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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.
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Swopa@swopa.bsky.social |
31 followers 80 following 55 posts
Dormant political blogger. I follow both politics and the NBA here.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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In the wake of the British and French election results, expect a wave of concerned editorials about how the right must moderate its extreme positions and rhetoric if it wants to appeal to the majority hahahahahahahahahahaha
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Ben Harris
@benharris1.bsky.social
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“We locked up half our merchandise, understaff our stores and have unpredictable inventory. Inexplicably, people aren’t shopping in our stores.”
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Swopa
@swopa.bsky.social
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It was similar when I started seeing live music in clubs in Los Angeles in 1980... literally the 1st band I ever saw was Wall of Voodoo (trashy punk/electronic) opening for the Go-Go's; the next night, the opener was the Plugz (Hispanic punk). The powers that be hadn't figured out the rules yet.
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Swopa
@swopa.bsky.social
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Lou goes on to say: LOU REED: Our first gig in San Francisco... we were booked into this black club where we’re opening for Bobby Blue Bland. We’re playing exactly the same music. And they were very polite to us. (laughter) You’ve gotta imagine doing “Heroin” in this club in 1966.
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Swopa
@swopa.bsky.social
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Genres apparently hadn't hardened yet... from a 2009 interview at the New York Public Library: DAVID FRICKE: [there's] a really beautiful poster at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. and you were on the bill with the Butterfield Blues Band and Sly and the Family Stone. LOU REED: It must have been great.
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Atrios
@eschatonblog.com
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Has AI become sentient and killed its creators yet? No? Hm
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The powers that be are desperate that American voters not find out about this because so many of them profit from the Saudi's bonesaw regime and it's alliance with Trump bsky.app/profile/crai...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The media isn't interested in the biggest technology story of the 2020s, the rapid transition to clean energy, because 1) it will destroy a bunch of oil based wealth and is a boring, competirive low margin business 2) it makes Democrats look good for helping it and they want Republicans to win
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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Finally digging into today's opinion. It's much more nuanced than everyone on here is giving it credit for 🙄
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Bailey McCann
@baileymcc.bsky.social
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Wonder if Menendez pivots to the gold bars being a gratuity not a payment
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Andrew Nelson
@holophrastic.bsky.social
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You can tell who did and who did not moderate IRC/phpBB/whatever back in the day, because all of us who did learned the true shape of online group culture: your culture is the shittiest person you don't ban
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Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
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Far be it from me to compliment the Times' political section, but this is a good baseline to send to friends who are lovable morons, vaingloriously checked out, recently awoke from a snakebite-induced coma, or have spent the last half-decade on a well-deserved bender.
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Swopa
@swopa.bsky.social
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"Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king." -- Bob Dylan
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Swopa
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No idea. I never saw the final book, but I'm guessing my comment was ignored. Given his apparent dedication to the cause of racism, it's hard to imagine that a stray criticism from a copyeditor would deter him. Always been glad that I did what I could to object, though.
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Swopa
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Decades ago, I was a copyeditor of academic books, and a chapter by Richard Lynn was one of the rare times I ventured out of my lane to express (as professionally as I could) that the author was spouting obvious BS that could offend readers.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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it's cool how there were 3 different dudes who managed convicted felon Trump's 2016 campaign and all three of them have been convicted of serious crimes and two got sentenced to lengthy jail terms.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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My fellow Americans, Democrats want an America where you cannot defend yourself from the strippers, teen runaways, male prostitutes, or people from Craigslist you have invited into your home for Bible study.”
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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well put here from @brianbeutler.bsky.social, consistently identifying the ways that Trumpism is a continuation/expansion of rather than a break from the Republican party he's taken over www.offmessage.net/p/the-gops-f...
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Swopa
@swopa.bsky.social
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"Let's go do some crimes." Darth: "INNOCENT"
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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I wonder if Jesus was ever asked his opinion on the ten commandments and gave some kind of response along the lines of "love your neighbor as yourself" that would be awkward for rightwing conservatives to plaster in every schoolroom. Alas, no way to find out, guess we'll never know
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Swopa
@swopa.bsky.social
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Acts I saw & didn't care for, but became well-known later, include Toad the Wet Sprocket and No Doubt (in a tiny club in Orange County with about a dozen people in the audience)
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Swopa
@swopa.bsky.social
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Getting into live music in a fortuitous time and place -- L.A. in the early '80s, with a thriving small-club scene -- my list here is quite long: Laurie Anderson, the Bangles, Wall of Voodoo, Dwight Yoakam, the Rembrandts (then members of Great Buildings), Nels Cline (now of Wilco)...
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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The takeaway from this piece is that (a) Trump is drawing people to white evangelical Christianity, even as most religions lose adherents, but (b) for most of the newly converted, Donald Trump is more central to their faith than Jesus Christ.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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I don't think you can have an honest conversation about the "partisan divide" unless you're honest about the fact that one of just two major parties is waging a fascist assault on democracy, the rule of law, and truth itself
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Kevin Carson
@kevincarson1.bsky.social
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Swopa
@swopa.bsky.social
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Silverman on Security
@silvermansecurity.bsky.social
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This 👇!
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Brian Beutler
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
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Most R voters will never admit the Biden economy is strong. But swing voters and Dem leaners who report healthy finances, yet believe the national economy is weak, are surely reachable, and could be the difference between being under and above water.
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Greg Greene
@greene.haus
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The information environment for Dems is lousy, and Dem policymakers and funders alike have chronically underestimated the hazard of motivated actors buying up swaths of U.S. news infrastructure to feed people garbage. (Okay: more _because_ Dem policymakers & funders have underestimated that risk.)
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Atrios
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One of the greats
youtu.be/rAmw5zQWcyo?...
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️
@schwarz.bsky.social
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The right's assault on science is a subset of its larger assault on any source of authority except money, religion and guns
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Stephen Wolf
@stephenwolf.bsky.social
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Florida continues to slide into far-right authoritarianism because Republicans won the 2018, 2014, & 2010 elections for governor by a 1-point margin or less. That let Republicans stack Florda's Supreme Court, gerrymander the crap out of the state, suppress voting, etc. Every election matters
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Those arguing that it was inappropriate to pursue Trump in NY need to account for the fact that every other political and legal mechanism to hold him publicly accountable before the next election has failed.
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ryan cooper
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seems like a norm whereby "if you, as president, attempt to overturn the Constitution and install yourself as dictator for life, then every prosecutor in the land will get your ass" (not even what we are doing, but never mind) would be a good one
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Silverman on Security
@silvermansecurity.bsky.social
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Thread!!!
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Art Of Coop
@artofcoop.bsky.social
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I want a superhero group of all the David Bowie characters
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Swopa
@swopa.bsky.social
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I’ll have to pour over these claims for awhile. 😆
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Allison Hantschel
@athenae.bsky.social
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Coming from IL, where our governors go to jail all the time, we talk about it for two days and then get on to bitching about the next guy. There's no "tear in the national fabric," which is just ponderous jargon designed to make the reporter sound important.
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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"Alito has now told multiply versions of his story, each of which have been debunked by subsequent reporting. To put it more baldly, Alito has now repeatedly lied about what happened." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/he-wo...
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Mike the Mad Biologist
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If people don't think Trump's first name is "Convicted Felon", then Democrats have done something very wrong. Seriously, this is something you build a narrative around (yes, I realize professional Dems don't do narrative construction, but a boy can dream, can't he?)
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Aaron Huertas
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
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Hey Pritzker gets it: “Donald Trump is a racist, a homophobe, a grifter and a threat to this country,” said Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, a top Biden surrogate and an influential billionaire donor for Democratic causes. “He can now add one more title to his list — a felon.”
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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just remember trump won't read your jokes about him, unless, as we recently found out, you get jury selected on one of his other trials, in which case they might actually be read out to him to his face, so, y'know, go for it
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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The people who were wrong about this case will try to convince people it doesn’t matter in the hopes it will make their previous arguments less embarassing
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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While it might be easy to mock Maga assholes for their anger in this moment, take some time to remember that that anger is actually coming from a place of profound weakness, and we should be sure to mock them for that too.
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Full Mental Jackass
@uncle6.org
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Joe needs to open the debate by asking if he can see the ankle monitor
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Osita Nwanevu
@ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.
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K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com
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Someone on here made the brilliant observation that the jury was made up of normal people, not us political freaks who can name most sitting senators, and this verdict proves those poor people were sitting there going WHAT? He did WHAT?! With WHO?! And he was PRESIDENT???!!!!!!!
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