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chippyplay.bsky.social
@chippyplay.bsky.social
Politics - Science - Religion Raised in a world that told me character and goodness mattered, then changed its mind. Denver
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JD Vance is backing Vivek Ramaswamy on an attack ad against Ohio opponent Amy Acton featuring her mother, estranged since a rape charge by Acton against her stepfather when she was a child. Vance said he is disgusted by other Republicans whining about it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/21/v...
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the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!
My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
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Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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You cannot go a week without these two falsehoods popping up in the ‘discourse.’ Add it to the Dems silenced me/us during covid claim especially popular with tech bros.
I wish pundits offered evidence to support the cliche that “Democratic candidates…got carried away with pronouns and identity politics” or that liberals sometimes direct “condescension…toward working-class Americans.” As it happens, the only example Kristof offers of such condescension is his own.
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BYD is bringing to the UK 300 of BYDs Flash Chargers 10%-90% in nine minutes. 10%-70% in five minutes. The automotive world is passing by the USA www.carscoops.com/2026/08/byd-... #energysky
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Do the math, folks. This would be more than $5 trillion PER YEAR And instead of this money giving us Medicare for all, reducing grocery prices or making housing affordable, we get insane health insurance premiums, more expensive food, and evictions Plus measles and ICE shooting people 78 days
The federal budget deficit for July was $432 billion. That's not the total for the first 7 months. That is JUST THE MONTH OF JULY. That's the largest monthly deficit in US history. It is even larger than during the height of the pandemic when US government spending was keeping the economy alfoat.
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There could not be a more blatant violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits any executive branch employee from "Using his or her official title while participating in political activity." Unlikely to be prosecuted, however. Will any news org even mention this? www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/7...
Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman
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Replying to @carrielaben.com
NYT editors put Harvard "Claudine Gay" story in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" put on page 15 and chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12 "Affirmative action" but just for Chris Rufo
Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal" bsky.app/profile/chri... NYT front page coverage all the time! By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
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#philforgovernor
“I’ve shown up to the Club 20 debate every time I’ve run for elected office,” Weiser wrote in a statement about the debate. “The challenges facing rural Colorado and the Western Slope are serious, and it’s critically important that our next governor listens to every community." #philforgovernor
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Even if you assume everything Sean Pond’s wife is saying is true…it is insane to me that this guy is offering political advice and serving as county commissioner while being so ignorant of, and too conceited to look up, how the law works. There’s nothing actionable here, not even close.
The GoFundMe features a message from Pond's wife Danielle. "Sean will be the tip of the spear in this legal fight. He will put his name and reputation on the line and lead the way through attorneys and the courts," it reads. "If 1,000 people put in $100, we can begin."
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“Winning is the worst thing that could happen to the left” is a genre of commentary that you can expect to get more and more popular now that the “These wackos will never win” genre has lost its plausibility.
"If the AAUP wants to be in the political fray, rather than above it, the organization will have to learn to think of politics like professionals, rather than professors," @mcmegan.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4z1Wnyd
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The Trump Administration was holding up 16 projects totaling $9 billion in investment and 22,000 jobs. All because the President doesn't believe in renewable energy. We will always fight back to help bring down energy costs for Illinoisans and put money back in your pockets.
I can easily go six months or so without reading a book, which is not something I’m proud of. But that @rodger.bsky.social book recommendation plea thread set me going and now I’m on my 3rd book in 2 weeks: Loving it so far (but I’m right at the end of the 1st act).
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The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
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Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
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