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Blaxamillian

@blaxamillian.blacksky.app

Probably the coolest guy you've never met. Thoughts expressed are my own. Twitch.tv/Blaxamillian #TwitchAffiliate Linktr.ee/Blaxamillian23 $jonqwest23 Always remember, Be Excellent to each other. 🤙🏾

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Snow Burrow@bostonjerry.bsky.social · 4h ago

My whole life, it's always "we have to win over the people who hate us!" and never "we have to win over the people who are skeptical that we have their back!"

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 4h ago

"We've got to win anti-trans voters in red states!" My dude, I just got served an ad that claimed *Dan fucking Sullivan* is too pro-trans. These weirdos aren't going to suddenly be Peltola voters if you're mean enough to trans people!

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h ago

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 7h ago

It is atrocious we have to operate under this constant credible and explicit threat from one political party, the fact we keep calling it a “free and fair election” needs some light revising

Genie Lauren@moreandagain.me · 6h ago

I will say, having family members with ADHD definitely prepared me for everyone else. This is why I just be chilling when folks get to arguing about people being late all the time. I'm surrounded by people with time blindness. I was molded by them 😂

Blaxamillian@blaxamillian.blacksky.app · 7h ago

And this is one of the reasons I don't really like to interact with "youth sports parents". Pasty sheet of notebook paper tried to say my son (11 at the time, about 5'3, 100lbs) was too big for the league. "What are they FEEDING him?" comments and everything.

himham@himham.bsky.social · 7h ago

Calling the cops is ridiculous, but you can hear the mother of Nevada say in this video that they were called about what "was said (by her and her husband)" in reaction to parents huddling and "talking about her son". The police were not called on the child.

Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h ago

people should read this. it was interesting to read and previews the shape of some forthcoming intra-party fights over the next couple of years.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 8h ago

Leaders of the No Kings movement are already gearing up for the next major grassroots campaign: Making sure congressional Democrats don’t wimp out. My first piece at @newrepublic.com! (Reposted to update link card) newrepublic.com/article/2168...

Josh Zingher@zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 8h ago

The speed with which so many execs cozied up to this authoritarian says more about their revealed preferences than long term strategic thinking. They saw a chance for what they saw as a "business friendly" autocrat and oligarchic consolidation and jumped at it.

Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · 8h ago

if only there had been a way to predict this might happen based on nearly every midterm election cycle in modern american political history

Josh Zingher@zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 8h ago

There was, and still is, a massive under tapped market for corporate resistance to this regime. All these companies fawned over Trump not due to dollars and cents but because their leaders preferred authoritarianism.

shaka 🦁👑@beejonson.me · 8h ago

Nothing beats muscle, and strength formed through hard work. There's a huge difference between that, and some gym bros lifting weights in some fancy gyms. Gyms are good and everything, but I struggle to understand this mentality in the west, where gym bros are treated like the pinnacle of strength.