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@jonbois.bsky.social your recent video has me looking for baseball diamonds as I fly and saw 41 on my flight today and just think you would like this one I saw near Santa rosa. Its very interesting, I like the combo with the other field

Insane to me that Allred moderated on trans issues, outperformed Harris by 4, and people are saying he shouldn't even CONSIDER running in 26 against cornyn/paxton. He ran the more moderate playbook and saw results! Imagine a blue year and a more refined and aggressive campaign against Paxton!

I hate so much that this site really does seem like the left wing circular firing squad. Just exhausting to scroll through quite often now

How is this prediction going so far?

Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them. We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.

Its time for Schumer to resign

@schumer.senate.gov If you vote for cloture you are a stain on this country’s history that will never go away. You are willingly passing power to a tyrant in waiting, and you are a disgrace to every oath of office any senator has ever sworn. Your legacy will be one of cowardice and contempt.

A republic, if you can keep it

Sam Seder is right btw; unless you're a billionaire, religious fundamentalist, or a xenophobic nationalist voting for Trump was a mistake

the reason why it is important to say that the illegal actions taken by this lawless administration are, in fact, illegal is because 1) it's true 2) it sets the narrative for setting things right

just so everyone's aware there is absolutely zero legal authority for the State Department to revoke a green card that's not a real thing that exists, they're just trying to disappear someone they don't like and hope nobody cares enough to stop them

I don't care what the protesters are saying, this is the United States of America. The first amendment is first for a reason. Disgraceful

I endorse this 100%

Shoutout @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social

Trump in 1939, probably: "I am for both Germany and France" apple.news/AUUM2oKVlS-S...

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

JD Vance is a disgrace to this country

Its crazy that we have people should understand the economics pushing this "economic blackout." Like going a day without shopping is normal. That's not a boycott or going to do anything. And economy wide? This is just absurd. Boycotts work when they're targeted and durable. Not fleeting and broad

I'm putting together a list of things I think Dems should run on so I can elaborate on it as I learn more/more things happen/I think on it/etc. But like, once I get this list of ideas I don't actually know what to do with it other than Poast about it. Anyone got any recommendations for me?

Dem project 2025 (destroy gop edition) *Incentivize car manufacturers to adopt direct sales *Amend Supplement Labeling Act *Aggressive IRS audits over $10mm *Aggressively enforcing FARA *Aggressive SEC, IRS, FTC, and DOJ investigations against VCs/tech *Banning MLMs, criminal charges if applicable

Roberts signaling the end of rule of law

Bezos making WaPo's opinion about free markets and personal liberties. I'm cautiously optimistic, as both of those are things I enthusiastically defend and think need more defense in the public. I am concerned about picking and choosing personal liberties. Abortion, Trans issues, guns, etc

In a heathy democracy, the WHCA would fight this by boycotting all WH and travel events until the old system was restored. But they’re going to roll over and do whatever it takes to maintain “access” so they can be lied to in comfort

He gets it. We need more politicians who get it

Just as I predicted, once no other media organization stood with AP (other than issuing statements) this was the next step. And when you bow down to this, there will be another step taken to erode press freedoms. If you don’t fight for your rights, you lose them. Started / Going

Every so often I see a post about the Chinese fishing fleet, most recently about how Argentina is using their military to keep it out of their waters. I have never heard anything about the fleets other than they're ecological and economic disasters. But we don't seem to do anything about it?

I find this mildly interesting, despite being prompter that "5" should be average, straight men managed to find the actual mathematical average of a 1-10 scale

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

Ukraine is still free 🇺🇦

The US Attorney is *not* Trump's lawyer, despite acting like it. Using public servants to be the personal attack dogs of the president against the press should not be tolerated

I see this at my school, there's basically no "conservative" government professors in my department because if you started teaching election conspiracies or that there is no separation of powers you'd get laughed out of the teaching demonstration before being hired