marts-thoughts.bsky.social
Interests: Biology, History, Public Policy, Data Science, GIS, and all things interesting.
Health care analyst and Democratic activist, living outside Seattle.
Avid canvasser trying to save democracy.
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No. More. Unanimous. Consent.
This is a coup, and any let up is an easier path for Project 2025.
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Imagine thinking paying this gaslighting fk is money well spent.
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Entrepreneur? The fk?
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LEt tHe mArKeT dEciDe!
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Pearls?
Clutched. 💪🏻
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This summer is gonna be nuts. 🫠
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Does 'Nixon's Upper Lip Sweat' have a Blue Sky account yet? 👀
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An early look at where we currently are is in Wisconsin, early April. That fker is trying to buy a Supreme Court seat.
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What a mess the MCU turned into. All that TV content and all it did was introduce too many characters and plotlines that led to dead ends.
Clipped by the TVA or something.
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Exactly why he fled to hang with the bootlickers down in Florida.
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His proximity to Wall St. He is absolutely mediocre at best.
Jasmine for Minority Leader! 🤷🏻♂️
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I am once again asking for one National-level Dem to go on cable news and say:
"These dumbfks don't know what they're doing."
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I don't see heads in baskets. Am I missing something?
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This is absolute dogshit. Blocked. 🙄
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Absolutely no, dude. Blocking your dumbass.
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To some extent, there will always be this risk. What it takes is commitments from candidates that they are willing to be clear on, and holding them to it. Engagement post-election is definitely part of the equation.
I never said democracy was perfect.
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The party is driven by participation in primaries. If we as progressives organize, the Party is ripe for takeover.
But we need to show up to the polls *every primary election* to get good candidates through to general elections.
No more Fettermans. No more Eric Adams. No more Sinemas.
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Seattle City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck urged elected leaders to stand up to Trump and defend people most at risk. More centrist leaders have been less apt to stick their neck out.
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Those were further than he'd ever gone before, which read like Hail Mary to me. 🤷🏻♂️
But seriously, do you remember how he looked? It was _a lot_ worse than what he looks like now.
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The entirety of Trump's political life has been a training exercise of the Republican electorate.
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Which makes it sound like there will never be a Democratic woman president. Women acting 'tough' is off-putting to a lot of misogynistic Dem voters.
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Didn't this fight get settled in like the 1300's?
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Mitch might have regrets, but never integrity.
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👆🏻This.
I don't understand how people miss this part. With regards to our professional bureaucratic class, yielding the entire field to the enemy is a worse strategy than tactical retreats, bearing witness, and keeping the press apprised from the inside.
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Yeah, but you should see the other guy. 💪🏻💪🏻
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Yeah, Fox News didn't exist in 1973-4.
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There may be "smart ones", but we'll never know because Trumpism demands equal part performative cruelty and performative stupidity.
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Do they kill off Chris Pratt? I'd watch that.
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I trust him to run hard against a woman, but step aside for a yt guy.
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Ah, the r@p¡st-in-Chief is back in power, so just let sexual harassers back into the Senate because it isn't as bad?
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The only correct reaction. ✌🏻
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<pssst: Trump fking lies *all the time*, and Elmo is more of a professional troll than an engineer or a CEO...>
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All I see is people who don't understand how this entire line of questioning is a red herring. A distraction that prevents constructive work.
It seemed to work fine for the GOP, but for us, it's a waste of time and a no-cost salve to paper over how much Biden fked us by running again.
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And based on Trump's behavior in the weeks leading up to Election Day, his demeanor and message were desperate because he thought he was going to lose. Not a candidate who was confident because they were going to be able to cheat to win.