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Rust Belt Wordcel, he/him Altar Boy Emeritus, TurboLib, Anti-Populist, Civic Virtue Enthusiast Also post about cat stuff, haunting melancholy songs, Midwestern baseball, videogames that are too hard for me. Sometimes I read books.
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People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.
I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
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Excellent point. Still sketchy as hell, but would both explain why they're DOING something so obviously sketchy AND why it's not particularly a top source of worry right now.
yeah, i think this is right. legally this is an absurd lawsuit. but as a speech act it works to alert republican voters to the existence of two dan sullivans on the ballot
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What the Attorney General of the United States seems to not understand, but the people who matter do, is that Congress hasn’t given DOJ any authority to block states from certifying the election. This isn’t a thing. And we don’t have to pretend it’s a thing just because he says it’s a thing.
🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...
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I want to be extremely clear on this point: Over the next few weeks, you are going to hear dozens of stories like this from both sides. They will, unless you hear someone who knows what they're talking about say otherwise, be the result of machine and human error. 🧵
Dolly Parton's sister claims voting machines in Tennessee changed her vote to the Republican candidate.
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Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h