A medium train nerd

A medium train nerd

@mediumtrainnerd.bsky.social

this account is just used to read and follow news accounts

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Replying to @gregsargent.bsky.social

JD Vance told El-Sayed to stop invoking Usha after AES said: "Do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no." But it turns out AES offered this *in response* to something vile that JD previously said about how Papaw would have viewed AES: newrepublic.com/article/2149...

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I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

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Replying to @jaywillis.net

Brett Kavanaugh officiated Sarah Isgur's wedding and is helping her promote her book, which is all about how good and noble the Supreme Court is. There is no reason to take seriously anything this person says about her very powerful, life-tenured friends. Seriously, have some respect for yourself.

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Will the media treat Trump starting a war for no reason, wasting a bunch of lives, money and military equipment ending in strategic defeat like they did Biden ending a 20 year war that was going nowhere? (Lmao no, they absolutely will not)

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Thinking of... - The people of Iran, who mostly hate their government - The people of Israel, who mostly hate their government - The people of Palestine, who mostly hate their government - The people of the USA, who mostly hate their government

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things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

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I've been saying this shit for years now and I still get pushback, even from other trans people. Putting gender markers on ID forms deputizes those validating a person's identity as the judge of whether that person is correctly performing their gender. What other purpose could it serve?

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and so soon after the tragic loss of Stop N Shop founder Stoppard Nathaniel Shop

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Stephen Sheetz, who helped transform a family business from a single convenience store in Altoona, Pennsylvania, into a ubiquitous chain with fierce brand loyalties, popular for its coffee, made-to-order food and cheap gasoline, has died at 77.

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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

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Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

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“When was Joe Biden president?” remains the most difficult question in politics

Craig Harrington@craigipedia.bsky.social

Who was the president in 2018 when you lost your show? Who was the president in 2023 when you got your new show?

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Replying to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

People can be very rude here but the fringe left does not pose anywhere near the threat of the fringe right. Children's hospitals have closed and politicians have been physically attacked due to Twitter agitation. This is an extremely basic fact about a topic that is allegedly your area of expertise

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Replying to @pbump.com

All moocher states. The West Virginia governor said he expects the federal government to pay for the deployment. Which means some Democratic states (who did not vote for Trump) will be paying for a photo-op that is meant to hurt the image of a Democratic place. rockinst.org/issue-areas/...

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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

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Presidents don't get to shitpost, if Donald Trump talks about annexing Canada, the Canadian government should assume that he means it and respond accordingly

Jordan Weissmann@jhweissmann.bsky.social

Nobody is invading you man, calm the fuck down. The worst case outcome is a catastrophic trade war where we all suffer.

no one in two years is going to say "but MGP voted to censure all green". no one. with all the insanity that will take place between now and then, no one on either side is going to care. so this is just a moral failing on her part.

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If you're still in a place where decorum and civility matter more to you than the very real lives and deaths of marginalized people, right here and now, then you need to leave that place. Fast as you can. Fix your fucking Heart.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

BREAKING: House votes to censure Rep. Al Green for his actions during President Trump’s joint address to Congress. The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting in favor of the censure resolution.

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John Fetterman in 2016: “I’m the Bernie candidate! A vote for me is a vote for Bernie’s agenda!! Buy my #FeelTheBern shirt!!!” John Fetterman in 2025: “Who?”

Chris Potter@cpotterpgh.bsky.social

Q: "Where do you connect with Bernie Sanders? Because it seems in some ways you do." A: "Uhhh, no, no. We don't really have a lot. I think we kind of -- I mean I respect Bernie, and -- but I don't think there's a lot of connection for me. (Changes topic)" www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...

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And a good reminder that free people don’t beg. Begging is only necessary here because they have already decided to accept Trumps spree of criminal conduct.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

"Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated." Honestly, is there a more pathetic, contemptible collection of cowards & simps in the entire world?