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Aaron Homer@ahomer.bsky.social |
90 followers 350 following 242 posts
Father, husband, dog-owner, programmer. Somewhere left of center.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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Details reported in piece for those who can’t read it —Macron’s team mostly shrugged off results on Sunday. They started celebrating a birthday as returned still coming in —He didn’t bother watching as Prime Minister, Attal, gave forceful speech calling to block far-right. (1/?)
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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what you want isn’t Nominee Harris. it’s a comfortable lead over Trump. the evidence that switching to Harris will produce that comfortable lead is nonexistent. so reassure me that you’re not going to continue filling your drawers if you get what you say you want.
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Aubrey Gilleran
@aubreygilleran.bsky.social
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Very telling to me that the post-interview criticism went from “he’s senile” to “he doesn’t use the campaign rhetoric I want him to use.” Having substantive criticisms is fine, but it shows senility isn’t the top concern.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over
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Tyler King
@tylerking.bsky.social
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They’re gonna ban TikTok because the KPOP army made fun of his empty rally that got his internet guru fired. The right made one of the world’s richest men buy Twitter because we were bullying fascists and organizing. American journalism has become almost exclusively transcribing tweets.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness
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Sarah Walsh
@bigdamnherossir.bsky.social
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Just watched an absolutely panicked local news segment about lead in baby snacks and it ended with "But will the FDA listen??" ... Yeah probably but the Supreme Court is dismantling the regulatory state, shame you couldn't mention that bit you Sinclair fucks
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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this is wayyy under-discussed
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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Normally a scandal like this involves a mistake or a revelation of bad conduct. The obvious response is to do some kind of penance, to promise not to do it again, to agree to rehab, etc. But the mere fact of being old is something Biden can neither avoid nor remedy.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Voters just blame whoever is President for whatever happens during their Presidency, which is a major reason why allowing the situation where the Supreme Court absurdly gets to make policy across whatever issue they want to persist is so deadly to Democrats
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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have you seen our fucking white house press corpse? in what universe does the public come away *better* informed watching biden get asked “are you too old and stupid to be president?” 47 times
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Jonathan Bernstein
@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social
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One thing: as people have said, many have known someone who declined rapidly. But we’ve *also* someone who was cognitively aces but gets treated as an idiot because of physical and/or superficial issues. And…
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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The fact that the whole thing is transparently from a press playbook we've recently seen used against college presidents doesn't make your contributions bad faith, but maybe look at the company you're keeping before you expect a good ethos judgement
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Saeed Jones
@theferocity.bsky.social
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Taylor vocally came out against Marsha Blackburn during that evil lady’s last senate race and Blackburn still won. I think we need to give up the (understandable) fantasy that pop stars can swoop in and save the day. This is very much just my opinion, I know. But I’m right.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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This week SCOTUS killed Chevron deference, gave Trump total immunity, and Trump was credibly tied to Epstein, and it seems to me if your campaign somehow seriously can't find a way to then change the topic of conversation in the newspapers or stop your party panicking, what are we doing here exactly
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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Trump can say he'll distance himself from Project 2025 as much as he wants, but in his last term he appointed every faithful FedSoc judge he could get his hands on, and that's basically the entire game.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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The Telegraph reports that Keir Starmer, on his first day as Prime Minister, is scrapping the "Rwanda scheme,' the Tory plan to deport all asylum seekers & undocumented immigrants to Rwanda wherever they are from.
(This was a Starmer platform promise.)
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis
@avishaybsg.bsky.social
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The Constitution actually has a really tried and tested mechanism for dealing with presidents dropping dead on the job. Or even before they've really started it. You know what it's having a hard time with? Would-be autocrats no one seems to be willing to rein in
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Jill Krajewski
@jillkrajewski.bsky.social
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“that’s it i’m moving to canada” don’t worry americans, we’ve got plenty of unaffordable cities, rising far-right extremism, and a conservative leader all but sure to win our next election to make you feel at home!
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Spider
@vaspider.gay
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So uh... anybody with a bigger megaphone than me want to help a butch out? The Gilbert Baker Foundation & CMG are asking a settlement from us for referring to the Gilbert Baker flag/original color scheme as the "Gilbert Baker flag" of twice what we've ever made from anything with those colors.
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Spencer Ackerman
@attackerman.bsky.social
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Intelligence committee chairman, not a dismissible figure. (Unfortunately!) If Biden has to drop out, doesn’t he have to resign? I don’t understand how he could be incapable of being the nominee but capable of governing.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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and a scheduled event that starts after 8 with a plane ride after is not very much like a scheduled event that starts at 8 and then you go home.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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anyone who thinks doing several different speeches a week from a teleprompter is easy has never been a public speaker.
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Karen K. Ho
@karenho.bsky.social
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I cannot imagine the mental load of the investigative teams reporting on stuff like the Wagner Group, the legacy of residential schools or ongoing databases on mass shootings while a British guy with the nicknamed "Rat Boy" is finally deemed a bad fit for the top job
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Karen K. Ho
@karenho.bsky.social
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I feel bad for the journalists inside the NYT, the WSJ and Washington Post trying to do excellent work in spite of leadership decisions and terrible op-eds that undermine those ongoing efforts
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Maggie WW
@maggieww.bsky.social
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OSHA proposes rule to protect workers exposed to extreme heat. The proposal comes as workers face risks from rising temperatures fueled by climate change. Biden has issued an order to prevent workplace heat deaths.
Extemremely important reg.
wapo.st/3XSFoOK
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
@sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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Mayor steamrolls yet another woman out of a leadership job to protect a sexual-harassing cop friend.
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Paul Krugman
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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Wages rose 3.3 percent in 2019, 3.9 over the past year. Job growth slowing. The Fed is supposed to get ahead of the curve. Time to cut.
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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I think everyone who was like "great, now every environmental group ever should sue!" underestimated how swiftly those groups would be dwarfed by the juggernauts who are already collecting billions and billions of dollars from us and want more.
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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social
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Labour won decisively by playing to 2024 conditions. It shifted to the right, took advantage of Conservative implosion and division. It told its left leaning urban constituency - young voters and ethnic minorities - to get lost, and gambled correctly that losses in urban areas won't matter. 1/
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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Practically, this starts with a huge lift: Winning Senate seats, or, more modestly, us all supporting Senate campaigns
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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I'm incredibly bullish on America's future. I get it's a bit hard to see these days--the death throes of unpopular authoritarianism is pretty scary and there are real problems in the immediate term--but I definitely think America's best days are still very much ahead.
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Aaron Homer
@ahomer.bsky.social
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I'm sorry to hear about SNP's poor showing - everything I hear from this side makes it sound like the best of the parties, and this outcome seems pretty bad.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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utopia deferred
@utopia-deferred.bsky.social
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when i say “don’t eat up the elite hysteria that is, in large part, driven by a resentment that he doesn’t treat them like Trump and Obama did” this is quite literally what I mean
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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I keep being polarized into doubling down on Biden through the low character of his enemies
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson
@protik.bsky.social
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It will take time and a lot of work to excise the appeasement impulse from Labour culture. I expect Starmer to make numerous unnecessary culture war concessions to conservatives and the far right out of a misguided fear of losing voters, even after this landslide victory.
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Aaron Homer
@ahomer.bsky.social
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The program started under Obama, utterly obscene.
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CrackedLemonade
@crackedlemonade.bsky.social
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It's crazy how government agencies are allowed and encouraged to create situations which would be a crime if anyone else did it, and if they get caught they end up settling in court and doing it again. Also ICE crackdowns are highly unethical if you have been followed them.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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to be extremely clear: I think the focus on this over "the Supreme Court declares Trump is a king above the law" and the dangers of Project 2025 is dangerous, irresponsible and unacceptable but it is a significant danger to Biden's chances of winning in November
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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the message from every corner of the US media ecosystem right now is "Joe Biden can't do the job of President" it doesn't have to be right, or fair, to sink into the minds of the people who will be voting in November propaganda works
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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Kevin Beaumont
@GossiTheDog.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy
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Happy holidays at Microsoft. Third round of layoffs this year alone, while again making record profits and being the most valuable company on Earth in market cap. Gotta lay off peeps to spend all the money on failing AI initiatives 🫡
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Jonathan Blanks
@blanksslate.bsky.social
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Republicans are literally running a man at the heart of a criminal conspiracy to overthrow a free and fair election. We don’t need post-Monday hypotheticals. Happy birthday, America.
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Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
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That generals understand that a ceasefire -- rather than continued bloodshed, induced famine, etc., -- is in their self-interest shows how clearly the continuation of the war is a combination of Netanyahu's self-preservation and the settlers' maximalism. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/w...
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Laila Lalami
@lailalalami.bsky.social
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The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is expanding, in violation of international law and to the indifference of the administration.
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