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Wheeler@wheeleyme.com |
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The map is not the territory He/any I do art, work in aerospace, mutter about politics when I can't stop myself
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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Too many people really need to stop pretending they don't know this but here goes... 'CENTRISTS' WHO ENDLESSLY CRAP ON ABOUT THEIR SACRED CHECKS AND BALANCES WHILE REFUSING TO EITHER CHECK OR BALANCE THE RADICAL RIGHT AREN'T CENTRISTS. THEY'RE RIGHT WINGERS WHO LACK THE COURAGE OF ANY CONVICTIONS.
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Wheeler
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The reason Biden won last time was because it came down to "anyone, please just rid us of Trump" but four years later the one thing we hired this fossil to do remains undone with little to indicate that they won't just let him hang around until 28 no matter his crimes, it sucks
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Wheeler
@wheeleyme.com
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Cop shows: Imagine if there was a bad guy? Like a really bad guy? Yeah, we'd totally get him too, g'night citizens!
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cait
@cait.bsky.social
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i'm sick of waiting for the future i want, im going to have to create it myself. which is why i think dressing like whatever was going on in the fifth element would fix me
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Wheeler
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Biden's death grip on being the candidate definitely makes me feel better about the big blank check the Supreme Court just carefully placed outside the white house with a big bow on it, he definitely won't use it when they have to 25th him out of there in a year
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Pookleblinky
@pookleblinky.bsky.social
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French politicians weren't telling their voters to shut the fuck up, look what the alternative is. French citizens weren't telling each other to enjoy the camps. There was something to vote *for* other than a tired j/o gesture and a threat.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society
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Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️🌈
@kennedytcooper.bsky.social
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Conservatives: "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!" The Epstein Files: *name Donald Trump a bunch* Conservatives: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT!"
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swan 🍃
@pandersera.bsky.social
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showing up to the function hella normal
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Wheeler
@wheeleyme.com
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The arrival of the a r m y is a good sign for bluesky but means the discover feed is gonna be confusing for a while
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal
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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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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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“I love America like Anthony Bourdain or Woody Guthrie did” is the phrasing I’ve settled on
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Fun fact:The last time a Business Plot to destroy US democracy was underway, The Times also pretended it wasnt- they have wanted this since 1930
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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One paragraph every American needs to read this July 4th.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/strongman-...
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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HudsonRiverCroc
@hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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It's pretty interesting what the media decides is front page news and what they don't decide is front page news! Trump being a child sex abuser with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein somehow doesn't merit the same coverage as "unnamed Dem insider has concerns about Biden's age"
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Nash
@radiodeadair.com
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Like my god you have a Presidential candidate in a famous pedophile's appointment book COME ON JESUS CHRIST
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Wheeler
@wheeleyme.com
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So much awful shit is happening in the world it's easy to hate another turd rolling down the pile, but consider the 1 source (that Rolling Stone only quoted from) and how suspect it is that it dropped on a holiday/election evening, that it is under legal challenge, and sourced from political actors
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K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com
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“Wait to learn more” is not picking sides. It’s not believing or disbelieving one party over another. It’s recognizing that a major source of information is sketchy af and we need more information.
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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On this July 4, please pause to remember that one of the colonists’ complaints in the Declaration was that the Crown was paying its judges.
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Spooky Sara
@pashion.bsky.social
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John Gorman
@jpgorman.bsky.social
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Hey, but for real, this guy should be feared like the Reaper, it happens all the time where a judge goes out of their way to personally clarify that a Presidential candidate and convicted felon is also a rapist, in case anyone was unsure of what being held liable means.
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jaguarr
@the-jaguarr.bsky.social
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This story hits a little harder now that the jury documents for Epstein's case have been released (and Trump's name is ALLLLLL over those documents). Again, mainstream media is burying this story for Trump.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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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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s. e. smith
@sesmith.bsky.social
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Hearing the latest Trump news against the parade of violent, hateful attacks on trans people 'to protect the children' and knowing that the same people whipping up that moral panic will dismiss the very real harm he caused to another human being is uh well
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☀️ Starshine
@starshine.bsky.social
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latest trump child rape accusation is uh pretty fucking bad and also not surprising
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Dr. SkySkull
@drskyskull.bsky.social
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So… the documents are legit, it appears. And I have no reason, based on what I’ve seen, to think that they’re false.
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Wheeler
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I just can't see how anyone would get enough representative data to make a prediction for that age range outside of trolls and partisans. Even the most optimistic view of the numbers shouldn't allow for that when those are also among the least likely to vote demographics. pull the other one silver
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Wheeler
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My wager is that the reason this freakout is about the debate and not more important stuff (other than media/propaganda ofc) is that elites have assumed Trump couldn't win and have realized for the first time that Biden might lose but aren't accepting where the threat would be coming from yet
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?
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geoffrey
@parsnip.bsky.social
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i mentioned this before but the last week or two has fully clarified that the rest of our lives is a drag-out fight against the supreme court that starts with priming the public to enthusiastically support — or at the very least resist decorum-based media calls against — completely rebuilding it
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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Free idea for Biden: drop a court packing plan right now and that’ll change the conversation REAL quick
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Wheeler
@wheeleyme.com
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That old marketing saying about how it takes 7 exposures to something to make a customer aware of it is true for news too, normies need to hear it from people other than their plugged-in friends
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DC Pierson
@dcpierson.bsky.social
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Redwall-ass notification
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Wheeler
@wheeleyme.com
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I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire, but even I can tell that subbing in a woman of color at the convention, even if she is the VP, might make the election a little dicier
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Wheeler
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I'm from Arizona (no tall trees either) and we used to do this with dirt piles whenever somebody in the neighborhood rented equipment, dug out "bunkers" and everything
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Andrea Junker
@strandjunker.bsky.social
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The fact that I know more about Joe Biden’s one bad debate night than I do about Donald Trump’s years of raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
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this is what posting is like
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Marie Enger
@soengery.bsky.social
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Timeless message.
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Mike Sterling, Comics Guy
@mikester.bsky.social
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has anyone asked the convicted felon to step down from candidacy, seems like that's the bigger problem
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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If only our news media institutions found "ex-president promises to jail and try opponents for treason if he takes back power" as newsworthy as "unnamed aide said current president gets tired after having a full day of work."
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.
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Wheeler
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In player piano by vonnegut, there's a low point where the main character, a tech exec, is so disillusioned that his professional rival destroys his career and takes his wife and he doesn't care at all. That's where I'm at mentally
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Wheeler
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It all feels like "we know none of this actually matters or has a chance of working as advertised but if we can you mad about this you won't notice when we start imprisoning people with disabilities for wasting water"
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Wheeler
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Thanks to SCOTUS we also don't know that any of the usual forms of consumer protection will be help and what if someone changes milk to $1000 a gal and no one in the store has the authority to change the price? Does the manager have a responsibility to engage in fraud to serve their customers?
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Wheeler
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There is no policy that a modern retailer can announce where their decades of ignoring anything that can be plausibly labeled a Labor Problem will not rip the rollout to shreds
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Wheeler
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If retail starts doing smart pricing where prices rise and fall by the minute, I want to see when people grasp just how many little wireless broadcasts are going to have to be happening constantly. You think self checkouts were a security problem? Wait till some bored walmart teens get a flipper
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