ljbryner67

ljbryner67

@leeman67.bsky.social

Citizen of Planet Earth. Avid disc golfer (even though I suck at it)

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In 2024, the American public was given a choice between leaving transgender people alone, or getting polio, measles, screw worms, and weeks of explosive diarrhea. The US public overwhelmingly chose shitting themselves to death behind a Taco Bell over not being assholes. Anyway, good luck with that

I fully expect the NYT, Wash Post, CNN, etc to spend ample time profiling the average DSA voter on what makes them tick the same way they’ve spent the last 15+ years slobbering all over the Tea Party and MAGA. Right? RIGHT?? 😒

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Bet Trump is more frantic about keeping his name on another president's memorial than he is about ending the war he started.

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"The dictator's trap" is term for when a leader demands such loyalty from those around him that they avoid giving him accurate but bad news and instead feed him only cooked books to stoke his ego. That leads him to make self defeating mistakes. Case in point:

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Trump on troop deployments: I seem to have great support. CNN came out with a poll today that I'm at 100%. They said they have never seen a poll like that. The CNN poll said I'm at 100%.

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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Miller@milleryoho.bsky.social

What a moment.

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remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "

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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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• Mamdani is not in the country illegally • He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism • Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic • He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’ • He’s not a communist

rollingstone.comDebunking All the B.S. About Zohran MamdaniZohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

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also a demonstration of how over-caution can easily become dangerous. sometimes the less risky move is the bold and aggressive one. milling around like a lost sheep when a knife-wielding maniac is charging at you is not averting risk

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social

One thing you really see every day is the different risk appetites between MAGA-era Republicans and Democrats. Basically compulsive, reckless, dangerous constant risk-seeking, versus almost comical levels of risk-aversion.

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Elon Musk is now bragging about getting rid of the team that put together the 'Direct File' tax filing system, which allows citizens to easily file their taxes for free. Direct File is a big target of the for-profit tax prep industry including corporations like Intuit and H&R Block.

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I’m always looking for things that explain a lot but that people have a hard time remembering. Examples: Air is stuff. Pee comes from blood. All land vertebrates have a single common ancestor. Venus is bright enough to cast visible shadows. Clouds are heavy. Bones are alive. Any others you know?

I don’t know much, but this talk from the incoming administration about possibly getting rid of the FDIC is just about the dumbest of the dumb ideas I’ve ever heard of. Keeping fucking around, America. The finding out part is gonna be hell for ALL of us.

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Sixteen things Biden, Harris & the Dems can—but would never—do in the next six weeks to stymie Trump, thwart the rise of U.S. fascism, protect the American people, and safeguard global democracy.

gregolear.substack.comDark Brandon Godfather MovesSixteen things Biden, Harris & the Dems can—but would never—do in the next six weeks to stymie Trump, thwart the rise of U.S. fascism, protect the American people, and safeguard global democracy

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So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.