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Jeffrey Overstreet@overstreet.bsky.social |
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Author of five books incl. Auralia's Colors and Through a Screen Darkly). Next one in 2025! Awarded “2024 Professor of the Year” by students at Seattle Pacific University. Find me at LookingCloser.org & Substack. I vow never to write with A.I. tools.
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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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Steven D. Greydanus
@decentfilms.bsky.social
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a better analogy would be another Civil War, and with a lot of the same traitors
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Charles Louis Richter
@richterscale.bsky.social
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someone tell the economist about FDR
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The New York Times
@nytimes.com
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The Conservative Party has dramatically reshaped Britain — for the worse, voters say. Here’s a look at what has changed: nyti.ms/3RTNEKD
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Supreme Court rules 6-3 American Revolutionary War was incorrectly decided
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Ashton Pittman
@ashtonpittman.bsky.social
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Wisconsin about the importance of the Supreme Court.
She warned that 2016 was "make or break" for the court—and the country.
National media—focused on her emails and Trump's antics—barely covered the speech.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Michael Sicinski
@msicism.bsky.social
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If Biden really wanted to save America, he would disqualify Trump and DARE the Supreme Court to throw him in jail. What good is being ancient if you still insist on giving fucks?
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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I shared this post on Facebook and they took it down, saying "This goes against our Community Standards on dangerous individuals and organizations." Good grief.
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Vince Mpls
@vincempls.bsky.social
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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Knepherbird
@knepherbird.com
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lolsob
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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“And the worst are full of passionate intensity…”
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Drone Cusack
@herodedalus.bsky.social
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And then their various political groups hammered home that inflation was Biden's fault to pave the way for a regulatory environment more favorable to their aims.
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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Where’s the Welch-Larson airplane ride pic?
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Dave Hutchinson
@hutchinsondave.bsky.social
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I’m not sure there’s anything you can say about a society that wants to protect kids from Anne Frank’s Diary but won’t protect them from guns.
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Miranda Yaver
@mirandayaver.bsky.social
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If your headline of the debate isn’t “Trump Refuses to Commit to Accepting Election Results,” find a new career.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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I've finally watched this John Oliver segment and it's a brilliant illustration of the point I tried to make below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwq...
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David Slack
@slack2thefuture.bsky.social
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Every “person” you see in this is a job an actor didn’t get. Every “object” you see cost prop masters work. Every “set” you see is a place no crew was paid to work. The machine that made it was trained with stolen images. Fuck this video. Fuck the ghouls who made it. And fuck Toys-R-Us forever.
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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Right there with you. I’m heading out to see DADDIO, a movie I hadn’t planned on seeing, just to escape the debate. Some years, I do this to escape the temptation to watch the Oscars.
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Knepherbird
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Look, you want to know how to use a bible in the classroom? When your 11th graders are yawning through The Scarlet Letter, and they get to Dimmesdale's tapestries, you have them read the story of David and Bathsheba for context, and they'll tell you that's more interesting than Hawthorne.
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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Inspired by this thread, and eager to show my love for everyone, I am going out to get absolutely plastered.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on corruption is basically at a point where the only thing that counts as a bribe is someone handing a public official a giant bag of money with a dollar sign on it while saying “this is a bribe” out loud
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Tim Carvell
@timcarvell.bsky.social
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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!"
2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."
latenighter.com/news/paramou...
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Zach the Monster Hunter
@maximumrider217.bsky.social
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Wonderful poster for a wonderful film.
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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“On behalf of the Trump.” Good Lord, NYT — you’re embarrassing yourself today.
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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“… he was likely to reoffend at his trial…” ?! Come on, editors. Think about the sequence of your prepositional phrases!
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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Yeah, Let the Right One In is the top of the heap, if you don’t want to see vampires learning to use Facebook.
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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Gonna be hard to beat What We Do in the Shadows.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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how does one commission a three-hour Martin Scorsese concert documentary filmed entirely in IMAX
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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it is the overt hostility to any part of civil society that doesn’t uphold his vision of what society ought to be that is the clearest evidence of desantis’s authoritarian disposition www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/a...
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John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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Our tech overlords would like to make clear that your fantasies of universal health care and affordable housing are childish while their fantasies of infinite energy to power their AI girlfriends are reasonable expectations and will come true imminently. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Hayes Brown
@hayesbrown.bsky.social
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Donald Trump does not believe that such a thing as the "loyal opposition" exists. He has made clear through his actions that he doesn't believe in losing elections and through his words that all opponents should be labeled traitors. And yet the GOP still pretends otherwise.
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Caroline Casey
@cacasey.bsky.social
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he *is* a felon?
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Kevin Elliott
@kjephd.bsky.social
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This moron just cannot help revealing way too much about his own hang-ups
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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It's stupid and cruel to prosecute someone for a victimless crime they committed while addicted, especially after they've rehabilitated. And any system that allows that doesn't deserve much respect. But otherwise, yeah.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Joe Biden’s empathy for his fuckup son is one of the single most humanizing things about him and this is incredibly confusing to people who became fascists because their blue-haired enby grandchild told them no one says “Oriental” anymore
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Mark Harris
@markharris.bsky.social
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This is a New York Times op-ed about Netanyahu, suggesting that the U.S. government's patience with him should come to an end. It was published twenty-six years ago.
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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I'm guessing you saw the t-shirt on sale there that features Lara Flynn Boyle's Donna in her moment of realization and anguish. That one bothers me too.
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Joshua J. Friedman
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NEW: House GOP leadership is whipping support on a bill that would allow former presidents to move state-level cases against them to federal court (so Trump could pardon himself)
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Daniel Carlson
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James Fallows
@jfallows.bsky.social
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Genuine tip of the hat to Chris Pandolfo, of Fox News, for the most precise use of 'decimate' you'll ever see in a news story.
www.fox13news.com/news/trump-v...
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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Without hesitation...
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Jeffrey Overstreet
@overstreet.bsky.social
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Current mood: Fiddle! Fiddle like the wind!
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Helen Kennedy
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
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Oh look. No riots.
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Helen Kennedy
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
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I would never, never be able to find this much grace in myself.
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Michael Sicinski
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ORANGE IS THE NEW ORANGE
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