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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is hilarious coming from the NYT.

Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 in the House was the final nail. If states / districts actually represented the population if is highly unlikely MAGA exist in any meaningful way. The house is supposed to represent the populace, after ‘29 it favored the minority.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of elle magazine: thread

Beaker as Dua Lipa on the cover of Elle magazine.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” -Ulysses S. Grant

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Imagine if the @nytimes.com published articles like this DURING the election! Infuriating how the legacy media fell lockstep into the same traps of 2015. It’s almost like a dying media found a way to squeeze a little more profit in its last gasp.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I think about this quite often: If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. Lyndon B. Johnson

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Sometimes I daydream about Trump’s last term and think about how GREAT it would have been had Sen. Franken, who was responsible for sessions crash and burn, been able to continue. I am a NY resident and I couldn’t hold my nose to vote for you. The only blank circle on my ballot.

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God @thegodshow.com · 17/12/2024

The Democratic party will continue to lose far, far into the future because their clueless 70+ members are never going to get out of the way until they pass away. They do not care about winning. They only care about insider trading and enriching themselves.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I encourage you to read Jane Mayer’s piece on Franken. Actual journalism by a top tier journalist. While your feel-facts are fascinating, they just don’t hold up.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Clearly whatever Roger Stone says about a person becomes true. /s

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Funny. Just posted similar. Knee-jerk reactions to Roger Stone hit jobs are bedrock for weak dems. Remember Brooks Brothers riots? Dems folded. Would be pretty great to have Franken as a senator right now…

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Wouldn’t it be great if Franken was still a senator? Can you imagine if Gillibrand and Harris hadn’t fallen for Roger Stone’s hit job?!?

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

You win the internet today. Yeah. We're all trying to find the guy who did this and give him a spanking.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Yeah, no. I will never not criticize for voting against your own interests. Low-information voters have perpetually screwed themselves and everyone around them my entire life. The Dunning-Kruger has just been spectacular recently.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

He could have been a foil and kept this from ever getting this far, but he didn’t. McConnell is only interested in power and he sees his power slipping, that is why he NOW sees an issue.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I have been saying this for months, during the campaign. It will be another example of playing by two sets of rules. Rs will expand the court without a second thought. When your party isn’t interested in governing only power, these behaviors will be the outcome.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Researchers have been saying this for decades. I first remember reading about it 20 years ago. It is unfortunate, not surprising, that it was allowed to flourish to the point it is now. Unsurprising because America doesn’t take things seriously until they are already a huge problem.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This is how I see it too. The rightward listing for decades now has made actual change feel impossible, as leadership tosses scraps to those pushing for progress. The death knell being flag pin nonsense and PATRIOT act subservience. Freedom Fries anyone? 🍟

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Playing out again right in front of us. Sotomayor travels with a Dr. because of medical issues. Folks on the left & disability leaders rushing to her defense can’t see they are playing 2 different games with 2 sets of rules.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It is ALMOST like the investment class who own the media companies have an agenda. Oh, right. Not paying their fair share - at all costs.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

But HOPEFULLY with a better tagline this time?

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Her hubris is a big part of why we are where we are now. She was asked multiple times to step down, she had cancer and was old. The writing was on the wall. She refused. We now have generations of progress erased, more to come. Hard to think of her in a positive light anymore, unfortunately

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This thread has me laughing (not at, but from experience). Grew up in Oregon. Obviously Oregon be some popular in the Instagram era. Them: I’m moving to oregon Me: it can get REALLY grey. Them: yeah, I know. I visited and saw. Me: ok… Folks don’t get how oppressive it can feel after months

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It is a living breathing document OR we are constantly bound to the customs and technology of 2 centuries ago (when America was great?)

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Bannon’s ‘flood the zone with shit’ model of distraction that the media falls for EVERY SINGLE TIME. Fun fact! Bannon’s model is based on Putin’s ‘Firehose of falsehoods’ propaganda model.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Key difference is these are written directly into the constitution. Loophole the framers didn’t expect.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So, theoretically the president could put congress into recess for 4 years and fill any position they want. This is uncharted territory, because it was norms holding us afloat. For the YEARS of GOP shrieking “Dem prez will be a dictator!”, looks like the call was coming from inside the house.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Advice and consent is a constitutional requirement, yes. But it is also constitutional for the president to put congress into recess (for as long as they wish) if the chambers disagree on going into recess. The commander in chief can give a security clearance to Putin. Vetting unnecessary.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Possible confirmation hearings. This is the final test to see if the Republican Party survives. If it is all recess appointments, RIP GOP and it is MAGA the whole way down. Background checks are apparently another one of those norms that Trump can magically wave aside and the media will ignore.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Election night it became really clear that we were gonna need a bigger basket.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"I guess I'm on Bluesky now! I do local weather at eight past every hour in Gatlinburg. Here's my OnlyFans"

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

That’s amazing, and congrats. I haven’t seen his TED, I will look it up. Now that I am thinking about it I am pretty sure it was the Twitter algorithm that fed me a tweet of yours replying to Nate. That is how I first discovered he was on there.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Loved that he was on Twitter fighting the good fight. Waiting for him to show up here.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A glowing review for a worthy recipient. IF they all fall in line and confirm it will be a damning precursor of the rollercoaster ahead.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Every trash can in NYC having the mayor and borough prez name on it (provided by… blah blah blah) is like hypnotism. It has stood out to me as glaring manipulation from the moment I first saw it.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Found myself on this week old thread. Reading through I instantly thought about how many people thought Trump gave them money because he signed the checks. 🤦‍♂️ Glad to see you pointed it out.

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Lots of grifty folks I blocked on Twitter on that list, some that I would constantly reply in their threads that they were basically the same a QAnon. Not sure I would lump Keith Olbermann into that list though. But, hey! It’s your list, I’m just happy these lists are a thing!

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Donovan @novamindhost.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Yes, but… He had this job before and was basically inept. Those around him kept him within guardrails. These newly nominated folks are sycophants and in some cases tied to Putin, willing to disregard all guardrails (if they are even aware there are any).

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