LeighFitz.

LeighFitz.

@leighfitz75.bsky.social

Boston Globe enthusiast. #8647

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For assholes who didn't live through the 60's and 70's, yet romanticize it like Duffy, I have one piece of advice for you: Watch Mad Men. Yes, as a child born in 1957, that type of misogyny, selfishness, and racism was how the U.S. rolled. Fuck you if your choice is to go back to that hell.

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Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar, with degrees from the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Columbia. 84% of Rhodes Scholars are Democrats or Independents, compared with just 14% Republicans. It’ll be great having Abdul in the Senate.

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Downside: The US now has government goon squads, and deploys them to try to intimidate voters into voting the way the president wants. Upside: They don’t have nearly enough goons. Not even close. They’re hoping fear will make up for that big shortfall, but it won’t.

John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social

Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent.

Imagine Cronkite hawking his book tour to open his broadcast. That's Rachel Maddow. I hate these fucking times we live in. Our best "journalists" who look at us as a revenue stream, not a general public eager to be informed and keep the powerful honest.

The best thread you will read today on Trump's press ban. So whenever someone with a WHCA credential whines in your feed, please feel free to respond "Fuck you very much. You brought this on yourself."

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

If capital J journalism is supposed to hold people accountable what happens when, after a decade, the reporting doesn’t hold the powerful accountable? How valuable then is access? How impt is a free press when the powerful can do what they want with no repercussion? These are existential times. 3/

Philanthropy when convenient: "The Patriots chartered with Eastern Airlines...and Kraft loved to publicize what the planes were doing...flying relief supplies to Haiti after an earthquake, transporting vaccines to El Salvador, bringing N95 masks from China at the beginning of the pandemic."

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...

Trump knows winners like he knows a vegan diet. #ETTD #FIFAWorldCup

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way. I'd like to cut it off. Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. Cut off all trade with Spain, please. Including visits. We don't want anything to do. They're hopeless. Bad people."

For a heart attack? Buckle up, America. The ghouls who brought you Butler, Project 2025, and the White House Stenographers Dinner "assassination" have something up their sleeve. #8647

Is David Beckham literally the only living retired soccer player, or was he the only one happy to a cash a paycheck from every #FIFA sponsor? The checks all clear, blood money or not. #Infantino #WorldCup #CorruptionInSports

You're dead to me, Harry Kane. I get that all superstars live in a celebrity bubble, but the captain of England should not be glazing Donald Trump. Under no fucking circumstances.

The poor bastards who block out politics while vigorously and loyally supporting #USMNT had absolutely no idea that Everything Trump Touches Dies. #WorldCup #FIFA #Balogun #ETTD

No, Donald Trump, you incorrigible piece of shit, Americans will not embrace you for this. We play by the rules, are resilient, and overcome adversity. Fuck you. #balogun #worldcup #USMNT #DFT8647

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Felon scored $2.1billion off a 4 year temporary civil servant job. Don’t know a thing about civics, history, ethics or decency. No drug tests. No tax info. WTF?

Everyone in that room should do hard time.

Covie@covie93.bsky.social

They literally met in the Situation Room to come up with a defense for the President of the United States raping children.

Please do all of us a favor and pose this question to both of the Senators in your state and your Rep in the House. I will do so today and post with their responses.

LeighFitz.@leighfitz75.bsky.social

Serious question: Why should any of us pay a single dollar in federal income tax If Trump and his personal lawyer get to choose unilaterally how to use it?

Every time John Heilemann is on MSNow it's from a room straight out of Vanity Fair, or a vacation house. Dude is a political commentator, and not a particularly good one, but clearly bringing in big coin. Ask yourself this: Would that be the case if it was politics as normal? Fox Left is a grift.

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📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

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Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

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Menu for the White House Correspondents' Dinner: / Gulf of America shrimp cocktail / Leni Riefenstahl salad, sanewashed and served with normalized onions / Quisling stew / Quiet Piggy pork roast / Sauvignon Blanc, very blanc, imported from South Africa / Orange sherbet / Let them eat cake

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📌Pope Leo XIV TODAY: “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” He is NOT backing down.