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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

I honestly think it’s less about the soundbite and more about the fact that human beings are intuitive social cue processors, incredibly attuned to any subtle indication that one person outranks the other, and the refusal to name someone you’re trying to criticize parses as “he scared”

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 6h

It’s the same weird liberal wisdom that holds that the electorate will just figure out that Republicans are corrupt, or fascist, or flat out psychotic, thus relieving Democrats of the need to point it out. e.g. “he’s self-impeaching”

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7h

this is why people like me get frustrated w dems. you have been handed some of the most villainous people - trump, noem, hegseth, mullin - that look and act more vile than something out of a comic book rogue's gallery. and you dont act, you dont criticize. its why "complicity" seems so likely.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 18h

Absolutely. These people are grotesque racists who should be embarrassed to show their faces in public, and it’s high time we at least tried to reestablish the taboo around being a reprehensible bigot in public

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19h

Doesn't seem like GOP candidates really know what to do when they don't get the docile "our Republican friends across the aisle who I happen to disagree with about SNAP funding" treatment from their opponents.

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 18h

Underappreciated just how much Republicans need Democrats to be simps and bipartisanship-fetishists for their approach to succeed. The moment Dems drop the pretense and start accurately describing who their opponents are and what they stand for, they very literally have no answer

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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Democrats will never learn.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 20h

This is how you run against Republicans. Out tough them—not on beating up vulnerable communities but by mercilessly beating the shit out of them.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20h

It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis.

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 19h

How bout a law directing that upon leaving office all presidents shall have any assets and income in excess of the congressionally specified presidential salary, garnered while president, seized/taxed at 100%?

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 19h

I love this thread. On one hand, what Ossoff is doing here is so obvious. On the other, it’s so refreshing to see an actual Democrat accurately describing a member of today’s Republican Party without any nonsense about”bipartisanship” or working across the aisle or whatever

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 19h

Ossoff’s comms team is like, what if we just said a bunch of true sh*t about our garbage opponent and his garbage politics? Think of all the money we’ll save by not having focus groups

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 22h

Between Trump’s call for pogroms against Somali people in Minnesota, the plans for putting people in cargo holds and shipping them to South America, and the announcement of a public execution in Texas, today seems like a good day for Dems to just start calling Republicans the Nazi party

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

O yeah? If politics is so easy, what are all these Democratic consultants getting paid to… o wait.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026

1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fact that his party looks like it is going to get hammered in a few weeks couldn’t possibly have anything to do with him, you see. So why should he give a damn about the people around him who are failing him?

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unceasingly amazing how Trump can’t be bothered to even feign caring about other people.

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Underappreciated just how repulsive these people are. Like, even if I somehow mostly agreed with this man, the act of voting for him would be so degrading and filthy that I just couldn’t do it

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As many have observed, if his fragile ego could handle even the mildest of criticism he might be capable of discerning that he needs to stop being so visibly awful in order to avoid total midterm disaster. But it can’t, he’s surrounded by fluffers, and so here he is

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dude’s defining characteristic is that it is literally impossible to escape his repulsive presence and whatever passes for his rhetoric. “Not getting the word out” is such a funny, oblivious misdiagnosis of the problem

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Impeach this MF when we’re done with Hegseth

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It definitely is the perspective of someone who thinks they’ll never see the inside of a refugee camp because of their cleverness, rather than due to an accident of birth. Had our so-called leaders some very basic empathy, we’d all be in better shape

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know this is immaterial to these people, but this is backwards. People arguably have a right to freedom of movement; nation-states are legal constructs, and I’m not sure rights can be inherent to such things in the same way

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So what Duckworth actually said was worse than that short clip I saw... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmYs...

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What should Democrats do if they win?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Ryan Murray @domezig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Whenever Trump uses the word “cherish” I feel like his understanding of it is something like “the relationship a child psychopath has with the animals he’s torturing”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just can’t with this. Which is a more effective approach? “My opponent is lying, I really do think trans people are subhuman?” or “my opponent needs help, he cant stop thinking about the genitals of children. Why is that?” You don’t have to play their game, for gods sake

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They will lose far more votes for this than they will gain. It’s bonkers as a strategy

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It remains baffling how Democrats are apparently being told by their consultants that they need to go on the attack against their most stalwart and engaged supporters. It genuinely seems suicidal

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look at this dumbass walking corpse wearing his dumbass cap because he thinks it prevents his dumbass followers from seeing the physical decomposition his dumb ass is going through

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mostly experience Trump directly through Aaron’s posts, tbh, but it genuinely does seem lately like he’s lost the juice that has powered his political career. He’s a three card monte who just can’t palm the cards effectively anymore, and even his supporters cant help but see the artifice

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He f*cking hates his supporters. It grows more and more transparent as time passes and his brain fails, but it’s always shocking. He just despises them.

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thing is, Trump genuinely despises the people who most reliably vote for him, the way a con artist despises his marks. He’s just no longer canny enough to disguise it consistently

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No Kings but King Ludd @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

lol. I’m not obsessed. Don’t print in the paper that I’m obsessed

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