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If I can switch to Linux so can you Impeach John Roberts

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The weird freakness of the GOP has been simmering for a while, since Trump it's engulfed the entire party while traditional media, aided by social media platforms, has elevated the weird freaks, explained how they're not freaks, and told us lefties that actually the country loves freaks.

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Quarterly thinking produces quarterly results Corporate DEI programs were a MASSIVE gift to money hungry corporations that not only bought PR but also provided so much stability against public whiplash by just having SOME non-white dudes in the room to gut check things, at a minimum.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

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Micah
@rincewind.run

correct states further down the path of autocracy than us have had those autocracies overthrown by sufficiently large voting numbers recently we can do it here too

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

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ITS NOT THAT HARD, Y'ALL. HONESTLY IT JUST ISN'T

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

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This is the foundation of the "parents rights" movement, which is broadly about a parent's right to use and abuse their children, restructuring institutions that would otherwise expose children to other schools of thought to keep them under the parent's control

Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

We’ve been thinking along the exact same lines so @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com wrote about it as well www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

liberalcurrents.comEditor's Notes: For MAGA, Children Are PropertyThese people cannot comprehend the simple truth that their children are independent, autonomous beings, with their own lives and desires.
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Moms for Liberty, antivax, homeschooling, various religious institutions, trans panic They're all rooted in the same premise that my kid is my property and my role as a parent is to change the world so that my control over their body and mind can be maintained

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This is fucking rad And Stephen Miller is absolutely the top of my "needs to be prosecuted immediately" power rankings Whine more, you Nazi dork

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

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@hawkbirdguy.bsky.social

Shameful that it's where we are but it's also the absolute truth about where we are

Dante Atkins@danteatkins.bsky.social

1) I fucking hate Turek's bigoted bullshit, and so should you 2) a 51-49 Senate with Turek in it is a way better outcome than a 50-50 Senate where Republicans have committee leaderships and bring their agenda to the floor, not just on trans issues but every single other one. Both things are true.

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The RNC handed out "Mass Deportation Now" signs and the media patently refused to explain a single time what that meant. No media member asked Trump to explain how a tariff works. Dropped out of 2 final debates? Total hall pass. Special boy and his special team get no pressure. Zero. None.

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Yes this is morally wrong, but don't worry, it's also stupid, unnecessary, and terrible politics

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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NB: a lot of the Cruz precincts in Dallas are ultra wealthy GOP types vs more working class R voters Might explain why they're higher % (as well as Dallas expanding EV locations)

Dj@djsoke.bsky.social

update after day 5

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@hawkbirdguy.bsky.social

The (personalist, bribery based, corrupt, unitary) system is working as intended

LiveSquawk@livesquawknews.bsky.social

US President Trump: No Idea Who Slowed Starlink - Have Not Spoken To Musk On Starlink - If It's Not Fixed, I'll Speak To Musk

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I think @faineg.com has a flag for this

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social

Is there a name for the type of liberalism that is borne not out of a respect for human dignity and rights and a desire to empower people but rather out of fear and disgust at the worst of humanity and the desire to constrain it with institutional bonds?

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@hawkbirdguy.bsky.social

"We are the only legitimate victims. All other victims are abusers in disguise, and therefore our abuses are righteous and justified." The core tenet of Trumpism and post modern reactionary conservatism on full display

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Q: Why did you make no mention of the sexual allegations of sexual abuse Amy Acton made about her stepfather who stayed married to her mother? Trump: The mother said she was a dirty liar. I don't know why you are not allowed to say that. That one ad should really win. I say that she's fair game

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@hawkbirdguy.bsky.social

I think the thing that's hard for everyone who's very plugged in or online to understand is that a massive swath of voters simply have no idea was Trump was or is about during the last 3 presidential cycles. And, to be clear, the reason is not the GOP. The media has repeatedly hidden the real GOP.

Philip Bump@pbump.com

Vivek putting money behind it now.

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There IS are large segment of the voter base that genuinely wants freaks in charge. There's another segment that is OK with it as long as other things are met (they are currently not being met) Then there's people that had no idea how big of freaks the people they voted for are.

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And now the GOP, who has purged non-freaks from the party, is left with the weirdest freaks imaginable running for every office in the country and there's very little cover, even from MORE consolidated media control. We'll see what happens next

im just a bird
@hawkbirdguy.bsky.social

I think the thing that's hard for everyone who's very plugged in or online to understand is that a massive swath of voters simply have no idea was Trump was or is about during the last 3 presidential cycles. And, to be clear, the reason is not the GOP. The media has repeatedly hidden the real GOP.

Philip Bump@pbump.com

Vivek putting money behind it now.

im just a bird
@hawkbirdguy.bsky.social

The weird freakness of the GOP has been simmering for a while, since Trump it's engulfed the entire party while traditional media, aided by social media platforms, has elevated the weird freaks, explained how they're not freaks, and told us lefties that actually the country loves freaks.

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@hawkbirdguy.bsky.social

The GOP, all the while, has just been doubling down on weird freakness while also doing all sorts of horrible shit that makes people pay attention. ICE shootings, tariffs, the Iran war, Trump's corruption. Now voters who may have been able to avoid seeing these freaks as freaks are rethinking

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Y'all for fucks sake this is so fucking bad

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

MALONE: “.. They were right on the verge of pressing on, and were told by the administration that they had no chance of getting regulatory approval from the U.S. I think that that was really the spike that got ’em.” @deadline.com $NFLX $WBD deadline.com/2026/10/john...

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Andrea Grimes
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Texans who want a different world on 11/4 cannot rely entirely on GOP folks sitting out this one, however unpopular Paxton is. GOP voters are gonna be in that booth, asking themselves if they can disavow their ENTIRE POLITICAL IDENTITY, and probably answer "no, I will vote for this asshole."

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Meanwhile, here's a story about Sam Rayburn

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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Will Wilkinson
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One thing I learned well as a professional libertarian is that the facts about what actually makes markets efficient is very much secondary to protecting the fortunes of actually-existing capitalism’s winners from any form of redistribution. Opposition to redistribution always comes first.

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But Minnesota is a toss up, y'all

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Senate Democrats are going into Mississippi for the first time, with an ad buy of $1+ million set to start tomorrow, AP reports: apnews.com/article/demo... I cannot recall the last time the main Dem national groups would have gone into a MS federal race.

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Makes sense That's probably why Trump didn't run on literally fixing every single issue day one of his presidency

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

JD Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"

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Good

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Democrats are preparing to investigate Musk if they win control of the House in November, Politico reports. Potential probes would focus on his DOGE leadership, federal job cuts, alleged data breaches, government contracts and Starlink’s role in Ukraine.

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David Rothschild
@davmicrot.bsky.social

How Trump Family stole $10+ billion: ✈️plane from Qatar 🏢real-estate "deals" 💵crypto from their supporters 🚀defense deals for Eric/Jr. 🪎foreign policy for/by Jared 🛢️insider trading on oil/stocks 💰random kickbacks 🎥licensing deals (movies!) 👟selling tchotchkes (phones, sneakers, etc.) ⛓️‍💥selling pardons

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I have been begging for years for a poll to have Corruption as a key issue

Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social

Remarkable outcome in Fox News' latest poll: 88% of U.S. voters say they are extremely or very concerned about corruption in government, beating every other issue including inflation www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

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@hawkbirdguy.bsky.social

Not sure how true this all is, but I've never felt better about having a 100% dumb house

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The developer of chatbot Claude warned that rogue 'AI worms' will soon be able to hijack smart devices such as ovens and TVs. ft.trib.al/DQOrsRw

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@hawkbirdguy.bsky.social

In 2024 Trump got bodied by Harris in the 1st debate and bailed from the other 2 The networks just let him get away with it, cancelling the programs rather than keeping the slot with Harris debating nobody They didn't give him 1 ounce of shit for it A critical moment in retrospect

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

Is anyone doing a count on how many Senate/Governors are ducking debates. (Paxton in TX the other obvious example).

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It's important to remember that Guilfoyles only real crime, according to Trump and Co, was being caught AND embarrassing

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Zacharia: We have asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign. She has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well.

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What a colossal own goal by MT Dems

VoteHub@votehub.com

Montana Democratic Party Chair Shannon O’Brien has resigned to endorse independent U.S. Senate candidate Seth Bodnar. “Bankhead does not have the momentum, resources or will to win this race,” she wrote, accusing the Democratic nominee of “mudslinging” at Bodnar.

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The show is wonderful and I struggle to think of a better ending to any TV show of any genre Literally a 10/10

Nick (derogatory) ✨@slothropsmap.bsky.social

I simply do not know why it’s so fashionable to dunk on Schitt’s Creek, which isn’t just one of the best comedies of the century but made a star of an extremely good human being.

variety.comDan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" monologue, saying that "more men need to be standing up."