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This is... nice. But "we've turned politics into such an efficient fundraising grift that we don't know what to do with all of the money" kinda sorta has a problem at its core. Campaign finance reform should be THE issue, not an afterthought.

Shock the world, @orlandomagicbr.bsky.social! Show them what's up!

I like that they still use wooden bats. #alcs #baseball

This sparks joy. Rubio is just the worst of us.

Semi - serious question. Trump drops a nuclear weapon on Los Angeles. Which happens first - the public correctly identifies it as a false flag, OR the Trump Administration + the right - wing media apparatus is able to convince a critical mass of people that it was Iran?

How far away are we - realistically - from having a game show that regularly ends in people dying? Your Squid Games, your Running Men, your Dungeon Crawler Worlds? Not far, right? Closer than feels comfortable?

Unintentionally hilarious.

Just wild. I'll never not cringe at casual AI boosters. Just the worst.

I don't know how I'm going to recover from this one. Just brutal.

Weird. Tacky. Petty. Vaguely racist. Pathetically jealous? A bunch of scumbag, lunatic trolls all the way down. #GOP

Jamahl Mosely was, without a doubt, one of the coaches of the @orlandomagicbr.bsky.social.

I hate basketball.

#trsgic

Brilliant thread. 10/10.

It's all in good fun to joke that #idiocracy was a documentary. But it's fucking terrifying to imagine that #theboys will be just as prophetic.

I feel like there wasn't enough discussion of the fact that Obama had a nuclear deal with #Iran. And without anything resembling a coherent critique of that deal, #Trump ended the deal. There was an Iran deal. It was right there. Where the fuck did it go?

I really wish I had the patience to write longer things. This place is too short. Substack is too long. Facebook is just right, but impossibly evil. We need to start the Internet over again. open.substack.com/pub/jbyrdmar...

Do they really think that or has a group of powerful, wealthy elites conspired over decades to get them to hate and fear their neighbors while ignoring the oligarchy that's been taking democracy's place?

What would it take to get voters to realize that a message of "don't vote for those guys because they're violent" is a staggering insult to their intelligence?

I'm sorry to report that it worked. After reading about the "violent left" all day, I can't support Medicare for all, climate action, and higher marginal tax rates. Nevermind! #ballroom #violentleft #maga

I dig this kind of energy roght now.

The face of a guy who's trying to close the community center but can't because some rascally kids keep pranking his ass.

Kon Knueppel is an upsetting name. It does not taste good. It makes my tummy sad. I would like very much not to hear it again. Thank you. #orlando #orlandomagic #nbaplayoffs

Unironically my ideology (apart from a very pedantic philosophy of science point).

Honestly, with all of the options out there, it's nice to have at least one straightforward, hard and fast litmus test for what not to support.

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

Are we fucking calling out conservatives for celebrating the #artemis 2 launch or not? Evil bastards *still* want to defund #NASA and turn space over to billionaires. They shouldn't get to do that shit.

Whelp. I'm officially at the "which Princess Donut T-shirt defines me as a person" stage of fandom. #dungeoncrawlercarl

Maybe I'm stating the obvious. But Democrats should absolutely attend the #SOTU tonight. And they absolutely should walk out when their consciences dictate. And then tell the press exactly WHY they walked out. Be human beings. Don't be a hive mind. Vote - and act - as your moral code demands.

I suppose if you've already rationalized your support for a dementia - addled pedophile, rationalizing cops murdering people in the street is super fucking easy. #fuckice

I will continue saying it until I completely lose my mind - They don't know that they're the BAD GUYS. And that's a criminally under - analyzed part of our stupid, stupid discourse.

Democrats want to fund police departments so that their jobs are easier and safer. Republicans want to go outside of the legal system to open concentration camps because they think law enforcement doesn't know how to do their jobs. I feel like the politics of this are super easy, you guys.

#cork gets it.

Local news CAN Be a force for good!

"How many kids have to die before we do something about this?!" Is fun, because depending on the issue, the answer is "one" or "infinite". There's NO middle answer.

These unbelievable assholes are really from a different century, aren't they?

Here's the thing. How many clicks did the Biden press conferences get? How much ad space did they sell around the promise of a pending Biden press conference?

The more people who are denied care and left to die, the more profitable it is for health insurance companies. Your reminder that for-profit healthcare isn't healthcare. It's an exploitation of sick people and transfer of wealth from the working class to the mega-rich.