This is why we fight
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The anonymous political account of writer Alie Dumas-Heidt: wife, mum, Ally, novelist, podcaster, and voter in the PNW. also at https://thisiswhywefight.substack.com/
So, she got her study material the night before and that wasn't enough for her to learn it? Yeah, yeah, that screams qualified for this role.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h agolol -- Zacharia suggests her briefing was a disaster bc it was in the morning & day before was a holiday "Typically briefs are in afternoon where the press sec has ample time to be briefed. This was a very different intake. And the briefing materials got to me evening before bc it was a holiday..."
If Republicans thought they were going to win in November, he wouldn't have walked this back.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 20h agoBREAKING: President Trump says the Pentagon won't livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter after bipartisan backlash.
This is the only scenario in which I encourage people to stay home and not vote. If you only vote Republican but can't support what's going on right now, stay home. Just sit this one out.
Tea Pain@teapainusa.bsky.social · 16h agoFUN FACT: Trump has lost 16% of Republican support in the past 6 months. These voters will likely stay home.
It was double the fun talking with sisters Thea Bloomberg and Kate Farrell on The Writer's Journey podcast! Their debut mystery, BAD LIKE ME, launched this week and is full of mommy gossip and murder! Everywhere you find podcasts! #booksky #writingcommunity #mystery 📚📖 youtube.com/watch?v=Dqci...
Louise Griffin and Bad Like Me on The Writer's Journey with Alie Dumas-Heidt
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by @pkrugman.bsky.social 1/2 “There is still some controversy among economists about how much responsibility Biden administration policies bear for the 2021-22 inflation surge. My view is, very little. But there is no question who is responsible for the resurgence in inflation..
On Inflation, Trump Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
There’s no way to shift the blame this time
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The President of the US constantly praises himself for being able to identify basic animals and shapes, and Republicans are still running around trying to convince everyone their dear leader is a genius. How does anyone take them seriously?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "It's called a coganative [sic] test. It's a very standard test, but very tough. There are few people in this audience that can -- once you get past the first question. They show you a lion, a bear, a giraffe, and a snake and they say, 'Which one is the lion?' Biden was unable to answer that"
First they place ads in Oregon instead of Maine, now this. People running ads for Collins seem to be either incompetent or trying to help her lose.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d agoScoop:NY-based union leader quoted in a Maine Senate attack ad sends a “cease and desist” threat, demanding it be pulled down Official quoted in GOP ad slamming Troy Jackson’s health care plan tells me he didn’t comment on this plan and was “shocked” to see the ad. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Sen. Angus King says he sat down and made a list of everything Putin could possibly want from an American president. His conclusion about Trump? “This guy, this president, is doing almost all of them.” King then goes through the list. WATCH.
Trump can’t lie about this crowd size. I’ve seen bigger crowds at a yard sale in the rain. 🤣
Our service members deserve better leadership than this drunk prick.
Popular Information@popular.info · 3d ago“The Pentagon acknowledged late Friday that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.”
Next weekend’s NO KINGS rallies are about more than protesting. They’re about ORGANIZING. With early voting underway, the mission is clear: Know your rights. Make a voting plan. Turn protest into ACTION. And on everyone’s mind: #RepublicanAffordabilityCrisis
Republicans have no values.
Marty Taylor@realmartyt7.bsky.social · 5d agothehill.com/homenews/adm... #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Mark Wayne Mullin says live-streaming the execution of Nidal Hasan part of “restoring American values” People like Mullin and Bloody Pete Hegseth have no idea what true America values are. Live streaming a mans death is not an America value
Dear Alberta Canada, Please don't do this. Please don't believe any of the trash about separation making life better. You are not safer alone in a world with the Russian-controlled Trump regime at your border, and you're sure as hell not safer with Trump.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3w agoPlease don’t assume anything, Alberta. Vote against the Russian and American-fuelled separation self-sabotage. Send a strong message to the rest of Canada that we’re in this together. Foreign actors want you to vote for your own Brexit or Trump… or to help them win by just staying home.
Dear fellow white chicks - 53% of white women voted for Trump in 2024. That's a majority. When Black women point that out, think about who you really need to get mouthy with instead of getting defensive. Everyone knows it wasn’t all of us. It was still most of us, and that's what we have to fix.
Nefarious Means@nefariousmeans.bsky.social · 7d agoIt never fails. A Black woman posts something and here come the bleach demons with their Overseer Syndrome even though your demographic brought us here.
Brenden Cuni is a judicially determined perjurer and falsifier of records. Yet he remains on the job with ICE, unpunished. bsky.app/profile/empt...
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 7d agoHere's what Trump judge Gary Brown said in a filing ON MONDAY about Brenan Cuni, who almost shot a kid in NYC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![After the Court required a further submission to explain this incongruity,
respondents submitted an affidavit from Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and
Deportation Officer with ICE, who was responsible for conducting the background
searches. DE 20-7. Cuni was notified “some time before 5:50 PM” that “Petitioner was detained.” Id. ¶3. He searched five separate federal databases, all of which “yielded
negative results.” Id. ¶5 (emphasis added). Cuni then “issued and signed the I-200,
Warrant of Arrest, and checked off the boxes relating to ‘biometric confirmation of the
subject’s identity and a records check of federal databases . . . .’” Id. Of course, since the
records checks were negative, it was undeniably false, though represented as true in the
warrant, that “biometric confirmation [and] records check of federal databases
affirmatively indicate” that the petitioner lacked immigration status. DE 7-1. Cuni
explains that ICE then processed the petitioner, and in so doing, entered his data into
those various databases. After processing (and after the warrant was signed and
executed), Cuni ordered another officer to run “a second records check of the electronic
federal databases, which then yielded positive results . . . because Petitioner’s information
was now part of the system.” DE 20-7 ¶7 (emphasis added).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreidqylhmhwshnfs3a5dq2g3wiulejbwwwgoia34tsntiszybms4j6m)
We are watching in slow motion the things that happen before ethnic cleansing happens. People get that, right?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Tom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail"
I really need these Christians to explain again how they're better and morally superior to my atheist ass. I have so many words right now.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: The Trump administration wants to livestream a firing squad execution for this holiday season. Pete Hegseth wants the public to see the Dec. 3 scheduled killing of Nidal Hasan. Tonight, at Law Dork:
A little PSA for the people who say they don't "do" politics. Politics isn't a spectator sport. Sometimes our two-party system makes it feel like it's about rooting for your favorite team, but despite the cheers every time the orange guy spits out a new insult at a rally, that's not politics. 1/10
Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later. The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.
Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.
The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.
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🤯 A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to illegally importing Russian plutonium and shipping the hazardous radioactive material to dozens of online buyers worldwide. united24media.com/world/us-man...
US Man Bought Plutonium From Russia and Sold It Online Across America
Jacob D. Miller admitted to illegally importing plutonium from Russia and selling it online to at least 67 customers across the US and abroad.
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Public schools should not indoctrinate students, discriminate against families who don’t share their beliefs, or force taxpayers to fund religion. They must remain secular and open to all.
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Conservatives failed to create a taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma. They're now using a proposed Jewish school to revive the same scheme. And a federal judge just gave them the green light to proceed. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/federal-ju...