Enlightened Despotist in Name Only

@edino.bsky.social

A true DINO. (In reality a progressive incrementalist.) Math and board game fan. Phila, PA Tax the rich.

Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.

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I think a lot of people have severely overreacted to very early returns in this MI-Sen primary. But I’ve kept my cool, because I always believed DemocraticCandidate would win in the end and my plans to support DemocraticCandidate through November remain unchanged.

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

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Max Miller is the platonic ideal of a MAGA politician lies, blackmails, beats wife & daughter (& previous GFs), blames Democrats for everything, takes zero responsibility for anything, drives drunk, gaslights his ex & says she has mental illness Oh also ask him what he did on January 6, 2021

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

New in PN: The right-wing bubble seals in the GOP with Max Miller "When you become the party of Fox News, you become a party whose candidates have no idea how to exist outside of Fox. That's why the GOP's fascist propaganda may, for once, be not a life raft but an anchor when the blue wave hits."

Sen. Bernie Moreno (paraphrased): On second thought, now that it's clear this is making me personally look awful, I say domestic abuse, lying about it, and failing basic standards of character like that has no place in the Republican Party, except at the top, and some other places too. Thank you.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d ago

senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.

When I offered my amendment to kill this slush fund, Republicans said we should accept Trump's word that it was dead. We knew they were wrong. This is why.   Even in the middle of an illegal war, with prices rising, Trump wants to send your tax dollars to criminals & save his sweetheart tax deal.

Tweet from Seth MacFarlane: And there it is: 

Team Trump appeals the lower court order against his $1.776 billion slush fund & sweetheart IRS immunity deal

Trump challenges to 11th circuit in Atlanta

Lower court (Florida) judge eviscerated Trump's slush fund in her order

After she lost, a lot of people were saying “oh I hope she learns from this, she still has a lot to give” etc. I hope these people now notice that she has instead refused to endorse the candidate who beat her and begun spewing lies blaming AIPAC, who actively opposed the winner!

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Covid is simultaneously a nefarious Chinese bioweapon designed to kill millions and "just the flu." It killed millions because the deep state suppressed knowledge of the true horse paste cure and also killed nobody while millions died from the unnecessary evil vaccine.

This Yahoo fantasy baseball update is an apt encapsulation of the State of Things in 2026 bc there’s no commentary about the awfulness of a dude literally breaking his balls it’s just “well this [objectively horrific] thing happened, and in related news a guy will be coming up from AAA”.

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The number of nominally Democratic commentators who want to effectively give the GOP another Senate vote -- who are *furious* at Beshear for NOT giving the GOP that vote -- bc something something "fighting" is mind-blowing. It is the apex of a truly toxic brainrot that is going to destroy us all.

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)@axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s been over a week since @govandybeshear.bsky.social called on Mitch McConnell to disclose the state of his health There has been no credible, transparent response Beshear should call a #KYSpecialElection Anybody who has a problem with that should talk to Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland