Bo

Bo

@ascablander.bsky.social

Me --> lib'er-al, I.a 1. Possessing or manifesting a free and generous heart; bountiful. 2. Appropriate and/or fitting for a broad and enlightened mind. 3. Free from narrowness, bigotry or bondage to authority or creed. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

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Margo Gontar
@margogontar.bsky.social

I mainly share here about the war, but I believe it’s not that far of topic anymore : Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models, reports say . They hired a ‘Google’s book-scanning chief’ to literally cut books up and digitize them , while throwing the physical books away.

Bo
@ascablander.bsky.social

All of this is great, but Democrats need to be realistic about ending trumps war. Even Pete has said that there are no good ways to do that. If Dems can't offer a plan, they need to not make it a focus of their platform, imo.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

What might a Dem midterm contract for America look like? *Stop the Iran war *Investigate the corruption *Block illegal tariffs fueling inflation *Stop weaponization of federal funding by reasserting legislative power of the purse *Impose accountability on immigration enforcement

Bo
@ascablander.bsky.social

Something on the US media front that is interesting. Last night Kyiv suffered another major attack with multiple deaths and casualties. I checked the front pages of both the NYT and WaPo this morning....nothing. A major European city and nothing on their front pages. BBC & Al Jazeera had it. Why?

Bo
@ascablander.bsky.social

Fight hard in local elections, from school boards and Mayors to dog catchers....

Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social

A billion-dollar tax break for a massive data center would have gutted local schools in Ferguson. But residents packed City Hall and completely killed the deal. This is how you win against corporate greed. Read about it: 👉 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-regime...

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

"Children as young as 4 are being forced to repeatedly appear in court and provide updates on their case, at times without legal help, within a matter of weeks. "Children are feeling 'enormous pressure' and some wet their pants when they have to go to court..." www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/p...

cnn.comExclusive: Trump moves to accelerate deportations of migrant children in US custody | CNN PoliticsThe Trump administration is taking steps to accelerate the deportations of migrant children in US custody amid White House pressure to quickly move kids through the system, according to administration...

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The Kyiv Independent
@kyivindependent.com

Recently we have launched a charitable merch drop, “No News is Bad News,” to mark World Press Freedom Day. From April 21 through May 5, all profits from the collection will go toward purchasing drone detectors for journalists reporting from the front lines in Ukraine.

Bo
@ascablander.bsky.social

Ok, I agree with Sen. Booker and love the guy. But, can we stop using the phrase "bend the knee"? That shit creeps me out, lol. How about, “This mega corporation will be run by a single family riddled with conflicts of interest that have shown a willingness to *submit* to Donald Trump …”?

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social

Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Warner Bros-Paramount merger “This mega corporation will be run by a single family riddled with conflicts of interest that have shown a willingness to bend the knee to Donald Trump …”

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Citizen Jane
@rivergoat.bsky.social

This was such an early and corrupt unconstitutional executive order. Jared is the Nepo Negotiator and Chief Grifter. Follow his money. #Maddow @ossoff.bsky.social rocks

Bill Madden@maddenifico.bsky.social

Rachel Maddow just played this video of Jon Ossoff talking about Trump crime family grifter Jared Kushner. Ossoff is Maddow's guest tonight. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

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CatDaMaMa
@catdamama.bsky.social

“Our message is to America: Vote by mail is efficient, it’s safe, and it’s successful. Period. This is educating the American people that you can use vote by mail and you can be guaranteed that your voice will be heard and your vote will be counted.”

apnews.comPostal Service union launches ad campaign promoting mail voting as Trump assails the methodThe American Postal Workers Union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail. This comes as President Donald Trump has raised skepticism about mail-in ballots.

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Schooley
@schooley.bsky.social

The Pope is soft on crime though.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department moves to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in major Jan. 6 cases.

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes? Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

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Ken Jennings
@kenjennings.bsky.social

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

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Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

Bo
@ascablander.bsky.social

I challenge any reporter to force him to demonstrate his language skills.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "I'm polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela. So after I'm finished with this I can got to Venezuela. I will quickly learn Spanish. It won't take long. I'm good at language. I will go to Venezuela. I'm going to run for president."

Bo
@ascablander.bsky.social

Great thread

David Roberts@volts.wtf

Before I got walk my dog, I've had this thought floating around in my head all day so I'll write it down: Trump's press conference & the Artemis II mission are quite an illustrative contrast. Getting these folks to the moon ...

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JoJoFromJerz
@jojofromjerz.bsky.social

The craziest thing about Trump’s unhinged Easter post is that his name is all the fuck over the Epstein files including allegations that he raped and punched a 13 year old girl.

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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Donald Trump just posted a video of Somali people enjoying the Mall of America to the soundtrack of “Mad World” because he is a bigoted POS

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

He is talking about creating a humanitarian disaster, a clear war crime

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump to WSJ on Iran: If they don’t come through… they’re going to lose every power plant and every other plant in the whole country. If they don’t do something by Tuesday evening, they won’t have any power plants and they won’t have any bridges standing.

Bo
@ascablander.bsky.social

This is a great angle to take. All republicans should be attacked for supporting this madness.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Balint: "My Republican colleagues have accepted for themselves that there's no bottom. They will continue to support this man regardless of how unhinged and how unfit he is for office. It's disgusting."