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Evening Forest News @forrestnews.bsky.social · 7h

No mention of the assault on Ilhan Omar, no mention of the murder of Melissa Hartman, but here’s some nasty emails and here’s a fascist demagogue who never held public office that died. Why the fuck you gave that fascist rag your money for this article is beyond me.

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Are you suggesting that NYT journalism is shallower than a simple google search? Because I’m not suggesting, I’m saying that. Wait til someone tells them what Trump huffers wanted to do to Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi.

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The NYT is a fascist rag, example #11037

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He’s already lost lol fell to fourth in the polls and is only gonna keep cratering.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 7h

Joke of an article, befitting the newspaper printing it.

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Was this the most flattering gif of yourself you could find

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 7h

How the fuck do you even enforce that?

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motomurphy.bsky.social @motomurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In my experience people with a liberal arts degree bring calmer, creative and more human perspectives to problem solving. My company used to hire any degree and train. These people were able to win and keep clients long term. When it became just business degrees we had constant turnover in clients.

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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Meanwhile, in Britain, we have pot-bellied fuckwits who believe it's immigrants who are preventing them having jobs as neuro surgeons

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This a good list. Do you have the link?

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She fucking sucks so hard it’s just amazing to me there isn’t more ambition to primary her ass out.

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Every sportscaster is hated by at least 70% of their audience, it’s basically part of sports culture to despise these guys.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 21h

I don’t think they weigh popularity much, if at all, when choosing these guys.

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These anti-Trans Texas ads I’m being subjected to are making Democrats seem way cooler than they ever could be. “Talarico wants to jail parents who don’t support their Trans children” Sign me the fuck up

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 21h

Kobey Layne ran a campaign and had a publicly available social media profile. Zero excuses for not boosting it.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 23h

“Talarico is remarkable” no, the national shift is remarkable and Texas is performing right on pace with it, arguably slightly behind even.

rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 23h

I think a lot of what Bluesky seems to think is “high quality Dem candidates” is just very average candidates performing in a way consistent with an extremely blue national environment. The data suggests this as well.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And tbh no I don’t personally think this shit *would* help her win but even if you disagree… she doesn’t need help winning in the first place.

rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Center” being normie speak for what we know is far right but is called center by US media and a depressing number of voters.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The lady who threw things at her work subordinates has tyrannical aspirations? Shocking.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This number grows the worse/less polls there are though, which is why you often see bigger errors in statewide races than presidential/national ones — the latter has tons of funding and thus much more polls, done by typically better analysts.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A lot of people don’t seem to quite grasp when polls are a source of certainty versus just “this is likely but could easily not happen”. Without getting heavy into methodology and math, the short answer is that when credible aggregators show a lead above ~5 points, a loss would be shocking.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’ll point out the House has investigating powers and is going blue barring acts of god.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Some ppl think Ed is a crank because at the surface level he isn’t shy to show emotion/opinion but it’s all based in rigorous primary research.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

…which brings me back to the fact liberals have missed and continue to miss by not attacking WHAT republicans will do WITH the power they seek to consolidate. Too many think “authoritarian” is a magic word, when most people don’t actually mind some authoritarianism, conceptually speaking!

rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think what most people heard was “Donald Trump wants to take full control” and most folks don’t oppose that on its face, but will get pissy if you fuck up the thing you’re controlling

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It feels generous to suggest it was intentional, but I do think the one sense in which the Democrat strategy of beating “Donald Trump hate democracy” into the ground without presenting a solution “worked”, is that it’s helped make people view him as *solely* responsible for present conditions.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bill wasn’t *this* unpopular before that, and I’d argue the Congress he had was an unusually sensational one. We did not see Dems impeaching Trump 1 cause his ratings to bounce, nor did a D congress rescue Bush.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And, tbh history tells us it’s not particularly *easy* for the average President to do so in the first place, *especially* when already unpopular.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Note that there’s basically zero chance of Amy Klobuchar losing the governor’s race at this point and has been for awhile. Any argument that she’s tacking center on an issue “because she has to” is simply false.

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rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Let’s be honest, she’s getting it either way atp. Sure hope somebody can mount a primary challenge to her second term.

rot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Unfortunately she doesn’t have to. She’s already won. Nobody bothered rallying behind a primary challenger so now she walks to the governorship.