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RainSurname
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I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet. Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.
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Farts "sʇɹɐℲ" Johnson
@fartsjohnson.bsky.social
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how has this sack of shit not gotten arrested for spreading out fake money
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Colin Spacetwinks
@spacetwinks.bsky.social
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feels like part of the longstanding trend of "complain about the media, but never do anything about it other than Hope They're Nice To Us" from democrats is that a lot of 'em find the shittiness of the media convenient when they want to knife somebody else in the party
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Tippy
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The thing I keep coming back to on this post is “bloodless if the left allows it to be.” He’s not saying “bloodless if the left doesn’t fire the first shot.” He’s saying “bloodless unless the left wins.” He’s advocating for violence if he doesn’t like the outcome of the election.
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Faine Greenwood
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The Heritage Foundation “don’t make us kill you, Democrats” statement may mark one of those moments people will read about in 100 years (hopefully!) and think to themselves “why didn’t they freak out when they heard the extremists say that?” (Sadly, it’s just not how humans work most of the time)
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Tom
@tomel.bsky.social
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It's like all apocalyptic fantasies, a fable imagining that eventually evil will be vanquished and everyone who doubted will believe.
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Plain old Nolan “Jon Wolter” Void
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The real reason I could never be an accelerationist is that I don’t want to sacrifice anyone to the maw of fascism as collateral for the gamble that at a certain level of suffering, more people will fight back. Too much theory and not enough fresh air makes Jack a ruthless boy.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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This is why early 2023 after the midterms non-bloodbath would have been the ideal time to announce one term imo
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Tom
@tomel.bsky.social
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I'm old enough to remember people making this accelerationist argument about George W. Bush.
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🏳️⚧️ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime
@josie.zone
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Indeed
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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yep. though again, I don't think will get nearly so much traction
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Old Man Uzi
@daviduzumeri.bsky.social
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The Inside Out characters in my head
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Tom
@tomel.bsky.social
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The Inside Out characters in my head
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Pete Woods is full of love and pasta
@thatpetewoods.bsky.social
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The media should be beating this drum 24/7
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thiiird person
@thiiirdperson.bsky.social
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literally when they are making the lists and updating them, if someone says "you ghouls how dare you ask this of me this year after you went around congress. fuck you. fuck you for even trying with this shit" over the phone, you would make a note and then try getting everyone else registered. HERE?
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thiiird person
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people who believe in electoral politics and who want people to vote Dem should take my advice: stop telling people who annoy you with their nonvoting online leftism to vote on the apps they call home online instead, call people the party wants you to call and has literal lists of in *phonebanks*
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Tom
@tomel.bsky.social
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Today I learned that there’s a British version of Arrested Development.
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Nikhil Shah
@grandmastershah.bsky.social
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤
@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social
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Today is a good day to take account of your parasocial relationship with any famous people and remind yourself that you don’t fucking know them
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Anna Phylaxis
@quatoria.bsky.social
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Any outlet that doesn’t cover this story is making a choice to ignore it, and we should be asking why.
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Greg Andraste Sideyr
@andraste.fuckbgp.com
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reskeet with a tweet you still think about
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Tom
@tomel.bsky.social
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The NYT’s refusal to fact-check opinion pieces is among the most pernicious bits of journalistic malpractice going, and this is a paper that shares significant responsibility for the Iraq war, the Trump presidency, and the ongoing assault on trans rights in this country.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Also for context, here's a screenshot of the second post in the thread, which I'm also going to delete to avoid sending that site traffic.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Folks have noted that including links rewards the NYT with traffic for running this article. They're right! So I'm going to delete the first post in this thread - here it is as a screenshot for context.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Look at this link at the bottom of the New York Times' "Don't vote" opinion piece. They didn't run this as a one-off. They're trying to turn non-voting into a thing. Repugnant.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Ben
@franzferdinand2.bsky.social
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She also had this all-time classic.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.bsky.social
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Due to the fireworks, New York City's air quality is the worst in the world tonight.
When AQI is low, it's a good idea to wear a mask to protect your health.
But this could soon be a crime, as one of the mask ban bills prohibits masks at "lawful assemblies."
#NoNYMaskBan
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Jonathan M. Katz
@katzonearth.bsky.social
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The full quote is even better, and better in context.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Her 'deplorables' comments were both completely fine in context and 100% accurate and they still spent a week talking about how disastrous it was. If you read the text of that speech in a vacuum you would think the framing was perfectly fine.
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.
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Becca Gomez Farrell
@becca.gomezfarrell.com
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For real
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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The “it is inevitable” discourse is designed to disempower actual pushback and demoralize voters to turn away or give up on democratic processes and voting. As much as it may seem like things have fully collapsed. Winning the election keeps options on the table that give us actual power to stop this
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Obviously Ross Douthat doesn't want any Democrat to win but it's funny to see the guy whose No. 1 publishable opinion is that Americans need to have more babies pretend to go for the guy who blew up the child tax credit
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pee wee herman-palladino
@markpopham.bsky.social
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oh my god it's literally this
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Chris Wyman
@wymancr.bsky.social
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Another thing to think about re the elite revolt against Biden is he *is* the president who funded the tax police and ended the cozy wink, nudge relationship on dodging the taxes they claim to support.
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Katie
@themilkwitch.bsky.social
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Please think of the dogs this 4th. Like mine, who wanted to open a fireworks stand, but the city will not grant him a permit
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Colin Spacetwinks
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listen here, jack - as president, breaking the law is strictly for bombing foreigners, couping other governments, and unlimited domestic surveillance
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Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak
@blackmudpuppy.bsky.social
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Wendy makes great stuff and you should buy her stuff, regardless of whatever else is going on.
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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Putin's puppet can have a tall glass of shut the fuck up.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
@gwensnyder.bsky.social
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Also the Heritage Foundation drooling at the chance to challenge ballot access for a new candidate fills me with dread, since we all know what happens when that goes to the courts.
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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Ayo
@darrylayo.bsky.social
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This must be a psyop to compel us to definitely vote
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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History will recall that the New York Times, that bastion of "the liberal media," on July 4, 2024 chose to give prime space on their op-ed page to a theocratic absolutist who argued that people shouldn't vote, even though he himself has voted in the last 2 elections (but nowhere is that mentioned).
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geoffrey
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sort of a side note but it's vaguely offensive how low quality our enemies are as individuals. "i'll publish a piece in the paper of record that says i don't vote, no one will check the publicly available information about that." bottom of the barrel stuff here
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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NO KINGS. That's the bare minimum these days. NO KINGS. NO KINGS. NO KINGS.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Imagine for one second if the NYT marshaled its massive influence towards voter registration, towards supporting voting rights groups, towards encouraging people to vote and fighting people who try to stop people from voting. Imagine if the NYT actually championed participatory democracy.
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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc
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Nothing would make Bindel happier (even happier than she is already about this, which is clearly *extremely*) than to see people form ranks to protect the rich white man against TERFs. That's the result she expects, wants to see, and is actively trying to make happen.
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Johanna Taylor @ 🏠👻
@johannamation.bsky.social
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Agree. TBH the fact that this election cycle hasn’t been a slam dunk for Dems infuriates me to no end. It’s like Biden’s determined to tank his own party and our good faith in what little he’s accomplished in office, and it’s been absolutely maddening to watch.
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