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Tom Cairney@tomcairney.bsky.social |
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Mets. Celtic FC. DSA. Team Fred. He/him.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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What? No it wasn't. A bunch of people warned about exactly this, before it happened, and then AS IT WAS HAPPENING. People just… kept pretending that the dude who conned them hadn't conned them and was, in fact, a super genius, instead of taking the fucking L and holding him anything like accountable
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Tony Corsentino
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shout out to Horn Pond in Woburn Mass. for being shaped like a cartoon whale with the face of John Quincy Adams
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Tom Cairney
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Yes (I say this at least once a season)
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Without even clicking the link, I’ll guess the reason — all the talk of racism makes white kids feel guilty. Again, if your kids are reading histories of slavery or segregation and identifying with the racists in the story, that suggests you’ve got your own problems to work through. Leave us out.
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roo
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people always attribute the spike in autism/adhd diagnoses to more people learning about it But maybe the demands of capitalism skyrocketing over the last century made it harder for ND people to meet the definition of "functioning" & when your functioning is impaired, you get evaluated for shit
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Tom Cairney
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For at least the first half of his first term, he didn’t just want bipartisanship, he was insisting on not moving until he had it. He didn’t bank on how cynical McConnell was, which was a fatal mistake
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Tom Cairney
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He didn’t accomplish all he could have, but people mistake that for him not getting done things that were not within his control
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Tom Cairney
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I think every Senator we will have in the next session, should the Dems control the Senate, will be willing, yes
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Tom Cairney
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Obama’s mistake was insisting that things be bipartisan. He insisted on having Republican buy-in for far too long before he understood the futility of that notion
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Tom Cairney
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Not after Dobbs and Chevron, and the immunity decision
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Tom Cairney
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It would require 51 votes in the Senate
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Tom Cairney
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Yeah, I often wonder why Obama didn’t just do more, given that he’s the Green Lantern and he had that ring and all
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Tom Cairney
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And, notably, not running for President
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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One of conservatives top priorities is denying kids the message that they have control over their own bodies and their own sexuality because that makes it harder for pedocons like Trump to get away with raping them
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Tom Cairney
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There’s no way they rule in favor of a President who would work to overturn their Chevron and Dobbs victories
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Tom Cairney
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*his*
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Tom Cairney
@tomcairney.bsky.social
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Step 1) Aaron Sorkin sits down at this word processor…
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I don't think every cop is a violent sadistic sociopath, but I do know if I were a violent sadistic sociopath who wanted to hurt people without suffering consequences, there's one career that I would be *extremely* drawn to
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Tom Cairney
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I saw this at the NY Film Festival, with a full panel. It was a lot of fun
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Nicholas Grossman
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"The detailed plans for authoritarian theocratic takeover we wrote for Donald Trump, in consultation with Trump advisers, which Trump staffers are promoting, have nothing to do with Trump," implore authors of Trumpist authoritarian plan. "We fear if Americans hear about it they'll oppose him."
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Joad The Wet Sprocket
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What's fun about this - I know we're all terrified of the creeping doom, but here's a little fun - media-facing Republicans other than Trump will absolutely not let Project 2025 go. They won't disavow. It's gonna be "no it's good actually."
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Thomas Zimmer
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Trumpism’s rise and Project 2025 are both manifestations of the same underlying radicalization of long-stranding anti-democratic tendencies and impulses on the Right. Project 2025 is evidence of how far the Right has radicalized, how far beyond Trump the problem goes.
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Tom Cairney
@tomcairney.bsky.social
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This is one of the most accidentally perfect posts ever posted
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Cristian Farias
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To call the Roberts court “a conservative Warren court,” and thus suggest a false equivalence on how the two exercise judicial power, misses that one was up against entrenched racism, defiant states, and no democracy. The only thing the Roberts court is up against is … a slightly modern society.
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Tom Cairney
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I would have dramatically more representatives, voting from DC, state capitals, and their local offices
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Tom Cairney
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The only thing that’s giving me hope in that regard, is that Biden could not have set expectations for the second debate any lower
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Tom Cairney
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My other major concern- this is going to be close, and SCOTUS is not giving up their Dobbs or Chevron victories; that’s what the immunity decision signals. If it comes to them, Trump wins. Winning by a small margin is not enough; we need to maximize our potential vote, and I don’t think that’s Biden
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Tom Cairney
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I think you’re right, though it won’t ease my worry
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Tom Cairney
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Weird. What remark that you made, do you think, led people to believe you did?
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@elelegante101.bsky.social
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…last.
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Tom Cairney
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Theyre not who I'm worried about; its the undecideds/3P voters that worry me. Running a candidate who appears like he's declining doesnt seem like the optimal way to persuade them, & I say that understanding that Harris has her own electoral problems, & that runnin anyone else is absurd @ this point
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Tom Cairney
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I prefer braingenius for sarcastic use, and dingi as the plural for dingus
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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finally going to experience some warming he can believe in
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness
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Jonathan Cohn
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Would love to see the Venn Diagram of "Thinks Russia bombing hospitals is bad" and "Thinks Israel bombing hospitals is bad." Exist in that overlap! Too few people seem to.
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Uncle Dude
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It always astounds me how cartoonishly stupid the far right are. For all their highbrow talk of classical western civilization and obsession with IQ they're just a bunch of losers yelling at meteorologists for not making the weather be good.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The press using the white house visitor logs to write up (apparently false) attacks on Biden after Biden published visitor logs and Trump didn't: good illustration of the reward for upstanding and ethical behavior in the current media environment.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
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Just last week, Biden signed H.R. 2365, the “Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act,” which would be a part of stories like this if the journalists writing the stories were ethical. That they conceal this context speaks to their abject malice.
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Tom Cairney
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I feel seen
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Encephalophagy
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If I have a chip on my shoulder about people who are shitty to Former Gifted Kids, it's just because my Gifted Kid experience was everyone blaming the abuse I experienced at the hands of the other students and teachers on me not hiding well enough that I was smart.
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Cooper Lund
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I am firmly agnostic on Biden staying on at this point but I am fully ready to shove Peter Baker and A.G. Sulzberger’s heads in the toilet for a swirly if I see them in public for this shit
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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It is disorienting to see what the New York Times will cover with an active voice (that is demonstrably more accurate) and what it'll obscure with passive voice.
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Peter
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i keep seeing videos of people acting shitty in public where a top comment is something like “wonder who they voted for 🙄.” i honestly think a winning message for Dems is just “aren’t you sick of these fucking people”
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John Brown stan account
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Wonder why the White House would have a Parkinson's expert visiting over the last year. Very suspicious stuff
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Tom Cairney
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I ran a successful pub quiz for several years; it’s the only time I’ve truly been able to monetize my (then undiagnosed) ADHD
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Chris Hayes
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I’m sorry, this is more than “a caveat,” it’s actually the whole story.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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these stories served their purpose, allowing the GOP to shift the terms of the 2021 and 2022 elections away from Covid and the recovery to favorable ground of "crime." Now that the narrative is collapsing, conservatives just retreat to a new battlefield of their choosing and the press follows.
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Olga 🍯
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An incredible piece for @propublica.bsky.social.
“Leo grasped the stakes of these seemingly obscure races and appointments long before liberals and Democrats did.”
www.propublica.org/article/we-d...
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Randall Gross
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Project 2025 will double down on protections for fossil fuel industries while killing clean power initiatives, while this is going on, but the media is mostly focused elsewhere for some idiotic reason
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Nicholas Grossman
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How does blowing up a children’s hospital in Ukraine—which isn’t in NATO—protect Russia from NATO? How is killing a bunch of kids who were far from military activity about security, not brutal aggression? Do Putin defenders and apologists who ape the NATO excuse hear themselves?
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