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Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

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Editor and writer for an undisclosed publication. Auguste Piccard and Frank Wilhoit stan. He/him. I'm the on at front in the photo (at rear is my cat, Boris)


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Dr. No

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Highlander

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So many neat things happening that give reason to believe we can still build a better world, even in the face of climate catastrophe & right-wing psychosis. We can't give up hope.

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Chris Wyman's avatar Chris Wyman @wymancr.bsky.social
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Coming back around to people needing to stop acting like they were born yesterday. It's fucking clear at this point that the knives are out because certain factions are unhappy that the president isn't hanging on their every word and have found a perfect vehicle to concern troll.

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Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ 's avatar Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @tomscud.bsky.social
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(hatred of trump plus abortion rights)

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i don't think it would be a double digit wipeout because hatred of trump is baked into the pie and gets you into the 40s at least, but doing something that has always resulted in a massive wipeout in the past doesn't seem like a great idea

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I guess ASH A Secret History if you count that as fantasy

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surprisingly can't think of much in any of the bas lag novels i've read.

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i mean tigana is pretty much about nationalism

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Tigana.

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sorry, will delete

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also an open question whether the same party members will immediately switch to sticking knives in harris

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the question is whether it's better to switch to harris or to convince the party members to stop sticking knives in

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yeah if he spends the morning with george stephanopolous talking about what a horrific monster & liar trump is while 3x the usual audience turns in, not all bad

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they lock him in the tower whenever he gets caught

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Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ 's avatar Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @tomscud.bsky.social
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The worst they’ll do, and I hope they don’t because it would be damaging, is to keep bitching to their media friends every time there’s the slightest setback

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You can but I don’t see these specific people doing it.

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I really don’t think that will happen. We’ll see if anything comes of the Mark Warren rumors but really you can’t push Biden out unless he agrees to it.

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You can be very clear that you won’t do it because republicans will refuse to allow the appointment of a new vice president

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The deleted post was about how to properly address He Who Makes Mortals Tremble Sir Keith First of His Name Starker, Primus Inter Pares of England

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Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ 's avatar Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @tomscud.bsky.social
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Which fair enough, everyone had their fun.

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They finally deleted

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Amy A's avatar Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
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A Second Trump Term Will Usher In Deadly White Supremacist Christofascism According to Explicit Manifesto vs. No It Won’t

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But also NYT, WaPo, etc won’t run the kind of follow up pieces they would if Biden did the same. Despite Disavowal, Troubling Connections to Project 2025 Remain

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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the media is owned by rich assholes DYING for authoritarianism and those assholes are so delusional they think they can brute force everyone else into agreeing that they want to be ruled by their betters

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Do questions persist about the role played by Project 2025 architects in the campaign?

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Will you be following up on this and reporting what happens with all the staffers responsible for Project 2025

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you have to move with the times

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Why are you wasting your time on gossip when republicans are literally planning to destroy democracy with project 2025

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Not that it’s objectively a good model but it seems needed to get to a healthy two party system again

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I’ve been saying for a while that the best future for this country and the world goes through a dozen or so years of near-monopoly Democratic Party power a la the ANC or PRI in Mexico or whatever the dominant political party in Japan is/was.

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Josh Rosenau's avatar Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.bsky.social
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It’s important to defeat Republicans so thoroughly they have to tear the party down and rebuild it. It’s good to have two (or more) viable parties, but neither of them can be violent, eliminationist, authoritarian cults of personality.

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Yeah that’s never been a thing in the states. You used to get cans of frozen concentrate and maybe those still exist but very different

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If Biden did something similar there would be a minimum of ten follow up stories about what it meant for the campaign, how the loyal project 2025 staffers felt about it, what major donors were saying etc.

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Jonathan Bernstein's avatar Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social
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If Trump knows nothing about Project 2025 he's way more out of it than Biden. (Trump is lying but he is, in fact, way more out of it than Biden, who may be in fact be too out of it to be president).

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Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ 's avatar Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @tomscud.bsky.social
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Regardless trump obviously didn’t write that post

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I honestly have no idea what you’re suggesting here

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Cheryl Rofer's avatar Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social
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The Dobbs decision, now Project 2025. There's more than enough to beat Trump right there, and his campaign staff knows it.

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Project 2025 is a major threat to American democracy and you are criminally under covering it

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But the Disney heiress thinks so so πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

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Despite Disavowal Project 2025 Architects Maintain Crucial Roles in Trump Campaign

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At Heritage Foundation, These Project 2025 Founders Feel Doubt, Frustration

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Many Say Project 2025 Continues Under Other Names

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Yeah the times could easily put this on the front page for weeks- Project 2025 Architect Reacts to Trump Dismissal; Despite Doubts from Trump Campaign Project 2025 Still on Track; Doubts Persist About Project 2025

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and of course the New York Times could easily do front page pieces on project 2025 for the next 3 weeks, if they wanted to

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If only our Supreme Court weren’t fully onboard with Project 2025 we could do that here

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Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ 's avatar Prestidigitator John πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @tomscud.bsky.social
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Do you think this is related to provocateurs working for Project 2025?

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