‘Staying engaged is better than tuning out altogether. But many are really not using their time or energy in a way that could create change or make a difference.’ @sulliview.bsky.social offers ways to to move beyond hobbyism and into citizen action. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dont-be-a-...
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I am sure there are some white women who find celebrity itself an aphrodisiac.
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Also, he has struggled the last week, with OBP falling by about 100 points in that week.
Military honors for Jan 6 protestor Ashli Babbitt is unconscionable!
Meanwhile, the Law & Order president is defunding the police
One small example of how RFK, Jr will harm Americans I’ve represented hundreds of clients in a system which requires prior approval of medical procedures It’s often used as a cudgel to delay-or completely deny-treatment It’ll be worse if run by AI Makes the concept of “death panels” seem quaint
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The movie still causes gnashing teeth among conservative religious acquaintances.
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Kennedy, Trump, & MAGA will simply yell back "Deep State" & "Big Pharma" and that is how the RW media bubble will define it.
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Of course that is the goal of RFK Jr's policies. He is just sad he can't release Smallpox & really make America Healthy Again by killing off the "unfit," the disabled, the chronically ill, & the old. His explanation for every Measles, Flu, & COVID child death is "underlying health problems."
“But our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor…The Pennsylvania legislature passed a child labor law that sent children home from the mills, and kept others from entering the factory until they were fourteen.” www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
Me when my wife sees the browser history
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Actually, I wish he would spend all his time golfing with Stephen Miller, RFK Jr., & Stuart Vought so the 4 of them would have less time to spend on the destruction of the United States.
Heads up, this is just like the 17-year-old girl who wants to get to know you better. She doesn't exist, and it's probably some sort of a trap.
Ian. Happ. Goes. Boom.
IAN!!! TIE GAME
Just want everyone to know that Heater is being very brave in her stroller at the vet.
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
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New Hampshie currently has a Republican Governor (Sununu Jr.).
When he said he wanted to make America healthy again, he meant by unleashing a scourge that only the "healthy" would survive.
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RFK Jr. & other tech bro eugenicists give the game away when they say no "healthy child or adult" dies from Covid, Flu, Measles, pertussis, etc. When someone dies, they were therefore not "healthy" or "fit." Ideologically, they believe mass contagious diseases are necessary to thin the herd.
Yes, he's battle tested. Seven vacations in Six months. What other skills do MAGA presidents need?
At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.
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Yea, Jed Hoyer & Tom Ricketts made the right decision to release Kyle back in 2020 did the not?
Gorgeous sunset tonight
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly barring states and organizations that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants. This will make it harder for the most vulnerable people to get help in the aftermath of disasters. It was always about cruelty.
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
#ProudBlue ICE has been gassing this neighborhood in Portland almost every night. A school in the area is moving is campus to keep the kids safe. They don’t know exactly what gasses ICE has been using & doesn’t want to take the risk. WAKE THE FUCK UP, AMERICA!
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As he forgets that Germany & Japan surrendered unconditionally.
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Remember, there is a "secret" war against Christmas every time you say "Happy Holidays" rather than " Merry Christmas."
Wes Moore: "The president seems to be more concerned about my future than he is about the future of the American people."
Schiff on the release of the Ghislaine Maxwell transcript: "I don't think it will satisfy anyone. They go and they do this interview without the presence of a prosecutor who actually knows the facts, because they fired her. James Comey's daughter ... it all stinks to high heaven."
Schiff on the Bolton raid: "They're essentially going after any critic, any opposition in an effort to intimidate them. That's what this is about. It's not about Bolton per se. It's about anyone else that like Bolton might stand up to the president."
If you actually thought that the president was sending troops into the streets of major American cities and having random masked shitheads disappear delivery guys off scooters to distract from grocery prices being higher, I feel like you'd seem angrier about all that than Hakeem Jeffries does.
If you’re in Chicago, pissed off at the thought of a military takeover of our city, and want an outlet, come to my campaign’s punk show this Thursday at Gman Tavern. God knows I need it: katforillinois.com/concert
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So the Republicans & Trump divide & conquer. 20% of Black men voted for Trump in the last election. Now 60% of white men voted for him, & if break it down regionally 80% of Southern White men, but they have been a lost cause since 1876.
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The racism is just out front now.
Honestly, I think it’s disgusting that these so-called progressives keep spreading the outrageous lie that JD Vance fucked a couch. It’s misinformation, and it’s beneath all of us. He fucked an ottoman. Which is a completely different piece of furniture!
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Can we expelled Charlie Kirk the next time a Democrat is President?
Is there a single Australian who gives a rat’s shit what Bibi Netanyahu thinks? Netanyahu is a corrupt, loveless, narcissistic, irredeemable armchair warlord whose entire approach to leadership is a desire to escape personal accountability by abandoning moral authority. He is garbage, and fuck him.
Can I get an amen?
Slavery was bad… period — retired history teacher.
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He raised a Darwin Award Winner as well.
How was my day? Oh, I spent it reporting on a right wing memelord tied to the Cuomo campaign, thanks for asking! www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
I passed my PhD defence this morning! What a remarkably rewarding experience. I'm so grateful for everyone on my committee reading and thoughtfully engaging with my work. Very excited for what comes next and continuing my book history–disability studies work.
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How come Nazis always look so "Nazi?" I mean, this guy's photograph is proof there is no "superior" race.
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
Compliments of @derkoolschrank.bsky.social
Yeah, their ignorant, racist, pos "viewers" like being lied to....
Camille Zapata 🫡
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Gee, couldn't have happen to a "nicer" person.
here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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I wonder who Trump is going to fire when it is reported that the trade deficit is larger under him than it was in the last year of Biden's Administration. www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/08/la-p...
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Centrist media people get called the worst names imaginable by right-wingers and these folks simply as "may I have another." But criticized them from a lefty point of view and they take it as mortal threat to their existence.
You get yelled at constantly anywhere on social media. Anywhere on the internet! What's at issue here is specifically being *yelled at by lefties*, which for some reason people with power find the most unbearable possible experience.
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Checking in with Brian Beutler on why so many Democrats are unhappy with their leadership. www.offmessage.net?r=1pddy&utm_...
They do not.
We have a modern but less lethal version occurring here in Cincinnati right now over the recent “street brawl”. Multiple videos shows a drunken white guy clearly starting it and other whites using racial slurs but authorities have only arrested minorities. The lack of equitable justice is maddening.
Why aren't there more support for Republicans among academics and scientists? We may never know.
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If you ever asked me if there would ever be a party in American politics that promoted pedophila, war crimes, and genocide. I'd have told your to STFU maybe even pushed you, that's not America that'll never happen. Seems I was wrong.
GarySiniseFound and the Chicago Cubs have partnered in a pledge to grant the Chicago Police 19th District-Townhall a new support and response vehicle. Matthew Boyd and Owen Caissie also stopped by for a meet and greet with the families of first responder. #ChicagoCubs #CubsNation #MLB #GoCubsGo
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Kepley & Florentino should be promoted to South Bend.
Zohran Mamdani stuns political consultants with revolutionary campaign strategies like telling people “I want to make your lives better” and pointing out “the other guy is an evil pervert.”
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Correct, but with far more prosecutions.
Republicans can throw another 17mil off health insurance & it ain’t gonna go away! 47 can give Putin Alaska as well as Ukraine & it ain’t gonna go away! They can impose martial law on as many cities as they want & it ain’t gonna go away! The Epstein stink is on em all forever!
People will call a white nationalist teen edgelord "Big Balls" with a straight face before they'll respect a trans persons name or pronouns
If you missed @robjhayes.bsky.social’s post on this subject, here’s another example of the new marketing scam targeting authors. They use AI to make it sound like they’ve read your book and then promise access to private groups of readers (who likely don’t exist). Steer the fuck clear.
Back to old habits, then.
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Well, I'm surprised. All they have to do invoke Wilhoit's Axiom, also known as IOKIYAR.
Good @stevebenen.com on the glaring gap between what Trump says and what he did for insurrectionists www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo... Should be in the lede of every story, but instead they do stenography.
Rick Scott ran Columbia/HCA, which committed the largest Medicare/Medicaid fraud in US history—$1.7B in fines for overbilling, false reports, & kickbacks.He resigned before charges, was never indicted, but pled the Fifth 75 times.Let’s not forget he now makes decisions on healthcare policy. #Pinks
Johnson's two skills are lying and plagiarism, so no issue there.
Keep ‘em coming
MAGA logic: If you close your eyes, plug your ears, and yell “fake news,” Trump’s name just 💨 out of the Epstein files. Trump knew. Trump lied. Survivors spoke. Justice denied. No more silence. No more shame. We say every enabler’s name. #DefendersOfDemocracy #BelieveSurvivors #EpsteinFiles
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Anthony, it is the same movement. Conservative White Evangelicals, Church of Latter Day Saints, & Reactionary Roman Catholics who are more Catholic the the Pope
📌 Damn, this is good.
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Dear Capitalists & Investors: welcome to a country where how law functions under the whim of a single man.
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The crime rate has been falling in DC since the pandemic spike under Trump.
Excellent information. Well written articles. Fascinating viewpoints Well worth your time
Nothing to see here, just a goat being a goat... 😅🤣 #bluesky
NEW: A federal appeals court ruled Saturday that the Trump administration's bid to shut off public access to crucial government spending data was an affront to Congress' power of the purse — and a law requiring disclosure. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
📣 RE-UP! SHARE! *Do not stop talking about this* 60 Minutes Australia has been far ahead of U.S. broadcast media in featuring survivors of Epstein and Maxwell — a year ago! 📺 youtu.be/VQOOxOl9l80?... #LetSurvivorsTestify 🚨 📺 60 Minutes Australia Epstein Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
When I reported local news in Brooklyn, one of the clearest obstacles to any truly progressive or helpful action for everyday New Yorkers was the IDC. At every given opportunity, they demolished hope for consequential change.