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brian j. white

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kit kat enthusiast. former journalist, always editor. founder of Fireside Fiction Company. he/him

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happy 4th of july/tories wipeout day everyone

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Robert Reich's avatar Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social
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Banning medical debt from credit reports. Cracking down on junk fees. Banning non-competes. Capping credit card fees. Negotiating drug prices. Expanding OT pay. These Biden policies don't make headlines, but this is what it looks like when government works for the people.

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John Breen's avatar John Breen @acab.dad
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Prison rape jokes are a part of rape culture. Making “don’t drop the soap” and “become someone’s bitch” jokes means you think rape is okay if it happens to certain people.

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Alex Blechman's avatar Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

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depends if it was under one of the rich towns i’m OK with it

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lyndsay's avatar lyndsay @magpie.tips
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Donald Trump called Biden a manchurian candidate and said Israel should "finish the job" and nobody is calling for him to step down and it's making me feel fucking crazy. It's people are saying this shit at this point just because they *can* influence the democratic party.

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taking food right out of ghosts’ mouths

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Tobias S. Buckell's avatar Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social
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I see the NYT has changed little since its fawning reports on Hitler. No really. Their ability to toady up toward fascism is buried deep, deep within the organization's predilections.

They have amazing individual reporters, but the fish has always rotted from the head:

www.vox.com/2015/2/11/80...

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️'s avatar Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social
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Oh wow, I should have anticipated where this thread was going but I didn't 🧪

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈's avatar David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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One of those headlines that you see on a weathered newspaper before the camera pans out to reveal an apocalyptic wasteland

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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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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lanyardigan's avatar lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social
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(Kermit) why are there so many Shows about murder

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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Wait, kids… aren’t allowed in libraries anymore in Idaho???

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy's avatar Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy @ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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as an editor, I’m used to not getting any credit so i just take pride in my results

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no one will believe me if I tell them you agreed with me, so you’re safe there

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If you took a day off from your day job, I bet you could do even better at your night job

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this is the value i bring to the dystopia

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Michael Hobbes's avatar Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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I don't actually think the DNC is all that responsible for Clinton or Biden being the nominee. Primary voters genuinely thought they were the strongest candidate to beat Trump!

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Order the Beltway cleared and then take the Corvette out for laps at 120mph

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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I think this is the fundamental asymmetry underlying every aspect of the conflict between the parties; you see it in the Senate, in gerrymandering, in the use of executive power I don't want King Biden either, but it's long past time to make the GOP afraid of the consequences of endless escalation

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Yell In a War's avatar Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social
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apparently presidents can have immunity to everything but COVID

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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"is my side of the boat up or down tho"

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Courtney Milan's avatar Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
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The Jan 6 coup is looking more and more like the civil war: deeply treasonous and based on evil, but far more successful than the initial results would lead you to believe.

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Mike Wiser's avatar Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social
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I would like to add, for those who are worried about being judged for starting masking again: I *will* judge you. Positively. Either the situation, or your awareness of the situation, has changed, and you have updated your behavior accordingly. That is a good thing.

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Chuck Wendig's avatar Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social
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You know how sometimes in war there’s the one side who has rules and thinks they know how war is fought but then they’re shocked, SHOCKED, when the other side runs out of the bushes and like, stabs their horses and shit? And that side wins? Yeah I think about that phenomenon a lot these days.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.

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Dawn Xiana Moon's avatar Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
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Every time something terrible related to race or authoritarianism happens white people tell me I need to panic more. Friend. Just because this thing is brand-new to you doesn't mean it's new to me. Trust me. WOC tend to have been yelling for years already about the thing you just discovered.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist's avatar L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist @ellethevillain.bsky.social
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Went to check on the garden on this, the nth day of hotter'nhell, and my neighbor, visibly exhausted, has whipped out the grill because "idk man, I deserve a fucking cheeseburger." Wishing you all a fucking cheeseburger.

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