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@aferg.bsky.social
Painfully shy. I am what time and circumstance have made me.
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@duckworth.senate.gov www.c-span.org/clip/public-... This is why Dems hate their own party. YOU are the problem.
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it's so awesome that it doesn't matter if you're a radical leftie or a VBNMW type who just wants to see some basic consequences for the prez, and it doesn't matter how popular the demand you have is, these motherfuckers just don't care what you think regardless
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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January 8, 2020 All of this was totally foreseeable and foreseen. youtu.be/j_zJVt32fTk?...
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It's interesting to see a former top Biden aide explain "No amount of public support in polling or public protest will influence how or when those in power drastically change Israel policy" — ie, he's just straight up saying the US is not a democracy. x.com/MichaelLaRos...
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it’s very validating that there’s no one who’s extremely pro-Israel but then otherwise a normal, kind person. it’s all guys who are disgusted by children’s hospitals.
Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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"Look at the last 3 GOP presidents. One oversaw a double-dip recession with a savings & loans scandal that looted the Treasury. That was Bush I. Another oversaw near meltdown of the whole capitalist system. That was Bush II. Then the next presided over a pandemic-driven collapse. That was Trump I."
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New post out: Much of the right - led by Elon Musk - has decided the world's problems are caused by "suicidal empathy". I look at where this phrase comes from, why it's a profoundly wrong misdiagnosis, and a misunderstanding of what empathy is. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-war-ag...
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Republicans spent 50yrs for this moment: to disenfranchise millions of Americans. They are one step closer. Instead of following this myopic playbook of attaining a liberal SCOTUS, today’s Democrat leadership is meeting with the wannabe dictator’s son in law to find “common ground”.
Supreme Court, 6-3, hands a provisional win to Trump over his effort to exert control over mail-in ballots, but lots of questions remain about whether the underlying proposal is lawful, as majority concedes. Plus a nationwide injunction in a different case remains in effect, for now,.
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A group of Catholic nuns in New York has turned immigrant rights into their last great cause. They stage regular protests outside a New Jersey detention center and fund U.S. passports for children separated from parents held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. northeasttimes.com/2026/08/16/n...
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The media is obsessed with the supposed 'extremism' of democratic socialists... Meantime you've got mega-MAGA dude running for statewide office in TX who wants to "round up" Muslims and Chinese people, calls Native Americans "savages," and has a dark nostagia for Rhodesia. My profile of Bo French:
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New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Tom Clancy: In my book I invented the concept of the evil rogue South American CIA targeted killing campaign as a cautionary tale. Trump Admin: At long last, we have created the evil rogue South American CIA targeted killing campaign from classic spy novel Clear and Present Danger.
Ecuadorean fishermen say drones attacked them in the Pacific — English-speaking men in US-flag uniforms, no insignia. 8 missing, several injured. Flight data shows a patrol plane shifting course to stay pointed at all 3 boats. It's on no Pentagon roll, registered to a UPS store mailbox in Virginia.
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gotta say, i see libs pull this "but I HAD TO vote for the empower Hitler act! republicans would have said MEAN THINGS about me if I didn't!!!" too often and someone ought to tell them that this act is really fucking cowardly.
SCOOP: He was one of a handful of Democrats who joined Republicans in May to pass an anti-trans bill through the House. Last night, instead of listening to trans constituents at a meeting that I attended, Eugene Vindman got angry. It went downhill from there. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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It's not just that this is, of course, an insane lie—it's that *just thinking about it for ten seconds*, without looking anything up, should make it screamingly obvious that the claim couldn't possibly be remotely close to true. You have to actively shut your brain off to say stuff like this.
WHAT -- Rep. Lisa McClain totally makes shit up, claims "82% of women who got the vaccine in their first or second trimester had a miscarriage"
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am i supposed to just sit here and not mention @chrislhayes.bsky.social biting my look
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Love a good boat name. There's one I've seen a few times called "Change Order" on a huge cabin cruiser which is just perfect for a cackling, cigar-chomping general contractor www.beautifulpublicdata.com/boat-names/
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