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Jamie R Bedford@jamierbedford.bsky.social |
283 followers 1403 following 508 posts
When you know better, do better! Optimist struggling with realist-ism. Barbershop harmony geek. COVID is airborne. Masking is community care. he/him
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Amanda
@amandatory.bsky.social
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"Project 2025 is not targeting “pornography” as something that’s harmful to children per se, but rather redefining anything concerning sexuality and gender that they say is harmful to children *as* pornography." - @melissagiragrant.com
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Hey! Remember Republicans saying "Obamacare will make death panels to kill your grandma!"? Then you should probably go check out chapter 14 of the Project 2025 manifesto. Because every Conservative/Republican accusation is a confession.
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Paul Crider
@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
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This is super important work. And it looks like it's actually having an effect. Normal people learn about Project 2025 and are scared as shitless as they should be. The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Boston Review and others are doing the work that NYT and WaPo are neglecting.
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Jamie R Bedford
@jamierbedford.bsky.social
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Didn't trump do this kind of distancing himself from the far right stuff before the last two elections? And then put all those people in charge of his shit after anyway?
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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if the media could go ahead and treat this claim the way they treat Biden saying "I'm fine" - aka, as a lie that requires days on end of front page stories to debunk - that would be great we'll be over here waiting
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Cool. If Trump wins, we will never have another free election again.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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I SAW JOE BIDEN BEING OLD, what a fucking brilliant revelation, did that take you 3 or 5 minutes to come up with? “i would walk through hell to vote for the corpse of joe biden before ever voting for trump” is the base dem voter, maybe at least talk to a couple of them before you fucking kneel
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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“A senior source involved with…Trump’s 2024 effort… and another person working with the Heritage-based Project 2025 (the conservative policy agenda project) tell Rolling Stone that the point of these multi-pronged legal attack plans and potential blitz of challenges isn’t necessarily to win…”
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Abusing the legal system is now a key tenet of conservative thought and action. They have unlimited money and wasting legal fees is the only downside of filing frivolous lawsuits (many of which will succeed anyway if they get in front of the right FedSoc judge)
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Helen Kennedy
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
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Something to look forward to under Trump 2.0
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Rose Schmits
@roseschmits.bsky.social
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“Shouldn’t” is just terrorising my mind i’m not rotating it in my mind it is violently shaking and lurching around outside of my control
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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“The rabbits got the gun now” coming from a lawyer for a crooked Governor going after a newspaper writer is such a telling comment about how much we’ve let powerful people cast themselves as victims and it goes from this to Elon to Trump and everywhere else
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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maybe the worst I’ve ever felt was the morning of November 9, 2016, I felt completely hopeless all day we are staring down much worse now, and I’m feeling a lot calmer - possibly because I have my kids now, and I’m responsible for making a world for them to live in giving up is not an option
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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whatever differences there are, and there are enough to argue about until the end of time itself, simply aren’t large or important enough to matter given the size and scope of the threat.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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a thing i really sincerely believe is that both the center left and the left left have got to snap out of peacetime dilettantism and recognize that we are at war.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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"The liberals who believed that the laws are real, that the laws will save us, that Trump or Clarence Thomas or Mitch McConnell can’t do that because it contravenes the word and spirit of the law need to admit that they were wrong."
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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Hundreds of other people can be held accountable for January 6. They can lose their livelihoods and professional licenses; they can be bankrupted; they can go to prison. Just one person is immune to repercussions for it.
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in New York www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/c...
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.
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Jamie R Bedford
@jamierbedford.bsky.social
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Red Hot Cross Buns
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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What you would do when authoritarianism comes to America is what you're doing right now
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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There it is: A position completely untethered from empirical evidence, as ridiculous analytically as it is dangerous politically, propagated by anti-liberal leftwing intellectuals who are solely animated by their disdain for “the Libs” and have abandoned any regard for accuracy.
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Cheryl Rofer
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
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Now imagine that Apple can shut down this investigation before it starts. That may be the result of this week's Supreme Court decision to overturn Chevron. It's certainly where the people pressing for that decision want to go.
Many thanks to Ashley for pursuing this.
Ping @funranium.bsky.social
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Adam Bonin
@adambonin.bsky.social
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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right.
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Gonna keep saying this & will die on this hill: Bad news without any guidance on what to do about it [at least some ideas] demobilizes and often encourages inaction. We on the Left(s) have to avoid cynicism which is deeply corrosive and also counterrevolutionary.
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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They don't have an inside to go to. This is "increase jail population and slave labor" ruling.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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The NYT editorial board presents itself as like a wise adjunct group of strategists advising Democrats how to run their shop, but (a) it’s run and largely staffed by de facto Republican operatives and (b) it has no similar paternalistic scrutiny for Republicans.
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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NEW: Forget the imperial presidency. John Roberts wants an imperial SCOTUS. Law Dork, on the end of Chevron —>
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Johnny Cans
@oldmatecans.bsky.social
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Thoroughly enjoying one of my favourites, Mr David Tennant, being extremely relaxed about saying things which are true.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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this illustrates why I think they actually need to just get Biden on TV all the time right now this version of him isn't as smooth as he used to be but it's totally fine - he's there, he's engaged, he can do the job "I had a cold, lemme tell some self deprecating jokes and shit on Trump"
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David Noll
@david.noll.org
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Thank you for your service, Mr. Bannon, but we have the deconstruction of the administrative state covered from here.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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the GOP is full of psychopaths willing to shank each other to get ahead, which is good for party turnover Dems are so tied to waiting their turn that the one time a charismatic guy cut in line (Obama) it led to so much consternation they did their best to avoid that situation ever again
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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Weirdly Van Jones had the best summary: Biden stuttered but told the truth, Trump was confident and lied endlessly
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Where the fuck was this guy last night?
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Jamie R Bedford
@jamierbedford.bsky.social
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Green party finally living up to its moniker
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.
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Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Haus of Decline
@hausofdecline.bsky.social
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Woke up this morning and wasted an entire half hour of what remains of my life posting about the debate and election when I could have been looking at a plant or something. Deleted everything so I would stop reading/replying to inanity and went for a run instead. Learn from my mistake, friends.
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Chuck4Democracy 🦋
@chawls.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, in real news… Want more of this kind of government? This is what we’ll see and worse if we don’t stay the course and work to defeat Trump at all costs.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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I think the thing for me is one guy is genuinely very elderly and losing it a bit, but has pretty good staff in a bunch of areas, tho admittedly not all areas I care about. And the other guy is a fascist who wants to install 4chan to run DOD, DOE, and DOJ. So it's not like it's a /hard/ decision
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