Doug

Doug

@dougg.bsky.social

No kids, three money PNW

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Oh. Things. They are going to get much worse.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The Republican Party, we believe that Somalia bandits, third-world gangs, and jihadist sympathizers do not belong in Ohio, they do not belong in America. We got to get them the hell out of here." More "De-port! De-port!" chants from the crowd.

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i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

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This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.

Aside from the obvious question (why does the person who made this think hitler and Mao are both in heaven?) why did Che get a rematch? Did he beat Charlie the first time?

fuck, now this is some content

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3 things about Dem politicians who dabble in transphobia: 1. It's wrong, they're wrong, on a moral basis they're being evil 2. It's stupid, they're stupid, they'll never get any credit from the fascists for it 3. It's proof you're not capable of reading or rising to this, and therefore any, moment

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If the Democrats really want to run on an anti corruption platform (and i think they should), this means coming out against prediction markets, crypto, and sports betting, all of which are either directly corrupt or facilitate corrupt acts.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news

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it's not particularly complicated. any problems with "woke 1" were dicks acting like assholes. nothing much else happened. just assholes being dicks. and the backlash? what we learned may just shake you to your core

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"i'm from the government and i'm here to help" are not the scariest 9 words in the english language. the scariest 9 words in the english language are "i am a ghost with a big machine gun"

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A trend that has been trending through every presidency of my lifetime. It’s notable that the lines crossed under Biden. This is the Neoliberal Era in one chart. It’s what happens when conservatives dominate our institutions with centrists as opposition. It’s what happens when spending is speech.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.

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Replying to @helldude.bsky.social

it's galling really. these establishment democrat super fans smugly blaming you for their heroes' decision that any -- ANY -- public suggestion that there was anything other than unconditional support for israelis bathing themselves in gazans' blood was simply not acceptable

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Imagine sending your girl to do sports now? Their plan all along was to decimate girls sports. And all the TERFs just let them do it. Hating others more than you love yourself is going to destroy humanity.

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this guy is a fucking moron lol

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social

If the message from some of you here is "it's okay to be Stalinists because our opponents are Nazis," be ready for the possibility that - given that choice - people will choose Nazis.

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we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system

The northern district of Texas is a completely rogue jurisdiction at this point

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

After initially being assigned to Judge Mark Pittman, the WPATH case was today reassigned — by order of Pittman — to Judge Reed O'Connor. No reason was given. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mark Zaid, Esq@markzaidesq.bsky.social

We are witnessing MAGA equivalent of destruction of Democratic Party through election of progressive Socialists. If you think this ends well for country, I believe you're sadly mistaken. Extremism on one side simply fuels opposite growth on other side. We need moderates.

The degree of judicial activism here is actually shocking imo

Nate Raymond@nateraymond.bsky.social

New: Trump-appointed Judge Joshua Divine issued an opinion taking the position that prosecutors today may be free to seek the death penalty in cases involving sexual offenses against children despite a landmark 2008 Supreme Court ruling against such punishments. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Samantha should prove that Marxism is no longer intellectually productive by avoiding phrases coined by Marxists who said they were directly inspired by Marx - phrases like "degenerate research program"

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“you’re a world historic mass murderer” is getting to him, huh maybe he shouldn’t have chosen to be a world historic mass murderer

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social

his excuse is they wouldn’t put the starving children on the phone with him.

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yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here

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the way she slime in my pool got me reflecting 👤𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 Thirty seconds after this post became public, the United States Federal Government issued a warrant for Ms. Zeller's arrest. She is currently being held in federal custody and awaiting trial. Her book deal has been withdrawn.

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Replying to @anjalikdayal.bsky.social

even if you concede an actual infraction, arrest by a motley grouping of violent specialists is not how you govern a free people