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Pastacat@minimallycrazy.bsky.social |
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you're all weird and gross I'm also weird and gross (He/him, je suis un maquereau tigré)
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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wait you're telling me that the punditbros don't know ball?! that they have no game!?! i am hearing this for the first time
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Imagine someone who, in 2024, is willing to answer a call from a number they do not recognize and then give their honest opinions to whoever is on the other end of the line. This is ouija board territory
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Matthew Downhour
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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As an American taxpayer I wish more of my taxes were supporting Ukraine
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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I doubt it for two reasons: we're not that ethnically uniform, and far-right politics burns young men out _fast_.
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The Fig Economy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
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Fully agree. Letting people find this on their own and spread it among friends and family they trust is just so insanely more effective than having them hear about it over and over again from Dems running for office.
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KA SEMENOVA
@kasemenova.bsky.social
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They gave us a Qanon-style attack line: do your own research ... on Project 2025.
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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they have auto-Gish Galloped themselves in the age of TikTok. except the points against aren’t trash, or maybe they are? Who cares, and who’s going to do the legwork on whether this stuff is remotely plausible to implement? I have never seen this happen from the left. It’s great.
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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you don’t need to do more from the bully pulpit than gesture darkly in its direction. it’s amazing. by moving the platform outside the platform, the GOP has stumbled on a way to get people to actually read the platform, to their detriment.
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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I think the effectiveness of Project 2025 is its function as basically a wiki hole. if you start pulling at it you are going to hit something insane organically, right away. and there’s never any need to engage deeply with any of its individual atrocities, so there’s never a place to defend.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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I see three explanations: 1. College-age voters are trending fast & hard for Trump, especially among young men, especially especially young white men 2. Gaza has been catastrophic for Biden in short order (but this doesn't explain the concentration among young white men) 3. Pew got trolled
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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This could be us but you playin': www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lns...
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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You sound like you need some cheerup bullshitting to me!
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Rima I Anabtawi
@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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Ivan Raiklin, a former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency employee, has reportedly compiled a “Deep State target list” of 350 people he wants to see arrested. He’s calling himself Trump’s future “secretary of retribution.”
www.thedailybeast.com/rep-jamie-ra...
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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Defenestration as antifascist praxis.
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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Poland is going to absolutely shit in their samovar if they do this. Just pop a squat and desecrate that thing for all time.
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Michael Paulauski
@mike10010100.bsky.social
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If this is true, then it was brilliant to have only focused on the initial round and to allow him to amend his reporting. Because now the lack of disclosure is absolutely purposeful. This has the potential to be huge, but nobody freak out yet. Let's see where this goes.
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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Yup.
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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If you think about it, 'scary fascists taken down by trash animals with clever little paws' is just how we won the actual war.
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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Also, if you look at the trends in Russian deindustrialization, we only have to make it one more generation before they're cannibalizing their existing arsenal to maintain a nuclear capability at all. The brain drain and deskilling is real.
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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social
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Mike Davis, one of the worst people in the world, has been floated as a SCOTUS nominee and the next Attorney General if Trump is elected.
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luke
@coolhand.bsky.social
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Years ago I read a study by some “ethno-robotocists” where they took a robot squirrel and made it either: • scream • display its butthole • scream and display its butthole Conclusion: other animals run away fastest w scream-butthole combo Anyway it just occurred to me they’re probably rich now
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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge
@2facedjanus7927.bsky.social
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Trying to score for Team Fascism. Like, that's it, I don't care what they think they're doing, that's what they're *actually* doing, and once this election's over I will remember and treat them accordingly.
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Reps. Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush and AOC have all put out "Biden is the nominee, support him" statements. The left-most part of the Democratic Party fighting to keep him while the right-most part—centrists, swing district Reps, NeverTrumpers, etc.—push for him to drop out was not on many Bingo cards.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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If you think the vultures circling is some spontaneous reaction to the debate & not a bunch of shills & toadies who have been waiting for any opp to try & soft-coup the guy who didnt do what the moneybags asked & be a GOP-lite POTUS, dm me, I have this incredible offer on Brooklyn Bridge for you
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drow zelensky
@dov.bsky.social
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If there is a road to socialism that leads through the suffering of my people but not one that leads through their joy, then I am not interested in socialism.
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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Even if this doesn't lead directly to removal, it might be enough to make him recuse himself where appropriate. I don't think we've seen nearly the extent of the dirt that's out there on Thomas.
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Ariofthesea
@ariofthesea.bsky.social
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I have a hard time believing that in a timeline where voters in ruby red Kansas voted to keep abortion legal after the fall of Roe v. Wade—thus rebuking something Trump has BRAGGED about making happen—that the reliably blue NY is suddenly in serious jeopardy.
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eke
@eke.bsky.social
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it really is wild how many *completely different worlds* polls currently imagine, several of which conflict with each other. "new york is competitive while most 2020 purple states remain within the MOE" would be a baffling reality!
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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Too many people really need to stop pretending they don't know this but here goes... 'CENTRISTS' WHO ENDLESSLY CRAP ON ABOUT THEIR SACRED CHECKS AND BALANCES WHILE REFUSING TO EITHER CHECK OR BALANCE THE RADICAL RIGHT AREN'T CENTRISTS. THEY'RE RIGHT WINGERS WHO LACK THE COURAGE OF ANY CONVICTIONS.
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Pastacat
@minimallycrazy.bsky.social
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Your fanclub is fucked up.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
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They think this is the 'Lycurgian Moment' long fabled among right-wing intellectual fever swamps and that they get to repeal the entire 20th Century in US social and political changes. That's not how it'll work out for them if they try, but I'd rather not have to live through that mess.
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Keith
@mosheroperandi.bsky.social
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I have been noticing the d-word since the start, and I cannot stop noticing it popping up like a weed. Despite having a lot more working face-time with him than donors, I cannot keep noticing that our electeds keep projecting fears about Biden's capabilities onto the latter class.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
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I'm going to bang the "trust the headline result but not the crosstabs" drum again. Pollsters appear to be doing increasingly bespoke things to try and make up for nonresponse, and while it seems to have worked thus far, it's probably creating very weird crosstabs along the way.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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One of conservatives top priorities is denying kids the message that they have control over their own bodies and their own sexuality because that makes it harder for pedocons like Trump to get away with raping them
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Brittany Wilson
@sameoldstory.co
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I know we cannot truly know the hearts of the youth but I haven’t really seen any NON-polling evidence for this either. They’re not going to church, they haven’t voted like this is any prior election, they aren’t at GOP campaign events, social media certainly doesn’t make them sound like this…
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Brittany Wilson
@sameoldstory.co
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I don’t know a single person, gosh even offline, who thinks “everything is fine”. I do see that accusation lobbed at people who don’t want to commit suicide when the latest numbers come out, though
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Brittany Wilson
@sameoldstory.co
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Both those things might be baked in already, considering how things are going
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Brittany Wilson
@sameoldstory.co
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People have talked about how if Joe Biden loses we’re going to go a long long time before we get somebody as progressive on [issue]. I think a similar dynamic is at play where we wont get another Democratic president who doesn’t make sucking off the press and donors a big, maybe the biggest priority
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Norm DePlume
@kbuts.bsky.social
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Yeah, the latter seem to think there's a Backup McQuarterback out there who, if nominated, will bring Donald Trump's chances of reelection down as close to zero as mathematically possible.
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Nied
@nied.bsky.social
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Honestly I'm starting to think the big break here is between people who'd already priced in the idea that Trump has a genuine chance of winning & those who have been driven into a panic because they're just now realizing it.
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Nied
@nied.bsky.social
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What gets me is this massive realignment *should* completely scramble the electoral college map, but state level polls show it's unchanged while *also* having massive shifts in the crosstabs.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Personally I think that's a pretty heavy handed but effective solution. By contrast, "I should be able to park my car for free wherever I want to with no consequences" isn't a left wing idea, it's a childish and selfish one
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Just as a for-example, communist China "solves" its parking problems by doing stuff like "hard cap on the number of vehicle registrations in Beijing that's much smaller than the total demand" and if you violate this law they imprison you, not write you a ticket!
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Like I said, many libertarian populists who imagine that they're communists out there
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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also neck and neck for Most Insane Guys Who Will Come Into Your Mentions
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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i started this whole shenanigans assuming that if nick kristof and tom friedman were absolutely certain of something then the opposite was probably true
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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge
@2facedjanus7927.bsky.social
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Numbers which are apparently improving in battleground states, I will remind everyone. I will also remind everyone of the following: -Obama had a worse election map in 2012 in October -Clinton was up 12 points in July in 2016
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman
Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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Ever been behind an old car or truck that is just blowing pollution that you can see and smell? Remember how it feels in your lungs? Trump’s Project 2025 is like that.
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ellie lockhart (she/they)
@eleanor.lockhart.contact
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the difference between someone who posts a lot and someone who has a major publication is that the major publication has credibility if the major publications are just people who post a lot, what are we even doing
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