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The 2028 election posting is ridiculous. Let Democrats have a primary, with people advocating for or against whatever they care about. Binary choice and popular front logic don’t really apply until the general election. No one has to preemptively compromise, and berating them to is absurd.
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The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
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Upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) also set a new record high with the latest June data update (see my earlier post). Yikes! 🌊 Graphic/data (anomalies) from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...
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These are public employees who decided to leave rather than accept jobs where they actually did nothing. Remember that the next time they tell you that government employees are lazy and inefficient.
OTOH, who would let that nitwit in on anything?
I've been away from my phone for hours, and this got my hopes up.
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I hope you were able to make this pain into a cathartic cry.
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I have not gotten over this.
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Last Fall I wrote that "unelected bureaucrats are more accountable than you think" and I would like to amend that to "unelected bureaucrats are more accountable than Trump officials" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...
Yeah, no.
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If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
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Trump claims that (1) "half the restaurants" in D.C. were closed because of crime, but (2) in the two weeks since he took over D.C. they've reopened, and, what's more, (3) "new restaurants are opening up" (lol). Our @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social shows that this is—all of it—utter bullshit.
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One way of visualizing the variability and multidecadal decline of July #Arctic sea-ice thickness and sea-ice volume through 2025... + Data information (PIOMAS): climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...
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When Colorado transitioned to a universal Vote-at-Home system, election costs dropped by 30–40 percent. That’s fewer polling places, less staffing, and lower logistical overhead.
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National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
One would think they'd know better than to encourage a political affiliation to become edgy and cool.
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We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
This WaPo piece about the Airbnb/DOGE guy who is now the head of design in government ignores that: *DOGE fired the actual talented design people in government, including Social Security! *IRS had a beautifully designed tax filing system that DOGE killed *USDS already did online passport renewals
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note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
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"Eden" + "inhospitable island" = fugue state
This is bad folks. I just saw a Politico writer say on CNN that even though the statistics say crime is down people don't feel it (GODDAM VIBES AGAIN!!!) and even though they "may not like" political power grabs they like not feeling safe in their cities even less. They're helping him. Again.
Is 13 hours long enough for us to expect a musical like "Come From Away"?
Delighted for them, and for it not burning up Bluesky.
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"[B]eholden to" wasn't the correct choice here.
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Yeah, I don't understand why "Not a Republican is better," is hard to understand.
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A woman just walked by whose perfume smells like Waffle Cone. Is that a thing, or am I having a pleasant stroke?
“The Office of Management and Budget approved a fiscal 2025 spending plan for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that would claw back remaining funds at most of the agency’s line offices.”
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Mail voting is a secure way to cast a ballot. Get the facts: bit.ly/4fLDlDa
You didn't have to put yourself in the position of having to explain why Trump's use of the phrase was a lie and your use of it isn't.
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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To put all this much shorter: the right's vaccine denialism is not the left's fault. They didn't arrive at that skepticism because of something the left did. They SAY that, of course, because they blame the left for everything, but liberals don't have to take them at their word! They lie a lot!
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*sex (damn Internet brain rot, sorry!)
Whether or not one likes the emerging aesthetic—and, please, don't be yanked into debating its merits—this is another feature of fascism.
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B-b-but Stephen Miller said they're all 90-year-old white hippies, and I don't see any. 🤔
“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:
A susceptibility. bsky.app/profile/rebe...
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine that dramatically BOOSTS the immune system’s ability to fight tumors- even WITHOUT targeting a SPECIFIC cancer type. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery AND radiation treatment.
Research. Fund it. If it shows something acts differently by gender, age or ethnicity, fund it.
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Hah! Household just made gentlepersons' wager that he'll be claiming this as military service.
I can't be there, so someone please give him two🖕. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
The Department of Transportation relies on advisory committee experts to keep passengers and workers safe. The Trump administration just fired them all. From James Baratta: trib.al/ddIVp1A
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Thank you.
The more complicated the arrangement, the more likely there will be a vulnerability Putin will exploit.
"The trickle of emails is turning into a flood."
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This guy is a menace.
Still doesn't get it.
It’s on. See you in November.
It’s that time again
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What the actual fuck and when is America going to react?
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Everything is so fucking dumb www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Here are some of the things Trump is underwater on, according to the latest @pewresearch.org numbers 👇🏽 This is why he’s stealing seats. This is why he’s banning mail-in. This is why he wants the census re-done.
Former National Guard Vice Chief Major General Randy E. Manner says deploying the Guard to D.C. will ruin how the average American views the military.