Erik The Red

Erik The Red

@erikdared.bsky.social

With your nerves in tatters as the conch shell shatters...

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Replying to @kenjennings.bsky.social

The Art of Winning, by Bill Belichick "Recruit a once in a generation quarterback. Take the credit." The end.

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Trump has a rally tonight in Mississippi, in case you're wondering how things are shaping up for Republicans

I concur. The Goode and Peretti murders showed that, like their victims, this regime is not bulletproof.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning

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Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

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I hope Natalie shows Trump this clip of Harry Enten comparing Obama's popularity with his unpopularity

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The evil version of myself that I trapped in the mirror is always saying stuff like "let me out, I'm not the evil one, you're literally holding a skull right now". Be quiet or I'll throw my skull at you

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Replying to @premthakker.bsky.social

Everyone in favor of normalizing antisemitic tropes, raise your hand.

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is this administration *explaining itself* now? what happened to sending poop emojis and saying the question is a beta cuck. what happened to the juice

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Zacharia: "A lot of the misinformation, miscommunication is around the fact that I labeled myself a lawyer. I consulted for a long time many people in the field -- 'Is it ok if I label myself a lawyer?' -- and they said, 'Absolutely. You can call yourself a lawyer. You have a JD'"

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Replying to @bobisjim.bsky.social

"Socialist Fury" AOC's car breaks down in a small town in rural Kentucky. She must defeat the local white supremacists to get the parts she needs to fix her car. One of the side quests is protecting a Planned Parenthood clinic. You get bonus points if you register people to vote.

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Replying to @rothschildmd.bsky.social

My takeaway from Trump's remarks was not that he was "inviting" Iran to nuke LA, which I genuinely don't think he was, and they can't do anyway. It was that we shouldn't have a president who is so mentally fried that we have to talk about whether he actually invited Iran to nuke LA or not.

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It’s the “Good czar, bad boyars” thing that Russians use to excuse Putin. It’s not the tyrant’s fault, it’s the fault of the advice the tyrant gets. It’s so stupid. Also, so is Tillis, and everyone pretending like he’s anything but a gutless coward when it matters.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RUHLE: Why are we blaming Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth, who you voted to confirm? All of this is happening at the president's direction TILLIS: Maybe some people aren't accustomed to hiring. Have you hired anybody before?

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We're being told that Trump's media ban is self-sabotage, because he's not getting the attention he craves from the outlets he's banned. But he got media attention for the ban itself, and now he's getting attention for defying the order overturning the ban. He always gets the attention he craves.

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Those fearing a US version of North Korean TV forgot an essential fact: Trumpers are too fucking lazy to create a full-on 24/7 propaganda channel. Instead, it's just a bot account replaying old speeches Don’t Worry, America: ‘Trump TV’ Isn’t State TV. It Just Sucks! www.wonkette.com/p/dont-worry...

wonkette.comDon’t Worry, America: ‘Trump TV’ Isn’t State TV. It Just Sucks!Also, Donald Trump missed being on TV so much he visited Zohran Mamdani to get airtime.

The cruelty is the point.

Kentucky Public Radio@kentuckypublicradio.org

Kentucky State University women’s basketball player Amina Seck remains detained by ICE six weeks after her arrest while going through security at the Louisville airport. Her attorney says Seck has been in four different detainment facilities.

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sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too

Leopards and faces and whotnot

Greg Giroux@greggiroux.bsky.social

"Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far." "The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today." -Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla), a former broadcast journalist, direct to camera in campaign ad #FL27

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I’ll remind my UK pals that the first time it became legal for one man to buy an election in the US (2024 FEC advisory opinion), it happened and he installed a fascist. You can act and you must!

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Yep. Keep hammering the contradiction between JD Vance's pretend outrage over El-Sayed's invocations of Usha on one side, and Trump tweeting pictures of El-Sayed's wife in a hijab on the other. Make the press ask JD Vance to explain the contradiction (incredibly he still hasn't been pushed on this).

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social

If there’s some big political price to pay for highlighting MAGA’s gutter bigotry and bad faith, and Vance’s cravenness in selling out his own family, it’s not showing up in the polls. I’d keep it up until the contradictions become too glaring for anyone to ignore. newrepublic.com/article/2149...

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Replying to @chadbourn.bsky.social

The correct line of attack should be: "No one is accusing them of having an affair. Trump is clearly too old and feeble to get it up anymore so that notion is ridiculous" He he....

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NYT wanted to write a story about "moderate Dems go to war with DSA," looked around, and the best they could find was a *proposal* by Third Way to spend $15M against left candidates. The story is not evidence that *Democrats* and the left hate each other... it's evidence that the NYT hates both.