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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Can you imagine the uproar in the media if Democrats came out at the DNC doing this?

www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLI...

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Meanwhile over at the Republican convention: DUDE: Don’t be an asshole MATT GAETZ: Dude, I don’t even know who you are. DUDE: It doesn’t fucking matter who I am. Don’t be an asshole. twitter.com/DWUhlfelderL...

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The white supremacist gunman who murdered 23 people going about their day in El Paso five years ago next month had been obsessed with an alleged “Hispanic invasion” of Texas. There is no pivot, or softening. This is the Trump Republican Party. They keep telling us who they are, so believe them.

Lake also warned of the "Bidvaion" reference to the replacement theory that smashes the claim that Biden is intentionally facilitating a literal "invasion" of the United States, before leading the crowd in the nativist "build the wall" chant.

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One reason they will never disavow Charlottesville is that "You will not replace us!" has become their whole thing.

RNC night two is the replacement theory addition. So far, multiple Senate candidates have used their minutes on stage to promote the white nationalist replacement theory, which has inspired multiple deadly terrorist attacks and is a lie that actively threatens American democracy.

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I live in Florida. If you could Thanos-snap all of the undocumented folks away our economy would collapse overnight.

Immigration is taking center stage at the RNC tonight, which means we’re hearing a lot of ugliness and lies. But the reality is that immigrants are essential to our economy, including in Wisconsin. Here’s some resources to help push back on tonight’s nativism: americasvoice.org/press_releas...

Ahead of Promised Anti-Immigrant Ugliness at RNC, Resources and Reminders About Immigrants in Wisconsin and What You Need to Know - America's Voiceamericasvoice.org Washington, DC — Ahead of the RNC’s promised focus today on disinformation and lies that immigrants are threats, below are a collection of related resources and reminders from America’s Voice, includi...

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An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections. www.propublica.org/article/judg...

Even When Big Cases Intersect With Their Families’ Interests, Many Judges Choose Not to Recusewww.propublica.org Ambiguous — and unenforced — recusal standards mean few checks and balances for top judges when cases involve their family members.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

Hahaha, I knew it

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nobody does it like him, bless him.

The goat

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“While working in the Trump White House, Miller was largely responsible for some of the administration’s most draconian and cruel policies, including its ‘Muslim ban’ and its family separation policy.” "He is expected to again serve as a top adviser if Trump wins in November …”

Noted white nationalist Stephen Miller attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 after appearing in recruitment video. The general counsel for his America First Legal group also wrote a chapter on the DOJ for the project’s policy book: www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Stephen Miller attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 after appearing in recruitment videowww.mediamatters.org

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"Donald Trump is a billionaire and JD Vance is a scumbag venture capitalist from Yale who is the protege of a billionaire named Peter Thiel ... Which one is the working class champion who wants to rein in the power of billionaires, again?" www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-patsy

You Patsywww.hamiltonnolan.com We don't have time for this bullshit.

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The shooter was not representative of any broad movement towards political violence, certainly not on the US left. The last big episode of political violence in the US was January 6 2021. Militias have staged threatening armed demonstrations but all on the political right.

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The failed assassination attempt on Trump was not important, and the heavy coverage it got was an abdication of journalistic ethics. It would have been important if Trump were killed; it was not important that someone shot at him.

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There was a time platforms like Twitter tried to remove obvious conspiracy theories from their trending pages. But this weekend’s events showed how platforms are increasingly content to let us choose our own realities www.platformer.news/monday-newsl...

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You can’t make this up

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Thanks, John Roberts

What a fucking asshole. We knew it was coming but what a voluminous douche canoe

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I guess one difference between Twitter and Bluesky is that on Twitter you could just yell at Ross Douthat directly and here you can’t so people just yelled at poor Jamelle Bouie instead

This truly embarrassing garbage is why I unsubscribed from the NYT.

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i love the phrase "something or other." the idea of "something" being too specific. i cant commit to it being something

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That's not going to take me twenty three minutes to read

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Posobiec’s glow up from “crying Pizzagate streamer” to “conservative movement power broker” explains so much about political developments over the past ~8 years—especially what has become mainstream Republican politics

Oh, I totally forgot: Vance also blurbed Jack Posobiec’s “Unhumans” book, the one that casts leftists as agents of “unhumanity.” Unity, folks! 🙃

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I know we know about JD Vance, but he's also working to make divorces harder to obtain, and says that people in "violent" marriages should stay married and not get divorced. So.

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I remember a day when 50 cent was a celebrity tapped to do a basic a "Vote!" promo on his social media and the only thing I remember him posting on election day was a picture of a huge pile of money set out on a picnic bench, was honestly pretty funny at the time

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Oh, I love Prodigy, they rock

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nattie winters

"the night my wife accidentally told me to "shit the fuck" up will always be remembered as a turning point in our relationship... and the art of shitting" - average Reader's Digest article

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if you can't, well... I don't wanna have to be the one to say, but let's be clear: it regards both you, and the mandate of heaven

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Here’s the thing about the Vance pick: it’s probably unhelpful in electoral terms. But, in terms of governance, it’s further evidence that they’re Going For It. Trump 1 was hobbled in his authoritarian attempt by the admin and GOP. Trump 2 will be aided by both. They’re gonna go for it.

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JD Vance going from 'Trump is America's Hitler and that's why I oppose him' to 'Trump is America's Hitler and that's why I'm running to be his Vice President' -- truly, what an arc

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… “I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J. D. Vance” —Romney

FWIW I just read McKay Coppins’ Romney book, and Romney is BRUTAL on JD Vance.

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Thinking fondly of all the liberals who gave Hillbilly Elegy glowing reviews and otherwise legitimized someone who was always very clearly a reactionary shapeshifter

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Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion lawswapo.st The author and venture capitalist running for the GOP Senate nomination said in a local interview that unborn babies should be allowed to live even if the circumstances are “somehow inconvenient.”