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Barrington Kenilworth IV@barringtonk.bsky.social |
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I love cats and Petula Clark.
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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We’ve all watched the GOP drag rapists, criminals, florid wackos, and brain-dead white supremacists to electoral victory over and over again. Perhaps the Democrats can summon up some of that energy to save our democracy and our lives.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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The qualities of the candidate often do not fucking matter if the people who really want that candidate to get elected are willing to play hardball, especially if the candidate is an incumbent. Maybe, just this once, we could learn this lesson from the GOP to save ourselves from true horror.
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Fifty Shades of Whey
@fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social
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grooming industrial complex in shambles
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Jacob Bacharach
@jacobbacharach.bsky.social
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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I am glad this piece about the Heritage Foundation threatening civil war if the left doesn’t accept a monarchy came out in the WaPo. More like this, please.
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Parker Molloy
@parkermolloy.com
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Go make phone calls for the Biden campaign instead of yelling at internet strangers. It's more productive.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It’s a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitler’s ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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SCOTUS enabled an imperial presidency that is indistinguishable from a kingship and did so in a way that, if he wins, *will not be undone without buckets of fucking blood* in our lifetime. you’re not hearing about that, but you should, and you should be fucking murderously angry that you aren’t.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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if you did not know that the president now has unlimited authority to order the ATF or DHS or the FBI to execute your best friend for any reason and can then order the DOJ not to prosecute then, you can blame every fucking columnist who has written a piece about biden’s age since monday
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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It reads to me like it was written by a guy who is way too impressed with himself and is in love with his own words. Either that or the GQP has secretly bought the NYT and are engaging in psy-ops to suppress the vote from those in the middle and on the left who still imagine the NYT to have value.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Biden’s age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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pretty weird to think that the usa which just had a king appointed is gonna celebrate no king day tomorrow and the country theyre celebrating the bye bye king from will have their king tell us who will run that country for the next 5 years
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Goldman Sachs has recently attributed the US economy’s recent exceptional performance...almost entirely to adding imported labor. High rates of immigration, however, are sure to prove unviable in political environments shaped by robust populist movements..."
brooklynrail.org/2024/07/fiel...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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The Heritage Foundation is absolutely making overt terrorist threats and everyone you know needs to be aware of this.
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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Maybe it's regional? I'm in the Midwest.
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Elad Nehorai
@eladn.bsky.social
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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Now, I'm an old gringo. So everything I know on this subject I learned from my wife (who is from Guatemala) and folks from my neighbourhood (which is > 80% Mexican-American). I listen and I learn.
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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Young Latinos who wear the Edgar haircut and wave the Mexican flag without even knowing the significance of Sept 15 (or May 5 for that matter). In my nbhd, they are called "Edgars" or "No Sabo Kids". A bit older, and they support tRump despite all logic and reason. Being radicalized by social media?
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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¿No lo conoces?
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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I live in a Mexican-American neighbourhood. At least 80% Mexican with lots of Spanish-speaking households. And guess what? Most of the Edgars are for tRump. I don't know... maybe they think they are better than the migrants trying to do the same thing their parents did maybe a decade or two ago.
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Kevin Gannon
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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The Right has been licking their chops to dismantle worker and civil rights protection. This ruling was packaged up and ready to go within hours of the supreme court's announcement. Expect more of the same as this revanchist revolution against governance accelerates.
www.hrdive.com/news/texas-s...
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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maybe seizing and arresting the Supreme Court majority for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government can be a "core constitutional duty" and an "official act," why not
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Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
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Glad to see some members of Congress taking the issue seriously.
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Paula Herold
@bluegrassgal.bsky.social
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Regarding the SCOTUS immunity case: It now falls to voters to realize how much CHARACTER matters in the person we select for the office of President. The sweeping power SCOTUS just the Presidency must be matched by honesty, integrity, and respect for the will of We The People.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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I am so sorry for your losses. I know there are no words that can truly make anything better. May their memory bring you comfort in this time of grief.
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Micah
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I think this is the fundamental asymmetry underlying every aspect of the conflict between the parties; you see it in the Senate, in gerrymandering, in the use of executive power I don't want King Biden either, but it's long past time to make the GOP afraid of the consequences of endless escalation
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Vince Mpls
@vincempls.bsky.social
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...
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Matthew Cortland (they)
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If you're going to call a Senator who is not your Senator, call the Senate Majority Leader's office. Schumer's phone number is (202) 224-6542
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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What you would do when authoritarianism comes to America is what you're doing right now
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Truth Axe
@truthaxe.bsky.social
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Idk if I'm stating the obvious, but justices never write/speak like this. She's telling the world this is a five-alarm fire and the coup is on.
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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If only my diabetes would stop fat-shaming me with my blood glucose levels...
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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People who think like that need to dry up. Or go soak their heads.
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Papasan
@papasan.bsky.social
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smylingjay ×͜×
@smylingjay.bsky.social
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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Excuse me now, I need to take a poe. Fun with English!
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Barrington Kenilworth IV
@barringtonk.bsky.social
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Sounds like my Bobo kitty (aka Boris, aka Borisaurus aka Bobosaurus aka the cat who ate Cincinnati). (the big fat one in front). Chariey Quinn is the little girl behind him.
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Squire Boone
@isomorphism.net
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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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