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Unable to reach the governor or the AG.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h

Add a federal ban on capital punishment to the ever growing list of to-do-for-the-sake-of-the-republic when Dems take power in 2028, right next to SCOTUS reform and DC statehood, ect.

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I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 8h

SCOTUS should be forced to watch ever second of this botched execution

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This and Robert Hur were Garland's two actual biggest fuckups. Just letting foxes run free around the henhouse to show how magnanimous he was for a persuadable audience of zero.

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Well this could get interesting

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For any Rand freaks or Rand freak-curious, this essay has some really nice rebuttals of some of the laziest attacks on Rand. Essay is quite long, but it will also be a good reference to come back to. Writer is Chris Matthew Sciabarra, who knows his shit.

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The Russian Radical Eludes Ayn Rand’s Critics

Ayn Rand died on March 6, 1982.

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 8h

She's a hero and the next dem admin should pardon her.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.

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Meeting on the Astral Plane

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 10h

D reps and senators gotta start calling him Sleepy Donald Trump he needs to hear them call him this publicly and often it will enrage and provoke him into making even more mistakes, further eroding his support.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

for the second straight day, Trump -- face drooping -- is struggling to stay awake during a televised event

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h

Hegseth says “anti-American losers in our media” are committing “treason” by not obediently amplifying his Iran war lies. He hasn’t held a war briefing for reporters at the Pentagon since May. Which means he hasn’t justified his actions to the public, even though he’s conducting a war in our name.

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In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran

In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 10h

Michael Tracey is forcing himself back into the news cycle discourse in his own predictably disgusting ways, so here’s a link to the longform biographical episode we put out about him earlier this year with @robertsilverman.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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110: Who the Hell is Michael Tracey? feat. Bobby Silverman

Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · June 1 · 2h 31m

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

"Refugees, many of whom have fled the very dictatorships the right holds up as symbols of Communist or Islamist evil—Iran, Cuba, Vietnam—face confinement in hotels repurposed as prisons; beatings and threats by guards; lack of adequate food." In America.

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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door

“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 11h

The pro life people have spoken once again.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

Only doing this in states that are on the federally-run exchange also makes this another straight up theft from (mostly) blue states. Intolerable

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 11h

If 2028 isn't about real accountability (and revenge and retribution) then it will be about nothing worthwhile at all.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11h

The bullying and harassment that this will enable is the point. This administration wants to make life unbearable for “undesirable” populations. It’s fascist scapegoating 101. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 11h

I want Talerico to win because man I really want his campaign to stop texting me I don't even live in Texas and as soon as I stop one number I get another.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13h

NEW: Some Republicans, worried about their re-election bids, are "suddenly beginning to see ICE’s aggressive enforcement and lawlessness as politically toxic, something Americans have been signaling to pollsters since last summer." www.thebulwark.com/p/skittish-r...

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Skittish Republicans Discover That ICE Is Bad—for Their Campaigns

Some endangered incumbents are trying to outrun the electoral consequences of Trump’s immigration agenda.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 13h

We had ten billion views we have tremendous views

The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 13h

It's like a Key and Peele skit

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14h

It's all so much worse than anyone realizes.

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Josh Marshall: A lot of these bright red states have gone a pretty long time without a seriously contested partisan election, and it shows. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rusty...

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Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values

This afternoon I saw an ad being run by a SuperPAC supporting...

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 14h

I just want to point out how silly this media debate we keep having is. We need the media to spoonfeed to the electorate that Obviously Evil Plan is obviously evil, or else our whole liberal system falls apart? The problem is the voters. Many of them are not responsible enough to be allowed to vote

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

Might signal a pivot point in terms of the Silicon Valley capture of DOD spending away from vendors like Lockheed Martin. And that part of SV has been very pro-Trump and outspoken in their ideological goals. Will be hard for future Dem Presidents to dislodge them open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Procurement, Capacity and Soverignity

When your contractors are also your enemy

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, this might be important.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 19h

Mass resignation or total complicity in this absolute evil farce.

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I'm sorry no, voters aren't getting a pass on this one.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine being a part of this military in any capacity.

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Hegseth prayed to God for help in violently destroying the Iranians, and said that God does not answer the prayers of the enemy Then Hegseth discovered that God doesn't answer his prayers, either

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

this Pete Hegseth speech is indistinguishable from parody. words fail to describe the absurdity. here he's talking about governors coming to the Pentagon to grovel to him and Trump so they can be rewarded with a new military base

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This right wing culture needs to be fucking crushed. Nation destroying stuff.

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General officers and the entire officer corps will have to make a decision to either be a part of this project or not. You're either part of this new fascist military or you're not.

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