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Retiredlibrarian@ciociano1.bsky.social |
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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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Matthew Sheffield
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Taraji P. Henson did a huge public service calling out Project 2025. Earlier today, Kevin Roberts, chair of Project 2025, threatened violence: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." It's Christofascism. Make no mistake.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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As a white lady I hate to say it, but there will always be a big bloc of white women for whom white supremecy beats gender justice.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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No, they are not given pause for a second. They will never wonder how out of touch they are. Their confident obtousness is maddening.
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Micah
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“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court
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Retiredlibrarian
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Philip Bump
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The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.
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wishda
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The road to every national media (and way too many other “national” level jobs) requires more than a year of full-time, unpaid internships in a major city. Our meritocratic cultural institutions literally recruit on the Anatole France version of “Our doors are open to anyone.”
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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When MAGA partisans tried that stunt in MI, the state Board of Canvassers quietly sent a letter that changed their minds. It’s gandernewsroom.com/2024/05/20/d...
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Michelangelo Signorile
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Don't fall for the trap. If Democrats listen to the New York Times and try to replace Biden, the New York Times will have a new narrative: Democrats in chaos. And they will then have 347 stories a week about whoever is the candidate, all focused on how inexperienced and unprepared that person is.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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The press only throws around these edicts if they think they can make somebody jump. The GOP always tells them to f**k off, so they don’t bother. Dems should do the same.
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Angela
@heyaries325.bsky.social
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To every “Democratic strategist” rushing to WaPo, MSNBC etc. to anonymously say Biden should be replaced: you are worse than useless and you suck at your job. Trashing the candidate to the media is feckless and, dare I say, an absurdly stupid strategy for Democrats. STFU.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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Damn right. Also disgusting are too for school folks laughing about the end of civilization. Grow a pair—of balls, or ovaries, or whatever you got.
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southpaw
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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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"oh who knows what Trump will do on abortion" we do! we know! he was a notably anti-abortion president!
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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MAGA is pretty much where hippies were in the mid 1970s: they have dominated the media and think they are on the brink of creating a new world, but people are quietly getting tired of their shit.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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Thank you! Tim Ryan tried to establish his “independence” from Pelosi and Biden in the Ohio Senate race and dirtbag J. D. Vance handed him his ass.
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Tamara Keel
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Coalition politics mean that you’re not gonna be absolute snuggle bunnies with everyone tugging the rope in the same direction as you. 🤷🏼♀️
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Andrew Jackson Lynch
@whatsforlynch.bsky.social
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"Her personality is gone, even a tomboy is not that flat" is a hell of a tell.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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This is my point. Just categorizing the L government as “Christian” is inadequate.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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But not all Christians want to make the government Christian-belief centric. The LA gov does not represent them.
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Adam Serwer
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Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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Who could have guessed that a white supremacist martyr was in fact wildly exaggerating and working a grift? That will NEVER happen again.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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Maybe the first white conservative martyr who became a hero by being too good to do their job.
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Roy Edroso
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Sounds to me like disinfo planted to let Trump claim he's beleaguered from the Right as well as the Left. In other words: Weaponized bullshit.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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Indigenous to where? Chicory is a native of Eurasia.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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The founders would have understood it as treason, and would resort to war against someone who attempted it, and punish it with hanging. Other countries would prosecute it as treason. That is what it is. Folks should be clear eyed on it.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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he aged into seriousness and gravitas, but he could also display a wry humor that i always enjoyed. and his work in the 70s perfectly captures the paranoia and pervasive sense that something was “off”
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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And MAGA does “black outreach” and white supremacy showboating *in the same city within days of each other. Like nobody would notice.
www.voanews.com/a/trump-mich...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The legislature doesn't have a role in deciding the election. The voters do. Any legislator who attempts to overturn the election result should be arrested.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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A serious attempt by legislators or a candidate to invalidate a plainly valid election to install someone who plainly lost the election as president is not a "legal hack" or "finalizing results". It is treason. It is a treason against the United States and its citizens. We shouldn't dance around it.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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I wish people had that sense of perspective. So many abusive parents act like h.s. sports is life or death—abusing refs and umps, harassing kids. Maybe if they had a life.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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This. As long as such cases are considered “lawsuit problems,” stuff that costs money and no jail time, the costs of homicidal indifference will just be a cost of doing business.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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It is so people can keep up with branches of the family that they can’t/would rather not directly keep in touch with.
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Matthew Triponey
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The one thing about Americans I don't know how we go about untangling is the sheer number of us who will turn down a material benefit to ourselves if we find out that guy over there will get it too.
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Mike W
@latimeriidae.bsky.social
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Everyone’s a death penalty abolitionist until their neighbor across the street starts up the leaf blower at 8am
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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Everyone’s a death penalty abolitionist until four strangers in a confined public space are watching something on their phones at full volume
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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“If you prosecute me for my crimes I’ll prosecute you for nothing” isn’t tit for tat. It’s just doubling down on lawless behavior.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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It sounds like the NY Dems who have jobs just want to hand into theirs, and want to take no risks by using power to do anything different.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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I know Boomers are the social media default bad guys, but I am astonished at my twenty and thirtysomething nieces and nephews who only get info from Joe Rogan and Tik Tok.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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A big nugget of American ignorance is the belief that government programs and agencies that one likes are somehow not *really* the government (like Soc Security, libraries, etc and are therefore not bad.
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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Voting is not enough. Right wingers are evil and crazy, but they have disproportionate power because they had the discipline to do the grinding, boring, precinct level takeover of a major party. We need to do that.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Very frustrating seeing some "see, voting doesn't matter, Dems suck too!" regarding Kathy Hochul, who we actually almost got rid of in 2018 by replacing her in a low-turnout primary with a progressive primary challenger. That voting doesn't matter is the exact opposite of the takeaway here
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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Exactly. The pattern of conservatives creating unclear laws on issues like censorship and abortion is to misdirect blame, all the while using the threat of prosecution to make doctors afraid to do anything. All the power, no responsibility.
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@ofpope.bsky.social
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This is EXACTLY as clear as they want it to be. The goal is to ban abortion, but this way they get to blame the doctors because the "law allows*" it. *Local DA may prosecute anyway, good luck with the felony trial!
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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Not surprised. There are people so dispirited and defeated that they could be held up through the U.S. mail.
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Amanda Marcotte
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12 fucking people had the courage to look that stinky ass wannabe Hitler in the eye and say "not today, motherfucker." You have no excuse for giving up.
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Dave Weigel
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If you told someone in the year 2010 that Donald Trump would become president, he'd be shocked. If you told him Trump would be the first president to be convicted of felonies, he'd say "yeah that sounds right."
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Retiredlibrarian
@ciociano1.bsky.social
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Authoritarians cannot have anybody disagree. That’s why North Korea and the old Soviet Union seemed to have unanimous votes, even though that’s preposterous.
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