Julien

Julien

@eiggen.bsky.social

I'd rather be a pig than a fascist he/him

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This is Steven Witkoff, special envoy to Vladimir Putin, calling him a humanitarian. So much energy wasted to dispell the Russia scandal as a hoax, when all you have to do is look at MAGA's actions

Funny how The Atlantic dares to be salty when talking about a blonde woman, yet adopts a much more respectful tone when covering all the stupid things that male members of the Trump admin (including Trump himself!)

My one memory of Mulholland Drive is the lights turning on as the credits start to roll, me and my mom looking at each other with a "wtf was that?" look on our faces, and the old lady one row ahead of us mumbling "second time and still didn't get a single thing"

John Thorne@thornewip.bsky.social

Mulholland Drive at 25! Twenty-five years ago today, Mulholland Drive was released in the US. To learn about how and why David Lynch altered the original TV pilot into a feature film, check out my book: Devious Dreams: www.amazon.com/Devious-Drea...

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the reason my likely presidential candidate tier list has two people at the top - Ossoff and AOC - is that they are by far the most effective messengers of I Am Fucking Furious And There Must Be Consequences, which is the most deeply held conviction of the Dem base

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."

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American farmers and ranchers had USAID buying crops, SNAP buying food, cheap immigrant labor, cheap fertilizer and favorable trade deals. Then they chose Trump and threw it all away. — 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs man who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."

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14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

The typical airport car rental experience: "Oh you booked a car online? Let's see if we can figure that out. Shouldn't take more than 25 minutes"

Aaaaand… they're out of minivans, which we specifically reserved because we have to fit lots of adults and children's car seats. I'm told "it's first come first served" 🫠

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The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

The most reliable indicator that a politician is about to drop out of a race or quit their job is the filming of a non-apology video while wearing casual clothes in a kitchen. We should invent a term for it.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

Let's assume that's true – who was Fauci reporting to and why didn't that person do something about it?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃

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Beaucoup de bla-bla et de mensonges sur la lutte anti incendie, donc Bon Pote a analysé les votes par parti depuis 2022 à l’Assemblée nationale. Désormais, vous savez qui se bat vraiment pour les pompiers et notre survie. À partager massivement !

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Just an absolute shout out to everyone out there who helped manufacture doubt around the question of this guy being a Nazi, particularly after the Nazi salute.

Spooky Snigdha@snig.bsky.social

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

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Reminder: This was a 6-5 vote in the Board of Supervisors. Someone visiting the waterfront today would think it nuts that anyone opposed it.

David Gallagher@davidgallagher.bsky.social

The Embarcadero, 1991 Embarcadero Freeway Demolition, view northerly, demolition in progress, the former stub end and second deck removed John Holtzclaw photographed the demolition in detail over the months it took. more here : sfmemory.org/search/index... #sfmemory #sfhistory

As per the arguments of the Trump admin to the Supreme Court, a birth certificate also wouldn't count unless you *also* have proof of your parent's immigration status / citizenship at the time of your birth. Good fucking luck to all poll workers checking all of this.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The SAVE America Act mandates that all voters must bring to the polls specifically a photo ID which has proof of citizenship “on the front of the document.” So REAL IDs don’t count. If the ID does not precisely conform to that standard, you must also bring separate proof of citizenship.

How dare they do this to the person on top of the Substack recommendation charts

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

1. BREAKING Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami by the U.S. Marshals Service. Statement below from the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service about additional charges being filed against the brothers. The Tate brothers are now facing a total of 59 charges.

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Additionally, it drives me crazy that the default position in this country is that being here undocumented is a crime. It’s not. Further, legal status isn’t a factor in whether someone should be murdered.

Ahmed Baba@ahmedbaba.bsky.social

It’s impossible to move the debate forward when one side is committed to upholding a disinformation-fueled, dehumanizing false reality that leads to the state-sanctioned street killings of innocent people. There are not two sides to this particular story. Full stop.

At this point I would not be surprised to learn that Platner is a GOP asset tasked with getting Collins reelected

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social

What Platner is doing right now is trying to ignite an intra-party nuclear exchange, so that he can tell the Maine Democrats that THE PEOPLE will not accept anything but him or his designated successor. This is the kind of thing Trump would do.

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Serious question: Does the president not know what’s in the deal he made with Iran? There are no nuclear concessions in the MOU Trump signed. He is a serial liar and would overstate any gains, but on top of that, there’s a live possibility Vance/Kushner/Witkoff lied to him that they got side deals.