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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25m

god there was a really obscure game which was essentially this back in the 90s. like basically cyberpunk solium infernum played on a grid representing a city.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

they believe “criminal” is a kind of person you are, not a status contingent upon actions you take. J6 rioters going to jail was not an outrage because there are no laws they could break that would make them criminals, whilst innocence or guilt have no bearing on if others are criminals or not

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1h

CHI OSSE SAVE US
SAVE US CHI OSSE

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 3h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1h

I will actually find money somewhere we need to scare the shit out of Jeffries even if we can't beat him

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 3h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1h

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2h

tlaxcallans, 1519:

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

Are white Monsters any good?

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 2h

fetterman is a straightforwardly evil person

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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dontlistentoanyone.bsky.social @dontlistentoanyone.bsky.social · 4h

bolton was a key witness, who defied subpoena, refusing to testify, in trump's first impeachment trial

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 4h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 8h

Another riot in Minneapolis was instigated by a right-wing agitator who was convicted of shooting into a police station and setting it on fire, in the hopes of starting a civil war.

A self-described "boogaloo boi," he drove up from Texas to create a false flag.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.nbcnews.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 8h

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 3h

It would be inappropriate to condition funding of the government on the government following any rules whatsoever

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 3h

wsj seems nervous that the caudillo is destroying the rule of law

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

In his second term, Trump has taken control of the Justice Department in ways he could have only dreamed of during his first.

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

on.wsj.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3h

he will get into your DMs to darkly insinuate that he has seen numbers which are vastly worse than the ones which are public and claim that we need to be making sacrifices. (specifically, the sacrifices which he nonpublicly affirmatively supports.)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3h

has anyone else spoken to david shor, the democrats' premier pollster and noted race science afficionado, on this topic, because this sounds like a particular rationalist Wormtongue

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

yeah, ezra basically believes that left-liberalism is doomed and we have to dislodge the current ruling party at whatever cost with whatever coalition we can piece together. its extrapolating way too much from 2024 which was more about the overarching landscape than the policy or messaging

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9d

just my two cents on Ezra Klein: he is generally good on policy and his work on things like housing is helpful

the problem is that his punditry is misguided for two reasons:

1) he is not skeptical enough of right wing bad faith

2) he is acting like the U.S. is Hungary, where the right is popular

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3h

i think, to his credit, that this stems from a sincere lib-pessimism, not from a closet affinity for reactionary politics but it is a strategy to win 2024, not 2026 or 2028.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 6h

Honest to god the biggest scam in America right now is whatever Dem consultants are being paid

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5h

this is a program of national immiseration unlike any other in the history of advanced democracies

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 3d

It's not great that everyone sort of tacitly accepts the extremely right wing theodicy that everything is "falling apart" in some kind of inexorable thermodynamic way, like how people say the universities are "dead."

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7h

like, the basic argument here is that every kind of discomfort with a type of capital which the rich are attempting to use for propaganda and to replace all high-paying labor is mostly analogous to irrational hatreds between humans? why would you concede that up front?

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 7h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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