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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'd love to try it. Can you provide any examples of someone doing that successfully?

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I think voting is important and also other things are important. this doesn't seem like it should be super controversial.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 19/06/2026

feel free to dig at le cringe libs when they actually do something stupid but getting out the vote... is actually not one of them imo. tbh. fwiw. afaik. fawc. ymmv. ngl. iykwim.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026

No, no, you don't understand. Voting gets in the way of the revolution and we can't have that.

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out here on google looking up images of Black revolutionaries and freedom struggle activists laughing and enjoying themselves it's honestly really nice.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: they are opening access to captured russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.🧵 1/2 trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

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For Clinton, I feel like the argument that he bears some specific responsibility is weaker and he's more of a generic placeholder. IMO we were really set on our current path starting with SCOTUS stealing the 2000 election for Bush.

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Obama and Biden both decided they needed to turn the page and look forward, rather than actually enforce the law and impose penalties on the lawbreakers that preceded them.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

That was Trump's particular appeal, but at least three of these men made decisions that enabled our current state. Bush and his administration attacked "the reality-based community" and generally kickstarted the current era of GOP presidential lawlessness with the war on Iraq and the torture memos.

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I think it’s important to keep talking about children and social media, but I also think that debate is a cover for what these laws are really about: surveilling the entire population online

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

People forget that Boston has an elite mayor as well

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c t @whatulysses.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

can't argue with this.

screenshot from a pop-up window received after downloading Microsoft Office. It features a yellow triangle with an exclamation point and the text, "'Microsoft Teams' is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The Plot to Enslave America

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/06/2026

PACER collected more than $150 million in fees last year. That’s a drain on the public for viewing the work of our own public servants. The Open Courts Act is the right fix. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Court Records Should Be Free

Court records belong to the public. Yet anyone seeking access to federal court filings through PACER, a government software system that stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records, is

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/06/2026

“In the spirit of friendship and mutual understanding, the United States is proud to welcome some of the most contagious bacteria and viruses ever to infect the human biome,” said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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RFK Jr. Hosts Meet-And-Greet With Infectious Diseases

WASHINGTON—Hailing the exclusive gathering as an opportunity to usher in an era of peace and goodwill, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosted a lively meet-and-greet Thursday with a variety of ...

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth National Independence Day! On this day in 1865, "Union troops arrived in Galveston, TX, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the last enslaved people in the country—more than two years after the Proclamation was officially issued."

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Anne C. Serling @anneserling.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My dad's response to a letter: "As to your questions-for relaxation I build model airplanes and read. I can't dance the length of a small closet, but I like music. My pet peeves are Senator McCarthy and the Ku Klux Klan. My favorite people are Eleanor Roosevelt and Jackie Robinson." Rod Serling

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

it is not possible to govern inoffensively.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16/06/2026

There is complete industry consensus on this. Every reputable cryptographer on the planet agrees: Signal’s cryptographic protocols are the most secure in class. Period. Just because your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate told you otherwise doesn’t make it true

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Here's my actual true opinion. The only way to fix all of this nonsense is rent affordability and health care . If people can afford the rent and get healthcare, then they can start and go to work for normal businesses, and write and make art and music. And there can be third places, etc etc.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org · 19/06/2026

Today in DC, the Democratic Socialist candidate declared victory in the Mayoral primary. Tomorrow, Juneteenth celebrations. Saturday, DC Pride parade. Have a nice weekend, Donald.

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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Anyone up for a Dip in DC today?

Judge Doom's gloved hand holds a shoe over the green Reflecting Pool in Washington DC in the first image - in the second, the shoe has been Dipped and begins to melt

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up with either a notable lack of discussion about how to overcome said obstacles once they've been recognized, or a call to disengage from politics in favor of a revolutionary fantasy. Structural issues are real things, but they're also a thought-ending cliche.

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which, when it fails, they then use as proof that the system is broken beyond repair and the cycle repeats. And speaking only for myself here, these days when I see someone saying the left doesn't make more political progress because of structural obstacles, I kind of expect for it to be followed

sort of long-term and/or creative political organizing that would allow them to overcome or mitigate some of those structural disadvantages and actually win and start making changes. Occasionally they launch an enthusiastic but disorganized presidential campaign,

(gently) I'm not saying it isn't a real concern. I'm saying there is a significant strain of the modern left that sees those structural disadvantages, declares the system to be irredeemable, tells (or demands) others not to engage with the system, and then denigrates others' efforts to do the

the court to expire by attrition, or impeaching all the justices? Is there any mechanism for bootstrapping SCOTUS if either the executive or the legislature refuse to play their respective roles? And if not, is SCOTUS still a requirement if the other two branches can just decline to seat it?

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clever application of those term limits. The question that I've been wrestling with is what if SCOTUS were eliminated from the other direction, by a series of presidents refusing to nominate, or a gentlemen's agreement in the Senate to never confirm, another justice and then either allowing

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I'm not a lawyer, and I know this is an old thread, but there's a question that's been gnawing at me since I saw this post. The thread started by asking if imposing term limits on justices was constitutional, since it could conceivably allow for the court to be functionally eliminated with

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To be honest, I don't see your point. The left's been complaining that politics isn't fair since before I joined the Greens and volunteered for the Nader campaign in 2000.

Again, I agree that structural disadvantages exist. But leftists have a track record of taking ridiculous long shots, losing, and then declaring the system is hopelessly stacked against them and demanding people disengage from electoralism, when their attempt wasn't really serious to start with.

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Look at it this way: if one wanted to win the World Series, but showed up with a hockey team and an avowed disinterest in knowing or learning how to play baseball, would you consider it reasonable if they called the system "rigged" because they always got beaten by actual baseball teams?

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