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Why would fans care on #1?
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Why would fans care on #1?
A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
This is one of the most unamerican things I’ve heard of
More than 1,000 current and former employees of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote a letter to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday, arguing that his leadership has “put the health of all Americans at risk” and demanding his resignation.
this is disgusting.
We have the near final results: —Democrats won in Florida's SD15 by 45% (72.5/27.5). Harris had won this district by 23%. —Democrats won Florida's HD40 by 50% (75/25). (Harris had won this district by 35%.) (Presidential results courtesy of the always indispensable @the-downballot.com.)
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, what’s the timeline for the book on how the President went missing like a week after he had weird bruising on his hands?
"Donald Trump is a monster and we desperately want to work with him" is a batshit position to take, it makes you sound like an insincere and feckless empty suit
Pritzker should mobilize the Illinois National Guard to oppose them. Extreme? Maybe. But I don’t see why he should just let another state effectively invade his.
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Bluesky is our 7th biggest traffic source. Twitter is 20th. We get more traffic from people arguing in Disqus comments than we get from Twitter.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
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Would be way cooler to ask Vicliv Smil
Anyone who participates in what appears in context to be a proposed military occupation of Chicago “because crime” will be doing something that is illegal and is obligated not to do that. That’s all I’ll say.
DEBATE MODERATOR: Our next segment is called Remember Some Guys. Former Governor Cuomo, please begin. CUOMO: Alex Rodriguez? (crowd grumbling and booing; hot mic picks up someone saying "not a Guy") MAMDANI: Lucas Duda (crowd going nuts)
Pritzker willingly appearing w Johnson... he's serious
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker: “We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
they’re all this guy
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Putting on my elitist cap once again: I think one of the core reasons 2025 is worse than 2017 is that supporting Donald Trump is no longer seen as a low status signifier in many elite circles.
like for every centrist pundit that says, "oh, you learn to live with this in your replies": what do you think this does to your soul
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If musk losses 50 instead of 100 that’s still helping him no?
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So the ask of the silverites is to censor ourselves and hold us to higher standards than nazis to make them feel better? Absolute snowflakes
Incredible to just say this out loud
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Since Jain is a numbers guy, I assume he must have access to some super secret data on transit crime rates and middle class ridership that I’m not seeing.
Everyone upset the Acela runs as slow as Japan’s 1970s trains: Amtrak had a plan 15 years ago to straighten tracks in CT & RI. A few thousand wealthy locals killed it, costing us 25 minutes in time savings between Boston and NYC.
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By the end she didn’t even ask a Q just said she was ok with it
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" This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically by the president's action."
the nate silver thing isn't hard to understand, and in fact lakshya jain recently said it outright: the reason a lot of people hate bluesky is that nazis are okay because they just ignore them, whereas criticism from ostensible allies make them sad. many many many such cases. many many many m
a very high proportion of centrist punditry now just boils down to "progressives yell at me on the internet and i don't like it." you would think that getting paid millions of dollars per year would give you thicker skin
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
This is one of the most explicit examples you'll ever see of "the people who annoy me the most, personally, also happen to be the nation's biggest political problem." The quintessential reactionary centrist maneuver.
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ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
never once regretted this take
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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Similar to the cosmopolitan journalist view that only dems have agency is the idea that because republicans are Nazi freaks any criticism from them doesn’t hurt, but dems are educated real city dwellers so criticism from the left hurts
It does not seem good that a sizable portion of the political and media elite would rather cook their brains on a white nationalist website than have to engage with criticism from the left.
It is really funny how he has to censor the word on the free speech website. Makes it look like one of those guys that calls it Sp*rts 😡 or Sporpsball 😡or something when they see a football clip
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
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As medical experts, doctors, and scientists are sounding the alarm and begging Trump to fire RFK Jr., who is actively committing to killing Americans, I invited Dr. Patel to explain the damage done and how we can save ourselves and our families. thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-you-ca...
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
What turns people into fascists is being given a permission structure to indulge their most paranoid and resentful fantasies about social decline and racial caste, which, as it turns out, also happens quite a lot online One such permission structure: “the libs yelled at me too much for my views”
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The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
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What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
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it's very funny that US Dem senators have their brains cooked by various online rightie media accounts. like why does chris murphy listen to the nazbol red scare podcast
You cannot tell me that being on X is not bad for you when it turns Senators who had the clearest view on the 2024 election to COVID school closer guys. And again imagine people in 1948 saying that Britons spent too much time in bomb shelters during the Blitz.
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Covey was awesome here why the hate?
‘We’re winning a battle’: Mexico’s jaguar numbers up 30% in conservation drive
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
“The prevalence of slavery in a Southern county (measured in 1860) predicts the frequency of firearms in the present day” academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... “social connection to historically slaveholding counties predicts county-level gun ownership, even outside of the South.” Slavery => gun culture
This is starting to feel even more suspicious www.aol.com/jd-vance-fle...
with the benefit of hindsight these remain the most insulting things they expected us to buy into
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Just saw a clip on ABC news that showed a small Guatemalan child being led to a plane for deportation with her ankles shackled. This country has lost its soul.
Is Jake Tapper's forthcoming book on Trump's mental health decline available for pre-order yet?
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This is a very bad use of polling and ignores voters revealed preference for their stated
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What head to head polls are bad for dems right now?
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Hes gonna get tagged for solicitation. Thats whats happened here.
51st.news/dc-residents... I've been guilty of saying that we are "powerless" against the deportation machine, but I was being too grandiose. DC shows us how to "look for the helpers", and find ways to be one.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Every single mayor in the US needs to do this. Of course the Trumpsuckers won't, but everyone with a "D" after their name AT LEAST needs to.
BREAKING: A judge blocks the Trump administration from removing a group of Guatemalan children after some were loaded on planes at a Texas airport.
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Mina has the #1 seed and 4 teams with a shot, Mike has 3 teams with a shot( really 1) kinda a bloodbath for Mina
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Lost to Philly 2x last year then spent all offseason whinny little bitches trying to change the rules
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
The election of Donald Trump over Kamala Harris has made everything worse for Gaza, and it is now significantly worse than it was under Biden or would have been under Harris. We have the data. It's disgusting how many people who are supposedly pro-Palestine deny this.
Stop trying to normalize this monster. He’s a psychopath. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
The man is a hero. Every officer guarding crosswalks from chalkers is not terrorizing immigrants.
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
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Actually David walked you through all the brothers and no one wants ur lng
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
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Did OLine worry u
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Yea rip but his bias was obvious
Isn’t he the guy who kept meticulous track of how often President Obama played golf but gave up the gig when President Trump took office?
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Hopefully kicking all these to give the kicking crew practice but it’s loser shit in a real game