Kevin Klein
Kevin Klein
@kevinkleinpdx.bsky.social
Jon Ossoff/Tom Steyer 2028i
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if these were ordinary citizens (i.e. those that don't depreciate millions of dollars of equipment and land they inherited, and those that are "non-white") talking about how they can't afford rent on minimum wage from Walmart, Republicans would be calling them welfare queens
Tennessee farmer's fuel bill was $20,000 for just 2 weeks: "I wish they could see what it costs us to plant a crop and what we are getting paid... A farmer doesn't like a handout. He would rather have a fair market."
i wouldn’t be able to crawl out of this hole. sometimes a single crimson leaf spotted on a crisp autumn day triggers a nostalgia for a time that never really existed and i become so depressed
"It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral." - William Shatner
actually, fuck Turek bsky.app/profile/erin...
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.
nobody talks about how decent bud (maybe not to connoisseurs from Pac NW) is dirt cheap. Like $40/oz and lower. Sure it's trim and bottom shelf. But I grew up Mexican ditch weed in Arizona that would give you a headache, and it was $70-100/ounce in the eighties. Took you 2 hours to deseed and destem
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
Matt is a turd but his “they killed multiple American citizens” hits so hard and for the opposite reason he is arguing for. this country needs retribution to reclaim its soul.
A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"
this is what makes the other networks and their capitulation not only a failure of duty but embarrassingly feeble and weak
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered President Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC or risk the case getting dismissed, according to the AP.
@talkingpointsmemo.com when i visited your site just now on my phone this happened
Of course they'll withdraw the lawsuit, at which point the BBC should countersue. newrepublic.com/post/216805/...
seriously why do we even give Tom Dundon any oxygen? he’s a troll. just ignore him.
at some point we need to stop communicating with this dork. just like how car salesmen automatically assume the husband is the decision maker and starts working that angle. like he only put up like 1/6th of the capital to buy. at some point we say "that's cute, what does daddy & mommy say?"
seriously it isn’t much of stretch bsky.app/profile/bria...
A good hedge, then, would be to say now that these oligarchs are meddling in the election, and will have to answer for it in January, no matter the size of Democrats’ victory. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
with all the gnashing over the last decade over “Defund the Police” and it becoming an admonishment of record on the Nextdoor website (“we defundeded the police!” as if that was true)…with everything going on today, they were right.
I went on NPR CodeSwitch to discuss what really happened w/“defund the police.” As a slogan it's not popular, but the idea that we can't raise questions, while police budgets, ICE & surveillance go wild is crazy. We get into the data. Worth listening to the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7b...
of course there's "a catch". but they don't mention that it's that 5% of registered Republicans actually view DSA favorably...that's a pretty good floor! www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
of course Ossoff is elite in his oratory skills, but the message is this easy. Ossoff is going to gallop to victory in what was once a reliable conservative stronghold.
Ossoff: "If you're involved in any of this, next year you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God, in front of Congress!"
but Jon Gruber gets affirmation to gargle Apple there
I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you