems suck at working class issues, not because they have done the bare minimum to help some marginalized groups in some states, but because they are captured by the interests of Capital.

No one is free until we are ALL free

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 5h

Name a single trans person who was featured at the Democratic national convention. None were.

A lot of white working class people were

A lot of trans people are also working class

Your perspective is completely colored by Fox News (whether directly or indirectly) and untethered from reality.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6h

I give shit to Jeffries (and Schumer) when they suck, so it’s also important to recognize when they’re doing it right.

This is doing it right. More of this, indeed. *Everyone* involved in the corruption of this administration MUST face consequences for their actions.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7h

Andrew Cuomo keeps saying he’s the only candidate who can take on Trump once he’s in office.

Yet in his statement about the indictment of Letitia James, the highest-ranking Black elected official in the state, he doesn’t even mention Trump by name….and, more importantly, he doesn’t mention James.

Andrew Cuomo * @andrewcuomo
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In a democracy, the rule of law must be sacred - impartial, objective, and above politics. When the law is weaponized or manipulated to advance political agendas, it erodes public trust and weakens the very foundation of justice. Whether it comes from the right or the left, from prosecutors or politicians, the politicization of law enforcement is dangerous and corrosive.
We must restore faith in fairness, facts, and due process - because once justice becomes partisan, everyone loses.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 7h

essentially no one looks worse in all this than Biden, followed closely by the tiresome, morally bankrupt blue wave scolds who shouted at all of us about how Biden couldn’t do anything

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 7h

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

Trump signed an EO to combat "anti-Christian bias."

This week ICE shot a Christian Pastor, David Black & not one MAGA politician, pundit, or person has bothered to condemn it. Instead they celebrate it.

It was never about anti-Christian bias—it was always about fascism masquerading as Christianity

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 11h

Trump & RFK Jr linking autism to being Jewish. (In case you are still wondering)

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Fizaa Dosani @fizaadosani.bsky.social · 12h

Potential AI prompts used by the GOP for their smear campaign against prop 50:

“make it sound woke”

“like it’s coming from a lib”

“now make everyone in it a minority”

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 16h

Capitalism in a nutshell:
Studies of UBI - positive effects, cheaper than government benefits, don't directly finance capital, so WE MUST STUDY MORE

Studies of LLMs - lots of harm, very expensive, directly finance major corporations & the wealthy, so we MUST IMPLEMENT BUT BETTER SOMEHOW

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 1d

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 12h

DSA affirms our fundamental right to free speech and assembly. We will not be intimidated by the Trump administration’s cronies, and we will continue our struggle for democracy to the end. If you want to live in a free society, join DSA today. dsausa.org/join

Join DSA. Become a member today.

Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 13h

Judge Nelson is basically saying "if Trump says he can't execute the laws, no one can gainsay him"

Martial law, here we go!

Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 14h

Judge Nelson is in the tank. This is double ungood

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 14h

Judge Nelson: do you disagree with any of the factual findings?

Chaffin: the facts as found by the district court judge were that the protests were small and mostly peaceful.

Nelson: that's clearly erroneous! (whoa)

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