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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 5h

Dark clothes and not in a crosswalk? Are you trying to imply he got what he deserved? I guess he was just asking for it, dressed like that.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 22h

These are Onion level headlines.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 22h

It's like he hasn't figured out that other countries have their own interests. Why would Ukraine want to allow a nominal ally to provide financial support to an existential threat?

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I lived in Saudi for six years and didn't see a single one. I've been back for two and this'll probably be the first of many.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once we have a single entertainment monopoly, could we at least just go back to one single streaming service?

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The ones testing them were probably hand selected, but once Skeeter Jenkins gets ahold of them, they may end up draining some of our shallowest gene pools.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's one of the reasons I'm not totally against them. These aren't the smartest or best trained people. Eventually they are going to forget they are wearing them and it will be glorious.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He's obviously not saying what everyone says he's saying, and it's terrifying that they are so quick to gobble it up. They're on our side today, but they can be fooled so easily that it's scary.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Unfortunately, fundraising-wise, running against him is much more lucrative than beating him.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mike Johnson, don't threaten us with a good time.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's been progress. We just need to be realistic about the amount of it.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's pretty clear he was talking about the gas prices being a small price to pay, and that losing LA or San Diego would be worse. There's enough that he actually says and means to hate him for without willfully pretending he's saying something he isn't.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Feel for his son who worked so hard to get out of that shadow to have it pop up again while having to deal with his father's death.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Perpetuity is a high bar to clear with such a strong trend. Ford => Reagan => Bush => Trump is an exponential curve. Just think about what the next plot point on that curve is going to be.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best thing about this Bill Maher clip is that he's not in it.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The problem with Democratic politicians only promising to fix the things Trump has destroyed is that, if they reset the country to just how it was before Trump was elected, all they've done is create the environment that led to Trump winning in the first place.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We need the same from our Democratic politicians. If you win, don't spend the next two years telling us why you can't do things.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why are we still calling this a war if only one side has an army, and the opposition are civilians? At best, it's a police action against residents who have been denied citizenship.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Grew up in the south next to the national headquarters of the KKK. For me, it's not that hard to understand. People just don't want to admit this is what their friends and relatives are and have always been. At least now the hoods are off and, if you want, you can look at their faces.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Then he'd just re-staff and sell a trip to Mar A Lago as a Uranium Spa package. There's absolutely no shame in him.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ever wonder why the people who work in AI write these self aggrandizing screeds that brag about working on world destroying technology, but I'm the same breath say we don't need legal restrictions? It's weird, right?

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorry, but I just can't look at the world through a child's point of view like that. I'm able to dislike awful people without turning them into the devil.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because he isn't. He's just a bad writer and a right-wing shill. That's reason enough not to like him without LARPing that he's a villain. He's just an asshole. Apparently, the world is full of them.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel like the anger I feel toward the Atlantic is similar to the anger I felt as a teen when I realized I didn't believe in God. Then you take a look at what your local churches are doing, and that sense of betrayal by people that are supposed to be doing good work is a hard pill to swallow.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Only if trading stock is considered a trade.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We live in a world where education is worth less than job training that'll be obsolete in 10 years, and the Atlantic is doing its part to speed us to the post-literate world

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't think we should let them off the hook. They heard the same speeches we heard. They just didn't think he'd come for them.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not everyone who was in a building with Epstein is a pedophile. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to dislike him. Put some wrinkles in that cerebellum.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If they can't do that, they are going to lose.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Let's face it. After they left office, the Dems didn't prosecute Nixon, Reagan, Bush, or Trump. I don't believe them and don't trust them. I don't want to hear about how they'll reset the country to the conditions that led to Trump. I want to know what their plan is to make things better.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Then actually do it this time. Nixon got away with it, Reagan for away with it, Bush for away with it, Trump's form away with it. Every time Dems tell us they'll investigate, and they've never done anything. You have to do something before we believe this will be different.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can wait for the next one now that half of America has decided that public health is tyranny. It's going to be wild.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They've certainly altered the Atlantic.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The illiterate future is here. The Atlantic is doing its part, are you?

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When he says he had to promise his wife that he wouldn't try to moonwalk at the wedding reception, did he have to explain to her what the moonwalk was?

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm his defense, he didn't say he was a good journalist.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm pretty sure your readers know who David Brooks is. The question is, why? Why did you look at David Brooks' body of work with the NYTimes and say, "Our readership will love that." This modern era of The Altantic is an embarrassment.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The chances of them doing more damage to themselves than others is high.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wonder what it feels like to be the person most responsible for the Republican Party we have today? He'd be the first person I'd ask.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone is going to make their career writing a book on exactly how her career was able to survive being the press facing arm of the first Trump White House.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Historically speaking, nothing helps fascism spread faster than periods of austerity. This is going to be grim.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Honest question, what happens next? How often have executions failed, and what comes after?

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Keep this up. The pride before that fall makes the schadenfreude sweeter.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow you were able to publish a news story that leaves readers less informed than after they read the headline. Congratulations on unlocking this new achievement.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lots of people confuse vengeance with justice.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Should we be worried? He kind of outed himself as a buffoon. Maybe he'll come up with some ridiculous idea that makes the concept of war so stupid and toxic that it inadvertently brings world peace.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They might not be talking past each other. It's highly possible that they are just not that smart. Less of a user error than an equipment error.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This post is like a Rorschach test for liberals who want to punch left.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We were at a tipping point in 2000. This is what happens after things get tipped.

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rlowery.bsky.social @rlowery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's almost as if there was some sort of plan to cleanse this ethically segregated area. It would be really convenient if we had a word for that.

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