Charles O’Connor

@coconnor8.bsky.social

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

We’re just wracking our brains trying to figure out the magic formula of not-fascist the @nytimes.com might get behind, and tbh, I’m not sure it exists

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

It’s doing more harm than good.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

And another. The @nytimes.com is trash.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

And another

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:58 UTC

Weak sauce with zero evidence to justify it. What institution has shown a disproportionate response to Trump? (disproportionately large that is—plenty of institutions with disproportionately small responses)

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

Overcompensating for Trump derangement syndrome? At the DOJ? There’s zero evidence for this This is either not a serious argument, or if based on inside knowledge, an indictment of the conservative majority’s ability to perceive reality

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 10:32 UTC

john roberts, clarence thomas, samuel alito, brett kavanaugh, neil gorsuch, and amy coney barrett must be impeached and replaced

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 10:09 UTC

fundamentally being in the majority on Trump v US is immediately disqualifying for a supreme court justice. it declares yourself in opposition to the foundations of the American project of democracy and limited government. all six of them must be impeached and replaced.

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L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:44 UTC

One paragraph every American needs to read this July 4th.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/strongman-...

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:05 UTC

Today’s reminder to cancel your @nytimes.com subscription

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

The parade is usually a battle between John Deere and Farm-all, but Farm-all is running away with it

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

With cranes

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

Cabot parade thread

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

Yes

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:26 UTC

I’m leaning into voting for a sack of potatoes

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

Mine has two heads

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

I dunno. To prove this you’d have to demonstrate that a political party could thrive electorally while offering almost nothing of material value to the vast majority of its voters, instead just feeding them vibes and promises to punish people they have been taught to hate

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:53 UTC

Took a TGV in France a couple weeks ago, and it’s cool to go so fast, so smooth past fields of wheat and windmills, far outpacing pokey cars on parallel highways

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:38 UTC

youtu.be/Nk4pB1NxM1o?...

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:11 UTC

A lot of dark takes on this site lately, but damn

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:58 UTC

youtu.be/uumicL9hZV4?...

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:53 UTC

The backdrop and driver of all this is the climate crisis, so the gradual reduction of services will happen in the face of escalating natural disasters, and the circle of whiteness will tighten to eventually only include certain christians

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:10 UTC

Surprised by the byline

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:09 UTC

…of the most reliable voters in the Dem base?

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:45 UTC

You all weren’t joking when I got back on here yesterday. People have really gone full throttle on “the camps” discourse on here, as opposed to considering the “when we fight we win” discourse and as a social movements person I am a little gagged, in the worst way.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

Cancel your subscription

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:04 UTC

You are ghouls

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

If the NY Dolls and Stooges count as classic rock, I’d go for that, but if the label is as limiting as the others seem to be, I really don’t know. Grunge? For emo can I just have the Rites of Spring record as a carve out?

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:08 UTC

I realize that it would be difficult to come up with a standard for how wrong a pundit had to be about how many issues to lose their job, but maybe for starters we could use body count

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:03 UTC

That Thomas Friedman is still employed cranking out bad takes decades after the Iraq War is the NYT saying that nothing at all matters

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:27 UTC

Tbh everything in the rack but the Octopre was stuff a friend had. Its pre-amps have inserts, so when I got it I asked “Don’t you have a bunch of outboard equipment in your shed?”

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:13 UTC

Everything he flailed into turned out to me made of cardboard, and they were astonished they’d ever played by any rules at all

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:09 UTC

oops

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

Sack o’ potatoes, sure! In fact, that’s my new nickname for Biden. Can’t wait to tell any Trump supporter, “Trump? Hells no! I’m voting for the sack o’ potatoes.”

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:09 UTC

Everything happens in the context of the climate crisis This is what it looks like when the rich hunker down

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

Since we’re willing to vote for a sack to potatoes to stop Trump, and Biden gave a sack of potatoes debate performance, we should just lean in and portray Biden as a sack of potatoes ourselves to emphasize our contempt for Trump

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:47 UTC

"The Court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be the most direct threat to American democracy, and any Democrat who is not ready to shelve old fears about “court packing” and get serious about expanding and reforming the Court isn’t made for this moment, period."

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:13 UTC

Everything he flailed into turned out to me made of cardboard, and they were astonished they’d ever played by any rules at all

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:01 UTC

Trump pushed at the limits of this “impartiality” and found there were none, and the wrong people were at first surprised and then emboldened

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:47 UTC

Congrats! I am also blocked!

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:42 UTC

I understand if these conservatives loyal to democracy are not on Bluesky because they’re way too busy trying to convince their brethren not destroy the country. That’s what they ought to be doing When we’re through this thing, we can all chat

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:38 UTC

What year are we having this conversation? If it’s 2014, count me in. If it’s 2024…? No

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:35 UTC

Manchin and Pelosi? No. Manchin is a self-serving ass but not right wing in this country Kinzinger is the exception that proves the rule. Give me 30 Kinzingers sitting in Congress willing to put country over Trump and we’ll be talking about something

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:22 UTC

I think you vastly underestimate the seriousness of our situation. When it comes down to it, the establishment right throws in with the fascists. Why spend energy on a futile effort trying to convince the “good ones”. The Trump nightmare could be ended by 30 GOP lawmakers of conscience at any time

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:12 UTC

Maybe people left of center see no good faith arguments coming from the side led by a fascist criminal? Maybe we have to get on with the work of solving serious problems without engaging deliberate bullshit

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:26 UTC

It’s completely the point and key to his appeal. His weakness resonates with the weakness of his supporters. Like him, they can only imagine the exercise of power as cruelty.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:27 UTC

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:29 UTC

I wish the US left had the confidence and planning to see a popular front as a way of infiltrating the Democratic Party

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 11:40 UTC

Let’s get to who is Bill Mahar

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 09:42 UTC

Are people forgetting that a replacement VP would need to be confirmed, and that simply would not happen?

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