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schumer and jeffries are bad for various reasons, but there's not much point expecting them to talk like Ossoff or El-Sayed here. Thune doesn't talk like ted cruz either.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2h

they won't. nobody who holds those positions will, pretty much. it's not a bully pulpit attack dog post. it's an inside, keep the caucus happy job.

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Another reminder that a foundational element of Western myth is super gay.

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 3h

Roy Cooper: "I'm talking with people who are in the middle class and barely hanging on. They were promised by this administration that cost of living would be the day one focus." People are having to make horrible affordability choices. GOP = empty promises. Vote them all out. #momsky#sheshed

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NJValkyrie @njvalkyrie.bsky.social · 4h

A remake of John Carpenter's The Thing (yes, I know his was a remake) where the creature just wants to remain a dog and is looking for a human to adopt it.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 6h

of course it's marketing incentives. title it something else and you don't get the benefit of nostalgic fandom.

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A Halloween reboot where Michael Myers is a nice guy who sits around eating Hot Pockets and handing out full-size Snickers bars to trick-or-treaters

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

like, it could be fun to do something like this riffing on Carrie, or commenting on Carrie. It seems like maybe an odd approach to call it "Carrie"? 1

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The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Oh you're just realizing this now? smdh

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early."

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 9h

yeah; I like him better than many of the other potential 2028 candidates! though worse than a few...

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Really important

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krory.bsky.social @krory.bsky.social · 4h

not a bad answer, though obviously I would prefer if he'd actually apologize and repudiate his vote for that horrible bill.

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A big part of it is that Ossoff is from Atlanta. His base are the black and LGBTQ+ populations that MAGAs have been shitting on for 15 years, and he knows it. Why would he ever couch against the people who elected him?

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 4h

Ossoff and El-Sayed are way too quick on their feet for people who haven't had to defend their own trash talk since the 1970s

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I'll admit I had to look up who that was!

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the difference being Ds aren't lying when they say their opponents are Nazis and klansmen, of course.

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it's frustrating...but also better now than never.

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again, this is a stark example of how Rs have just regularly spewed incredibly disrespectful and inflammatory lies about Democrats with basically no reciprocal pushback from Ds—until like this week.

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David @davidslosttt.bsky.social · 4h

oh, we've seen people still supporting him after targeting loved ones, for sure.

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Ossoff+8 from Trafalgar

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h

We rightly worry most about the core electoral machinery and that's holding up pretty well, but any election under Trump is still something less than free and fair. Even if it's not enough to flip the outcome, state resources and power are unambiguously being abused to favor the incumbent party.

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the Obama library has an Elie Wiesel auditorium, and outside it is a big picture of Angela Davis, and...I just feel like maybe some different choices might have been made there...

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I'm not an expert as Elliott is, but that's my guess and reasoning, fwiw.

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I mean, obviously, you can't know for sure, but seems like he's around mid 20s on some issues (inflation, economy) which suggests that there are potentially that many people who could turn on him at some point, depending.

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it seems likely that it's around 25%, which seems about what it's been for every president. (half of co-partisans.)

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six degrees of separation (from some shithead)

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