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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social |
21474 followers 15465 following 62234 posts
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Thanks largely to Biden and the Democratic party there is now a kind of global race to get to the mass, chear carbon-free energy. We're going to hit peak global emissions (fingers crossed) this year or next. We're deploying solar at a level that blowing away every single prediction.
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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And there really is a story to tell, one I've tried with varying success to describe. We are now in the midst of the greatest civilizational transformation - the green transition - since the industrial revolution and the mass adoption of fossil fuels for energy. It's already changing so much.
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Which gets to me to a huge issue that is connected to but distinct from the question of age. Elections are about the future. They're about where we're going. Trump's argument about the future is very literally a time-machine to 2019, before covid. That's the argument in a nutshell. Let's go back
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Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
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I’m happy to say ratfuck as many times as it takes for people to recognize that expressing their opposition to Trump through the medium of constant attacks on Biden is just goddamned dumb.
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Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
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Because I can’t overturn who the primary voters voted for and anger towards the candidate opposed to Trump in this moment doesn’t help the singular overriding goal of “stop Trump”.
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Edward Carney
@ecarney.bsky.social
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Gee, I wonder how things would be different if in those five minutes, low-information voters saw Democrats highlighting the many, many, many examples of Trump's severe mental incompetence instead of demanding that Biden withdraw.
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Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
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Which do you think persuades unengaged people more : a unified message of “he’s competent and has been a great president; the Times prefers Trump because he gave them more access” or the circular firing squad?
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Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
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I’ll take you at face value: Why not? Do you actually think fixating on “okay but should Biden drop out for being old and dumb” while ignoring revelations like “Trump palled around with Epstein” helps beat Trump? Or is Trump less of an existential threat to you than most?
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Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
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We had a moment in which we could have treated this like a rerun of but her emails ratfuckery and reject it outright, circle the wagons, and put up a defense. Instead we (and again, most damaging, elected officials) prioritized getting “honest and smart” points like this is a normal election.
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Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
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This is, to be honest, my problem with anyone claiming they’re constantly repeating NYT talking points because they’re worried about Trump winning. That’s how we’d behave in any election, debating about strategy and armchair quarterbacking. It shows an abstract worry, not a visceral fear.
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@peripatetic.bsky.social
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Am I fucking crazy, or has this been one shitty debate performance, followed by a week plus of story after story about "panic" etc? No new evidence that he's unable to do it, just constant "people are saying"?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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you are not crazy, this is an entirely true statement that many, many more people need to print out, tape up to their mirror, and ground themselves with every morning. it is fucking JULY. everybody needs to pop an edible and calm the fuck down.
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The Next Day
@incompetusrex.bsky.social
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Listen, if the Biden campaign wanted to quell concerns about his age, they would have put him out there, like in the post-debate pressroom, a rally, an event at the Stonewall monument, a national address, a medal of honor ceremony, a meeting with governors, another rally, and televised interview.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Same
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Hey I’m not freaking out I’m *pissed off* but I’m not freaking out lol
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legal cat 🐾
@legalcat.bsky.social
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it’s this
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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If Democrats are confused about how to handle tough questions about their nominee's fitness for office, they can just look at the thousands of examples of Republicans avoiding, deflecting, and redirecting similar questions about Trump over the past 8 years.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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isn’t that just TikTok
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Phoebe Barton 🚀 🇺🇳
@phoebebarton.bsky.social
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point of fact, I came out publicly in 2018 because I believed there was a significant chance of Trump starting a nuclear war and if that was the case I wanted to be able to die as myself
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amdiamanti
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And to be clear it’s not just him. Almost every single pundit and Dem donor/pol who is in freak out mode has been awfully milquetoast about the rise of fascism from Trump and the GOP except in the context of attacking Biden.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Sounds plausible to me. Rich elite mass hysteria.
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Jessica
@jessbepuzzled.bsky.social
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so... when I worked at Tableau someone there made a website for Null Island because it came up so often in customers' data sets.
nullis.land
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Wattle of Bits 🏳️🌈
@wattle.bsky.social
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we live in a country that gave the jackass from The Apprentice the nuclear codes just the most irresponsible idiots
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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fig. a: Me posting about this fucking election on bluesky
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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basically
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Yeah like
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Anne
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This 💯 Where were all these dems with their concerns about his age and acuity before primary season? Also, you know if the roles were reversed every republican would be in lockstep talking about “everyone has an off night” and changing the subject reading off the same script So frustrating
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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Ridiculous hypothetical from Stephanopoulos: What if all these people ask you to drop out. Well, they have not.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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Fuck Sen. Warner and the hobby horse he came in on.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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NY Times opinion editor opines and so do I. Fuck off.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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"I've seen it from the press." That was @JoeBiden speaking truth about where this attack is coming from. It's not coming from the voters, from the public, but from the privileged press.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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specifically we send him to Null Island
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Wow did they literally schedule this interview for 10pm so they can be like "look! he stays up late *And* talks real good!"? Like… It'll *work* (in part if not mostly because they're gonna have surrogates out tomorrow spinning and stumping as hard as they can), but I still find it really funny.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Chris Kluwe
@chriswarcraft.bsky.social
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So is this part we repeat history almost a century later and start regarding the NYTimes as less of a “trusted news source” and more “a vital part of the fascist propaganda machine”?
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James Schmeling
@jschmeling.bsky.social
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Here's what bothers me about Biden critics. I believe they are simply promoting themselves in this rather than having a legitimate approach to ensuring Trump does not win. "Biden must step aside" is not a strategy to win. It's just not.
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Prisonculture
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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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Moira Donegan
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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Yes
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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I don't think polling on possible alternatives helps at all right now because there's not way to measure the impact that trying to switch candidates mid-race has. It's not good though and my guess would be a double-digit wipeout, regardless of who it is
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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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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing
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Aubrey Gilleran
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I'm not going to trust one of the richest senators who ended the nomination of one of Biden's best picks because she was too mean to big banks and crypto.
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malakim2099
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The fact that Biden is not a fucking lunatic that drops unhinged tweets at 3am is the single biggest unspoken reason he curbstomped Trump in the popular vote in 2020.
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Sunny Moraine
@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
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Recently read that Annie Jacobsen book that goes into a nuclear war scenario on a ridiculously granular level and like Y’all, if we elect this guy again there is an extremely non-zero chance that we’re basically fucked
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Faine Greenwood
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One does wonder
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Luis 🦝🐦⬛🤖
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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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the feminine urge to 🔪 when wrath arrives
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I'm in agreement here and I really wish I could believe more Dems would not just play hardball, but also start making rules in the Calvinball.
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