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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

in 2008 I saw a couple in a late model SUV packed with their belongings pull up to a gas station AND START GOING THROUGH THE TRASH TO LOOK FOR RECYCLABLES.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

at the record store I used to go to, the owner said he got over 100 applications one month *TO BE AN INTERN.* FOR FREE. AT THE RECORD STORE.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"I feel like I know him. And right now, l'm watching my government facilitate the destruction of his life," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on his favorite fitness influencer Mohammed Hatem. youtube.com/shorts/oWgLI...

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Hayes: Gaza is starving. These are real people.

YouTube video by MSNBC

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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

trying and failing to understand the Overton window shift on coverage and statements on Gaza in the span of literally one week best i can tell it was from the right wing British newspaper of all places putting a starving baby on its cover — something that has long been undeniable front and center

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I think the comments on this (very good, if I do say so myself) article are fascinating. If the AI industry has lost the Verge commenter, who do they have on their side? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

theverge.com

AI is ruining houseplant communities online

AI-generated images and chatbot misinformation plague plant collectors.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Our current Director of National Intelligence:

Tulsi Gabbard tweet from 2019: Trump says he doesn't want war with Iran, but that's exactly what he wants, because that's exactly what Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu, al-Qaeda, Bolton, Haley, and other NeoCons/NeoLibs want. That’s what he put first--not America.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Large majorities of Americans, including many Republican voters, oppose bombing Iran. They might want to weigh in with both the House and the Senate. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

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AuntRen 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌈🌊☮️ @auntren.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2025

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

a lot of the people who will chastise you for criticizing Dems instead of focusing on Trump are surprisingly willing to criticize protestors instead of focusing on Trump

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This is an amazing article abt an amazing breakthrough use of an old and discredited drug and about how one company was able to raise the price without limit because it was the only treatment for a fatal disease and they cld basically raise it to as high a price as they wanted.

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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I think this article is wrong in part, specifically in its account of agency, and right in part, specifically about how Bernie framed most of his message. First, I will deal with what I think it gets right 1/: 🧵

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Why the Democratic Tea Party Failed (and How It Could Succeed)

For the left to win, it must blame fascism on the actual fascists.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I promise you the White Christian nationalist regime staffed by neo-Nazis doesn’t give a single shit about the safety of American Jews. Let’s not pretend they do.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I'm embarrassed for the New York Times that they published this piece on Ms. Rachel, in which they cite a ridiculous anonymous righwing website Stopantisemitism while indulging the mad, mad claim she may be funded by Hamas (!). This isn't journalism:

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Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Your daily reminder of which party is more responsible for polarization: From www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Ok how about, of the 18 people who own the country, women and BIPOC should be represented. The rest can eat shit and die. Also I respectfully acknowledge that I am on the land of the Nacotchtank people. She/her."

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Joel Fleming @joel-fleming.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Ironically, you wrote one of the best refutations of this argument and one that I return to often. chrishayes.org/articles/dec...

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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

There will be a lot of euphemisms about "voluntary migration" and "humanitarian zones" and whatnot, but this is ultimately a plan for ethnic cleansing www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

axios.com

Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip

Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

...does the govt have access to period tracking apps? health apps? fitness apps? apps that track meds? sleep? I think US News buried the lede here. Who wants to follow up on this? @chrislhayes.bsky.social @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com ? anyone?

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

They're not fascists, they just think we're in a state of exception due to the pollution of the polity and citizen body by undesirable racial elements whose removal is of such paramount importance that it transcends the dictates of the law, justified by their embodiment of the Will of the People.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

is there an entire set of cadet reporters at tier 1 newspapers who are trying to bang MAGettes or what is happening here

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Someone should make a film about a mad king, say in the late 18th century, whose arbitrary rule and foolish decision-making inspired people in one of his colonies to create a political system in which power would be distributed more widely so as to avoid the harms of such mercurial policy making.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I love that @thebaffler.com review of the overhyped ABUNDANCE [®️] book politely and eloquently outs it as just the latest Third way style neo-neoliberalism rebrand ("less than the sum of its parts") and basically says skip the book and go read this cool paper from the 90's on solar communism. 😆

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What’s the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris

“Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is new packaging for a tried-and-failed attempt to escape from history on a rocket ship.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 18/03/2025

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Martin Niemoller: first they came for the socialists... Dem consultants: our polls suggest we should also come for the socialists!!

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NorCal Earth Creature @jadecichy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I’ve always been an FDR Democrat. Now I am an AOC Democrat.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Can’t stress this enough! And obviously neither the SEC or the DOJ (at least at the highest levels) is going to seriously investigate and prosecute insider trading.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/01/2025

Since we're evidently doing this Discourse again: Muslim and Arab Americans deserved the dignity of not being coerced into endorsing with their votes the genocide of their friends and family. All marginalized people deserve that dignity. Voting isn't activism, and solidarity isn't transactional.

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Mike Stuchbery 💀🕯️ @mikestuchbery.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Seems he knows the difference, after all.

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 10/01/2025

Joan Rivers had Anita Bryant all figured out. Fabulous.

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Ali Vitali @alivitali.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/12/2024

“I’ve never felt like a foreigner until now.” His friends and family members in a Georgia town voted for Donald Trump in support of mass deportation. Now he is scrambling to stay in the country.

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His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him.

His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 15/12/2024

we've had dozens of frightened thumbsuckers about The Left endorsing violence but bernie sanders didn't take luigi to the army navy game

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

People with power, pointing you toward a giant human-sized hamster wheel: there’s an appeals process

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 14/12/2024

Time for some Dissertation Clips™

Weaker extremist movements that cannot close the gap with the modern eligible in-group consensus often seek to contextualize themselves against a remembered or imagined in-group consensus that is framed as historical. The need to reframe the in-group consensus helps explain why nostalgia is so frequently found in extremist narratives, invoking a vision of the past that is, to a greater or lesser extent, fictitious. When extremist ideologists cannot find legitimacy in the current in-group consensus, they seek it in the past, as Abdullah Azzam and Wesley Swift do with vague citations of religious scholars and historians. While arguably in a stronger position, Irenaeus similarly centered his defense of the proto-orthodox consensus on claims that his views had been passed down from the apostles. Rampant dissent in the contemporary consensus was dismissed in favor of a narrative about a once-unified church that was questionable at best.

The tactical deployment of nostalgia at the ideological level is further encouraged by what nostalgia does at the personal level—increase feelings of well-being, social connectedness and personal meaning. Nostalgia helps people who are struggling to find their place in the world—people who are already vulnerable to extremism. By linking the positive psychological effects of nostalgia to an imagined past in-group consensus, extremist ideologists gain a powerful tool to attract and retain adherents.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

2/ Here's Fox & Friends in 2012 doing a segment where a guest said that provividing healthier school lunchs to kids was "just another example of a federal power grab." www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...

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War On Health: Fox Guest Claims Healthier School Lunches Are "Another Example Of [A] Federal Power Grab"

From the January 26 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

it's clear now that republican trolls are squatting here. i know it's tempting to engage, but i cannot stress enough that blocking is the only way to preserve this community. block and move on. block and move on. block and move on.

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory:

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