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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her@mbhastings.bsky.social |
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One of those gender experts you’re hearing about, feminist, advocate, survivor of gun violence and breast cancer, slow trail runner.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The only two permutations of this that work are: 1) Biden stays in 2) Biden steps aside for Harris but remains in office Everything other permutation of this idea is either a fantasy or propaganda whose discussion is designed to get the Dems to lose the election and usher Trump into power.
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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New in PN: The pundit class needs to get a grip Politics isn't fantasy football and there's no One Weird Trick to beat Trump.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Troops arriving at White House during 2020 BLM protests
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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We need to see the Supreme Court’s disastrous rulings in the context of the Right’s larger project to uphold traditional hierarchies of race, wealth/class, gender, and religion - all part of the attempt to halt the drive towards egalitarian, multiracial, pluralistic democracy.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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The flight I was on Friday from Brussels to DC was pretty smooth, but you could tell the flight deck was being very cautious - putting crew in jump seats even when it wasn’t too bad.
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Kaitlin Ruiz
@kaitlinruiz.bsky.social
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let me put this another way: despair, or its new name, doomerism, asserts omniscience--that things cannot be better, that all possibilities of good are already foreclosed, that you can know this as fact. it looks like humility, but it's all ego. it is, in fact, the assumption of godhood.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
@mbhastings.bsky.social
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So freaking wrong. Glad she’s public about it.
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Roxane Gay
@roxanegay.bsky.social
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
@mbhastings.bsky.social
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Good to know that Obama could have directed DOJ to stop investigating that email server thing.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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Also, and this is just personal, I’m never forgiving anyone who equivocated about our choices in 2016. Not a single one. I will hate you in life and haunt you in death.
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Daniel Roberts
@drobertsimg.bsky.social
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In a weird way, SCOTUS did the Biden campaign a big favor, because everyone knows the stakes now and no one should give a flying fuck about whether Biden spaces out every now and then. The alternative has become unimaginably bad.
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
@mbhastings.bsky.social
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Ohhhhhhhh. Sorry, still a little twitchy from the Bad Place.
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Ryan Brazell
@ryanbrazell.bsky.social
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146 of 151 breast reductions performed on minors in 2019 were on cisgender boys.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
@mbhastings.bsky.social
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Not you - just the guys who are still bringing up the “KHive” as some mythical dominant force in the universe.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Gosh y’all are boring. Poor dudes bent out of shape by a bunch of women online who don’t take your shit.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@theradr.bsky.social
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A major “show of strength for the Israeli peace camp” demanding to end the war & planning for the day after.
July 1
I can vouch for a fair chunk of the cosponsoring orgs. These are the people doing the real work.
AND ! There are local US solidarity demos +
www.timeisnow.co.il/english?emci...
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@SIfill
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So many unserious people are holding platforms that demand sober judgment, patience and careful analysis. They couldn’t take a deep breath and reflect. But no, THEY KNOW what should happen. I wouldn’t be so upset if they weren’t the same ppl that consistently get it wrong.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Your memory is pretty bad. For example, the first point is entirely invented.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Which voters preferred Tulsi to Kamala? Did you invent an electoral contest in your head?
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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He was not in my top five choices in 2020, but I am used to the majority of Den voters choosing someone other than my preference. I don’t chalk up his winning to anyone other than the primary electorate.
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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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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i don't know, man, i'm just some humble idiot shitposter, but i do not think that the democratic party trying to usurp the sitting president from the nomination and then also throwing the first black vice-president under the bus will be very popular with the democratic party's voter base
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Queen of Swords Press
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Personal Me: performative despair is not a political strategy. You do not need to read it, boost it, otherwise encourage it or absorb it. Taking time offline is a super good idea today.
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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Biden in NC today: "I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to ... [but] I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job ... I know like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down you get back up!"
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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And there is evidence that people saw Trump as a crazy liar last night. What we say now about the debate matters in shaping people’s reactions.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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And Trump was a crazy liar. If we communicate that mumbling and stumbling are more important impediments to ruling than crazy lying, then there’s something wrong with us.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Ok I’m beginning to doubt that you are arguing in good faith. Seems like you would have the same conclusion regardless of Biden’s performance.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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And Hillary won all the debates, so maybe they aren’t the most critical factor.
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Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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From Dr. Matt Barreto over at the bad place: “If you haven't been watching the Univision FG of undecided Latino voters, nearly every single undecided voter said they now support Biden … Latinos were watching and listening and Trump sounded like a crazy liar.” Worth a watch: x.com/realmabarret...
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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ICYMI – I got to discuss “Project 2025” with @chrislhayes.bsky.social:
The radical Right wasn’t ready for Trump’s first presidency. In 2025, they will be.
What should people know about these radical plans for an authoritarian takeover of government?
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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It’s a detailed plan to burn down every element of social progress achieved in the last 100 years.
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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This is not what they ruled; they ruled than an injunction can stay in place while the case proceed through the lower courts. This headlines makes it sound like the Court vindicated the right to an emergency abortion; they did not.
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The New York Times
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Hours before the presidential debate, President Biden’s campaign launched a website targeting Project 2025, a staffing playbook assembled by Donald Trump's allies that proposes an overhaul of the government under a new Republican administration.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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I cannot think of a more incorrect statement. What policy area are you thinking of?
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The Washington Post
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After Texas passed a law restricting abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, the infant death rate increased along with the number of babies who died of birth defects, according to a new study.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Thank you. Trying to do the work to prevent others from going through it.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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I was a grown ass adult when I found my sister’s husband bleeding out from a GSW and I froze when I realized it was him. There was nothing I could have done to stop him from dying and yet I still have irrational guilt. But yeah let’s put little kids through this.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Jinx!
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Giant dumps are what you take…
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Been there and totally get it. It’s so hard.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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We can do this. (Posting from Europe, where I am constantly reminded of US success in curbing smoking)
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Side eye at it being women getting sacked.
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Kathleen Bachynski
@bachynski.bsky.social
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“Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period.”
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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I can’t stand the fact that he has such a large following among adolescent boys.
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Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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“Much has been made of Hogan’s popularity in the state, but Alsobrooks actually has a net favorability rating 10 points better than his. She comes in at +27 (43/16) compared to his +17 (50/33).”
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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Seriously, if you are ignoring the VP and proposing an all white ticket please take a breather.
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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Big: Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new antiviral drug gave young women total protection from HIV
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Jessica Kant
@jessdkant.bsky.social
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We don't have an appropriate word for this sort of targeted, relentless harassment by the state that isn't from the darkest chapters of our history books. The people responsible for this investigation should never be allowed near children again.
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Peter Sagal
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This is so important, and yet almost impossible to make people care about. I have a friend who runs a federal agency (sub-cabinet level) and is doing a terrific job, making excellent progress for stakeholders, but “Govt Agency Succeeds” is not a story that gets published.
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