Eestiplika

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Polyamorous pluviophile poet. Feline shepherding behavior & waterfowl alignment specialist. Mostly harmless.

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A man who fakes his wealth paired with a man who fakes his poverty. Sounds about white.

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CPAC adopted this line just two years ago and now the GOP is suddenly all “wait not like that”

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Having established my expertise, over the last several years, in Ukrainian troop deployments, immunology, large vessel shipping operations, and geriatric medicine, I will now draw on my experience in security detail deployments. In this thread I will

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

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Dr. Ruth survived the Holocaust and lived to nearly 100 talking about how sex should feel good and also isn't that serious, what a best-case scenario

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How soon can we see a few dozen NYT op-eds about this? How soon can we get multiple GOP legislators and donors writing in National Review and The Daily Beast that he needs to step down? Yeah, I know

Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve. Maybe we should cover Trump's serial lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1837...

Shocker Poll Suggests Trump’s Lying May Be Huge Weakness for Himnewrepublic.com One possible reason the polls haven’t moved as much as pundits expected: Voters still don’t like or trust Trump. Can the Democrats shift focus to that?

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I envy those fuckers

thinking of uninteresting times and the people who live in them

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The way I think of it is: political activism isn't about selecting the best (or even least bad) president. It's about always working to create the conditions under which necessary changes can happen. A Dem administration won't be the change, but it will clearly be a better environment for the change

My Slate essay on why leftists should vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate this November, despite everything:

The Leftist Case for Voting—Yes, Even for Bidenslate.com We need to think about this election differently. Just look at France.

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Imagine looking at one million acres of land and pristine fresh water, with no motor vehicles, no development, one of only 13 dark sky sanctuaries in the world and saying…this should be a mine.

Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.

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New from the New York Times Editorial Board: Donald Trump is unfit to lead (gift link)

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.

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No one knows for sure what tomorrow holds so might as well fight today.

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"Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity." - Horkheimer

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turns out my state is having a contest on "I Voted" sticker designs, and I would like to show you the most metal one by a middle schooler:

Ditto SF

So much of cycling activism in nyc was driven by bike messengers originally. And I hope I’m not taking anything away from them to say that set some problematic perceptions, including how hot your average cyclist was likely to be. 🤣

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So the more I see of this, the more I respect it. The Cybertruck is so unrelentingly and singularly absurd that the only sane aesthetic response is to heap yet more absurdity on top. This exudes a level of "you're locked in here with me" energy that you don't often get the opportunity to witness.

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Biden seems to have mastered something that escaped university presidents: you don’t have to do what the NYT tells you. You can just … not do that.

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French people riot and block roads every two weeks because the price of a baguette increased but suddenly they reject fascism and it’s like oh wow this kooky country can’t get anything done!

France: Defeats fascists. NYT:

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As I have learned from the past few weeks, Trump forgetting his previous speech about the Heritage Project and the many ties in his cabinet to it should spark just as many breathless op-eds about Trump’s memory loss right

Trump gushed over Heritage and Roberts in a 2022 speech. Trump now claims not to know who is behind Project 2025, which is led by Roberts and Heritage. www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Donald Trump on Heritage’s Kevin Roberts, who oversees Project 2025: “He’s going to be so incredible”www.mediamatters.org

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it’s that last sentence tucked at the end that the right is truly terrified of

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Weaponized unreality is a hell of a thing when it actually starts from the largest institutional levels. And people are not at all prepared for this.

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Yeah because the White House was working on a bill to help those with Parkinson’s disease that was signed this week. This is literal far right disinformation from the New York Times.

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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"The core of organizing is raising expectations." - Jane McAlevey

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FASCISM IS NOT INEVITABLE

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

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SOLNIT

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

Honestly, go with this if you must. Diversity of tactics and all that. (And I will still not stop pointing out that your line was “old” not “genocide support.”)

honestly they’re kinda cooking with this

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America continues to lag far behind the rest of the world in hotel breakfast technology. *goes back for seconds of fried cheese and cloudberry jam*

I would crawl over a field of broken glass to vote for a rancid ham sandwich over that sweaty fascist maga clown and everything about the election up until then will be stressful and embarrassing.

The most honest "take" that anyone can write now is: "I have no idea what Democrats should do."

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Bolivia: America asked if they can join the chat South Korea: nO gEnErAL sTriKe? Malaysia: You can't join the 'countries who rescued their democracies' chat bc you wanna rescue your democracy, that's like letting people into the Olympic Gold Medallist chat bc they *want* to win a gold medal.