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Megz Zurawicz

@dykecrone.bsky.social

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Queer, disabled, Jewish. Buttigieg Dem.


Megz Zurawicz's avatar Megz Zurawicz @dykecrone.bsky.social
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4 pm to 2 am here in Indy.

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I didn't vote for Larry not because I'm not a Brit (though I'm not), but because I didn't have access to the vote portal. Hillary Marie, however, had access and did vote for him. Hillary:

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Christopher Federico's avatar Christopher Federico @cmfederico.bsky.social
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Big victory for Labour — so big that the NYT just gave Sir Keir his own version of ‘Joe Biden Is Old’

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Stephen Kotowych's avatar Stephen Kotowych @ourmankoto.bsky.social
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The current Con leader and likely next PM, Pierre Poilievre, is a beady-eyed little fascist who supported the trucker convoy, plays footsie with white nationalists, and who will beat up on vulnerable populations, dismantle the CBC, and gut environmental regulations the minute he gets power

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar)'s avatar The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social
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"Captain America is anti-Nazi propaganda. Fury MAX commented on how dumb the Vietnam War was... Marvel published a MODOC variant based on Trump. When Rightist comic book fans screech “keep politics out of comics”, the answer should be a resounding “no”... Comics have always been political."

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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Angus Johnston's avatar Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social
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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

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emptywheel's avatar emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social
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It's fairly insane that MOST political journalists exhibit no understanding that being President and running for President are not the same thing, and often a President who is effective at making policy may not titillate their beltway gossip machine, which reflects on THEIR competence, not his.

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Chrissy Stroop's avatar Chrissy Stroop @www.bugbeardispatch.com
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“Electing the Democratic presidential candidate this fall—who, we have every reason to believe, will still be Joe Biden—is the only way to prevent the rise of a corporate-Christian American dictatorship with the criminal Trump at its head, his every whim rubber-stamped by an illegitimate SCOTUS”

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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No, Peter Baker, your varying treatment of Biden and Trumps puts your and your newspaper's prejudices in stark relief.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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A lot of talk right now about Heritage President Kevin Roberts - who lusts for a radical rightwing revolution that would punish those he deems enemies of his “real America” so bad that he must talk about it all the time. I dove deep into the extremist worldview of that guy a while ago:

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Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל's avatar Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל @yechiel.me
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IMO the biggest problem with Biden's age is the fact that Trump wants to be a dictator on day one and it doesn't look like there's anything or anyone in our institutions that are willing or able to stop him.

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@SIfill's avatar @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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Maladroithe's avatar Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social
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Getting word that Larry the Chief Mouser of Downing Street has coasted to another peerless victory with no opposition and 100% of the vote, truly Britain’s greatest statesman

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Blake Emerson's avatar Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social
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This is a really good summary of what the Roberts Court is doing—simultaneous elevation of president and destruction of regulation. This year and last, US public law is fundamentally shifting towards a frightening new (authoritarian) regime.

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...

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Greg Sargent's avatar Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.

"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"

Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834
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Chrissy Stroop's avatar Chrissy Stroop @www.bugbeardispatch.com
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Journalism is supposed to hold power accountable. The NY Times chooses instead to flex power, endangering us all.

Trying to force Biden aside by creating a movement for his ouster out of whole cloth only makes Trump’s election more likely.

We see you

www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/some-july-...

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Yair Wallach's avatar Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social
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The difference between a journalist and a commentator.

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Audley: leftover wizard's avatar Audley: leftover wizard @audleyzdarke.bsky.social
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Hey, as long as I'm talking about queer writers I admire, y'all should sign up for Chrissy Stroop's newsletter. She writes brilliantly on politics and religion– I highly recommend!

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Mark Harris's avatar Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social
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P.S. A reminder--because I still hear mutterings from people who should know better that marriage equality is just a toy for bourgeois white gays: This is a basic human right and it is bound up inextricably with economic justice and fairness. Marriage equality is for everyone who wants or needs it.

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Megz Zurawicz's avatar Megz Zurawicz @dykecrone.bsky.social
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I mean that these are numbers provided by Hamas, which tells the truth just about as often as Trump.

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Megz Zurawicz's avatar Megz Zurawicz @dykecrone.bsky.social
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"Local health officials." i.e., Hamas.

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Murshed Zaheed 's avatar Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social
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Love how @RepRaskin trolls Roberts love 4 ⚾️▶️ "Professional baseball would never allow an umpire to continue to officiate the World Series after learning that the pennant of one of the two teams competing was flying in the front yard of the umpire’s home." 🔥 (3/4)

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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most of history's greatest villains were stupid, venal, petty little men they were schoolyard bullies, and the thing about bullies is there are a lot of people out there who want to turn them against those they perceive as enemies

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Mark Joseph Stern's avatar Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
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Judge Carlton Reeves has a new opinion out condemning qualified immunity as unlawful and egregiously unjust. He calls the doctrine a "perpetuation of racial inequality" and "an extra-constitutional affront to other cherished values of our democracy." s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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"Trump’s lie about women being a danger to their own offspring and needing to be prevented from murdering their children is of a piece with the most chilling forms of misogyny, and pointedly similar to that which permeates much of right-wing Christianity."

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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This is like what the National Review did with the Birchers in the early 1960s. Buckley acknowledged that Robert Welch said some things that went too far and was kind of a nut, but the rank and file Birchers, Buckley said, were mostly "very fine people" whose anti-left hysteria was wholesome & good.

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Trejon's avatar Trejon @trejon.bsky.social
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People also don’t understand that if people “just move”, things never change. Arizona has gotten more blue in the past decade because people didn’t just leave when things got bad, they fought to protect their home, and as more people moved here, they brought their progressive politics.

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Chrissy Stroop's avatar Chrissy Stroop @www.bugbeardispatch.com
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This just in: Trans people are a threat to human dignity, says church whose leaders must wear increasingly ridiculous drag the higher they rise in the ranks

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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What's happening to trans people in the UK and US right now is cisgender activists laundering talking points through cisgender reporters who are then cited by cisgender lawmakers to justify banning medical care for trans people and trans people only

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Cheryl Morgan's avatar Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social
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If anyone is wondering why the Cass report is the way it is, this is what happens when you start from the assumption that anyone who thinks gender transition is a good thing is biased and should be discounted, whereas anyone who thinks it is a bad thing is neutral and therefore believable.

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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"If a mob boss says someone is going to go sleep with the fishes I’m not going to get into an argument about whether that person has a big aquarium in his bedroom. Because he’s a mob boss and I’m not a chump and murdering people is what he does."

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CoffeeShopRabbi's avatar CoffeeShopRabbi @rruth.bsky.social
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Jews with any sense of self-preservation will vote for Biden, even if they have to hold their noses to do it. Voting for Trump or failing to vote will invite evil we do not want to endure yet again.

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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They're just really concerned about women's sports you guys

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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In a country with a functioning democratic system and a somewhat healthy political culture, anyone uttering such deranged nonsense would be shunned and ostracized, a party elevating them would not be considered a viable option by anyone but an extremist fringe.

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Chrissy Stroop's avatar Chrissy Stroop @www.bugbeardispatch.com
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“This is a lesson that America’s media gatekeepers and almost all nationally elected Democrats desperately need to learn. You do not stop authoritarians by coddling them. They are not going to magically become reasonable if you just ‘compromise’ enough. Enough never comes”

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Dennis A.'s avatar Dennis A. @dharmadog.bsky.social
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#ChastenButtigieg #RyanWalters #Oklahoma
Public officials must not target citizens.These kinds of statements fuel anti-LGBTQ+ harassment & bullying and will lead to violence. Chasten is a father, educator and advocate for a kinder future. This is getting out of control.

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AkivaMCohen's avatar AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social
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How dare anyone see Israelis as human beings worthy of care?

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Jonathan McDowell 's avatar Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social
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Pretty depressing day at work today with lots of staff updating their resumes as we grapple with NASA's decision to shut down Chandra, the world's only ever high resolution X-ray space telescope, still returning fabulous science discoveries. Still hoping this can be reversed

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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A while back I wrote about dark matter and why astronomers consider it to be an essential ingredient in the universe even though we don’t yet know what it’s made of. It’s popular to claim it can’t exist just because we don’t directly see it but that misunderstands how we discover things in physics!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg 's avatar Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
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“Just because they’re appointing Kavanaugh doesn’t mean Roe is dead, don’t get so hysterical.” “They’re only coming for abortion, they’re never going to touch birth control”

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Jen Cross's avatar Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social
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It’s truly amazing to see this particular comic traveling around social media uncredited and apparently edited. Original from FB on left. Artist: eat the rich comedian / FB eattherich_comic / IG

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Fatima Ayub's avatar Fatima Ayub @thecynicist.bsky.social
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Hear me out—what if we *didn’t* give the desert’s water supply to the plagiarism machine?

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