Joe Katz

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Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results.

Activist. Comms. Unhappy warrior. "Soros-backed." He/him.

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Very much in keeping with pattern @jbouie.bsky.social described here: talking about power grabs to justify your own bsky.app/profile/jbou...

recently spent a lot of time thinking about carl schmitt and this column came out of it www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...

Opinion | Why Republicans Are Talking About Biden’s ‘Dictatorship’www.nytimes.com The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.

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Last month I dropped my second camera body at 3:00 a.m. attempting some astrophotography. It broke and cost $400 to repair. Today I took the shot with it. Totally worth it. 🐬

Also worth noting a common theme: strategic voting/unifying behind a single candidate to defeat a candidate you both don't want to win, a normal democratic practice, being redefined as "cheating," "dirty tricks," "collusion," "a coup"... thus justifying actual cheating/dirty tricks/collusion/coups.

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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(Also and to belabor the point, much of what's proposed in Project 2025 would be new information to a huge number of Americans who have tuned a lot of this out, in much the way that Roe v Wade being overturned was a huge shocker to many despite being preordained for years beforehand)

"It's nothing new, they're just putting it all together in a detailed road map as to how they'll use federal power to make it a reality at a time when they control the courts and are led by a major politician with a cult following who rejects any effort to limit his power" is not a comforting notion

I don't get it when people point out that Project 2025 is "nothing new." Yes, obviously, right-wingers have been fanatics for decades. They were blowing up abortion clinics and shooting doctors when I was a kid. But, as you may have noticed, their political vision has kind of been coming together.

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Timothy Burke

This and filling the news deserts.

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Sarah Tuttle

It's really remarkable and horrifying just how little we seemed to have learned

I cannot tell you how many times in the last year I've wondered if someone lived through a different last decade than I did

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I fucking love this

I'd be happy to do whatever I can to help!

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a dead giveaway that project 2025 was written specifically for—and with input from—trump:

#alt4me

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illumi

This is exactly what the Founding Fathers meant federalism to be used for

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CazzieCaz

You ever hear the old Everclear song?

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In this the Democratic Party also has some things to answer for, but yes

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illumi

The moves towards legalizing child labor are ominous in addition to being just so fucking WEIRD

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If you care about criminal system reform, Project 2025 would allow the DOJ to prosecute reform-minded district attorneys.

@alttext.bsky.social

Alternately #alt4me you wonders

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Micah

I get it, it's a tough realization for us all

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Jessica Pishko

What the bot is here for!

Highly recommend both this and the collection I first read it in, A People’s Future of the United States

In a future divided America, a lone bookstore straddles the border between two new nations. But it's getting harder to avoid choosing a side. My story "The Bookstore at the End of America" just got a beautiful audio adaptation from Cast of Wonders: www.castofwonders.org/2024/07/cast...

Cast of Wonders 593: The Bookstore at the End of America | Cast of Wonderswww.castofwonders.org A bookshop on a hill. Two front doors, two walkways lined with blank slates and grass, two identical signs welcoming customers to the First and Last Page, and a great blue building in the middle…

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Ugh I wrote about this back in January: “There’s something particularly cruel about a decision to willfully deprive millions of parents the comfort of knowing that their child won’t go to bed hungry.”

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.

Opinion | These Republican governors chose to let some kids go hungry this summerwww.msnbc.com The GOP rejection of funding for the Summer EBT program will effect an estimated 8 million school-age children.

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I'm sorry you had to find out this way

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Sy Nakamura

The Nate Silver arc

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Kaitlin is brilliant and talented and full of insights and you should subscribe to her political analysis, she will give you essential perspective.

Frankly wish more people would subscribe to my Patreon just to ask questions, as the best test of a perspective is to process an issue in real time patreon.com/gothamgirlblue

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Frankly wish more people would subscribe to my Patreon just to ask questions, as the best test of a perspective is to process an issue in real time patreon.com/gothamgirlblue

I don’t make much of a living, but I’m far more accurate than many who are highly paid in the field. This fact depresses me constantly.

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Taraji P. Henson “used her incredible platform to issue a warning and to repeat it again and again throughout the night: that a Donald Trump GOP win in November will undermine our fundamental rights.” www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Trump’s new Big Lie that he doesn’t know about Project 2025 might take him downwww.inquirer.com Republicans are in a state of panic now that voters are paying attention to Project 2025, their plan for dictatorship. They should be.