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Straw Raccoon

@strawraccoons.bsky.social
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Used to be on the other site. Still stuck in Texas. Communist. MA in History. Antizionist Jew. Former journalist. Current type 1 diabetic.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Huge cheers at DSA slate election night party as Brad Lander kimis declared the projected winner for NY-10
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
RESULT: Brad Lander has ousted Rep. Dan Goldman in the Democratic primary in #NY10. The AP called it within minutes of polls closing.
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Weird Bros @weirdbros.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Less a sequel, more of a continuation perhaps? bsky.app/profile/dail...
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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Two thoughts: 1. This is basically the Epstein list. 2. A lot of things start making sense when you realize who all is working together.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Opinions of Platner aside, it’s pretty wild that multiple elected Democrats feel comfortable suggesting that candidates be taken off the ballot and replaced
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ted Lieu said out loud the perfect example of why solidly blue state dems are like this When the party is this dominant, someone within it is a bigger threat to you than the GOP and it warps your threat assessment
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We’ll see what happens in the election but I have a real fear of CA morphing from a fundamentally blue state into a full technocratic libertarian nightmare, all because it’s still couched in the word “democrat”. www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/18/b...
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Crypto billionaires bankroll $500K for anti-Elward ads in North Bay Assembly race
Grow California, founded by crypto titans Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, seeks to curb the power of unions in the state Legislature. Its attack ads target union-backed candidates.
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The end point of small-holder populism is unlimited handouts to farmers, small business owners, and homeowners while you continue to prosecute big companies for putting fewer chips in the bag.
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GeoEconOrbit @geoeconorbit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
At least four US/Israeli airstrikes targeted the Lavan Oil Refinery on Lavan Island in the Persian Gulf. At least two refinery tanks are now on fire, and the facility's staff have been evacuated. These strikes took place several hours after the beginning of the ceasefire. 🔴 t.me/GeoEconOrbit
At least four US/Israeli airstrikes targeted the Lavan Oil Refinery on Lavan Island in the Persian G
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/04/2026
um so who’s bringing sanctions against the u.s.? why isn’t the unsc calling an emergency meeting? why aren’t democrats doing a full court press for impeachment? this shit makes putin look moderate by comparison.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A lot of Trump voters I spoke to during the campaign were convinced the Wrong People were getting free stuff and that Trump would make sure the Right People (them) got it. bsky.app/profile/fact...
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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"'Don't think that a small, ragged band cannot fight against a modern army.' 'It will be a war between an elephant and a tiger. If the tiger ever stands still, the elephant will crush him and pierce him with his mighty tusks.' That was the prediction of Ho Chi Minh on September 11, 1946."
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing
photo showing the rescuers saving the dog, next to the statue commemorating themcloseup on the base of the statue, showing a dog and a man in a ball cap the top of the statue, where the person at the top of the slope has his hand outstretched so the viewer can "help" pull him up
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It’s already getting really ugly.
Maximum ahasan: All of Bangladesh’s fertiliser plants are fully shut — in a country of more than 170 million people to feed.
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Kathleen J. Frydl @kfrydl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Equally notable, Mamdani has a state-centered path for accomplishing this, including: --limit outsourcing --negotiating favorable prices for medicine
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
no she‘s not. we are.
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Tom Ley @toley.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:
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>LEAKLIV:/ @leakliv.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 The Iran War is currently the largest oil shock in terms of million barrels produced per day in history. Over 5 times the OPEC embargo after the Yom Kippur War and Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, both of which caused major global recessions.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 09/03/2026
Center on Conscience & War
@CCW4COs
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You can preemptively register as a Conscientious Objector if you are worried about being drafted.
To do so you register for the Selective Service, and write "I am a CO" when you do so. For extra protection you can do the CO application & send to us to keep on file for you.Center on Conscience & War
@CCW4COs
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You can preemptively register as a Conscientious Objector if you are worried about being drafted.
To do so you register for the Selective Service, and write "I am a CO" when you do so. For extra protection you can do the CO application & send to us to keep on file for you.Talk to a professional rights counselor now-it's free, secure and anonymous.
1-800-379-2679
DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE.
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.” @jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump
Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.
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Tony @tallarico.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Fuck no. Epstein Class is PHENOMENAL branding for ALL billionaires. EPSTEIN CLASS = WEALTHY ELITE & CORRUPT POLITICIANS. NOTHING ELSE. Any tries using it as a dog whistle, beat their ass.
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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Nothing has made me reconsider my relationship to Judaism more than the actions of the Israeli state.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Some of this stuff could be lifted word for word from a British colonial office briefing in the 20s
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
my hot take of the day: medicare for all should include pet care. signed: someone who just watched a man break down in tears at the vet because he was struggling to decided whether he should take on the vet costs of the dying stray he brought in.
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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
They write about their bots "creating" and "generating" things when their bots open the jar of baby food and spoon it into their mouths. Also occasionally the baby food contains broken glass and novichok.
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 04/03/2026
Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It’s so weird that not so long ago, like, less than 20 years, the progressive feminist position was gender de-segregation in sport and other male dominated spaces. Then the terfs came along and convinced the mainstream that the most progressive feminist position is that women are weak and feeble.
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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
With 30% of vote reporting in Arkansas, John Adams (the more liberal candidate in the state supreme court race) is ... LEADING 50.8% to 49.2% against the conservative Nick Bronni, who was appointed to the court by Governor Huckabee Sanders. A long way to go—but fascinating so far. Context:
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Spanish for The Niño @supermills.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It is making me insane. She's black and says mean things about Trump on Bill Maher so she progressive. Talarico says Jesus stuff so he moderate.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/03/2026
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions. What stage of the apocalypse is this? polymarket.com/event/nuclea...
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
getting our asses kicked is our best possible outcome as a country
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Just following orders is not an accepted defense for crimes against humanity. Thinking about that for no reason today
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🕷️Spectre of Communism🕷️, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I'd rather live in a world where Iranian children are alive and Khameni is tweeting stupid shit than a world where those children are dead and Khameni is dead.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile
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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The GOP became cartoonishly overt fascists who are polling a thousand points underwater on everything and the Democratic Party have responded by becoming 2003-era Neocons whose only disagreements with the GOP are procedural quibbles.
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