Drew T

@dtipson.bsky.social

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Double dad, dev, demi-digital politico (the vocation, not the publication, ew). Dude but not a guy, & queerly married to a podcaster & then also partnered to a guy.

I'm "I once got tasked w/ managing Prez Obama's MySpace page" years old

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They won ON PURPOSE

The far right cope machine is already trying to manufacture a narrative about the massive loss the French fascists faced today. They are scared they can sense what’s coming to America and it’s not fascism. Popular fronts win and scare fascists. Keep them on the back foot they are weak and scared.

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a political party loses elections to this

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Well now I cant stop

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

In iceland they jailed the bankers who helped create the 2008 financial crisis. They're the only country who did www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This Is Where Bad Bankers Go to Prisonwww.bloomberg.com Iceland is the only nation that put top finance executives behind bars after the 2008 crisis. The economy is booming again, yet fears of crony capitalism remain.

No, I am not to blame

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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Don Moynihan

Johnny McEntee was Trump’s bag man, carrying around hair products and other essential items before being promoted to run the Presidential Personnel Office. It is doubtful if Trump spent more time with any other aide. But McEntee, now at Project 2025, has faded from Trump’s faltering memory it seems.

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Don Moynihan

If you click on the training section of Project 2025, the first person you meet is Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s national press secretary. You can almost see the concern in her eyes as she stands by Trump, hoping that no reporters will ask her if she is troubled that he does not know who she is.

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

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"Elites"

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This was a speech during which he did not have to answer any questions, he supposedly knew where he was going to be several days ahead of time, and this is what he came up with

The comeback of humanity begins when we acknowledge that we feel things

Finally seeing Inside Out 2 with my kids, I like this #sinceretweets

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Getting conked on the head and seeing stars would fix me

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The fact that there are some people who think of themselves as serious intellectuals who are writing headlines like these and nodding “neutrality is so important in these times” is so unbelievably funny to me like????

Trump: I want to murder my enemies with zero consequences. New York Times: Bold move, sir.

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I do not know that the New York Times is consciously making decisions to make a Trump victory more likely, but the purpose of a machine is what it does.

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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Setting aside the absolutely horrific inhumanity of this, uh, he apparently made a video where he admits to multiple very real federal crimes. Like, Secret Service should just go pick him up.

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Mark Robinson's campaign is now trying to spin away the significance of his violent rant. North Carolina reporter Rob Schofield does a nice job cutting through the campaign's talking points and showing why his comments are so concerning: bsky.app/profile/greg...

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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Note this: Mark Robinson's spokesman "did not respond to a question about who the people with 'evil intent' are that Robinson alluded to immediately prior to the 'killing' comments."

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Random photo from my phone:

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Weird* how he didn’t call for such punishment for those who violently stormed the seat of American government to try to stop the Constitutionally mandated transfer of power after a free and fair election *weird, but not surprising

I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.

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Had to shut down my rodent removal business. No more Mr. Mice Guy.

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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(1) Yes, he can just pardon them. (2) He can then also hold that over the heads of government workers who resist while siccing the Justice Department on them. Don't want to go along? Well, you've got a problem, buster.

I don't understand this point. Trump can just pardon them.

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what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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also Trump's supporters have no idea what he's saying half the time! no one does! there's no need to overthink this. Trump is popular because he channels vibes-based grievances and wants to punish those groups who his supporters feel have wronged them. That's it.

Trump has never had a speech impediment, and if you read a transcript of his speeches, they make very little sense, if any. It is apparently elitist to point this out, because "his supporters know what he's saying." When you read what he says, this is basically advancing Trump as telepath.

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ryan cooper

They still, quite literally, have never reported in any section of their newspaper on the fact that Trump published Obama’s address to his violent supporters and an armed assassin showed up THE NEXT DAY.