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Tommy@tommyg.bsky.social |
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'But doubts and loves/ Dig up the world' - Y. Amichai 'It is not my nature to join in hate, but in love' - Sophocles 'stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch' - Camus He/His. 'of which class ... is the author.' -Thomas Paine
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Remember: Texas is not a red state. Texas is a massively voter-suppressed state, with a lot of people working very hard and very thanklessly to fix that.
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Tommy
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Clearly the feng shui of your sleeping arrangement is incorrect. Your cat is doing the best she can with the inauspicious vibes.
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Semi-feral Post Monger
@dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social
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I'm reminded of this Scientific American article
www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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Come on, y'all. For America. For Ted. Let's do this.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I didn’t vote for him in the primaries, but I also think that switching horses right now is almost certainly suicidal. It is not exactly fucking surprising that he’s old.
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Ivis Bohlen
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Tommy
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats
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Faine Greenwood
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The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Adam Bonin
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In the past decade I've had three clients elected to township commissioner or school board in TIED elections, one who prevailed by a single vote, and a county judge who won by 4 votes out of 65,000+ cast. www.mcall.com/2022/06/16/z...
This guy's a fool. And dangerous.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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Citizenship can be stripped if someone lied on their immigration paperwork, which gives me an idea for something Biden should fast track
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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I spoke to a friend I knew in high school who told me he "doesn't follow politics." I asked him what he thought about the election. He said, "I hear Biden's a senile wreck." He also said he hadn't heard of SCOTUS granting Trump immunity and has never heard of Project 2025. Media's doing a great job.
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Joe Sudbay
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Biden is doing a press conference next Thursday afternoon That's July 11 Should be the day Trump is sentenced for the 34 felony convictions -- but that's been delayed because those corrupt AF right wing zealots on SCOTUS are doing their part to help him win
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Mike Caulfield
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They don't want Biden in, as a person who used to specialize in research on this they want to prep a narrative for the fall of a technically illegitimate election. It's not a move to stop it, it's a move to delegitimize.
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Faine Greenwood
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I mean, Trump is an insane felon rapist and a lot of people still voted for him. There’s no rule that says we have to honorably give a shit about if our candidate comes off as slightly addled, especially when we’ve got a perfectly good VP who can take over as soon as he makes it past the post.
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Pwnallthethings
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This week SCOTUS killed Chevron deference, gave Trump total immunity, and Trump was credibly tied to Epstein, and it seems to me if your campaign somehow seriously can't find a way to then change the topic of conversation in the newspapers or stop your party panicking, what are we doing here exactly
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Costa Samaras
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Read this great thread below. We can build a climate community on Bluesky. Here’s a starter pack for folks to follow some people who work on climate. go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ
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Faine Greenwood
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I for one am pretty fixated on not having to spend even more years of my life wondering if Donald fucking Trump is going to deploy nuclear weapons
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Tommy
@tommyg.bsky.social
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aka the 1859 Project
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Tommy
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She literally doesn't need to respond at all to the content of his statements. She's free to just repeat this, because it's true.
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Tommy
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I guarantee a woman as smart, rhetorically skilled, and fearless as Harris can beat him. Will she? I think so. Will she get the chance? Maybe. I think it's going to look like this, rhetorically:
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Tommy
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If I were prepping her, I'd just say that: "He lies about everything, all the time. In fact, he's a felon now, because he lies. Here are some of the other things he's been convicted of ..."
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Tommy
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Yes, but I really want to witness the 'debate' between Harris and Trump. That will be so incredibly cathartic for me. Facing a skilled prosecutor on a debate stage? She'll gut him.
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Benjamin Dreyer
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I think that Will is right. I don't know how I feel about it, but I think he's right.
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Tommy
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Like, just say "Trump lied, again, about an easily checkable fact."
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Tom Scocca
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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!
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Torr Leonard 🧵
@torrleonard.bsky.social
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"insurance turmoil caused by climate change — which had been concentrated in FL, CA & LA — is becoming contagion, spreading to states like IA, AR, OH, UT & WA. Even in Northeast, where homeowners insurance was still generally profitable last year,trends are worsening
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Tommy
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It's such a dumb rhetorical position. eg: "Trump claims, without evidence, that his middle name is J, not John. Experts differ on whether this is true. His birth certificate says 'John,' but TrumpMama says on Xitter that he didn't just make it up and that everyone knows his middle name is just J."
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Taps sign:
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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I feel the Skepticism you hear from some when they seem utterly baffled that people would actually believe a second Trump term would bring authoritarian and anti democratic backsliding is rooted in, among other things, 1) not realizing that if something like that occurs, it’s not gonna have…
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J.M. Berger
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In fact, if you take Trump's word for it, he's clearly the weakest executive this country has ever had, with now-countless examples of "stupid" and "terrible" people doing things on his authority that he had "no idea" were happening and "completely disagreed" with.
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Tommy
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Welcome. Enjoy.
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Tommy
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www.nybooks.com/online/2017/...
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Tommy
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I am immediately reminded of the piece Masha Gessen wrote about the aesthetics of authoritarians, which feels like the other side of this coin.
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Micah
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if the media could go ahead and treat this claim the way they treat Biden saying "I'm fine" - aka, as a lie that requires days on end of front page stories to debunk - that would be great we'll be over here waiting
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)
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The view that Trump is bad but Biden is worse is not liberalism, progressivism, leftism, or socialism. It's insanity or corruption, probably both.
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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“She has also been deluged with public-information requests, sued for not responding to those requests promptly enough, and bombarded with disingenuous questions from hostile media outlets” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Katie Mack
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Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.
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Tommy
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Iain Coleman
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The best thing about British democracy is when the actual head of government has to stand in a leisure centre at 5 am beside a guy with a bin on his head to find out if he still has a job.
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T.C. Aurelius
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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.
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Tommy
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Yes. The humiliation is so stark.
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Rima I Anabtawi
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“Take a few minutes today to read McCullough’s speech: “The Glorious Cause of America.” For 248 years, our freedom has survived. Now, its defense is up to us. We must defeat the former president who threatens to unravel our Republic. We must not fail.” - Liz Cheney
speeches.byu.edu/talks/david-...
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Tommy
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You've convinced me. It's more fun for him to be stuck in the ruins.
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Tommy
@tommyg.bsky.social
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'pollenbane' does have a certain ring to it
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Tommy
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Glass half full. To be honest, as long as the Tories got wrecked, I can find joy in either outcome for Sunak.
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Tommy
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Sunak lost his own race, too? Glorious, if so.
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Cheryl Rofer
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Congratulations to all my British friends! I hope we can follow your good example in November!
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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If Trump wins then America is in for some very dark times, and that will last for generations. But if and when he loses, whether to Biden or to Harris, the country absolutely can dig its way out of this hole, and folks need to remember the future beyond that is, in all likelihood, pretty great
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