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David Ambaras

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Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.

David Ambaras's avatar David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social
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Here's me wanting Biden to go. 80 to 90 percent of MOCs are just off camera, also wanting Biden to go

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We're probably a week away from revelations that McEntee used to go gay bashing and two weeks away from someone discovering his alternate identity on Grindr

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George Clooney shows up at the White House, hands Biden a brochure on his post-dismissal options, then flies back to Omaha to get a clean shirt from his unlived-in apartment.

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deadly serious, if you can convince small business owners that the republicans intend to pass a law that tells them they *cannot* operate on sunday, the party implodes *overfuckingnight*

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Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

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David Ambaras's avatar David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social
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I think he should be allowed to treat the NYT, the millionaires, and the Seth Moultons like they're all Paul Ryan in 2012

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look, the answer to “crops will rot in the fields” after mass deportation is “chain gangs from for-profit prisons” they’re just not showing that card right now

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Sam Alito just posted this upside down at his beach house

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Congrats to everyone on Twitter, still pretending they're not actually frequenting a Nazi bar as the jukebox plays the Horst Wessel Song at a deafening volume.

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David Ambaras's avatar David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social
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Shutting down Red Lobster is also part of the larger plan

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This photo is all the evidence you need that homeschool biology lessons based on Horton Hears a Who are not a good idea.

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David Ambaras's avatar David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social
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Imagine the peaceful family happiness when Pops can't get loaded and watch his favorite team but can still pull out his sacred AR-15

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As I keep saying, there is a good reason that Wasserman picks up tens of thousands of followers on E-day and loses them all as soon as the last race has been called

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Except they're not committed to objective, fact-driven journalism. They want facts to fit their vibes, and if they don't, they run with the vibes.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar 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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I'm sure some assholes pack heat just for such a possibility

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Costa Samaras's avatar Costa Samaras @costasamaras.bsky.social
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Maybe I missed it but I’ve never seen a NYT scoreboard for the number of governors opting out of taking federal money for feeding hungry kids (twelve) or even the number of states where a McRib is currently available (zero).

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David Ambaras's avatar David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social
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"And that's why Nancy Pelosi, I mean Joe Biden, has to go"

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Andrea Grimes's avatar Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.bsky.social
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wild to me that "leave it up to the states," a view that was used to excuse and legitimize slavery AND SPARKED THE CIVIL WAR, is being cast as "softened" in the context of abortion, like it's fine, we'll just have HALF THE COUNTRY prosecuting abortion as homicide, as a soft, moderate compromise

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David Ambaras's avatar David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social
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But somebody on here just told me that t doesn't matter because he and Biden are on a different timeline and Biden should be doing a dozen events a day and besides his mom was reminded of Anita Hill so it's all over

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"I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you (checks notes) Democratic base voters and their responsible representatives!"

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I find your takes amusing, so I guess we're even, chief

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Biden has done like a dozen events in the last two weeks. Trump has not been seen in 11 days. And yet

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Noah Smith is such a clown. He picked up too many paying readers from his fawning Marc Andreessen interview, and is now desperately trying to be the last-cool-liberal on Elon Musk’s proverbial blog roll. His RNC platform hot take is they’re pragmatic and moderating because they talk about taxes. 🤡

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TW's avatar TW @twesq.bsky.social
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I think we can officially retire the heartbreaking meme now

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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The speaker of the house is openly saying concentration camps are needed for Latinos if they take power. Make no mistake detention camp is code. This is the smirking face of fascism at the highest levels of government and in the direct line of succession.

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David Ambaras's avatar David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social
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She should spend more time with the two Haitian children she stole

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"Signs of stealing unfounded stories to weaken the Biden campaign cast clouds over NYT's campaign to weaken the Biden campaign"

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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conservatives think the press is stupid and the press's reaction - a bunch of stories about Trump 'softening' abortion language - confirms that they are correct.

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They don't need platform language. Comstock is on the books, and they will use it to ban abortions and contraception. Media like CNN are failing their job and failing the American people with lazy "reporting" like this.

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I'm still waiting for them to start using "clouds" and "shadows" in every other sentence

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David Ambaras's avatar David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social
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It all doesn't matter b/c of Comstock, and media saying anything else is yet another failure.

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Breaking News: A mathematics expert visited the NYT multiple times TODAY to explain to them what a ratio is. The editors have said that they still do not understand.

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