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Mousebumples@mousebumples.bsky.social |
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Liberal mother, pharmacist, postcard writer, and Wisconsin sports fan. (her/she)
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Thanks largely to Biden and the Democratic party there is now a kind of global race to get to the mass, chear carbon-free energy. We're going to hit peak global emissions (fingers crossed) this year or next. We're deploying solar at a level that blowing away every single prediction.
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Chris Hayes
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"He's earned second term because of the job he's done" is a perfectly good message for surrogates to make about an incumbent candidate. "I've earned a second term because of the job I've done," is fine, but not really an optimal message for the candidate to make, imho.
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Mousebumples
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Thanks for this! Yes!
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Boston Tom Levenson
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Just going to put this out there: Biden has been the most legislatively effective president since LBJ. The most pro-labor president WW2. He's done more re climate change than any POTUS. He's built an international coalition for Ukraine despite Russia-fueld GOP opposition. And yeah: he's hella old.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.
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NeoTiamat
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This is what I keep telling myself. Trump lost 2020 by 7m votes. Since then: - Dobbs - Biden is an incumbent with a good economy - Trump's become a convicted felon How is Trump supposed to *gain* 7m votes against those headwinds? Hardcore MAGA isn't nearly enough.
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Mousebumples
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Has George thought about resigning if he can't conduct an interview without repeating himself? He's not getting any younger...
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Mousebumples
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Thanks for helping to ID the trolls and for your expertise!
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Gregg Gonsalves
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You know what? Go on about Biden's age and debate performance. Me? I'll focus on the existential threat that Donald Trump and his minions represent. We all have limited time and energy. Do you really want to spend July and August talking about Biden's infirmity? Do you really think this is helping?
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Mousebumples
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I love the book bundles my library does! Great way for me to ask the children's librarian for some age appropriate books on a given topic. I also love interlibrary loans! And activities!
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Jen Donohue
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today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.
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Andrew D Thaler
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Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over
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Mousebumples
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I'm with you. I see way more obstacles and question marks and opportunities for fuckery if we change out the nominee. Biden's an old White guy. So is the MAGA candidate (and RFK). Our guy has a positive track record and has beaten Trump. Who else can say that?
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Mousebumples
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I'm trying to give grace - too many of us have 2016 PTSD.
If someone in my (IRL) circle is freaking out about Biden's age, I
boil it down -
1) Are you supporting Trump?
2) if/when no - then vote Dem (Biden)
3) how can you help? (Mobilize.us or postcards!)
Let's fight against MAGA. #GOTV
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John Smillie
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techxplore.com/news/2024-07...
Bonkers. Still lab scale, but a team has created an anode free, solid state, sodium battery. It's basically just sodium and an aluminum (some powdered) current collector. Huge theoretical potential for abundance, fast charging, high density.
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Ian Boudreau
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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Mousebumples
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Related, I just messaged Sen. Baldwin through her Senate website, asking her to back Biden and not join Sen. Warner's backstabbing effort. I support Senator Baldwin, too, fwiw.
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PCFclub
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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.
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Mousebumples
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I've heard the same "ugh, it's Biden vs Trump *again*?" comments (in Wisconsin), and, yes, many of these voters want a younger candidate. All I've spoken with are still pro-Biden, anto-fash/Trump. Eyes on the prizes...
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Nate Hashem
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I cannot count how many conversations with my friends in the past few days have essentially gone like this:
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CZEdwards
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PSA: Psychologists have NEVER EVER EVER had prescribing rights. We don’t want ‘em, you WANT a pro watching you who has zero ego involved in the drugs you’re taking. We’ll work with your GP or a psychiatrist for you, but walking scrip pad is the med school grads. We’re software.
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Mousebumples
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Reposting this thread. Step 1 - take a deep breath Step 2 - are you personally able to decide if Biden is staying in the race? If no, please see Step 1 We need to back our nominee. Close ranks. Project confidence, even if we have 2016 PTSD. The only way out is through.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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also, just to be clear here, i'm still not convinced the old man loses to the fascist. i think a lot of fucking libs have lost the spine we need against the fascist, and whomever carries our flag into the fall, we back them. the wreckers, the splitters, the doomers and the fascists are the same.
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Mousebumples
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This. Yes. Basically this.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Mousebumples
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Thank you for sharing your perspective! Biden (and Trump) are both old men. They seem to be unequal in how age and health is impacting their cognition.
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silent al
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Not a disability theorist per say, but a music therapist who works extensively with disabled people and the elderly (both well elderly like Biden and people in memory care) and autistic myself.
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Coach Finstock
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I really find the tanking CNN ratings doubly funny because it's not like they can shift gears and hope people come back. After that debate non performance by Tapper and Bash and platforming 'center right' guests, they lost em for good. Only option is going to the right of Newsmax. Lol.
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Mousebumples
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5th dimensional chess! {/sarcasm} In all seriousness, now, if we can turn extra attention on Biden into making people aware of how fucked up Trump/et al., are... maybe that's good? And it's *early* July. Plenty of time to move poll numbers around.
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Mousebumples
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Uggggh. I like Dan Shafer, too! Does good Wisconsin reporting! But I hate that he feels the need to follow the NYTs framing.
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Mousebumples
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Haha, sounds good. (except - not good. sigh)
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Mousebumples
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I think it was UST. At least, that's what they had in the fanfic I used to read. (RST was for resolved sexual tension, fwiw)
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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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Mousebumples
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/sarcasm? Because, no, I think they are like me toddler throwing a hissy fit. We can try to distract them with something shiny, but they might just need to tire themselves out.
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Brooke Pierce
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It's kind of funny too that they're going nuclear on a long holiday weekend. I'm beginning to think nobody but a handful of we politics nerds will even know that this all happened.
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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The DC press likes easy scandals and horse race coverage. They will be on this for awhile. If they were actually interested in policy or whatever we’d be in a very different place.
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🇺🇸 🇺🇦 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 + 𝒜𝒩𝒯𝐼𝐹𝒜 𝐸𝒯𝐸𝑅𝒩𝒜𝐿 🖤
@unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social
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Why do DEM Presidents always have to prove they are legitimate?
It’s a strategy friends.
#BidenHarris2024 🇺🇸
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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge
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Right, if you can't say with your whole chest "Biden is the Democratic Party's nominee for 2024 and until such a time that he steps aside I will support him whole-heartedly", you don't have the strength to actually fight fascism. If you are shitting bricks over 0.3% in the polls you're cooked.
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Mousebumples
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Black voters are the heart of the Democratic party!
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Charles Johnson
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Just have to note that the black commentators I’ve seen on the Biden issue have some of the sanest takes by far.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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you are not crazy, this is an entirely true statement that many, many more people need to print out, tape up to their mirror, and ground themselves with every morning. it is fucking JULY. everybody needs to pop an edible and calm the fuck down.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
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CJ Lemire
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THIS The media would instantly pivot from "Biden must go" to "Dems in disarray".
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Blue Heron Farm
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Come on, y'all. For America. For Ted. Let's do this.
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L O L G O P
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I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.
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Rati Gupta
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We @5calls.org made an app for exactly this way back in Jan 2017! Everything you need, regularly updated, all in one place 👍🏽
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Greg Pak
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I recommend taking five to ten minutes to put your US rep, US senators, and state and local elected officials into your phone contacts so you can instantly call them whenever you get mad, which will be every day from now until we die.
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Mousebumples
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As a 6' (maybe 6'1") woman, I agree with you. So many men I dated (or chatted with on dating apps) were weirded out by my being about as tall as they were (or taller!).
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