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So good!

Cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social.

A way with words. The eloquent directness is impressive.

Dems and the entire media need to get much more comfortable saying, in whatever way they like, “Get-the-F*-outta-here.” What is so hard about calling out ridiculousness? Why can’t we all be straightforward about it instead of pretending they have to be taken seriously? That time is over.

Eisenhower

Have to say I would prefer healthcare.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Spare zip ties in her Maserati

An aide to a Republican congressman from New Jersey faked being the victim of what she claimed was a politically motivated slashing in July, a narrative that quickly unraveled when investigators found spare zip ties in her Maserati, federal prosecutors said.

Agreed. Far too much confidence that “the truth will out.” The sense that the moral arc will bend on its own rather than need active and willful bending.

I’m also hearing reports his parents played Clue with him as a child.

Beautiful! I would love it if a landscape photography feed became a thing on Bluesky. There are some Nature Photography feeds but it is mostly birds (which is fine), but for me I love landscapes most of all. If it exists, please point me to it.

“Hoodwinked” is an awfully quaint and toothless word choice for serious malfeasance with potentially dire consequences.

“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?” The results were hilarious. Trans: 21% Muslim: 27% Jewish: 30% Black: 41% Live in NYC: 30% Gay or lesbian: 30% The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.” www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...

"Trump’s opponents need to stop showing automatic deference to historical norms and limitations that ought, in a good and just society, be adhered to....It behooves us to suspend normal decorum when the building is on fire." New from Paul Rosenzweig: www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-f...

"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?

Agreed, and I have been thinking (along these lines) it will be important to memorialize what ACTUALLY HAPPENED and reinforce the actual facts to counteract their inevitable alternate history. Consistently. Jan 6 as the perfect example.

We should be patient. No reason to block in advance. Let them earn it! If they prove themselves to be worthy of a block so be it. It’s just a feed. I would say follow easily, block with reason.

He should. They should. But they won’t. The Democratic Party and much of the media has already implicitly—even explicitly—capitulated to fascism by refusing to make the hard choice to do everything within their power to oppose it. It’s cowardice and normopathy and sanewashing up and down the line.

This has also been a decades long goal of the right wing’s culture war, to align working class culture with right wing culture. It has worked.

How do we get the truth to win out in this info environment?