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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Shouldn't Tillis be in the running?

Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Another interpretation is they're simply emphasizing he is in fact the nominee - ie, the primary is over and it's time to focus on the general

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My guess is it's simply a desperate attempt to justify & create a use-case for the Optimus robot

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I both care a great deal about Earth's environment and despise Elon Musk, but even so I don't see the SpaceX rocket crashing on the moon as a problem of any kind

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's Kilmar Abrego García redux - an innocent individual targeted by the federal government because through no fault of their own they became a symbol of that same government's malice and/or incompetence

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

it's adorable that she thinks Trump's mind can be changed by empirical evidence

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

this "smaller action which is actually doable vs larger action which currently isn't" mindset is very important

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I assume the claim refers to Michigan voting for Trump, whose hostility to EVs was very clear

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

man if only Trump were actually concealing a terminal illness

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

at some point, probably already in the past, the media needs to start asking Republicans under which circumstances if any a Democrat's election to national office is legitimate

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"they buy into this notion of a utopia, free stuff, everyone's going to get a lot of money" from the same people who were trying to convince MAGA they'd be getting DOGE dividend checks

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The modern world and its wonders we take for granted, like electrical power & clean water at the flip of a switch and our free political institutions, are the result of centuries of effort by dedicated, smart people. They are not the natural order of things, and they will collapse if not maintained.

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Every D presidential candidate should be very clear that jet is going to remain the property of the US government in 2029, not be DJT's personal toy

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

this headline sounds like he's telling cool stories around a campfire. what does it take to just state that he's delusional? pretend Joe Biden said it

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Remember what "to negotiate" means to Trump: "arrive late to the next negotiating session, walk into the room where his fuming counterpart sits waiting impatiently, remain standing and looking down at him, stick his finger into his chest and say “Fuck you!”" diplomacy simply does not exist for him

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

is edema symptomatic of anything possibly fatal? asking for a planet

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

these cosplaying pieces of shit really want to think they're soldiers

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

yep, denial is a tribalism marker

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I mean I still respect Elizabeth Warren but not quite as much as I did before reading that

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

eventually all but the diehard MAGA cultists will realize that between the interests of the United States and the interests of Donald Trump, Trump acts exclusively for the latter

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I hereby volunteer to capitulate to anyone who will guarantee me a perpetual multi-billion $ annual revenue stream in exchange for... nothing

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

maybe now would be a good time to pass some legislation modifying the single point-of-control for the country's nukes

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Am I misremembering that when OpenAI "fired" Altman a couple of years or so ago he was reinstated due to an employee revolt? Or did something there change in the meantime?

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"and they also got upset about other people's pronouns"

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Democrats should be in front of every camera they can find non-stop a) reminding service members of their duty to refuse illegal orders and b) stating that war crimes will be prosecuted

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Call for impeachment! Call for 25th amendment removal! Call Rs out by name and ask if they support genocide! Be clear everyone in the chain of command knows war crimes will be prosecuted! He's implying fucking nukes and you're tsk-tsking

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Ds MUST be clear these will be illegal orders that must be refused and will be prosecuted if carried out

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

this x 100 Ds should be making two things clear each and every day: the military has a duty to refuse illegal orders, and war crimes will be prosecuted

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

hell, it's only 530 EDT it could still happen today

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Alcatraz, oil, steam catapults - this senile mfer's mush-for-brains is stuck in the past and we're all paying for it

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

will never ever come to grips with the fact that a) this addled moron is President and b) a major political party dumped every principle they ever espoused in order to kiss his ass

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I remember thinking when Hegseth was being confirmed "maybe he'll recognize the enormity of this position and stop being such a cosplaying asshole". I knew even then that was just copium, but I hoped. didn't realize how it wasn't cosplay at all - he really is just a moronic, maga asshat douchebro

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Suppose two visitors, one white and one not, don't have docs - no doubt the consummate professionals at ICE will handle both of them fairly and identically without a hint of racial bias

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

why didn't I think of this - the thought of it almost totally compensates for the disgust I felt after hearing the initial news!

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Remember when Republicans kept yelling about the IRS under Obama targeting conservative groups? It was of course bullshit but also another example of every accusation is a confession

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." a true sociopath

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

given his pretty obvious sociopathy, I'd bet that even if he had been briefed on this it wouldn't have affected his actions in the slightest

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

That's ok though, because the GOP would rather have sole power in a 3rd-rate country than co-govern a great nation

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"thanks for the question, I know it was so well-meaning" jfc I will never get over how thin-skinned this little bitch is

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

my "nobody should be nervous to go to the airport" T-shirt is raising lots of questions

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

the president of the US literally lied about having spoken to a former president in support of his war and the press has completely forgotten about it because it doesn't even crack the top hundred list

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

it's only mid-afternoon, so it could still happen today

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

good thing the Japanese are famously chill when it comes to insults and matters of decorum & etiquette

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I'm firmly convinced the idea that "progress is a given" is responsible for a huge portion of our problems. People think the status quo is the natural order of things when of course it's the result of intentional research, development & maintenance, subject to reversal if those cease

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I thought the whole DOGE thing infuriated me when it was happening but man after *seeing* this and the Justin Fox clips it's 10x the rage

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I've always wondered how he kept finding contractors after famously not paying - didn't these guys talk to each other at all? they all thought "ah well, I'll no doubt be different"?

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Toby Schaffer @tobyschaffer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Trump: <slams dick in door, faceplants on pavement, steps on rake> CNN: Trump's inscrutable strategy keeps opponents guessing

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