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TeeOh Raccoon@teeoh.bsky.social |
753 followers 2716 following 5324 posts
A cat-obsessed raccoon person. Canadian, male, 46 years old, homoromantic, urbanist, irreligious Protestant š, šToronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Iām not sure why Iām coping better with having another GOP gun pointed at our heads this time. Maybe itās because Iāve concluded the only two real choices are confidently refusing to let them get me, vs walking into the sea. Maybe itās because I stopped drinking Monster. Hard to say.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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maybe the worst Iāve ever felt was the morning of November 9, 2016, I felt completely hopeless all day we are staring down much worse now, and Iām feeling a lot calmer - possibly because I have my kids now, and Iām responsible for making a world for them to live in giving up is not an option
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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These people are not going to be content with just having their own fascist red states. They want to crush us too in our blue states.
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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This is no knock on Serwer specifically bc I think he is just nodding at a broader consensus, but itās pretty telling that the implied āacceptable public appearancesā for news media are all in some capacity w them. For them, this is about placating them first & foremost. Not about voters.
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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This is besides the main point of the article, but I wonder what "the kind of public appearances necessary to quell these complaints" would entail, bc by my count Biden has made 5 public appearances since Thursday, all of them perfectly fine/good, but they dont seem to count for the feeding frenzy
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum
@vanvidum.bsky.social
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They never get tired about being wrong, because for them being right was never the point.
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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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Simon Rosenberg
@simonwdc.bsky.social
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From Hopium today:
- Happy Fourth all! Iām flying my flag right-side up this weekend, not upside down
- Biden gains in 2 new natl polls, leads in new PA poll. Election is close, competitive & we can't let up
- Powerful new Biden ad on danger of Trump
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www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/new-biden-...
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Cheryl Rofer
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
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Pardon, y'all, but I have some data. From Josh Marshall - "[W]e now have seven polls in which we have before and after data from individual pollsters, before the debate and after... Putting all those together you have Biden going down one point and Trump remaining unchanged."
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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doesnāt count unless he earned the medal of honor since the debate in an unscripted setting
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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Doesn't count unless he earned the medal of honor *since the debate*
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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doesnāt count unless he earned the Medal of Honor himself
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The Next Day
@incompetusrex.bsky.social
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I just watched the medal of honor ceremony they held just now and Biden was fine.
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Hens Breet
@monospace.com
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The key to defeating Trump and fascism is turnout. More specifically, it's overcoming voter suppression in battleground states. There are way more of us than there are of them, and that's why they are obsessed with making voting as difficult as possible.
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum
@vanvidum.bsky.social
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The nepo-baby running the NYT doesn't think this, or the incipient risk of fascist dictatorship, matters.
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Andrew D Thaler
@drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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The NYT knew, before Khashoggi, and said nothing. They waited years to tell anyone that Trump had given foreign governments carte blanche to arrest US journalists.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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American political journalists nowadays are so stunning provincial that they canāt even imagine an *extremely likely* reality in which a second Trump regime starts murdering them. They are the absolute last people who should want the U.S. to function like Putinās Russia.
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luke the myoclonic jerk
@coolhand.bsky.social
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Hehehehe. I mean duh, but hehehehe
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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sam alito salivating at the chance to make this life for americans
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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"Balance" means printing obvious Republican lies about Biden and also printing obvious Republican lies about what Republicans think.
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
@kleinman.bsky.social
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Orange Man Bad explains far more than many comparative politics PhDs care to admit
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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"viewing Trump as something like a fascist leader foresaw the violence of January 6th as a live possibility, while its critics mocked the notion as mere hysteria. Whatever its shortcomings, āTrump as fascistā remains the best guide to what Trump will try to do next"
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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it is very funny that two weeks ago vance was like āliberals are schmittianā
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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The ghouls are wasting no time on this
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Too many US reporters are too bone-ass stupid to realize that theyāre going to be among the first thrown to the lions by an unleashed Trump regime, on *principal*.
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Joshua Foust šŖš®
@joshuafoust.com
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I just counted home page stories. The Daily Caller has five anti-Biden and six pro-Trump stories. The New York Times has seven anti-Biden stories and three that give this style of both-sides treatment to Trump. The Times really is sprinting off a cliff to satisfy their nepo-publisherās vendetta.
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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I'd go even further and say the right is weaponizing the left's failure to understand this by coalescing around the very flawed Trump while seeking to magnify Biden's much lesser flaws.
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M.P. Broache
@mpbroache.bsky.social
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āPolitics would be interesting again,ā no politics should not be interesting, normal people should not have to invest time and energy into saving democracy because our institutions are collapsing, give me boring, mundane politics any day
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan
@elizabethbitmeehan.com
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Links to resources:
Poll workers: www.eac.gov/help-america...
Postcards: postcardstovoters.org
GOTV: statesproject.org
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Erin Cikanek
@erincikanek.bsky.social
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3) Join a community group or board. Attend community meetings. This is a list of all the committees/boards in my county. Your country/city probably has the same! Pick a local issue and show up! 3/3 Feel free to add your own ideas in this thread!
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Erin Cikanek
@erincikanek.bsky.social
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2) sign up to become a poll worker. Work on Election Day to ensure free and fair elections - it doesnāt have to be for the presidential elections! 2/3
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Erin Cikanek
@erincikanek.bsky.social
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I see a lot of ābut I already vote! And one time I marched!ā today and people feeling they already ādo it all.ā Here are three things you might consider to be involved with politics. 1) sign up to GOTV. For a congressional/state/local candidate. Politics is about mobilization & coordination 1/3
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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āI voted blue but things still suckā is a reason to do more than just vote, not a reason to vote for something demonstrably worse (or sit out the chance to keep Demonstrably Worse out of office)
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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I donāt know what you expect the presidential election to accomplish exactly but itās not a miracle drug to fix all problems. Itās just oxygen to keep breathing while the real work happens on the ground. That work is a heck of a lot harder to do without air.
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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sure itās heritage being heritage, but their continued escalation of the violent rhetoric and threats is not to be taken lightly. especially not after j6
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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sticking with Biden is the obvious correct choice until and unless Biden decides otherwise, and anyone who suggests otherwise is either dishonest, an idiot, or a handmaiden of fascism.
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not
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Bethany Albertson
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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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The only person I actually want Biden to use his new immunity power on even more than Trump is Art Sulzberger
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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the first, second and third most important news stories this week are about the SCOTUS decision, and every columnist spending their time talking about biden old is telling you what they value. we donāt have to indulge them, though, stop your subs, stop clicking, stop talking about them.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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As long as he nails his Stephanopoulos interview, I think this is going to be the end of it. If Biden won't be moved, that's all she wrote.
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John Brown stan account
@johnbrownstan.bsky.social
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He's made his decision, so get on board or fuck off
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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"Sure, he proved that he's not a brain dead corpse *yesterday,* but he's gotten a day older since then so he has to prove it to us all over again."
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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Again, five public appearances since Thursday. But they're not the ~~~right~~~ kinds of public appearances for these sorts of people, so they dont count. Its a game of shifting goal posts where whatever Biden does it ultimately wont be enough to permanently quiet their attacks.
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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One of the most detrimental things about American politics is if you aren't the President, nobody wants to hear from you. When's the last time your Governor or House rep was interviewed by an outlet you recognize? But the President must appear every day for bad-faith questions or he's infirm.
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TeeOh Raccoon
@teeoh.bsky.social
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I hope you'll feel better ASAP.
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The Fresh Prince of Donair
@erisianrite.com
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As someone whose family mostly survived a civil war, you really donāt want this and shit wonāt be settled.
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