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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like treating the core constituency as the red headed step children while shoving cash onto institutions that oppress said constituency who have zero public gratitude about it, not really great for coalition cohesion!

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Blame the democratic leadership that hates their base more than they hate republicans.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They want to dampen the size of the victory so the expectations of the base are kept in check.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

All nuclear weapons are strategic nuclear weapons.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Naming a pizza chain after Boston is pretty ridiculous

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Every great power fighting in the First World War was a villain!

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Democrats have also shown us the last few times they came to power that the won't hold elite criminals from the preceding period of Republican rule accountable.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The painful irony is that he was able to beat Clinton in 08 and get to the top because he built on organizational base of people, only to thoroughly demobilize OFA and forget that lesson once he got into office.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Forgot student loan forgiveness! There are a lot of ways, most of which don’t show up on the government’s balance sheet, that a progressive government could reduce major financial burdens felt by those who pay for, and work for, daycares.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Wouldn’t crushing the cost of living (eg universal healthcare, mass urban housing construction, antitrust campaign on consumer staples…) put downward pressure on salaries without reducing the salary-earner’s quality of life?

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

NYT is right wing propaganda that is calibrated to target educated liberals.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

War and economic policy are closely intertwined with human rights and dignity; framing them as being separate categories inherently dismisses the rights and dignity of those on the receiving end of the wars and economic policies.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My classmates parents were killed and that was used as an excuse to shred the constitution and kill millions.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The short, medium, and long term consequences of our existing strategy are pretty bad, and there are lots of ways we can alleviate the risks you fear if we make a material demonstration of our willingness to engage in good faith, mutually beneficial diplomacy.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Any version of a green new deal, ie trying our best to alleviate the civilizational threat hurtling down on us, would depend on friendly trade relations with China for rare earths, and encouraging them to dump solar panels and evs on the global market. Plenty of carrot to use instead of stick.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What happens if that happens now? We can’t stop them without nuclear war as is. That said, it’s unlikely the PRC wants to unify by force if they can get away with it peacefully, and if we acknowledge the actual power balance and become openly less threatening it’d dial down tensions.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That, and the PR requirement of identifying villains and punishing them during a time when likely everyone will be tightening their belts a bit.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It won't pay for it, but it will remove the primary powerbase of those who would otherwise fight sane policies tooth and nail. Expropriating the rich is more about removing their influence than gaining their assets.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A large cut in US military capability is probably a good thing, for the world and for the US constitutional order.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That was a big part of the rationale for Obama, and he decided to use his mandate to recapitalize the rich and rejuvinate the empire instead of addressing our fundamental problems.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

He’s never found an existing socialist government he wouldn’t criticize, except for the one that the CIA was backing to commit a genocide, and oh he was also close and longtime friends with the CIA’s favorite pedophilic sex trafficker.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bhahahaha of course they would have

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This online leftist voted for Harris and Biden, despite how angry I am at both of them.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sure, but Obama overcame the racial burden in part by positioning himself as more progressive than he actually was, and Bill still got called a commie.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you think that's based on nothing you're not paying attention to the US government's present actions, nor reading the flyer itself.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The overwhelming majority of Zionists, in the US and worldwide, are not Jewish. The majority of Jews in the US do not define themselves as Zionist and think Israel is committing crimes.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This photo of Gretchen Whitmer is one of the single most powerful symbolic depictions of the contemporary Democratic Party leadership. Decking yourself out in blue as if you're different, while cooperating with Trump and pretending not to, says it all.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

His refusal to deliver that is a big part of why we’re in this current mess

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's literally incredible that no one talks about the Democratic Party being so broke that they're asking for bills to be sent after the Midterms and no one wants to connect the dots and talk about why the base isn't donating and the correlation to the consultant class feeding like ticks.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“The President who was buddies with a notorious pedophile and sex trafficker has a son who is buddies with sex traffickers” seems like a big story to me idk

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

He's also potentially liberal enough that he throw enough bones to the socialists to get them on board without also scaring the moderates, though how knows how he's going to position himself in a primary (and against who...)

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

10) If you're a guy I can almost all-but-guarantee you don't say "I love you" to the close family members in your life enough. I didn't! Started doing it without warning a few years ago and now all my family ends our calls that way and it just feels better in a way I never expected.

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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

the centrist wing of the democratic party tied shallow identity politics - purely in symbolism not material concerns for marginalized groups - to the most toxic brand of milquetoast politics. then, their consultants tried to blame "activist groups" for ruining their image by "making demands"

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tbh I thought the archetypal lizard people were the British royal family.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Maybe, maybe not, but they’ve been flooding the zone before and since with rhetoric about how they’re not going to follow any gay rules of engagement and will rain death on the whole society, while also gutting the sorts of institutional checks that might have prevented it were it truly a mistake.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yeah but wars of aggression are the highest war crime partly because they open the floodgates for all the other war crimes (and also for all the hellish but not criminal parts of war)

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

All of the war is a war crime in part because exceptionally heinous stuff like this is inevitable in warfare.

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Beautiful woman just told me the only podcast she listens to is Joe Rogan :/

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Like, thematically, Nolan is using the Odyssey to almost speak *as* 'western civilization' and then what he says is, "you men (very much *men*), with your violent inhospitality, your greed and appetites are what has destroyed civilization by breaking the bonds between people."

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

There is probably a better way to address that though than getting thugs to throw addicts in metal cages though.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This Day in Labor History: July 16, 1931. A white mob murdered the black sharecropper organizer Ralph Gray in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Let's talk about communist organizing in rural Alabama and the white violence used to crush it!

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Former Gnome @exgnome.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If it took you until MAGA to come to that you haven’t been paying attention. Obama paved the way for Trump and got excused for all of that, the Bushes and Reagan were mostly different just in presentation…

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