Alice Lastname

Alice Lastname

@useyourwords.bsky.social

Cat parent. Dog therapist. Human observer.

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I quibble only with the "feels like."

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

22. Even Iowa's Steve Deace, who can clearly see the portents of doom on the horizon, believes what's needed is more Donald Trump, not less. "We need the president out on the stump ASAP," he wrote. Deace called on the president to

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i bring an iced coffee to the interview. only it’s not for me, it’s for the interviewer. and it’s laced with a sedative. when she comes to, she’s wearing my clothes and i’m in her office. her car keys don’t work. i’m with her husband. her kids don’t recognize her. coming soon from A24.

You will not find this guy or anyone like him ever rending his garments over a Republican exploding the deficit. Responsibility is for Democrats. We should tax the rich because they empower fascists, and cut defense because our over-investment has enabled terrible foreign policy decisions.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Nobody wants to hear it, but the next Democratic president is going to have to do some nut cuttin’ on the national debt (Republicans never do anything to pay down the debt when they control office). It will be painful. It will piss people off. But it will be necessary.

Collins is probably as decent a human being as you will find among congressional Republicans. And that decency didn’t stop her from abetting Trump or his agenda. I wish we had a better nominee in Maine, but I’ll take the worst D over the best R for the foreseeable future.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social

Take everything you know about Platner, then change his registration to GOP, and ask yourself if you would be this determined to ignore it all.

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Nowhere is this more true in my experience than the Northern Virginia suburbs! Formerly a pretty lily-white community, now among the most diverse communities you'll encounter. The desegregation may not be happening in urban cores but it is certainly happening in suburbia and it's part of MAGA panic.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Not just a Chicago story. An everywhere story. America actually built the Beloved Community of MLK’s dreams, but we’ve largely overlooked it because it happened in the first-ring suburbs

Platner is a closetful of shoes waiting to drop and an object example of what happens when our leftmost voters go looking for a real Working Man to fall in love with instead of some stupid establishment Dem. With that said, it's still Blue No Matter Who if his opponent is Susan Collins.

I understand those who are torn between voting for a piece of shit vs letting Trumpublicans retain control of the Senate. I don’t understand those who can’t at least admit that he’s a piece of shit.

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A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

The responses give me hope for a better America.

Ty Schalter@tyschalter.com

no actually, “we gerrymander as revenge for their gerrymander” is the bad stuff. if you can’t win with a level playing field, tilting the field is not a long- or even medium-term solution (and nationalizing state politics is also bad)

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I’ve seen enough. God is 1) real 2) nonbinary 3) primarily motivated by a deep hatred of JD Vance

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

JD Vance is on a historic roll: He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose. Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses. Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably. Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.

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In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

And that's mostly just a tribute to his media team, which is genuinely good and deserves a job with whoever ends up being the nominee.

Wonkish@wonkish.bsky.social

I've long assumed Newsom's popularity with some people is largely how he's a lot more combative towards Republicans than a lot of other Dems, but there's a bunch of more left wing Dems who do that, and who don't have all his baggage, including the aforementioned "elitist california lib" thing.

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using graduation of US Marines as an opportunity to harvest some of their relatives for deportation

I apologize to every citizen of every ally who looks at this and asks what the hell NATO means now. I wish I knew too. We will be poorer and less safe going forward, no matter what comes next. And we will deserve it.

Finbarr Bermingham@fbermingham.bsky.social

Danish troops dispatched to Greenland in January took enough explosives to destroy the island’s main runways near the capital Nuuk and at a former fighter base, following Trump’s threats

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I hate to ask for more help but I am terrified about Luther and if anyone wants to donate to his care I started a gofundme. Please don’t feel obligated to help, I know everyone is struggling. gofund.me/4dfe27f77

gofund.meDonate to Help Luther with Vet Costs, organized by Gusterbear BowenLuther is my whole world. From the day I adopted him eleven and a half years ago he has be… Gusterbear Bowen needs your support for Help Luther with Vet Costs

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Senate Democrats should offer an amendment to the SAVE Act requiring the same registration and identification requirements for voting as for buying beer and guns

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sen. Hagerty: "We have to show ID for almost everything we do here in America. I do not understand why exercising one of our most precious rights as Americans is not one of those issues that Democrats can support."

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They say in times like these, you have to pick a lane or three in the fight against fascism or risk being overwhelmed. One lane I picked was supporting indy and regional media and one outlet I chose was TPM. It's something I can do and it's important.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Thank you to Pete Hegseth for vividly illustrating why it's so important to support independent media organization's like TPM during our annual membership drive. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/state...

@andybeshearky.bsky.social, if this notion is going to work for you and the country, then why didn't it work for Joe Biden five years ago? Why are we here now?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Beshear: "If somebody is looking for a Democratic version of Trump, that's not me. My goal is to bring people together, my goal is to heal the country. You can't do that if you're engaged in the same tactics he is. If that's what the American people are looking for, I'm not their guy."

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"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

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I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

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a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

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The next Democratic administration should claim fraud to justify withholding funds, thus forcing red states to prove their innocence and sending the message that no one is getting out of here alive if the Republicans stay their present course. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.comTrump administration says it’s withholding social safety net money from 5 states over fraud concernsPresident Donald Trump’s administration is withholding funding to help needy families with children in five states governed by Democrats.

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Gotta name this Weisswashing, I think. Because I seriously doubt this is the last time she’s going to censor stuff to protect Trump.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

So now federal employees will be even more protected than they were before, when it was already illegal to fire them without cause during a shutdown or threaten to withhold pay from them when they return to work? If you truly believe that this vote wasn't a mistake, you are unfit for your position.

Senator Tim Kaine@kaine.senate.gov

My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:

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I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.