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Also, there's a declining return on your ad dollar past a certain point, and overspending on ads can actually have a negative effect if voters get sick of your ads. But underneath it all is that the dog has to like the dog food you're selling. No amount of spend can fix the dog hating the food.

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JD Vance is Peter Thiel's bitch, a fascist and a terrible human being.

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The greatest monster of this century (so far)...

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Good thread. Arendt wrote of the "banality of evil" in relation to Eichmann, but this gets at the reality of most of the perpetrators.

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If you're a Republican losing militia and survivalist country, you are really well and truly fucked. This is *insane*.

The paradox is that there's no limit to what white people can do when they stop thinking the way whiteness taught them and open their minds to all the other perspectives and people the world has to offer. Don't be a Pete Hegseth. That is the road to mediocrity.

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Normalize saying that Elon Musk committed crimes against humanity and that he had a big role in killing a projected 14 million people.

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Elliott w/ 2 Ts @elot247.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Utterly worthless in the long term, though. Seeing Trump for what he is is one thing. Breaking these same people from their 60-year habit of voting Republican is quite another. Until white voters change their thinking, they'll continue to get bamboozled by shitty Republican politicians pushing the

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Deb Haaland is one of the strongest people in the country. She ran the Boston Marathon while serving as Secretary of the Interior. On Indigenous Peoples Day. With a damn respectable time of 4:58. At age 60. New Mexico is in for something special. abcnews.com/Politics/sec...

abcnews.com

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland runs Boston Marathon to mark Indigenous Peoples Day

"I run because my ancestors gave me this ability," Haaland wrote.

She's going to be a great Governor for New Mexico.

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This is an excellent piece. From a practicing HIV doc.

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The racism and antisemitism is a real problem and I think the answer is to try to cleave off the sizable chunk of the left that isn't problematic that way and jettison the rest. That part infected with the hate virus just can't be allowed to be a legit part of the party.

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But I've been told that both parties are the same...

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It also recklessly destabilized the countries that were dependent on the assistance, which is never in our interest and invites adversaries to step into the void. It is terrible foreign policy.

No, one should make money the old fashioned way through Medicare fraud. One needs to take a stand against these tawdry nouveau riche ways of making money.

I won't call it revenge, I'll call it holding perpetrators to account. Which is what it is. For the third country deportations, for the kids left here without parents, for the 2 year olds representing themselves in immigration court, for all the atrocities of Trump 2.0. Is that revenge? No, justice.

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They're gonna get broken in the deep South. Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Florida. Georgia and North Carolina are gone, Virginia has been gone awhile. That's a big loss in 8 of the 11 states of the old confederacy, leaving Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana...

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Their slogan is "Build Better Men". I'd suggest that they might be falling short.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That fucker cost us New Hampshire, too. 22000 votes versus a 7000 vote margin for Bush. Nader can burn in hell. New Hampshire had 4 electoral votes in 2000. With them, Florida would have been moot, as Gore would have already won.

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…so sick, but it could have been much worse. And so important for the last 10 years: The professionals who kept me alive were here bc of immigration. Only 4-5 of the probably 4-5 dozen aides, nurses, & techs who cared for me weren’t immigrants. Immigration keeps America healthy.

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Too many white voters overlooked his obvious flaws because he was selling white supremacy and those voters wanted it. Trump would not have happened without Obama, who broke many white brains.

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A decision as morally bankrupt as Dred Scott, Plessy or Korematsu. This Court disgraces itself and the nation as a whole.

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As with any profession, some are better at it than others.

Nary a mention in this of the recrudescent racism that fueled the rise of Trump. Until we tackle that, there isn't going to be a "New New Deal". If you want a broad and resilient coalition, we've got to break the post CRA pattern of white voters voting for terrible, racist Republicans.

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And the LGBTQ, then the Catholics, then others. We've seen this play out over the centuries in Europe, in America and all over the world. Hate consumes one group and moves on to others.

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A complete failure of the legal profession, which is infested with FedSoc types who undermine the rule of law to advance a nakedly racist and partisan agenda.

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Schmitt has Schmitt for brains. Up there with Ron Johnson and Tommy Tuberville in the running for dumbest Senator.

I think this is correct. Texas is really expensive and you get much more bang for the buck in much less costly states with smaller and cheaper media markets.

🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 29/09/2026

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we are now the most based house on the block

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It is inevitable that someone on the right will propose that what is needed is a final solution to the problem. They've made the transition to advocating for Nazi policies, so it won't be that far a leap to proposing extermination. They want the country to be all white so bad...

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Rahm has been cultivating his contacts in the media for decades. He's willing to talk to them, so it's an easy way for lazy writers to fill an article.

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I like the optimism here, when ground booty holes is more likely.

Cory Laran @corylaran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Think hard on this when you vote on Tuesday 3 November.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's always both. Just like tariffs and the Iran War.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's election season for sure. Jill Stein resurfaced and a migrant caravan is headed for the border.

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Rape culture is one of the defining traits of Trumpism. The phrase didn't go too far. When your ideology stresses male dominance over women -- physically, economically and socially -- rape culture is the inevitable result.

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I'm sure there's a pedo in there. Or two or three.

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Note that this is just after the mid-1920s, which saw the rise of the Klan and the 1924 Immigration Act that established a quota system for immigration that heavily favored northern and western Europeans. Sound familiar?

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This is reminiscent of Orbanism, not democracy in the American tradition.

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He's probably correct on this and I hate that. We should be looking at ways that give government fewer ways to abuse people, not more. Perhaps a more introspective society would make the connection between Trump's abuse of power and arbitrary policies of criminalization.

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This is a very astute observation.

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