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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

I’m fascinated by the fact that Trump talks as if he has **literally** never heard the word affordability before, which maybe he hasn’t! He’s always been rich, he never had to afford things. But talking to a crowd of Joe Magahats as if he expects them to agree seems very “let them eat cake”

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“actually your household is doing fine” has never worked as a political message even in cases where it’s true so I highly encourage trump to keep using this argument

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 6h

“We can do as many crimes as we want so long as we say it was software and pay for a few PACs” is an absolutely insane way to run a society.

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Flatly stating “don’t vote for Dems because they suck on trans issues… Republicans are fine though” seems like it’s kinda giving the game away.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5h

The only reason I can think they would do this, is to ensure that TSA employees are as cranky and hostile as possible.

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I'M GONNA NEED SOME EXCOMMUNICATIONS PRONTO SIR like come on, surely we have earned a treat

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 12h

This feels like a book premise just waiting to happen.

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You want to stay home forever? I HATE that, but sure, that's an opinion that isn't just an over lie. But "Republicans are better on rights issues" is so false that it can only be lies. Probably opportunistic lies for some kind of grift. No one could *possibly* believe that.

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone who says a Republican vote will be better for good issues is a liar. They're just a fucking liar, and everyone has to be able to see that.

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 16h

Complete crazification theory undefeated

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22h

Just like climate change. All the evidence will never be enough compared to the lies they made up and decided to repeat. Only shame and new laws and courts can work.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17h

The Time interview with Trump is a master class in subjecting yourself to a stream of lies, lunacy, and insults with no correcting him, no calling out his crazy shit, nothing to show for it, nothing accomplished. It’s enabling, not journalism. They should die of shame. time.com/article/2026...

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 16h

This isn't paranoia, this is a provable factual statement

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I sound paranoid when I say this, but I believe there are vast, powerful, and extremely well-funded forces within the US that exist mostly to try to keep Democrats from moving too far left.

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There are two things to learn from this: 1) Third Way gets to present what the Democratic Caucus plans will be because they're the ones inside the room making them; 2) Dem staffers often don't realize that they're wholly captured by this centrist consultant-industrial complex. It's fish in water.

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Eventually, the guy told me that they're always looking for new voices to present to the Dem caucus, and I should send recommendations. I, of course, sent in recommendations of prominent progressive strategists, communicators and pollsters. Never once saw my recommendations get to present, though.

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The expression I got back would have reminded you of Tucker Carlson interviewing anyone--that expression that you'd make when someone was eating a jar of raw mayonnaise in front of you and you just don't know how to react to that situation. The "I don't know how to react to that" face.

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After maybe the third or fourth one of these, I asked the person in charge of it (who wasn't from Pelosi's office, the Member in charge of this was a different position) why it was that an organization whose very name says that Dems are wrong got to run the strategy sessions for the Dem caucus.

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Story time. My wife's post here reminds me of one of my favorite stories from my time on the Hill, of which there are many. I was in Comms for a Dem member, and the Caucus would put on a weekly talking points seminar for comms staffers. More often than not, these were run by Third Way.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

A **very** good question, I would say.

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A victory for the government in this case would greenlight long-term mass civil detention at a level not seen since Japanese internment during WWII. It would represent the largest change in how the US treats immigrants facing removal since 1996, and remind us again that the 96 law must be erased.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 17h

Oh, look, it’s a real-world example of an AI that might well have gotten us all killed ***by mistakenly starting a global thermonuclear war*** because we gave it power & trust we should not have given it.

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America yearns to know why they should care about a random streamer they’ve never seen or heard that doesn’t have any position of power

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17h

What it mostly did was make habitual Fox viewers hate democrats Sweet

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This could well be an example of the blowback I’ve predicted from conservatives abandoning their decades-long media strategy of propagandizing to mainstream liberal voters by producing “liberal media” that we would watch, that would also sorta pretend to be on our side.

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