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just a reminder that Schmitt hired the guy who was too much of a Nazi for Ron DeSantis

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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
Jason Wilson
Fri 6 Jun 2025 08.00 EDT

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the fact that SCOTUS is allowing Trump to do lawless shit 24/7 but some random judge in Staten Island can block the mayor and governor of New York from taxing decamillionaires’ second homes really reveals how utterly absurd our judicial system is

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still thinking about this guy

FINANCIAL TIMES
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled... it's a new dawn."

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These Republicans are scum. Reminder that they are attempting to ruin Jack Smith's life — prosecute him for perjury! — only because he did his job as a public servant with integrity.

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TIL that acknowledging “inclusionary zoning” can function in an exclusionary manner is comparable to replacement theory this is so stupid I can’t even be offended by it

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“free transit is likely the best investment a city can make dollar for dollar” and yet no major city on earth has adopted it curious!

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PSA: the sweetgreen CEO is speaking at a MAHA summit right before JD Vance and RFK Jr. if you haven’t already, find another slop bowl to replace it with. my personal fav is Naya, which was founded by a Lebanese immigrant

4:25 to 4:55 PM • REAL FOOD AT SCALE
• Michael Boes Chief MAHA Officer, Steak 'n Shake
• Scott Morris Senior Vice President, Private Brands Walmart U.S.
• Jonathan Neman, Co-Founder & CEO, Sweetgreen
• Moderated by Stefanie Spear, Principal Deputy Chief of Staff, HHS
4:55 to 5:00 PM • EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT
• Cheryl Hines Actress & Author
5:00 to 5:30 PM • IN CONVERSATION:
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE & SEC. KENN
(Fireside Chat)
• Vice President JD Vance
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of U.S. Department of Health anc
Human Services

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it is quite confusing that “inclusionary zoning” is not the opposite of “exclusionary zoning”, but actually functions as a tool of exclusionary zoning

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it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hopefully Karen Bass using free transit as a cynical, half-baked electoral Hail Mary while Zohran and Nithya are laser focused on actually improving service will kill the silly free transit idea once and for all

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

really does not seem good that the two leading candidates in France are: -fascist antisemite -communist antisemite

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it’s so cool that every braindead MAGA weirdo is also a NIMBY

Michelle Ugenti-Rita (MUR) • @MichelleUgenti
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Thank you @RobSchneider for helping me get through the primary election. I know you care as deeply about Scottsdale as I do. One more race to go. Vote Tuesday, November 3rd for the only two conservatives in this race for City Council: myself and @BarrySGraham!
No - Toilet to tap.
No - more high rise apartments changing our skyline.

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we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water

Across the basin, alfalfa hay uses more than 5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — that's 26% of all the water consumed in the basin. One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two or three households.
In the Upper Basin, irrigated agriculture consumes 2.8 million acre-feet, or nearly half the water used by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, the environment, reservoirs and water exports out of the basin. Cattle-feed crops, like alfalfa, consume 90% of all water used by Upper Basin agriculture.
That means alfalfa uses more water than cities, commercial users and industries across the entire basin:
Collectively, these users consume about 3.5 million acre-feet, or 18%, of the river's water. The Colorado River

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it’s so cool that Crockett isn’t campaigning for Talarico because she is “focused on downballot candidates” and then refused to do anything for downballot candidates and instead gave an award to Chris brown

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Germany needs to just fucking ban these Nazis already and throw them all in prison

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Andrea Campbell is using her power as AG to protect trans kids and force NIMBY towns to build more housing meanwhile Michelle Wu is focused on stopping bus lanes from being built When I lived in Boston, I voted for Campbell over Wu for mayor because I knew she actually gave a shit

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it’s particularly on-brand that Scott Wiener is an active participant in SF Transit Month while Connie Chan is nowhere to be found (which is unsurprising given that she fought against the ballot measure that saved Caltrain during the pandemic)

Elected Officials
Leaderboard - Rides - San Francisco Bay
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Top elected officials, appointed officials, candidates or board members who live in the San Francisco Bay Area by ride count for September 1 - 6

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1 Alfred Twu
138 mi

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2 D7 Myrna Melgar
64.6 mi
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3 Scott Wiener
31.6 mi
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4 Marina MIMBY
16.3 mi
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5 Joaquín Torres
109 mi
3
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6 EmilyM
46.6 mi
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9

7 Emma Hare, DCCC
18.7 mi
2
9

8 James4mv
32.9 mi
3
8

9 SaraLovesBART
29.8 mi
2
8

10 busbaddie
10.8 mi
1
8

11 RebeccaEC
40.0 mi
3
7

12 Rockgirl
94.6 mi
1
4

13 H.B.
34.8 mi
2
4

14 Janice Li
11.0 mi
1
4

15 Danny Sauter D3
3.8 mi
1
4

16 Lydia S
12.9 mi
2
3

17 IttyBittyP
10.9 mi
2
2

18 Sam Gould
4.3 mi
1
2

19 ChristinePelosi
2.1 mi
1
2

20 Mike Chen
1.4 mi
1
2

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gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas

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this is especially egregious because the housing project being debated will house hundreds of people my rule of thumb is that if the NIMBYs can’t even match the capacity of a new apartment building, their protests should be summarily rejected

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

republicans: the party of severe and permanent brain damage

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it’s actually fucking crazy that they’re using our taxpayer dollars to air this propaganda slop

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

they said that if I voted for Kamala we would have a green degrowther president. looks like they were right

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Andy you think he cares about your fat ass" is the perfect response to MAGA right now. Trump truly does not care about Andy's fat ass. He's got a ballroom to build.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

take a second to just imagine how good it’s going to feel waking up on November 4th and seeing that the evil that is Susan Collins has finally been exorcised from the Senate, once and for all secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_t...

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DEFEAT SUSAN COLLINS!

Troy Jackson is a fifth-generation logger – now, he’s running for Senate to defeat Susan Collins. Donate any amount to join the fight and flip Maine blue.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This helped Zohran an immense amount in the 2025 primary, in that it—and his positioning that he had been *convinced* of it by evidence—provided a permission structure for more centrist goo-goo liberals to get behind him.

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it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats

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Maine voters be like: I am a socialist who wants to impeach Trump but I’m voting for Susan Collins because democrats are too pro-trans

A Gallup poll shows 43% of Americans now have a positive view of Socialism. I couldn't agree more. 250 years of unfettered capitalism has shown that it doesn't serve the needs of our culture. When an American citizen gets done paying for all the basic living expenses, how much discretionary income does one really have to engage in capitalism? Air, food, water, healthcare, and even electricity should be part of some Basic Standard of Living Socialist

Kim McNamara @Namara18Mc • 5/27/25
Why would anyone vote for another Susan Collins ver
haven't we learned anything over the last
20 years? I know I have.
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@sirpenski
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For me, its all about @SenatorCollins being chair of senate appropriations, the most powerful committee in all of government. If @GovJanetMills would just tell the boys to stop playing with the girls and go play with the boys, I think we'd see senator collins delivering good things for maine.

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@sirpenski • 6/3/26
The Trump administration is so abhorrent and the need for him to get impeached is so great, Platner could be accused of an adrenochrome overdose after eating 4 toddlers and he still would get the nom.
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Texas Sky @TexasSky3 • 6/3/26
How much did you donate to him? This guy is corrupt, immoral, amoral, a literal Nazi, socialist & you are still going to vote for him?
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@sirpenski
X.com
Zero. Susan Collins is chair of senate appropriations.
She is smart, elegant, kind, and very statesman like.
Yes, she makes tough choices but we're an older demographic up here. Platner is an idiot but we've got to stop Trump from killing. 25000 bodies lie in the

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gotta say it doesn’t seem great that the Brooklyn Democratic Party is unilaterally elevating an anti-Zohran NIMBY grifter like Paperboy Prince

Brendan Egan @bse229
X.com
I think one of the most but also least shocking things of the Brooklyn Dem Party drama is that Paperboy Prince fully sold out and is now being elected to countywide officer under Rodynese Bichotte. TBT when he was anti-machine
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The fact that a bunch of lefty state legislators signed onto this ridiculous anti-nuclear fearmongering letter is unbelievable Cuomo teamed up with RFK Jr. shut down a nuclear plant and it caused NY emissions to skyrocket!

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this headline reminds me of my favorite Trump 1 tweet

Jacob Wohl
@JacobAWohl
I just a left a hipster coffee shop. It was packed with liberals, whispering amongst each other about what a commendable job President Trump did with Vladimir Putin this morning in Helsinki - America is PROUD!

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

nothing but solidarity for our Ukrainian allies pursuing a double victory: Victory against Russia at home Victory against Republicans in America

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holy shit, dems actually have a chance to flip the PA Senate and NC leg to get trifectas in both states I have updated the optimized state donation list so we can donate to these candidates that just need a little bit of $ to take advantage of what could be the biggest blue wave in history

Chaz Nuttycombe ®
@ChazNuttycombe
NEW PA STATE LEGE POLLS €
PA SD-36 (Trump +15) |
PA SD-40 (Trump +7) ||
PA HD-41 (Trump +5) | (
Jones +3
Brown +3
Chambers +1

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s kind of funny how everyone is talking about Berlin electing their own zohran when in reality Die Linke’s housing proposals will essentially halt all homebuilding and cause rents to skyrocket my favorite proposal they have is halting all development incompatible with neighborhood character

Beschleunigung und Priorisierung von Bauvorhaben
Große Bauvorhaben werden zu langsam entwickelt. Vorhaben, die gut erschlossen, stadtebaulich integriert sowie umweltverträglich sind, werden priorisiert und beschleunigt, strittige Projekte entschie-den: Nicht kiezverträgliche Nachverdichtungen werden gestoppt.
Die LWU sollen vermehrt durch Aufstockungen bezahlbaren Wohnraum schaffen.

Large-scale construction projects are being developed too slowly. Projects that are well-connected, integrated into the urban fabric, and environmentally compatible will be prioritized and fast-tracked, while decisions will be made regarding controversial projects: densification measures incompatible with the local neighborhood will be halted. Municipal housing

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I love me a good october* surprise against one of the worst senators in the country that a blue state keeps electing for some reason *late September

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

stumbled upon the first Ken Paxton supporter on insta that I’ve seen in a while and of course he’s a fucking used car dealer next dem administration needs to crush these extractive jobs that just funnel donations to the far right: used car dealer, crypto scammer, sports betting websites, etc

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Clearly my
bros and sistas need to stop
voting blue. I know it's what their parents did and parents parents, but it has accomplished nothing and gotten worse. How's the new property tax increase going? Blue votes won.
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@officialjasonharwood Republicans have run Texas for 30 years straight. No wonder it's gotten worse
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rbinhouston2000 3d
@protecting_account_ Don't worry. He was just posting from the wrong account.
He thought he was posting from his burner.
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officialjasonharwood 3d • Edited @rbinhouston2000 nope. My Personal account. Observing the sadness in the Jewish community that they feel obligated to vote Democrat. Enjoy the higher property taxes that your blue men and women voted for.

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Bodnar is going nuclear on Bankhead and really he needs to make this race at all competitive

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 22/09/2026

If you are comparing rerouting a bus to the Nazis, you are a deranged lunatic, not a concerned citizen.

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I’m gonna say it: the NY Mag story on Troy Jackson is some stupid shit and perfect example of what frustrates me most about political media. Jackson is on a path to win and has had zero notable scandals some staffers are whining about how the candidate isn’t paying attention to them; who cares?

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lots of corruption these days is more along the lines of “you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours” so a good old-fashioned smoking gun like this hits even harder

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