Michael F

@michaelf617.bsky.social

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Boston area geography buff, cat freak, film snob, physical media diehard, Sky Bar afficionado. He/him

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Crime, boy, I don't know

Existing Trump supporters—including political reporters privately in sympathy with him—obviously experienced a powerful galvanizing emotion from the failed assassination attempt. They assumed that emotional experience would be widespread, but so far the polling doesn’t bear that out.

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Kevin M. Kruse

Sorry, I meant the @davidjroth.bsky.social and @osullyville.bsky.social exchange

ah, well, nevertheless

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On Saturday a wholesome afternoon of fantasizing about concentration camps and plotting to overturn the coming election was disrupted by violence

(looks around) (whispers) ...they tried that in a small town

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I know it's been a stressful night for a lot of us, but I want to reassure you that Henry Kissinger is still dead.

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

MSNBC currently interviewing a woman saying that people need to be kinder and respect each other. The woman is wearing a shirt that calls Joe Biden a parasite

"I can't believe this happened in America" bub there are nine year olds who have spent more time memorizing how to get shot in public schools than they have memorizing state capitals

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BONUS TWEET: Ben Simmons being here is killing me x.com/gwiss/status...

As someone who has read 13,073 "was that fireworks or a gunshot" threads on NextDoor I just need to say:

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As we're seeing with interest in Trump's Project 2025 the media is desperate not to have this conversation because an election fought on the issues would wind up being a boring rout for Democrats

the country is in a really grim place, and it would be really great if the national conversation were "who's foreign policy do you like" or "wow what great economic ideas the two candidates have, but I prefer this one instead of that one", but alas, that is not where we are

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idk what the right thing to do is but it's pretty telling to me that the people in politics who I respect like AOC and Bernie are saying "we gotta make sure the leaky rowboat doesn't sink" and the people drilling holes in the bottom are like, Scott Peters

Like my feeling since Biden wrapped up the nomination has been that Biden is a leaky rowboat we've all been crammed into, and while being on a leaky rowboat sucks I'm rooting for it not to sink and annoyed at the other people on the boat who are seemingly determined to drill more holes in it.

there should be a word for "decision that could have been made if everyone was in the same room for three minutes but took three days of emails and texts to sort out instead"

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)

I know we're all fixated on the top of the ticket, and there is reason to feel dread. But please, please, PLEASE do not let the vital local work get lost in this mess. School boards. Local politicians. Abortion on the ballot. So much to fight for that will help people directly.

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the argument for biden is that he is a democratically elected leader committed to democracy. no national newspaper, no national magazine and no cable network has the same commitment, and he has to run against all of them, and the republicans. that’s your choice in november.

there is no physical force on earth stronger than "when I try to read a book in any even semi public space, someone will sit next to me and start yapping on their phone"

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If any other high-profile presidential candidate gave one speech this rambling and unhinged, it would be a major story. Trump, of course, has given dozens of such speeches in this campaign cycle.

The normal reaction to this is to quickly move to the other side of the street, but not in a way that attracts the guy’s attention. (via @jvl.bsky.social)

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Trump is desperate that voters not hear about Trump's Project 2025 because once they understand P25 is a Republican plan and a Trump plan they suddenly hate Trump and Republicans

63% of registered voters oppose Project 2025 when they hear about what policies are actually being proposed navigatorresearch.org/a-guide-for-...

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Congrats to everyone on Twitter, still pretending they're not actually frequenting a Nazi bar as the jukebox plays the Horst Wessel Song at a deafening volume.

Holy shit replies to this tweet. I want to barf. That place needs to be nuked from orbit.

Guys if the New York Times wants to be stupid and suck we can actually just not pay attention to them

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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't. www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

This state is introducing digital driver's licenses. Here's what you need to knowwww.zdnet.com Your physical wallet is being replaced piece by piece. Here's what you need to know about using digital IDs.

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i keep seeing videos of people acting shitty in public where a top comment is something like “wonder who they voted for 🙄.” i honestly think a winning message for Dems is just “aren’t you sick of these fucking people”

K read this to me and I honestly didn't know if she had said "NY Post" or "NY Times"

Subtle. Very subtle.

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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i'm a party man, because my party is the party that's against fascism. if it's the old man, i vote for the old man. if it's the younger woman, i vote for the younger woman. if it's a fucking fence post, i vote for the fence post, because if trump gets elected, i never get to vote again.

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"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!

And I thought it was impossible to capture the Democratic Party in one image