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this happened to me with the Garfield film franchise.
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this happened to me with the Garfield film franchise.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
the people who made this thing should be treated like dealers who mix fent into drugs.
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There's clear logic to their belief system. They view 2a as their (racist) protection against minorities and sending troops into cities jibe with that ideology.
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I hope you're serious. please organize and do this asap.
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"Welcome aboard, here's your first assignment: please brainstorm five examples of why good people in power is bad for society and also, if you have the time, find ten examples where bombing civilians was considered peaceful. Thx!"
August 22, 2030: ThirdWay releases its annual list of phrases serious Democrats should avoid using if they want to seek leadership positions in the labor cadres of their internment camps: “typhus” “mass grave” “summary execution” “human rights” “quicklime”
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She works for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank currently run by a Heritage foundation bro. Their recent work includes urging RFK JR to ban the abortion pill and all gender supportive care. So it's like she should be surprised by medicaid cuts, her employer surely celebrates it.
Isaac Chotiner rises Dracula-style from his bed. Who will be the victim of Normal Journalism today. Who will suffer the fate of Unexceptional, Occasionally Frankly Obvious Questions Which For “Some Reason” No One Asks Anymore today.
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What's unsaid is he believes "the treatment that they need" is euthanasia.
My best tweet ever was “Let’s put the cialis in socialism” and I’m still mad it didn’t go wildly viral
the two biggest information polluters on the planet right now -- short-form video and chatbots -- work on exactly the same underlying architecture: delivering highly personalized garbage that has been sweetened by a host of psychological engagement tricks all while concealing the delivery process.
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I guess I should click through!
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This entire exchange relies on the idea that the elections of 2026 will be free and fair. There is ample evidence to suggest they will be rigged by day-of snafus in key dem polling places
Love this line so much. But: this can also apply to optimism. The idea that we will magically be saved is imo not that far from thinking it’s magically impossible to achieve a solution. Either way, the emphasis is on inaction. The focus thus needs to be on action, not just the opposite of each.
"You’re Not Supposed to Remember the Book - The idea that we should remember everything we read rests on a very particular and largely incorrect model of memory. It treats the brain like a hard drive, where books are files that either load completely or not at all, but memory is not a filesystem."
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The Authoritarian Playbook would suggest ICE Thugs posted up at all urban polling places. A few well-timed fights with those in line to shut down key precincts and that's the ballgame.
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2019, my year of Big Thief and nothing else.
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Tenants of the Trees so Trump has a place he'll feel comfortable
That's ten times what the federal government has ever spent on sex changes for trans people in prison btw
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That fact that 10cc and Harold Melvin both made it this far gives me hope for the return of absolute smoothness.
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In case you're wondering, people who work on the ground in DC say there are no shelter beds available.
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can't believe I missed this -- spaced out, made my ranking and didn't submit!
yeah they are going to decide this and give republican states enough time to draw new maps
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exactly correct.
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Everything this man has written in the last 15 years boils down to the constitution being too concrete and should instead be rewritten to create rules that allow the ruler to make decisions based on the ability to instill "correct" social order and hierarchy. (aka he's a literal fascist.)
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Yes, massive demographic changes are visible in a single year. Apparently unrelated, abolish ICE.
We are closer to the precipice than people realize. Remember, Cornyn is asking *Kash Patel* and *Dan Bongino* to arrest Democrats. How long until other Rs start asking for Ds to be arrested in other contexts? How long do norms hold at the FBI?
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This sentence hits: "...Williams’s analysis lacks proportion. He does not seem to grasp that the left’s illiberalism occupies a marginal position in mainstream Democratic politics and the right’s illiberalism possesses a stranglehold on the Republican Party."
If you ask to try ice cream flavours in a long line you, my friend, are going to HELL! And there’s no ice cream there!
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Look, I know it's a conservative doing it, but I give you permission to get excited about blowing up the moon.
losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...
Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.
apropos of nothing during the cold war the CIA would put out info on the soviet economy heavily caveated with “these are estimates, we assume the soviet govt has their own numbers for internal use” and after 1991 found out they actually didn’t
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That's terrible, although I would definitely watch the ensuing play, "The Secret of the Hollyhocks."
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at this point that is a sane conclusion to make.
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Well, Cortez Mastro isn't up until next year. She sunk Mangi purely for the sport. Here's an article on (in my mind) her wrongheaded thinking: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
CBS NEWS, statement from Giuffre family: “It was shocking to hear Trump say he was aware Virginia was ‘stolen’ from Mar-A-Lago… we are asking for answers… If our sister could speak today, she would be most angered by the fact that the government is listening to a known perjurer.”
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I'm not blaming Schumer! someone else is!
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it's not about this vote.
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for sure 7 figures, no?
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Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, and Joe Manchin are the reason for Bove.
This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
this answer would end a Dem presidency within the hour
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There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed studies that show this concept is not true. if you place *enough* housing where people want to live, longtime residents will not be placed out as the newer, more luxurious housing will attract the gentrifiers. Most areas haven't built enough for demand.
The files were both doctored by the Democrats to make Trump look bad, and then suppressed by Democrats to...uh...um
Neal Dusedau (@nealdusedau.bsky.social) reply parent
similarly, Neu's Hero shows up sounding fully post-punk just before the initial punk explosion.
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truly a shock A Glass of Champagne is from 1975 and not a new wave hit from 1983.
It's unaccountably painful to hear Jeffries speak this way—now. Of course he's right, but last year, when NY Dems had the chance to pass a counter-gerrymander in response to terribly skewed maps in TX, FL, and elsewhere, he happily signed off on a do-nothing plan. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
hell? yea, brother
Neal Dusedau (@nealdusedau.bsky.social) reply parent
not your point, but I think at this point a pee tape being the extent of it is a failure of our collective imagination in 2016
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the best Neu song was done dirty with this lineup. Can't believe a boring Dylan pastiche took 33% of the vote.
this is correct re partisan gerrymandering and it is the duty of every blue state to do its best to maximize Democratic representation in Congress.
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Nigel's cameos are worth every penny for those big life events. nobody says "Congrats, you're cancer free!" like a frog-faced bigot.
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Germany was divided into two countries post WWII -- West Germany and East Germany. West Germany had elections throughout that period starting in 1949.
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Think of it this way, 5 Million Nazi soldiers died in World War II and Hitler would have been fine with it as long as his project was a success.
democracy! 🤷🏼♂️ 🇺🇸
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I've heard this is all rumor and speculation -- there was going to be a collab between vogue and amazon re the wedding that fell apart and somehow that lead to speculation Bezos wanted to buy Condé Nast or just the magazine (by far the most profitable part of Conde).
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privately owned -- The Newhouses. They've owned for like a 100 years.
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The weather modification is called climate change
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Is there a historical comparison you would make?
Oh god they really bodied him here. The problem with Abundance is that it so frequently conflates Klein's "everything bagel" and "process over outcomes" diagnoses with what actually happens--governing bodies cowering to vested corporate interests.
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The two administrations are/were ideologically opposed on most subjects, but protecting wealthy elites is not one of them.
I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.
My take is that if Republican members of Congress in New York vote for this horrendous bill, when the state legislature has to fill the gap, it should exclude the districts of whichever members voted for it and levy specific taxes on their local industries to raise revenue for it.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
man it’s gonna be a police state but of people who were too stupid to be police
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.
Extremely dark that the entire U.S. government is lying down to be steamrolled by something called the Trump agenda for fear of some force called "Donald Trump" while the actual Donald Trump has no idea what's happening
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
find them: reps.fyi
murkowski last week: lmao wouldn’t it sooo funny if i caucused with the dems murkowski this week: you’re all gonna die sry :(
Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals
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Living proof you can be fired for repeated plagiarism and you will only get bigger opportunities if you're willing to do PR for the worst people in the world.
For perspective: a recent study suggested that economic savings from just a *single* well-predicted hurricane, thanks to NOAA research advancements, are on order of *$5 billion.* That exceeds NOAA's *entire proposed annual operating budget.* So much for government efficiency.
You live in a country that is establishing concentration camps & soon will be stripping citizens of their papers.
Republicans are about to decimate Medicaid across the country and their top two Senate leaders are trying to get their states exempted from the cuts at the 11th hour.
I have to say I do not love the idea of throwing $40 billion at an agency that's clearly making it up as it goes along and staffed entirely by law enforcement flotsam that couldn't get hired as prison guards. I bet a lot of people wouldn't, but I understand there's a new mayoral nominee to denounce.
Look there’s a lot of competition but tagging @jamellebouie.net in a post about a random diplomatic maneuver in Africa may be one of the most racist things Vance has ever put his name to. He even doesn’t cover foreign policy! It’s literally the VPOTUS declaring “you people are all the same to me.”
Republicans in Congress are currently trying to ram through a bill that would the biggest wealth transfer in history. Here are some of the most extreme cuts, giveaways to the rich, and impacts that the bill will have. What they're trying to do is simply shocking. 🧵
Due to the drastic Medicaid cuts in the bill, 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close, and more than half would have to cut staff.
Republicans are proposing the largest cut to the social safety net in US history www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
I'm so tired of having to bring it up, but I refuse to let people exploit Jewish identity to leverage Islamophobia. And this vicious, racist campaign *by Democrats* against Zohran Mamdani shows how necessary it is
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you get that 900 Million is less than a billion and more than anyone can reasonably spend in a lifetime. These guys have 200X that amount.
The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.
love to refresh my feed every thirty seconds to see if the Senator from Alaska has voted to fund the gestapo and end Medicaid
Trump and Stephen Miller want a vast secret police apparatus and they are building it right out in the open.
BREAKING: the chief of police in Huntington Park says they arrested a man Tuesday accused of impersonating a federal agent, with fake DHS docs, cell phones and a loaded gun in an unmarked car, amid ongoing ICE raids. They discovered he had a history of arrests for human smuggling
Hey, I know the people who need to hear this are probably not on this site, but here’s a free tip: Stop resigning. Make the fascists fire you. Make them own their actions, then fight it with whatever legal remedies you can find. We can’t win if people don’t fight.
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100%. Though you left out a key last point -- "and are scared their privilege is about to be taken away."
I'm hearing a lot of "Jews in New York are scared" today. So, a couple of thoughts: 1) Jews should be angry, not scared. We were targeted with a relentless, heavily funded barrage of lies playing off of real fears of antisemitism by a man who came within 7 points of winning. That reeks of contempt.>
centrists constantly complain about the left being insufficiently partisan and then line up behind a Democrat who handed the state Senate to Republicans and then gerrymandered the state to their benefit
If older liberals and left liberals want to know how to make us like you, you can follow the example of Brad Lander, who realized his campaign was not as likely to win and stepped in to support the person who was surging.
A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible