FuzzyFancyPants

FuzzyFancyPants

@fuzzyfancypants.bsky.social

Snark & politics profile. Husband, Dad to 1 Pekingese & 1 Dauchshound, trade wonk, world traveler. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇲🏴‍☠️

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Update: WE ARE BACK IN! We can post again. This was utter bullshit on the biggest early vote effort in history. But it will not stop what we're building. No Kings means no kings in the White House or in Silicon Valley.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

Update: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.

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Right now, Republicans are trying to gerrymander every state they can in order to maintain power and protect Trump But Democrats are fighting back And right now, the front line is a ballot initiative in Virginia You want to end Trump’s awful reign Help us cross the finish line #VoteYesVirginia

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

"Trump presided over catastrophic mismanagement of a global pandemic. Then he led an insurrection. And then we put him back in power again...that's damning." On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is great on what Trump's colossal unfitness says about our country: newrepublic.com/article/2089...

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Budapest Pride made itself the center of the fight against Orban, made the case for personal freedom not just for Queer people but for all Hungarians and that was the tipping point moment, gay rights was the revolution

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

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If Melania *really* thought people were lying about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, she would have sued them for defamation to clear her name under oath, not deliver a lame speech full of lies for television.”

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Just imagine if any school in America was attacked by a foreign country like the school in Iran was attacked by our bombs.

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One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war

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Glad to see these podcast guys turn on him, but I think they're getting largely a free ride for being complicit in his con in the first place. It's not like we didn't have ample data on who he was in 2024.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Theo Von slams Trump's stated rationale of the Iran war as fighting terrorism. "You're the fucking terrorists! If you wanna stop them, fucking stand in front of the fucking mirror and start there."

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Pam Bondi will be remembered as the AG who watched videos and saw images of powerful men raping kids and decided to protect the men.

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Republicans will talk all day long about their voter suppression bill and fake voter fraud—but they won't say a thing about how they'll actually lower your costs.

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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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Watch to see how the White House handles this administratively. For example, millions of imports are in customs *right now.* They'll continue to be charged tariffs, despite the Supreme Court ruling, until DHS directs CBP to cease collection. Who's writing the memo? When? When will it be effective?

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

#BREAKING #SCOTUS blocks President Trump's tariffs.

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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

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To drive this home: We learned this morning that the US manufacturing sector contracted in December for the 10th consecutive month, per ISM

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

The factory revival was always a myth, how tariffs backfired, and why chaos, favoritism, and attacks on rule of law are making the U.S. a riskier place to do business. @crampell.bsky.social joins @monacharen.bsky.social in the latest episode of The Mona Charen Show:

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"What we are witnessing with Venezuela follows the same exact playbook Putin used in Ukraine. Putin didn’t call it a war. He called it a 'special military operation.' Trump doesn’t call what he’s doing an invasion either. He wraps it in language about corruption, stability, security."

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guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

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Replying to @bombaycrone.bsky.social

4/4). Whether you are an Indie or a Dem contact your party leaders in the state or county you reside in; ask if there's anything you can volunteer to do to help the election process. The main thing for the people in the 🔴 States keep pressure on your state representatives. Question everything. END🧵

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3/4). Become a poll worker. There are 5 different positions you can apply for. Some are paid. If you want to get involved with tallying, contact your County registrar to see if they have openings. Again, some of those are paid. 🧵

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2/4). States control elections. Become involved with your State legislature. Get your computer/cell phone set up with the phone #s of your state legislature Representatives & your Sec of State. Know what kind of machines are being used for tallying and question question it's safety. 🧵

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1/4). First thing I'd like to say about the 2nd yr of the #TrumpRegime is all the naysayers & doom scrollers need to stop. Negative energy attracts negative energy. We have serious problems this year & we need positive people & positive answers. Trump is going to focus on elections. 🧵

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I’m glad Democrats ignored the push to chase center-right white men. That was never the answer. Just because grievance politics works for a racist, sexist right doesn’t mean we should copy it. We win by organizing our base and standing firmly in our values.

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Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.

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This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

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🚨 USPS Postmark Change Alert 🚨 “Your mailbox date ≠ official postmark date” What to do: 1️⃣ Mail early. 2️⃣ Ask for a manual postmark at drop-off. 3️⃣ Use electronic filing/payment whenever possible. Spread the word! This will affect voting IMMEDIATELY. Credit to @cjnlegalnurse for the vid

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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has announced in a 'Dear Colleague' letter that House Dems will hold a 'special hearing' on January 6 to "examine ongoing threats to free and fair elections … and detail the threats to public safety posed by the hundreds of violent felons who were pardoned."