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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
What a perfect day for Newsmax to ring the opening bell on the stock exchange.
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yeah let's curb stomp Vietnam into the dirt with these tariffs, that makes perfect fucking sense
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
basically everything that is wrong in american politics is downstream of the fact that the legislature has chosen to stop functioning
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Nowadays we just randomly bomb whatever country we feel like, no matter where it is, and vaguely wave at the Iraq or Afghanistan AUMFs as a legal *domestic* framework for going to war without Congressional approval.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is going to sound completely foreign to anyone under the age of 35 at least, but there actually used to be a time when it was accepted that you needed to get UN permission to legally go to war. Bush actually tried pretty hard to get it (before doing it anyway).
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Maybe it all happens anyway, idk. Obviously the seeds were already present in Gingrich, Delay, Bush v. Gore, etc. But it's hard not to think that Iraq and Afghanistan were a big turning point that made it much harder for us to ever turn the ship around.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I think one compelling takeaway of *gestures broadly* is that terrorism works. 9/11 genuinely did destroy this country.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
When a rich guy does something illegal, he "faces a major legal challenge." When a regular guy does something illegal, he gets arrested.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime. - Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime. - Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime. - Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 30/03/2025
Honestly—the near constant spam from the party and electeds has completely put me off from donating, even as I’ve reached a point in my life where I have disposable cash.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is why people who think imperial collapse will lead to a more restrained US foreign policy are deluding themselves. America will be absolutely unhinged once the treats dry up. The Treatlers will become the Troker.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is good right?
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The people responsible for this should be fired directly into the sun www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
There has been a lot of accurate discussion about how Trump is not actually building a consolidated autocratic regime, and I think that's true, but in the short-to-medium term I don't think it matters because American civil society is preemptively surrendering.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Here's where I fall right now: Biden inherited one of Obama's worst instincts (uncouth to put your name on accomplishments) and paired it with a virtually nonexistent comms strategy in a worse media environment. The latter part is shit luck but the forst two could have been done better by anyone.
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404 Media @404media.co · 19/03/2025
Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database. 🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...
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Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
who could have guessed
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
can't believe i spent my day off furiously posting about a cloture vote
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
even if he was replaced by someone else in leadership it might signal to the non politics junkies that the dems are changing
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Kyle Foley @kylefoleywrites.com · 14/03/2025
If Dems were unwilling to fight over cabinet nominees and unwilling to fight over the budget/shutdown, it’s safe to assume they’re not going to fight over anything.
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
hopefully it'll come out which senators voted no bc they knew they had cover from those not up in 2026 (besides durbin)
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
and now why would anyone believe the dems will put up a fight with one of their only other leverage points this year (raising the debt ceiling) when the risk of that is global financial calamity
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
seems like they'll get the votes for cloture with 1-3 to spare
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Clearly why we should take the lesser of two legitimate evils by giving Trump and Musk exactly what they want
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025
to my mind the surest evidence of the decadence of modern america is that we treated a coup attempt like it was a lark
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grimestimator.bsky.social @grimestimator.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"As I’ve written, my ask would be, right out of the gate, “we’ll give you the keys, we’ll give you your bill, if we write down the DOGE plan for each department and agency. And we just do an up or down vote. If you can pass it through Congress, that’s all we ask." 💯💯💯
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
GOOD: Mallory McMorrow will launch a bid for the open Senate seat in Michigan.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025
i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It was updated *very* heavily in the 1860s after a system crash. The problem is that when it broke down again in the 1930s, we kludged our solutions and accidentally gave the Executive the ability to wreck the entire governing apparatus at will, and our patches since then have been ineffectual.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/03/2025
wasn't just some guy. was *the opposition leader* Lee Jae-myung, who lost to the incumbent (and impeached) president in the most recent election, who is physically disabled from a factory accident. no personal security despite being stabbed a year ago. absolute gigachad
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Daniel J. Vecellio @sciencedjv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 14/03/2025
plus, look, it’s a real longshot, but imagine how bad it makes schumer look if he does this and cloture still goes down. if you won’t do it for civic virtue, do it for spite.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
WHO'S IMPOSING THOSE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES, CHUCK IS MAYBE IT THAT PERSON'S RESPONSIBILITY NOT TO DO IT
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