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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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What a twist of fortunes that Bernie gives one of the strongest affirmative defenses of Biden while the centrists try to shiv him
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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨🦯@balzac-asimov.bsky.social |
196 followers 300 following 1715 posts
Cranky, visually impaired civil servant. Pseudonymous coward. Former call-center crisis tank, current DEI hire amd Monday-morning lunatic. Comics, games, antifascism, etc (he/him)
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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What a twist of fortunes that Bernie gives one of the strongest affirmative defenses of Biden while the centrists try to shiv him
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Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
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“It was worse than nothing” was the rallying cry of people who were already doing okay in the pre-ACA world and were willing to sacrifice other people’s access to healthcare in the name of their eschatology.
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Mayday Trippe 🦋
@maydaytrippe.bsky.social
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The reason we hear so much meritocracy propaganda is that it's the only socially acceptable origin story for the people it happend to work out for, could stay in the game longer thanks to generational wealth, or are just pretending to have "made it." You can't grind your way to a just society.
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Nash
@radiodeadair.com
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Let me spoil this one for you: every single source is confidential. Every single one. We don't know how close they actually are to anything, and not one "Democratic leader" is even named in this article. Not. One. This is just messed up. This is Inquirer level reporting.
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Mike
@reanimike.bsky.social
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The hardest any Marvel comic has ever gone: Micronauts 10
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Ah, FB memories serving up some winners. This is what an itemized $1,330,000 NICU hospital bill looks like (only 96 days to get there). The apple is there for scale. Here’s why I share it. Too many ppl don’t know abt lifetime caps and pre-existing bans. Bc the STILL-VULNERABLE ACA banned them.
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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The GOP is superb at weaponizing prejudice so their BS feels like it has "a grain of truth." That's what Trump advisor Gorka just did by calling VP Harris a "DEI hire." Meanwhile, Peter Baker at @nytimes.com pitched in by driving a dump truck called Ageism and Ableism onto the White House lawn.
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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I'm tired of the in-fighting, and have therefore accepted the Democratic nomination for POTUS. My platform: 1) The Beekeeper, for real. 2) Automatic revocation, retroactive 10 years, of non-profit status for any religious entity if an official is convicted of a sex crime. 3) Normal lib stuff.
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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨🦯
@balzac-asimov.bsky.social
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What's it like to be able to take bad news at work without immediately having a silent meltdown over something that SHOULD be trivial?
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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If you see the big news that GOP is trying to block the abortion rights measure in Arkansas: This is in the context of a restrictive new law that makes ballot measures much harder.
Voters rejected the change in 2022, but GOP passed it as a law anyway: boltsmag.org/arkansas-rep...
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J.M. DeMatteis
@jmdematteis.bsky.social
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Just heard that Michael Zulli passed away. Michael and I worked on a number of projects together in the late 90s/early 2000s. He wasn't just a brilliant artist, he was a brilliant man: deep, passionate, philosophical. Condolences to his family. Safe travels, Michael.
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🏳️⚧️ The Josie Zone
@josie.zone
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Alright, my “why leftists should vote for the Dem prez candidate” essay is gonna run in Slate tomorrow morning It’s brief, non-confrontational, historically rooted, and sure to annihilate my mentions
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Alisha Diane Galloway
@adgwatches.bsky.social
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"Actually a good idea," Nate Silver said, proving it certainly wasn't
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Alisha Diane Galloway
@adgwatches.bsky.social
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Two things: - Biden admin investigating SCOTUS judges is v. good even if it goes nowhere - AOC Articles, ditto, especially if she wants to run for Senate (she wants to run for Senate) Third thing, I sure hope we can salvage the Republic. I think we can, I believe we can. I sure hope we can
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Kate Klonick
@klonick.bsky.social
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Something I never knew existed when I was younger: There is an elite system of arbitrage in which the rich want to be famous and hang out with famous people; famous people want to be seen as smart and hang out with smart people, and smart people want money so they hang out with rich people.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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There it is, the dashed-off aside in every Atlantic article that it should not exist.
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@vonhonkington.bsky.social
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Somebody really sat down and wrote the Are mass extinctions bad actually article
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Reps. Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush and AOC have all put out "Biden is the nominee, support him" statements. The left-most part of the Democratic Party fighting to keep him while the right-most part—centrists, swing district Reps, NeverTrumpers, etc.—push for him to drop out was not on many Bingo cards.
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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨🦯
@balzac-asimov.bsky.social
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Has Garfield done a story about Nermal becoming Instagram famous or something similar? I feel like they must've
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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"Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks."
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Rachel Shelden
@rachelshelden.bsky.social
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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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For Flaming Hydra, I wrote about Mœbius.
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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨🦯
@balzac-asimov.bsky.social
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Maybe we can get them to fight the Mormons so both groups will leave you alone?
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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Project 2025: They Hate You And Want Your Money To Go To Your Boss
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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨🦯
@balzac-asimov.bsky.social
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"If (prominent Christian-supremacist) actually knows Jesus, then I'm killing Jesus myself when he comes back" is a statement that has gotten me in a LOT of trouble with family
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Jessica Pishko
@jesspish.bsky.social
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Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.
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Jill Weinberger
@jillybobww.bsky.social
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This is also a nice reminder that when conservatives say, "Judeo-Christian" they mean "Christian," because you know nobody at Project 2025, including the person who wrote "Judeo-Christian" below, means anything but Sunday when they talk about deciding what people can & should do on the Sabbath.
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Ro Salarian
@rosalarian.bsky.social
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A comic about disability and drugs in America for #disabilitypridemonth
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Wish people understood that this kind of Monday morning quarterbacking is just telling unrevealed creeps “here is what will keep me from suspecting you”
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Yet another example, as if we needed one, that when they say "Judeo-Christian" what they really mean is "Christian," and by Christian they mean a very specific form of Americanized white Protestantism with conservative white Catholics included for good measure.
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Pretending to understand Azure
@normalfriend.bsky.social
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idk man i can guess
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The Fig Economy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
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These are the foot soldiers of the former president who claimed it had been totally debunked that he called Nazis “very fine people.”
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Scott Mullin
@scottmullin.bsky.social
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We stayed at an Airbnb with a massive gas leak and the owner kept blaming the previous occupants for making "ethnic food". We ended up calling the gas company, which found 3 major leaks while we were packing up to escape. The way Airbnb handled it we couldn't leave an honest review
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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is this country a tesla because it feels like it’s driving itself and we all might die
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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the most frustrating aspect of this campaign to me is that it has stripped me down to bare pragmatism "does this give us a better chance to beat Trump" is the only thing that is important to me anymore the danger is so overwhelming that nothing else matters and I hate it
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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social
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The Trumpist (dis)information bubble is like a black hole with holocaust denial at the center.
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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨🦯
@balzac-asimov.bsky.social
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Isn't 70-30 Clinton where 538 ended up on election day, with lots of yelling "Trump is one polling error or bad Clinton news day from a win" (which was subsequently ignored in favor of people yelling "you said no chance for Don!" which didn't cause but sure worsened Nate's decay to "contrarianism")
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Molly White
@molly.wiki
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Sentencing dates have been set for FTX's Nishad Singh and Gary Wang. Singh is scheduled to be sentenced on October 30, and Wang on November 20.
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Cate Eland
@romancingnope.bsky.social
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Section 1 of the 2025 Mandate for Leadership (aka Project 2025) is entitled "Taking the Reins of Government". Hard to imagine a left-wing political roadmap claiming such a thing in writing, and it not resulting in complete media apoplexy. Let's take a look.
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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨🦯
@balzac-asimov.bsky.social
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Tanner Johnson
@tannertrue.bsky.social
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They should follow the Rocky 3 formula for Happy Gilmore 2. Happy loses to a new hotshot golfer (his nickname can even be Mr. Tee) and when he’s at his lowest, Shooter McGavin shows up to train Happy.
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Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨🦯
@balzac-asimov.bsky.social
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(Morrison voice)...when you're a weirdooooo
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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I also like how accurately New York Times predicted the future in 1920s. Real Nostradamus stuff.
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Pretending to understand Azure
@normalfriend.bsky.social
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I literally cannot express how deranged it is that whether or not biden can run bc he’s old is up for debate and whether or not trump should step down for being both insane and dangerous and a felon and just as old and also a traitor is not
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⚜ Ole Dirty Rice ⚜
@cody.social
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The only power great enough to knock this story down below the fold/scroll is the Oberlin student council. A hurricane, UK/France elections, multiple wars? No. Only a sophomore calling Israel “Greater Palestine” can draw their attention away from a debate that happened last month.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Oberlin kids, we need you out there, for the good of the country. Declare that flamingoes are racist, and that hot dogs are a culinary weapon of the crypto-phallic kyriarchy. Demand that banh mi be given full voting rights. Get freaky with it
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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Liberals in the US should move closer to the increasingly clear global consensus on Palestine (ie that occupation and apartheid are bad) and leftists in the US should reaffirm, as leading socialists in Congress have, that Ukraine ought to win the struggle to repel the Russian invasion.
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Stephen Hardwick
@nonfinality.bsky.social
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All this talk of voter "fraud" (really "suppression") is based on ignorance/dishonesty about modern election security. Part of what makes elections secure is that electronic tallies & paper ballots can be verified against each other. So paper ballots alone would make elections less secure.
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