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I'm a blue dot in a red state. I'm old but I refuse to go gently into the night. I will fight the MAGA menace till I draw my last breath.

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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"It’s something news leaders should really do some soul searching about. Are we doing our job of informing the public so that they can do their job of voting in an informed way? If people don’t know the facts, the media needs to take some responsibility."

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Nicholas Peterson's avatar Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social
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I contacted my representative; did you?

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RSM's avatar RSM @bobmapes.bsky.social
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Not unless we stand our ground and do something about it!

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Bill Corbett 's avatar Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social
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This is the way. Won’t pass the GOP House but still 100% worth doing. Spreads idea, puts these shitstains on defense.

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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New in PN: "The media feeding frenzy *is* over the top, almost gleeful in its relentlessness, and it takes up time, space, resources and attention that should be given — much more than is the case — to Trump’s appalling unfitness for office.”

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Stephen Webb's avatar Stephen Webb @stephenwebb.bsky.social
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pound this into every local newspaper in every swing state

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Ana Marie Cox's avatar Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social
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I’ve come to the place where I don’t think there’s a best option between Biden staying or stepping down. The cost-benefit is pretty much the same. Also: beating Trump is the only thing that matters, and that can be done no matter who is at the top of the ticket if people just fcking FOCUS.

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Phil Plait's avatar Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social
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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can.

More:

cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...

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RSM's avatar RSM @bobmapes.bsky.social
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It’s time we called out the media overlords for their constant support of Trump and the fascist MAGAS. These right-wing oligarchs are the true enemies in this country.

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Amy A's avatar Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
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why is the newspaper posting like an internet microcelebrity having a nervous breakdown

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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It's depressing and infuriating how long we've had to pretend that Bibi is some sort of Great Man of History, rather than an obvious criminal whose every move is determined entirely by his short-term interests, with zero regard for anyone else on Earth.

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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I like to panic as much as any Democrat, but my general view still holds: SCOTUS gave Dems a tailwind with Dobbs. We haven't even started the wall-to-wall attack ads of Trump bragging about ending Roe v. Wade. When that happens in September and October, there will be a big movement away from Trump.

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦's avatar Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social
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WHY ISN’T AMERICAN MEDIA COVERING THIS??? ‼️👀… “Donald Trump’s alleged ‘sexual proclivities’ graphically detailed in new Epstein documents | The Independent” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

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RSM's avatar RSM @bobmapes.bsky.social
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It seems like people need to be spending more time tearing Trump down and less time f*cking with Biden. Trump is the enemy not Biden!

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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"Trump can say seven outrageous things on a Saturday, and by Monday people have forgotten about them. That’s the problem with Trump... he's a firehose of bullshit... as a result, he’s held to a completely different standard than Biden." -- Charlie Sykes

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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Project 2025 is stacked from top to bottom as is Heritage with Trump and MAGA guys, including ones put there to be Trump’s own personal enforcers. If he’s feeling inconvenienced occasionally by them, tough shit Fwiw people leading Trump’s campaign including Susie wiles hate dealing with the…

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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No In a real democracy Trump would be in a hole as would his lieutenants and those in the heritage foundation would be swinging for treason. Liberals think we can just denounce our way out of this. We cannot they must be destroyed physically now. Reprimands won’t work.

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Angelaina's avatar Angelaina @angelaina.bsky.social
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This man needs to be contained. He is a murderer with a potential governor's seat. You don't talk about something that you haven't been thinking about it, and he's talking a lot about killing. He clearly thinks about it frequently.

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RSM's avatar RSM @bobmapes.bsky.social
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I think more than just contained. He's clearly inciting violence.

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MAGA is using violent rhetoric to frighten Democrats into second-guessing Joe Biden as the top ticket. We must not fall for this trap. General Trump E. Lee has already called a tactical retreat from Project 2025 to regroup. Hold the line. Return Fire. Advance.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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There was no GOP party platform in 2020, and Trump wants to shrink the proposed 2024 one. He opposes providing detail on how radical his second term will be because he knows its unpopular. Make no mistake: Project 2025 was written by Trump appointees & loyalists. Its their shared agenda.

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Ashley Fairbanks's avatar Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com
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Wild, that some people that look at Project 2025 and dismiss it, when 23,000 people in Texas had to birth their rapist’s baby last year, a parent has to sign an affidavit each time their child goes to the library in Idaho, and there’s an open war on Trans people. Folks in red states are living it.

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Project 2025 and all the other violent extremist rhetoric is designed to frighten Democrats into making mistakes, and it's working. We've been giving them what they want. War are in a Civil War, right now. We need to hold the line, return fire, and advance.

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Michelle 💙🌊😷🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈's avatar Michelle 💙🌊😷🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @michellespenc.bsky.social
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THIS IS THE TRUTH 💙🌊💙🌊

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Arrogating decisions to yourself whenever your evening dose of Fox News convinces you that Trump needs protecting isn’t “statesmanship;” it’s being functionally pro-Trump.

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Scott Dworkin's avatar Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social
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Malcolm Nance on if Trump wins in November: “You’re looking at, essentially, a situation where 248 years of American democracy comes to a crashing end."

Watch the full interview here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/exclusive-...

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Dave Levitan's avatar 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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suzette sommer's avatar suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social
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Associated Press can’t write an honest headline!!!

FIXED IT:
Heritage Foundation leader threatens bloodshed if everybody doesn’t bow down to his traitorous ass!
apnews.com/article/proj...

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Helen 's avatar Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social
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Happy Independence Day! Celebrate while you still can.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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that "don't vote" piece may be the worst guest editorial in the NYT since they let Tom Cotton use the space to call for calling in the military against protesters.

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Joanne Freeman's avatar Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social
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The Biden "regime's totalitarian grip"...from the Claremont Institute. Right. A regime grounded on free and fair elections, constitutional restraints, and the rule of law. All of which were attacked in yesterday's GOP SCOTUS decision. What nonsense.

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RSM's avatar RSM @bobmapes.bsky.social
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This is the same snakepit John Eastman slithered out of to try and help Trump throw out the 2020 election.

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David Bloomberg's avatar David Bloomberg @davidbloomberg.bsky.social
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The @nytimes.com and @cnn.com right now: If a random anonymous source says anything remotely negative about Biden, make it top news! But when solid evidence comes out about Trump being heavily involved with Epstein and child rape, ignore it.

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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I'm not going to spread that Economist cover with the Presidential seal on a walker because I don't spread stomach-churning ableist trash, but what a shocking collapse of editorial standards. The editor who commissioned that image should be forced to resign in shame.

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Tom Nichols's avatar Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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And in red states, you'll see local thugs terrorizing their election boards and school committees. Happening already.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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Anna O Law's avatar Anna O Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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As a constitutional scholar, I am well aware of the serious headwinds and challenges facing the US on the nation's birthday. It will be bad, whatever happens in the Fall elections. But I also know enough US history that resistance is not futile and we have many historical models of it.

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Will Stancil's avatar Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social
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Yeah you’re right! It IS bad! It was also nearly as true a year and a half ago. The other side is running a candidate who is a rapist, a convicted felon, and who tried to overthrow the government, which seems even worse! But for some reason we accept that will just get papered over.

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