Potato Cat

Potato Cat

@sappo7.bsky.social

A cat, a potato, probably both. He/him. Non-practicing atheist of Jewish descent. Posts are my own because no one doing this professionally would write stuff this bad.

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Replying to @spacetwinks.bsky.social

again it feels like there's a lot of unsaid feelings and beliefs here. like "i don't know how to get them to stop doing this, they don't listen to us, so i just hope somehow it works out", but not wanting to say that out loud, admit to it, because it adds to the fear and feeling powerlessness.

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Replying to @spacetwinks.bsky.social

"sure they're bad, but they won't INTRODUCE bills to vote for trans healthcare bans". that might be true. but that doesn't necessarily mean they won't vote for it. KOSA feels like a good comparison of how this actually works out. they don't introduce it, no. but a lot of them keep voting for it.

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latest thing driving me crazy about the current round of vote scolding is that even if given benefit of the doubt that these dems aren't personally transphobic, they're just getting votes, people are still being asked to put faith in the bravery of cowards kind of a big flaw there, the cowardice

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Jeremy Lewin killed hundreds of thousands without a signed employment agreement.

WIRED@wired.com

Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

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we're living in the world that Biden actively spent his career building; this isn't an accident.

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social

i'd love to know what was going on at the biden department of justice for four years

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For the nonlawyers: This is an accurate description of the DOJ's position. Legally, as they frame it, it is an "Air Bud" argument - new, but no rule against it. It's simultaneously bananapants clownshoes crazy and morally reprehensible.

Owen Barcala@obarcala.bsky.social

So if you're following, DOJ's theory here is they can file an initial complaint with probable cause based on incorrect facts, then file a superseding complaint that removes those facts and proceed without probable cause. Novel indeed.

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average republican scandal: this politician is a child rapist funded by Russia. average Mamdani scandal: he played basketball with his friends in a court he had permission to use.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Replying to @murderxbryan.bsky.social

Yeah a lot of these goobers bring up obama and gay marriage like he was just fibbin about opposing it, never mind he never stopped doing so before a process he had no control over made it possible

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This is 1000% the average voter's take The GOP doesn't seem to grasp that they ruined life for everyone and then have screamed nonstop about how the people who want to lower your costs are socialists, scary minorities, etc. What do you think that's gonna do when "Having money" codes socialist lol

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

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the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

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I didn't initially realise this was meant to be a negative thing, but when you read the piece it obviously was. Their attempt at a political hit job is quite literally to tell you that Mamdani is baller, and to connect him in your minds with Knicks' victory. Astonishing stuff, let's see how it goes.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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I talked to Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker who was arrested at work, while he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. I called him again once he was deported to Mogadishu. Here's what he had to say.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”

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never forget that elon musk permanently broke his penis from a botched surgery, which is why he's currently fixated on this

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

ok

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Replying to @helldude.bsky.social

I say this kind of thing a lot but given how scared shitless the billionaire class got for a few months after December 2024 it feels like we were a whopping three bodies away from universal healthcare. Now imagine if instead of their lives it was their assets.

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Motherfucker, you eat roadkill and snort heroin off of shit covered toilets

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

Mike Elk@mikeelk.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

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I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

David Brauer@dbrauer.net

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

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The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

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