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No surprise, the party that coughed up "Love the sinner, hate the sin" had completely forgotten it when it's a white supremacist in the family.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 5h

Now, I think it is also very possible that this whole content spectacle is so abhorrent, it won't work this way for most. But if it further radicalizes the MAGA base, that's still really bad.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 5h

This is a "buy in" scam on a high and morally revolting scale. Once people participate (perhaps even by being accidentally exposed via auto play posts and reports), they take on the moral taint. They lose some of the ethical guardrails and buy in to "It has to be this way." It doesn't!

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 5h

This brief exchange is why press, pundits, and even Democrats hand-wringing about "polarization" are so wrong. Only one group here became extreme. Only Republicans abandoned basic moral decency. We're aghast over that, but if we were truly polarized, what's our 'extreme'? Love thy neighbor more?

Me and Kelly Barnhill skeeting that Trump's pogrom-rant assumes that Minnesotans would turn on Somalis because he knows his MAGA base wants to. We're not like that.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

Not sure Trump’s pre election desperation mode is going anywhere that actually works for him, but it’s certainly plumbing new depths of depravity.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 6h

He's still furious that we all didn't turn on our neighbors last winter in the 'surge.' I'm convinced that GOP thought that's what would happen. That we – like them and their tiny, shrunken hearts – resent these folks. But there have been decades of weaving in together. One Minnesota isn't a joke.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 6h

We didn't turn on our Somali friends and neighbors at 20 below. We sure as hell won't now, either!!

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 6h

Yes. Vile. And intended to dehumanize the *viewer*.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 6h

300,000,000 people throw their phones into the sea

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 6h

Also, there's no structural way whatsoever that most families can even make rent or buy food with one income. Bezos is bragging that 10s or 100s of millions of Americans will be Great Depression level destitute.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 6h

Also (not news) a massive liar. None of this is happening. NONE OF IT!!

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 6h

Also major news: "It is unclear why an angry, demented man has twice said it is fine for Iran to blow up a major California city."

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 7h

What’s causing it is "unclear" because the press has sidelined, fired or laid off 95% of their diverse workforce. Straight white men remain clueless about how the GOPs war of hatred against queers has downstream impacts.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 8h

The Six are definitely high on their own robe dutch oven supply.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 8h

Nothing. He's another very rich man who doesn't give a f--k.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 8h

Jared Pollis, in his private billionaire mansion watching TV: "Man, I *nailed* it on that pardon. She's a changed woman!"

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 8h

Jared Pollis's photo is in the Urban Dictionary under Twatwaffle.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 8h

Desensitizing the public / spectacles of murder are not a good direction for a society (obvs.).

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 9h

"But, hey, let's also authorize Waymo, which will steal more jobs and put a ton of cameras out watching everything." - Jacob Frey

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 9h

Aha! And, yes. I was visiting cousins in Sweden years ago, and in one sprawling convo about education, I mentioned free lunch. She said (indignantly) "What do you mean some kids pay and some are free? How embarrassing for the free kids, and it should all be equal!" Amen, Swedes!

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 9h

Everything about Rubio is soft.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 9h

Is the enemies under your bed, Donnie?

Roomba goes under a double bed in a nicely decorated room.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 10h

He thinks that, but of course he seems totally unaware that people are onto him: Trump offers no loyalty in return, so the "deal" is always revokable. I'm no Cuellar fan, but I presume he knows Trump would throw him to the wolves in an instant anyway, so why bother.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 11h

By what mechanism? I know everyone wants to press the 'fear' button, but, like, lay out how this blatantly unconstitutional and illegal act goes down, Thom.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 11h

"This is the Unitary Executive" says CJ John Roberts. "What can you do, it's just how it is."

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 11h

As Orwell warned us, under stark authoritarianism, words do not have shared meaning.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 11h

More like 37%, JD. (Very similar to Trump, in fact!)

Musk popularity (or not) chart. It's bad – if you're Elon.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 11h

Trump has been at net -22.6 (only 38.7% approve!) for basically two weeks now. While out campaigning! ⚓

Approve/Disapprove chart. Trump had been sinking far & fast!

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 12h

"Support Our Troops"™

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 12h

So that's now a $500 per-retired-voter bribe PLUS a $90 per-medicare-voter bribe? The moment our new Congress is sworn in, Democrats need to haul Frank J. Bisignano & Mehmet Oz in for Klieg light hearings of grueling intensity.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So not one person in Trumpland mentioned to him after his first lunatic raving that 60 Navy vessels of the Pacific Fleet and a Naval Air Station are based in San Diego? WTF.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Guilfoyle pressed a MAGA ally to transfer $100,000 BRIBE But elite press must euphemize everything.

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daviss @daviss.org · 07/10/2026

Today is 9 months since Renee Good was shot in the head by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who then walked away calling her a "fucking bitch". Afterwards, agents refused to allow a physician at the scene to render aid. No one has been held responsible for the killing. chaddavis.photography/sets/ice-in-...

A sign on the door of Modern Times. "We are closing today an observer was shot on 34th and portland. we love you. fuck ice they killed someone."

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm pretty sure people refused to go home for Thanksgiving in the 1970s.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is madness. Not the Dr.s making changes. The swim-in-sewage freak destroying vaccine immunity and risking countless lives.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Should have used narrower accordion hands", Ken admitted, ruefully.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(We do have friends who throw a fantastic Halloween party every year. It's not all gloom out there.)

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As people who host at least 4 major parties and several smaller get togethers per year, can confirm. We enjoy it! We'd just like to be invited to literally anything at other people's places. A card game & drinks. Movies and popcorn. Anything.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sen. Susan Collins: I do not regret selling out millions of pro-choice women who were counting on me.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

San Diego is home to US Navy Pacific Fleet Surface fleet, Point Loma, Naval Air Station North Island, and several more military installations. He just called wiping them out a "small price to pay." >>Support Our Troops? Republicans? 🤡

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"It is unclear why the deranged man with dementia said this." (The NYY actually said the first four + last two words. [Forehead slap])

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So the lawless Admin. is doing this sh*t again.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How are the $54B in corp. junk bonds doing?

Chart showing terrible performance of Paramount Skydance bond issue.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Agree! But isn't the point of an online-only weirdo ad to get a bunch of earned media?

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I see Klobs signs (and, yech, Folk signs), but no Flanagans here on Lowry hill (aka the Land of Limousine Liberals). Is the campaign behind on getting them printed and distributed? @peggyflanagan.bsky.social

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

F-ck all these people. There was a time when VF wasn't so invested in fellating the edgelords who want to ruin everything.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The letter also requested her practice’s vaccine policy, and said that it would not be sufficient to cite the childhood vaccine schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." Absolute lawless insanity in Texas.

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unknown phrase here on my couch.

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