PaulBlum

PaulBlum

@paulblum.bsky.social

Political junkie, lawyer for startups, holder of dual citizenship (Red Sox and Giants). “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken

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Tell be you never listen to Pod Save America without saying you never listen to Pod Save America.

Micah@rincewind.run

david axelrod has the same problem as the podjons, which is that his career is based on the success of one of the most singularly charismatic politicians in american history and he greatly overestimates how much he had to do with that obama would've been obama with or without all of them

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Strangely, snatching food from the mouths of children while posting AI videos of a king shitting on us didn't work out well.

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

While visiting Guanajuato, Mexico, we walked past the local baseball stadium while a game was in process. In between innings the PA system was playing a song in Spanish whose tune I recognized as the old 1970's hit, "The Night Chicago Died" - perhaps a comment on what's going on in the U.S.

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Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation PossibleSenate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

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