StardustAndRust

StardustAndRust

@stardustandrust.bsky.social

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A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

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Dear Dems: this is what we want. This is who we want. Listen to us.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...

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Bless the Dodgers for ejecting ICE! America’s pastime is baseball, not chasing down hardworking mothers and fathers.

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Everywhere ICE agents go, crowds and cameras should follow.. They shouldn’t know a moment of peace.. Nothing they do should be easy or without roadblocks.. Disrupt, sabotage and impede their process at every step.. They should be harassed, ridiculed, mocked and disrespected.. It is your duty🇺🇸

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

washingtonpost.comShhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of.They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.

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As we remember our fallen we also honor those in Ukraine. The brave men and women who answered the call and gave their lives defending their homeland. The citizens who carry on through bombings and so much loss Consider supporting them with donations if you are able: u24.gov.ua 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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Tear off the masks when they show up. Take their photos. Get them on video. Expose them. Out them. Name them. They need to be made into pariahs where decent people gather. We cannot allow them to terrorize us. Eyes open. Phones on.

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it's important that today we put our differences aside to come together and say eat shit Strom Thurmond you desiccated corpse

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A reminder that Bill Maher has long been an antivaxxer and AIDS denier and helped mainstream the “do your own research” culture now dismantling public health. He is also a good friend of RFK Jr. It’s time for the media to stop giving him a platform. You are not entitled to your own facts.

thedailybeast.comWhy Is CNN Platforming Notorious Anti-Vaxxer Bill Maher?In a desperate play for relevance, the flailing cable news network gave the neo-luddite comic a primetime slot. That’s a mistake for “the most trusted name in news.”

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It's simply demoralizing sharing a country with people who think Donald Trump is someone worth emulating: to be surrounded by that kind of moral inversion every single day, to be continually encountering such cruelty. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-grief-...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comThe Grief of Sharing a Country With Trump SupportersMore often than I like to admit, some recurring dark thoughts creep in and level me these days.

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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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every single video I've seen of the hearing today, Democratic Senators (including ones I don't even like) were pounding the shit out of administration officials. if the media will not play those clips, it's up to make them go viral, show our friends & family, etc. They did something. Reward them.

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Five public health facts RFK Jr doesn't want you to know: 1. Vaccines work and are safe. 2. Solid fats aren't health foods. 3. Random dead animals you find lying around are not safe to touch (or eat). 4. Methylene blue is a dye, not a miracle cure. 5. Measles is bad for you.

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If there is one thing scientists need to know right now it’s this. Every effort you make now has to be directed at reaching the average normal person. That means reaching off Bluesky. Hold local events, write local papers, get on local TV. Go to any space average people get info.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

need you to constantly remind yourself that the average normal person has no idea that any of the stuff we are rightly getting upset about is going on. they dont know. and we need to do everything we individually can to make them know.

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Replying to @stephvalley.bsky.social

#ChamberlainChuck and the Ratfuckers of the #CapitulationCaucus who think we’re all morons: voting “yes” on cloture, ensuring passage, with a performative “no” on final vote. Catherine Cortez Masto Dick Durbin John Fetterman Kirsten Gillibrand Maggie Hassan Gary Peters Brian Schatz Chuck Schumer

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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!