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Faine Greenwood
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The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.
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heather gm
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Oh no I didn't mean you were saying that! but that it is a prevailing sentiment and it means a lot to me that you care about passing it on! I hope you are able to avoid it entirely considering your work situation and all
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heather gm
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nobody talks about this enough. I hear folks say - I'm vaccinated and healthy, if I get it it will be a bummer but no big deal - which fine, spin the roulette wheel on long covid if you want, but what about the folks you infect?
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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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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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keep hitting the reality of who they are- their true face is so fucking ugly even they will refuse to acknowledge it exists
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heather gm
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looking forward to a week (more?) of the MSM parsing all the nuances of this and deciding that it is unfair to connect Trump to this plan and then maybe some profiles of white men in diners swearing they never met her, so obviously this is just lefty fears and smears which can be ignored.
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Chris Dashiell
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Can he do the job? Well, fuck, he’s already been doing it for the last three and a half years. Unlike the criminal who couldn’t be bothered to do a damn thing, even during a plague. But dure, keep asking your dishonest questions, you slanderous maligners.
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Moira Donegan
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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Pavel
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Coach Finstock
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The NYT, the most influential paper in the country, just ran an Op Ed called 'Why I Don't Vote' by a guy who votes. It's that simple. The NYT is a farce. You cannot trust anything they print.
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Prof. Farhana Sultana
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People unironically posting Naomi Shihab Nye’s famous fireworks poem today “No Explosions”. Nye is a Palestinian-American poet and this poem is perhaps most apt for #July4 for the US but everyday in Palestine.
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Robert Reich
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Banning medical debt from credit reports. Cracking down on junk fees. Banning non-competes. Capping credit card fees. Negotiating drug prices. Expanding OT pay. These Biden policies don't make headlines, but this is what it looks like when government works for the people.
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heather gm
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I went to the original post to Like it and lo, I had already done so when you first posted :)
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heather gm
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thread worth reading today.
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heather gm
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THIS. This right here 👇
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is
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heather gm
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ooh. well put
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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There have been so many of these but they still find ways to shock me
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J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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IDK kind of feels like we should be paying more attention to a prominent conservative think tank saying we're in the midst of a second american revolution that will remain bloodless as long as long as the left lets it be, then whether or not Biden should step down.
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Brooke Binkowski
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This IS Heritage's Project 2025. Remember it's not IN 2025. It's BY 2025.
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Jeff Yang
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Those who came (or whose parents came) to the US from under authoritarian rule would point out that commentary is not pointless, but vital. The first thing that authoritarian governments do is restrict any form of critique. Yes, we must do as well as say. But we can’t stop saying either.
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Elad Nehorai
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
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Anil Kalhan
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A thousand times this, from @joshtpm.bsky.social — "Trump threatens the entire existence of the American republic. He is able to do this because the Supreme Court he created is assisting him in doing so. It is a corrupt Court."
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Eileen Clancy
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Guess how much money the ACLU has access to? ACLU Foundation (not the org) has $640 million IN THE BANK. That's their endowment for a rainy day. THE STORM IS HERE! They're not going to pour that $ and energy into protecting democracy? GTFO! (Cole's salary in 2022 was $484,052, btw.)
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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This is literally the same shit the Nazis did before industrializing murder. They would get soldiers to just shoot people into pits. They sent Jews en masse via train to camps to starve and die. It was disgusting in the 40s and it's disgusting now.
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it's gita time
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Ppl are retweeting this and I just want to add that faxing is THE most annoying thing to do to your representatives. There are websites where you can fax for a small fee and those machines are LOUD and then at the very least they have to deal with all the print outs.
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heather gm
@heathergm.bsky.social
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Amen Amen Amen
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heather gm
@heathergm.bsky.social
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THIS! There are droves of us out here trying to wake folks up to the danger we're in & we get kneecapped over and over by the top Dems. You can't just fundraise on the threat to Democracy and expect people to take you seriously. You have to ACT like it matters before you can bring the voters along.
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heather gm
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I wish I had your optimism. I am pretty sure we are looking at some version of #2 with little bits of #4 thrown in. People are just so complacent right now and even when they see it they propose nonsense like replacing Biden instead of gearing up for the fight of their lives. Sigh.
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heather gm
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that is just the most perfect tomato and I am happy for you
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Gillian Branstetter
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This often gets raised in the context of political retribution when the more obvious concern is civil society, protest groups, abortion providers, trans care providers, anyone "harboring" undocumented people. If you want to know how Trump will use DoJ just look to Ken Paxton in TX.
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Sean
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lest we forget, at least two of the justices who voted on this case either supported or were involved with the insurrection themselves
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Faine Greenwood
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I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."
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jamie quinn 🏳️⚧️
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boy, i gotta tell you, as an american, i’m getting real sick of seeing “6-3” on things that will dictate the way i experience the rest of my life.
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Josh Gondelman
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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heather gm
@heathergm.bsky.social
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it is still one of my favorite movie soundtracks
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heather gm
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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When the empty ugliness at the centers of power becomes clear to you, if that is a sharp, new, devastating feeling, a good thing to do is to follow the instructions of those far from centers of power who have been seeing, surviving, strategizing & surviving for a long, long time.
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heather gm
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alt text would Really be useful in this case
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Indorfin
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I think the problem is less that it’s wrong to ask Biden to step aside, and more that they should’ve been saying that Trump’s unfit every single day for the past nine years.
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heather gm
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they just got a subscription from me (for now) since I cancelled WaPo due to their recent change in management.
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Patrick Nathan
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“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.
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heather gm
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Dead Man is a Jim Jarmusch "western" with Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer '96 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man) and Wings of Desire is a Wim Wenders '87 film that was remade in the US as City of Angels.
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heather gm
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Just here to add Dead Man to the list - also Wings of Desire. There are many many
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Melissa Ryan
@melissaryan.bsky.social
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A brokered Democratic convention, with massive protests just outside the convention hall, is Trump's dream scenario. 24 hours later, I'm astounded at how many people claiming to be worried about an authoritarian America under Trump want to create the perfect storm for him to seize power.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
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You know what's crazy is you could easily write a historically compelling op-ed about how Trump should end his campaign because he's a convicted criminal who tried to overthrow the government and is only on the ballot/out of prison because of extremely corrupt judges he personally appointed
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