Dumbstash

Dumbstash

@dnlmsstch.bsky.social

Politically Star Trek religiously Star Wars. Lawyer, pragmatist

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After everything I am coming to the conclusion the really important discourse is the popular culture one because having good (not necessarily interesting or unique) popular culture takes is the best proxy for good political takes.

They are flailing, they are desperate and they are out of ideas. This is us winning

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tim Scott on Hannity's show lies that El-Sayed's parents "funded Osama bin Laden"

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BREAKING — Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski endorses Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for Alaska governor.

UAE saw that we couldn't protect their infrastructure from Iranian drones and quietly switched sides is the funniest strategic defeat for the US I ever thought possible

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Brasil is not (currently) sending its best to the US. Criminals and lowlifes. ICE should deport him (and his brother only) with maximum violence and if he doesn't want to go back to Brasil - El Salvador is fine (but only for Bolsonaro)

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

BRAZIL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO'S ALLIES SAY HE HAS GONE TO THE US - REPORTS

Capital strike - it happens often in Brasil

Jornal Nacional@jnoficial.bsky.social

Mercado financeiro reage à vitória de Lula com queda da bolsa de valores e alta do dólar As oscilações só afetam a economia do dia a dia se as incertezas continuam por período prolongado. Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/3UoC8vg #JN

If these people had the ability to put together this type of musical number their natural charisma would be so high they would all be leading this country and winning elections by landslides. Ilan should definitely learn the saxophone

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

They are going to restart the war right after the election (assuming Netanyahu survives or the new Israeli government still wants to continue) and the lame duck period is going to set everything on fire.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

US OFFICIAL WARNS IRAN TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR OR FACE MISSION COMPLETION - AL JAZEERA

I am glad that Lula won in part because I didn't want people asking me "what the hell is wrong with your country?"... people already do that too much with me when it comes to the US.

For the record Brasil has mandatory voting - everyone has to vote, justify not voting or pay a (small) fine. If you don't certain government services get denied

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

If a french person says that we start bringing up WW2 and how if it wasn't for us they would be speaking German

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I knew it was the 5th circuit

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com

A US appeals court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration is not required under the US Constitution to give detained immigrants a chance to seek release on bond.

Mechanically under RCV this doesn't make sense since if you want to vote for the republican and are confused you just rank the other Dan Sullivan as number 2. If Peltola gets 50%+1 thats because she won whether there were multiple Dan Sullivans or nor

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

The Trump administration is preemptively suing to block Alaska from certifying a Mary Peltola victory, should she win. Their argument is that the double Dan Sullivan thing is confusing voters. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

If the republican internal polls in WYOMING are bad ...you can make a lot of money selling drugs to the RNC on election night

Jacob Rubashkin@rubashkin.bsky.social

NEW | Inside Elections moved Wyoming’s At-Large House race from Solid to Likely GOP last week. Since then: - GOP nominee Chuck Gray has started running positive TV ads on affordability - A super PAC funded by Gray’s father is going negative on the Democrat - Today, Gray gave his campaign $376,000

If they are spending money in Mississippi....

VoteHub@votehub.com

NEW — Senate Leadership Fund plans to spend more than $1 million in Mississippi’s Senate race to defend Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith against Democrat Scott Colom, per Semafor. The buy follows Senate Majority PAC’s $1.2 million ad campaign.

Twilight is playing in the waiting room of my doctor's office... I have never see this movie oh god the acting is so wooden and the story ... oh lord

What sort of idiot thinks Hegseth has any intelligence? [Checks notes] Oh right

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social

White House sources explain the change mainly due to the great weight that President Trump gave to the assessments and intelligence that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented to him upon his return from the meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.-Haaretz

Immigration law should be as strict as americans say they want it to be - which would mean substantial liberalization. Then we blow up the current enforcement agencies and start from scratch with new people. Prosecute everyone currently involved in ICE.

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$9 wont do anything. At least tell me that the election is close you need $500,000 to pull ahead and that anything I can pitch in will help. This is sad loser behavior and whoever is telling you to send these messages just wants a cut of the haul and should be fired.

Funniest use of AI yet

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social

1/ The Russian army is increasingly being plagued by AI-generated videos created by local commanders to falsely claim successes in their sectors. The long-standing problem of false reporting up the chain of command is becoming worse, as a Russian warblogger highlights. ⬇️

Trump says hateful thinks like its a joke with a smile and that makes his support not taste the venom in the words. Vance and Ramaswamy lack that skill and just come off as nasty little haters who delight in the suffering of others.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

Finally a Democrat that can appeal to Indiana voters. This should be our candidate state wide so long and she campaigns tipsy.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Jaime West, a Democratic candidate for a seat on Indiana’s Fayette County Council who went viral for her remarks during a televised candidate forum this month, told conservative British television host Piers Morgan “I had a beer, mm-hmm … maybe a couple.”

Wait ... I was told by the president of the United States that Iran doesn't have a navy and we control Hormuz.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

IRGC Navy on tanker incident today: Supertanker carrying over 2 mln barrels of crude exploded - IRIB News

Vivek going after the key demographic - estranged grandparent who is hated for a dam good reason

Mensch

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social

I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with Israelis for Peace, Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine & Protect the Harvest.

I am forming a theory that a highly effective government requires an insanely corrupt government first to draw in all the corrupt people have them identified and then after you clean house you can have a government that works. Call it The Adams-Mandani effect.

Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social

OK - now at bench trial of former Eric Adams Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich, gov't witness about pole cameras in Queens on the stand. Inner City Press will live skeet, thread below

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❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

How much of our problems is that 8th/9th grade education doesn't stick in people's minds after high school

Wade in Tarnation@watn-tarnation.bsky.social

I have seen this exact interaction play out at least a dozen times and it never gets less funny