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Not pragmatic in the crappy centrist sense@pragmatcradical.bsky.social |
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Jill Twiss
@jilltwiss.bsky.social
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I simultaneously feel like Biden should probably not be the Democratic nominee and also that parts of the media seem weirdly gleeful about it in a way that completely ignores the consequences of electing Trump again
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Eric Berg
@lawliberg.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does
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Max B #FBPE #FBPR #GTTO 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
@maxbrockbank.com
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Over to you Blue friends.
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Editor-in-Chimp
@newsfedora.bsky.social
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He got a decent beer out of it
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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this is a brilliant point that I was struggling to articulate.
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Bridget Copley PhD
@moppety.bsky.social
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Speaking as a semanticist, it's wild to me that they are phrasing it in terms of whether an *act* is characterized as "official", when what they seem to actually be talking about is whether there exists a *description* of the act that can be characterized as "official".
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Parker Molloy
@parkermolloy.com
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Man, idk if this is going to work out www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/p...
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Parker Molloy
@parkermolloy.com
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But it's extra wild when the likely pivot would just be to swap in Harris, who would continue to have the exact same policies as Biden but without the burden of being a million years old.
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Osita Nwanevu
@ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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I wrote about the election and the American project. www.ositanwanevu.com/will-america...
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Election coverage in India: screen split into 192 windows with everyone shouting insults & analysis together Election coverage in USA: 16 cutaways per minute along with montage of Steve Carnacki & flashing chyrons & blinking graphics that make everyone dizzy Election coverage in UK: Here is a cat
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
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Today (or even better, yesterday) a good day to remember what a bunch of normie bros and led by one eccentric liberal arts professor can do to a legion of reactionary nutjobs.
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Not pragmatic in the crappy centrist sense
@pragmatcradical.bsky.social
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Ha!
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bumpin that (x8)
@usspcrichardandson.bsky.social
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I only like Kamala ironically and i'm still unironically offended on her behalf by the talk of throwing it to an open convention like...she has been Dems' #2 for four years now! she has way more small-d democratic legitimacy than someone chosen at the last minute by a contested convention lol
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Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
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REES MOGG GONE! REES MOGG FUCKING GONE!
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Conor Conneally
@ernekid.bsky.social
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lol lmao
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Paisley P. Peinforte
@p3.paisleypeinforte.co.uk
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MOGG IS FUCKING GONE
YES
For the memories, this #DoctorWho photoshop I did when the bloody man had the cheek to NAP in the Commons with naught a care in the world.
GOOD RIDDANCE #UKGE2024
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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
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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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Helen
@tenerduende.bsky.social
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Poland saved itself from autocracy w/massive voter turnout: "leadership played a pivotal role... a veteran insider successfully challenged an authoritarian incumbent... baggage of Tusk’s career was offset by the benefits of his vast experience.. self-restraint & collaborative spirit were crucial."
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Hyperlexic
@hyperlexic.bsky.social
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I’m badder than bad, Like Alfred E Newman,
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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pretty weird to think that the usa which just had a king appointed is gonna celebrate no king day tomorrow and the country theyre celebrating the bye bye king from will have their king tell us who will run that country for the next 5 years
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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It's abundantly clear that Republicans are terrified of facing literally anyone but Biden.
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maraleia
@maraleia.bsky.social
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Taraji P Henson just told the BET awards audience tonight to wake the hell up about Project 2025, we need more of this.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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We've now reached 200 death row exonerations. Meanwhile, the state with the most (Florida) is pushing to limit appeals, carry out executions more quickly, allow death sentences from non-unanimous juries, and impose the death penalty for crimes other than homicide.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Not pragmatic in the crappy centrist sense
@pragmatcradical.bsky.social
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Please add 'remove follower' Thx
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jesse
@jesseltaylor.bsky.social
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One thing you have to realize is that on the two issues that matter most to NYT leadership (transphobia and punishing dissenting Ivy Leaguers), Donald Trump is legitimately their perfect candidate
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Not pragmatic in the crappy centrist sense
@pragmatcradical.bsky.social
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Actually the majority of my normie FB friends are still defending him and attacking those who suggest he should drop out
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Chantal James
@chantalalive.bsky.social
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This is America's story. The left sees the red flags early, & warns about it early on, the democratic party gaslights us until it's too late, then they panic because they feel they need to urgently switch course as we advised a long time ago.
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Molly Shah
@mommunism.bsky.social
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I keep on thinking about how John Roberts messed up nitrogen oxide with nitrous oxide in a ruling on how the courts were better suited to provide expertise than experts.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours...Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, limiting access to food, fuel and medical supplies, aid groups say."
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
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Pizzachu
@pizzachu.bsky.social
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Linux is merely pointlessly esoteric for the sake of making in jokes for beards. Windows is institutionalized dementia.
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Jon of The North
@krauza.bsky.social
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GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS Happy 71 birthday to the amazing Cyndi Lauper!
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Osita Nwanevu
@ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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Anyway, if Biden stays in, which seems likely, I don't think telling people "no, he's fine, actually" for the next several months is tenable. I don't know what you say instead. But openly lying to voters over and over again about something they know to be untrue probably hurts Dems long-term. So.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these numbers are basically vindication of one of my points in the NYT conversation, which is that whoever is the nominee inherits Biden’s position for the simple reason that they will be standard-bearers for the Biden administration.
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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"CNN Defends Decision to Not Do a Journalism"
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Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court wants more people to die of pollution.
www.reuters.com/legal/us-sup...
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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bluesky is a posting retirement home for elder millennials and, well, it turns out a very particular type of elder millennial ended up becoming posters
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Nathan K. Hensley
@nathankhensley.bsky.social
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the bill says that Palestinians will get no aid if they try to report war crimes
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Kyle R Freund
@krfreund.bsky.social
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More excellent journalism, classic gumshoe type stuff from @propublica.bsky.social. Plastic stinks. www.propublica.org/article/delu...
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
@wagatwe.com
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damn. using racist lies about major theft rings to cover up their understaffing, low inventory, and locked-up products didn't work?????
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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The “anti woke” star wars fans have pivoted from “the acolyte ruined star wars” to “the girls were too good at fighting in the cool lightsaber battle” which is kind of an admission of defeat
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Business Otter
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I'm sure it had nothing to do with prosecuting an unpopular, immoral war with no end in sight via the draft.
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Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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EXPAND THE COURT ✨
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"With the help of a research assistant, I reached out to every union drive that went public in 2022...BLM was the (non-union) movement influence that was most widely cited by those workers who initiated union drives in 2022." @ericblanc.bsky.social
www.laborpolitics.com/p/can-anti-r...
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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“the biggest thing he did when he was in power was give rich people and corporations a huge tax cut and he’s promised to give them even more if he wins again, at your expense, which is why billionaires support him,” is pretty simple and has the minor advantage of being true
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Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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“78% of The New York Times' articles were focused on just Biden’s age or mental acuity but not Trump's while only 6% — 2 articles — were focused on just Trump's. 16% of articles were focused on both candidates' ages or mental acuities.” www.mediamatters.org/washington-p...
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WizardAFA
@wizardafa.bsky.social
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"shooter taken into custody" we all know exactly what that means
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
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So, crashing a plane in the interests of terrorism is evil, so evil that all of us have to have full body scans at airports to prevent it from happening. But crashing a plane (or two) in the interests of capitalism is a whoopsie and not deserving of real punishment for anyone involved.
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WizardAFA
@wizardafa.bsky.social
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Thread 🧵: There have been recent reports of an American citizen "serving" in the IDF and brazenly committing war crimes. He has been positively identified as 34 year old Brooklyn/Los Angeles resident Shmuel Benchemhoun.
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