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Preferred pronouns? Buddy I got no idea. Buddhist, lover not a fighter, perpetually tired, historian in training, and professional nerd. Loves birds, science fiction, religious studies and poetry!

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 4h
Trump and the GOP spending $200 million on Paxton only for him to be down by 5:
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Cartoon Men Burning Money
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 7h
The degree to which @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us this would happen for over ten years is truly remarkable
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 4h
The money is clearly not the issue. Minimum $250m for Paxton, quarter of a billion, and they have nothing to show for it This is happening in nearly all the high profile races. The money isnt working or it stopped working
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 7h
$200m to get this in Texas
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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 4h
Maybe it is "let's get rid of the woke execs", but certainly doesn't help if you have greenlit the biggest flops of recent memory
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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 4h
I mean you can also say the studio executives that brought in Digger and The Bride!
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 4h
they are here literally committing crimes
koco.com
Oklahoma National Guard member deployed to Washington, DC, is arrested on firearms charge
A National Guard member deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of a mission launched by President Donald Trump has been arrested for carrying an unauthorized firearm after a traffic stop by U.S. Park P...
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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 15h
It’s cool how normal everyone is.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4h
It’s bizarre and anti-social to react to some stranger(?) sharing a thing they’re happy about with your incoherent made-up nonsense
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 23h
Pretty big get for Bodnar, former Governor Bullock is backing his campaign helenair.com/opinion/colu...
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Why I will be voting for Seth Bodnar | Steve Bullock
"This election could be remembered for its dysfunction. I choose to remain hopeful it can instead be remembered as the moment Montana chose something better," writes former Gov. Steve Bullock.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4h
“We didn’t labor in the wilderness to build a conservative party that was inclusive and welcoming … to see it taken over by a bunch of bigots,” Rove said. You think you did what now.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Xenolandscapes @xenolandscapes.com · 7h
Yes, that's exactly right. Climate change has, for the left, turned into a thermoreligious apocalypticism, mirror image of the e/acc thermoreligious cosmicism; they want climate collapse to bring about the societal change they could not achieve, punish ~~the roman empire~~ capitalism for its hubris.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5h
holy fuck
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 4h
LOL
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 4h
He and a lot more people should face more serious consequences than resignations.
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Governor says Tennessee’s prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike
Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 4h
Language is interesting. '“We didn’t labor in the wilderness to build a conservative party that was inclusive and welcoming … to see it taken over by a bunch of bigots,” Rove said.'
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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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Irate Historian (Pride Edition) @riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 4h
Favorite parts of the several frat parties I went to (one of which I practically ran out of) was frankly the couple of sorority girls I had classes with who were pretty nice and chill and a welcome break from the dorm hall I was stuck in lol
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 13h
Kyle Reese talking to Sarah Connor in Terminator 1
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 30/09/2026
just stopped at the local coffee place. There’s a new barista in a hippie skirt with blue hair, face piercings, and a bunch of tattoos. Coffee noticeably better
my hand holding an iced coffee
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 6h
that's bait.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of
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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h
they really spent a thousand years letting everyone in the world know about black vs white smoke and what they mean in what might be the longest running elections to elect new leader in one place we've ever had only for this clown to be like WHERE IS YOUR ELECTION
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 23h
Both GOP and Dem internal polls show Kansas Senate tied
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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 16h
The Medicare Part B Premium is $202.90. $100 it's literally not even half the cost of it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
-Recent advances in renewables truly are revolutionary and will decouple economic growth from climate change -We are going to end the housing crisis and leave our cities better and more vibrant than ever. -Trump fumbled trying to build a dictatorship and is headed for a massive electoral rebuke.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7h
The petty-ass bullshit this administration inflicts on people just trying to live their livea is truly something to behold
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6h
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
¡Dios Mio! NYT/Siena shows HINOJOSA leading?
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 15h
Lmao dems are gonna win 400 and 75.
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 23h
Trafalgar has Hamilton up in Kansas? I understand why NC was triaged
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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 22h
yeah I think this is gonna be reverse 2020 every public pollster is hedging like they're a GOP internal. Meanwhile, private polling predicts apocalyptic results for the GOP, which matches every shred of material evidence and the GOP and Dems own actions private polls knew 2020 was close. Welp!
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 22h
WE NEED TO WIN THE GODDAMN SENATE.
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ElectionCord @electioncord.com · 22h
One thing that's rather unique about President Trump's approval in his second term is just how consistent the decline in approval is. Other than "Liberation Day", there's really no event that stands out as a major turning point in a decline. LINK: electioncord.com/poll-tracker/
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 22h
Even if you dont want Bodnar I dont know how it’s possible to argue in good faith Alani is in any way shape or form a good candidate
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 21h
the commissioner for this SC-01 poll is WHICH PAC?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h
Not so sure Republicans want the Dobbs decision back in the spotlight like this as the Midterms approach…
A screenshot of a CBS News post on X with a black background and white text. At the top left is the CBS News logo and verified account name, “CBS News @CBSNews,” with “X.com” in the upper-right corner.

The post reads: “Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which overturned Roe v. Wade, required ‘courage’ from all of the justices in the majority.

‘We didn’t know it when we produced the draft that was leaked, but it required courage to go ahead with that because of the implications,’ he said.

He told CBS News’ @JanCBS that he lost friends over the Dobbs decision. And he called physical threats and harassment ‘quite disturbing’ and ‘a danger for the courts.’”

Below the text is a large video still from the CBS News interview showing Justice Samuel Alito seated indoors. He is wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and dark red tie, and appears to be speaking while looking slightly to his left. A small CBS News logo appears in the upper-left corner of the video frame.
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 21h
good lord, folks
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 21h
Over at the other site, Andy O'Brien who spotted the door hanger in the photo during pro-Jackson canvassing, says that these are being left on the doors of unenrolled (independent) voters. That seems a questionable strategy in one of the most pro-choice states in the nation. #MEpolitics
Susan Collins campaign literature taking credit for her having "delivered conservatives on the Supreme Court."
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 23h
Genuinely is she stupid? Is she aware that this is exactly what she gets reelected by pretending to much of Maine that she *doesn't* do? my thinking here is surely this is only in ME-02 and they want to help LePage for the House, this reads like she senses her impending doom
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 23h
*blinks*
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 23h
Texas moves to Safe Democrat
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump refuses to turn his camera on at the G7 summit
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S'Pammy Cassandra 🦩💥 @nafoffs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Front page ft www.ft.com/content/95f5...
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‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’
A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Ukraine is doing the meme. And it's working.
Meme of a crying man going "noooo you can't just vaporize my entire armored division, we had such a manly recruitment ad" and a woman with classes going "omg integrated fire support?? go off queen sksksk, JDAMs are such a gemini thing."
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 23h
America fearful of connections with the world like North Korea or Hoxa's Albania. What a message of weakness.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reactionary backlash because the Indian tech support guy can afford a house in the burbs while the white perpetual fuck up who got kicked out of the army for a heroin addiction cannot, the war of the unemployable on the employed continues
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A lot of people are extremely uncomfortable with social pluralism, which involves facilitating the coexistence of a lot of groups that have tensions with each other.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I don't think we should deny security funds to mosques where the imam is homophobic" "OH SO YOU SUPPORT THE KLAN??"
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