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michaela t@michaelat.bsky.social |
299 followers 452 following 33 posts
Here for the news, dog pics are a bonus | hopeful cynic | proud HUCTW union member | be inclusive, use alt text | she/her
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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People are getting confused and thinking this means I think Joe Biden is the ideal candidate or that nobody else would do a better job - not true! I just think that decision was made four years ago and reversing it is a guaranteed path to utter catastrophe
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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my takeaway from a lot of this—substantive "what should the dems do" questions aside because I have no idea—is that people are incredibly weird about aging and disability
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Tim Onion
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Also not everything is "dementia." A bad speaker getting worse and only being able to work like 6 hours a day isn't necessarily dementia. It's being old as hell and losing a step, which is maybe reason enough to dump him, but it's not necessarily dementia. Dementia is fucking brutal and specific.
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Celeste Pewter
@celestepewter.bsky.social
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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Oh they know what they’re doing here
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.
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Willie Fitzgerald
@williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
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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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this is yet another reason why I am incredibly not sold on replacing Biden: it’s showing our soft underbelly to a rabid dog
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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It's time for Sammie's daily ear check-in
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞
@mary1kathy.bsky.social
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Please read this. Jeff writes all the shit I’m thinking and would say if I wasn’t so damned angry that all my enraged brain is capable of right now is cursing like a fucking sailor!!!
#TrumpIsNOTAFUCKINGOption
open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.
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Cooper Lund
@cooperlund.bsky.social
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I'm really annoyed with the "There wasn't a real primary this year" argument because if people think Biden's as bad as everyone seems to think he is, someone would have primaried him. Every politician is a careerist asshole, and the people who would have run actually interact with him.
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bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
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the “some folks just need killing” thing out of north carolina reminds me of a third thing these annoying people are right about: as long as the republican bloodlust grows and their power is unbroken, every election probably will be the most important one of your life
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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yeah we should burn that with fire. Titles of office should expire immediately on leaving office
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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heartily agree that this is extremely terrible and should come to an end immediately if not sooner
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@SIfill
@sifill.bsky.social
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A second insurrection. Stop comparing these people to the founders. They are the Confederacy.
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Supreme Court strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering the state's right to abortion access.
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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She's holding her own hand. 🥹
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Meanwhile in Kansas. I absolutely get the fear over Biden’s polling, but remember that a lot of people are PISSED about the GOP taking away abortion rights.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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We really should be hiring people to follow Trump around everywhere with big banners about how he’s a child-molesting rapist felon.
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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www.findinggravity.net/p/they-say-t...
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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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b-boy bouiebaisse
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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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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Whoever is the Democratic nominee, I hope that people are aware that there are going to be MAJOR protests at the Dem Convention in Chicago. People are going to be protesting US ongoing support of genocide and much more. I hope this doesn't lead to more social media freaking out.
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Cherie Priest
@cmpriest.bsky.social
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goooood morning it is bright and cool and we haven’t heard too many fireworks - so let’s get moving while the streets are still quiet - because even when there are auditory obstacles: Dogs Want Walks
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚
@mkn.bsky.social
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The USS Constitution out for her annual sail in Boston Harbor.
She is going to Castle Island to fire a 21-gun salute, accompanied by a flotilla of recreational boaters.
#oldironsides #july4
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James Downie
@jamescdownie.bsky.social
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"Like the Jim Crow-era decisions, the immunity ruling ignores both the plain text of the Constitution and the historical evidence...to embolden those who believe that might makes right."
My latest, on Trump v. U.S and the Reconstruction amendments, for MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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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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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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Andrea Junker
@strandjunker.bsky.social
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The fact that I know more about Joe Biden’s one bad debate night than I do about Donald Trump’s years of raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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They’re fine with it because they think they’re actually in charge. For supposed fans of history they don’t seem to be familiar with the precedents here.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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They don't even need to imagine! The individual literally named in the case is one of the worst people on the planet. He's got a track record of doing or attempting some of the worst shit imaginable. This isn't some distant hypothetical!
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Hayes Brown
@hayesbrown.bsky.social
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
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Mir
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It's infuriating to watch Biden and the Democrats cling to their supposed moral high ground while the GOP prepares to destroy democracy. They will arrest you and your families, sanctimonious posturing won't help you. DO SOMETHING THEY WANT TO KILL YOU
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Kate Tuttle
@katekilla.bsky.social
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I know you seem to think this is the week's biggest story, but the fact that SCOTUS just declared that presidents are now kings is much more significant, both right now and for the future of this country. Stop kowtowing to those who promise nothing but dictatorship.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Sadly, RFK being a rapist is something that you need to spend 0 seconds convincing me he did - look at him! - but the actually eating a dog with photographic evidence thing was at least surprising
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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Bullet is not even my dog, and I would die for him
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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LOOK AT THEM
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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We're having another debate.
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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This is soooooo fucking CRUEL. What a damned shame. I'm sorry to hear this.
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Kate Shaw
@kateshaw.bsky.social
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The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take:
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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I'm talking to Sammie about election law
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Ashley Fairbanks
@ziibiing.com
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This coming week, temperatures in Death Valley will be the hottest in the recorded history of this planet. Beryl is the earliest category four storm in the history of Atlantic hurricane season. People, both now and in the future, need us to stave off fascism and build a world where they can live.
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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Doomer shit is un-American as fuck. Sorry. Factual. This country didn't even consider me a fucking person for half its existence, and the Supreme Court declared Black ppl didn't qualify as US citizens TWICE.
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Andrea Grimes
@andreagrimes.bsky.social
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Crickets who where? Just because nobody organized a pussy hat march in front of your house on Saturday morning when you didn't have anything better going on doesn't mean people aren't and haven't been holding sustained protests in the streets, at city councils, and at fascists' houses for years
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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I dunno, I guess y'all didn't sit through "Eyes On The Prize" every February in Social Studies for every year of middle school? Maybe you should find it and watch it. You will not find "They shot our leader, we should give up, it's hopeless now."
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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It’s utterly insane to watch - mice trying to usher in the rule of a really hungry cat
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