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dcsoda.bsky.social @dcsoda.bsky.social · Nov 28
New photography thread. Buildings!
Building along the river in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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internethippo.bsky.social
Bad news team: our dumbass president's economic policies have caused the exact outcome predicted by everyone
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h
Breaking:

The U.S. labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% — the highest since 2021.
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it
interfluidity.com Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d
utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Without Trump's unconventional hiring strategy we wouldn't have such great innovations as overseas torture camps and a pointless war with Venezuela.
December 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
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jaredmcclain.bsky.social Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 3d
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.

So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
It should be bigger news that Leslie Wexner, the person most responsible for Jeffrey Epstein's wealth and entrée into circles of power, is currently ducking a subpoena in a case brought by victims of sexual assault by an Ohio State doctor which occurred while Wexner was on the OSU board of trustees.
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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astrokatie.com
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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jamellebouie.net
it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law
bill-of-lefts.bsky.social No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 5d
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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ootcolumbo.bsky.social
this is… excuse me… a damn fine out of touch thursday
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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rleggos.bsky.social
Sorry I'm hearing that this discourse was fun and funny before the news of the arrest broke? No, it was always heartbreaking, sad, and kind of disgusting...
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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jamellebouie.net
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the only thing that doesn’t appear to be illegal race discrimination to the conservative legal movement is actual racist discrimination
audrelawdamercy.bsky.social Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6d
worth noting here that the position of the conservative legal movement is that trying to remedy environmental racism is itself illegal race discrimination

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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alexip718.com
That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight

sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Disbar the lawyers.
ewong.bsky.social Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 6d
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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cstrable.bsky.social
Simpsons poochie on the screen meme, but it says Whenever Michigan is not up 30, all the other characters should be asking, "why isn't Michigan up 30?"
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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conorsen.bsky.social
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
aidanmcl.bsky.social Aidan McLaughlin @aidanmcl.bsky.social · 7d
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
brianstelter.bsky.social Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 7d
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
There is a difference between inheritance and action. I cannot help who my ancestors are, but I can make my own choices. That so many Americans chose to place in power a man who holds people in contempt on the basis of race, religion, and national origin; that so much of the mainstream media conveys this bigotry through tired, obfuscating euphemisms; that there is so low a political price for the president’s racism that he and those around him see little risk in its expression—well, that does say something about America, and Americans. Immigration isn’t breaking our society. That’s a job Americans can do on their own.
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
dcsoda.bsky.social
Now just imagine how much more enjoyable this would be if certain teams didn’t get another shot after today.
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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aceanbender.com
as always, fuck ohio
November 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
dcsoda.bsky.social
These refs have lost the plot completely
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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randomscreename.bsky.social
ST TNG producers: It's your first time directing an episode. Do you have any ideas for shots you want to get?

Jonathan Frakes: Yes, I have one.
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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mobute.bsky.social
The rare presidential administration whose character, efficacy and dignity would automatically increase if everyone in it was replaced with a ten year old.
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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dominictarason.com
Sabrina Carpenter: Braver and more powerful than Nintendo and Microsoft combined.
airbagged.bsky.social kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 10d
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
Sabrina walking the dog
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM