Immie_8
@immie8.bsky.social
Foodie, swordfighter, Canucks fan, and media junkie. Proud geek! Waiting on the mountain. 🏔️
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Watching CNN and I know people have been mad at Jake Tapper, but he is spending quite a lot of time taking apart Trump’s completely crazypants speech
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Watching CNN and I know people have been mad at Jake Tapper, but he is spending quite a lot of time taking apart Trump’s completely crazypants speech
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I would encourage anyone who is questioning the security of our elections to volunteer at their local polls! It’s a bunch of regular people like you and me, working hard to ensure that the vote is conducted according to the rules
December 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I would encourage anyone who is questioning the security of our elections to volunteer at their local polls! It’s a bunch of regular people like you and me, working hard to ensure that the vote is conducted according to the rules
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And that's the thing. People want dirt-cheap air travel. They get it. Then they're mad. That's like going to Walmart or Sam's Club and asking for a concierge.
But we're buying an uncomfortable, no-frills, minimal customer support experience. So it will suck. And there won't be enough support when things go wrong.
So just don't be an asshole when the inevitable happens.
So just don't be an asshole when the inevitable happens.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
And that's the thing. People want dirt-cheap air travel. They get it. Then they're mad. That's like going to Walmart or Sam's Club and asking for a concierge.
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I wish Secretary Duffy would concentrate on keeping the skies safe and leave the moral hectoring to me. I'm better at it.
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I wish Secretary Duffy would concentrate on keeping the skies safe and leave the moral hectoring to me. I'm better at it.
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This entire administration is a national security risk
As the FBI’s deputy director, Dan Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This entire administration is a national security risk
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I put a Reagan/Bush sign in my window when I was at BU during the 1980 election. Amazingly, I still had lots of friends of various political persuasions.
Maybe it's not about his politics.
Maybe it's not about his politics.
Quote of him Boston 25 News 9/11/2025. Re division on campus “It’s been so long now, you don’t want to tell people that you’re at Republican on campus, you’re outcasted from social groups, people are hostile towards you, we’re marginalized at BU and there’s so many people who feel the way we do.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I put a Reagan/Bush sign in my window when I was at BU during the 1980 election. Amazingly, I still had lots of friends of various political persuasions.
Maybe it's not about his politics.
Maybe it's not about his politics.
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🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”
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This guy is so fuckin dumb.
Trump: "When I took over it was a mess. I have inflation way down. I have it down to a normal number right now. Lower than a normal number in my opinion, I think."
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This guy is so fuckin dumb.
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Fortunately, there's no big holidays in November. Or anything... 🤔
U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE 10% CUT OF SCHEDULED CAPACITY AT 40 MAJOR HIGH TRAFFIC AIRPORTS STARTING FRIDAY -- SOURCES
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Fortunately, there's no big holidays in November. Or anything... 🤔
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A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable.
A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over.
This really can work.
A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over.
This really can work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable.
A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over.
This really can work.
A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over.
This really can work.
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After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be
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Democrats had one of the best nights in a long time. From NY to GA to CA, there wasn't a single bright spot for Republicans.
Yet, some people are so addicted to doom they almost get aroused by it. Worse, they are smug, self-righteous, and proud of such an attitude.
Yet, some people are so addicted to doom they almost get aroused by it. Worse, they are smug, self-righteous, and proud of such an attitude.
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Democrats had one of the best nights in a long time. From NY to GA to CA, there wasn't a single bright spot for Republicans.
Yet, some people are so addicted to doom they almost get aroused by it. Worse, they are smug, self-righteous, and proud of such an attitude.
Yet, some people are so addicted to doom they almost get aroused by it. Worse, they are smug, self-righteous, and proud of such an attitude.
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Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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That's an alpha warrior war-fighter right there. Get my man a free Punisher tattoo.
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
That's an alpha warrior war-fighter right there. Get my man a free Punisher tattoo.
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Scott Jennings just now: Virginia has never been a great bellwether and New Jersey is just New Jersey
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Scott Jennings just now: Virginia has never been a great bellwether and New Jersey is just New Jersey
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Sure, but when *I* say it, people lose their minds :)
Where America stands, one year after the election.
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet.
New piece:
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet.
New piece:
Escalation, Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround?
One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here
steady.page
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Sure, but when *I* say it, people lose their minds :)
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And this is it's so important to reject nihilism about freedom and voting. This is gonna be tight.
The Emerson poll has always shown Sherrill doing a bit worse than the others, which have her up 4-8 points.
BUT the last round of polls in the 2021 gubernatorial race had the Democrat up 7 and he won by 2.
It's fair to treat this as a toss-up right now, so Democrats need a huge GOTV effort.
BUT the last round of polls in the 2021 gubernatorial race had the Democrat up 7 and he won by 2.
It's fair to treat this as a toss-up right now, so Democrats need a huge GOTV effort.
👀 NJ GOV RACE: Emerson College has Mikie Sherrill (D) at 49% and Jack Ciattarelli (R) at 48%, with just 3% undecided
October 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
And this is it's so important to reject nihilism about freedom and voting. This is gonna be tight.
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Now that people have bitched about the article by looking at the headline, maybe you should read it
It’s about organizing, not cheating.
It’s about organizing, not cheating.
October 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Now that people have bitched about the article by looking at the headline, maybe you should read it
It’s about organizing, not cheating.
It’s about organizing, not cheating.
I drive my friends nuts sometimes with my insistence on specificity and language, but that’s because words begin to lose meaning a weight if they are not used in the correct context.
This is what happens when people don't understand the difference between authoritarian corruption and fascism. Because they have no word to fill in the space between "George Washington" and "Hitler," everything that isn't democracy becomes "fascism"
Isn't trying to prosecute your political enemies part of a fascist state? Isn't the federal government defying court orders?
We live in the beginnings of a fascist state. We are not total fascist yet if you want to get that specific. But it's creeping.
So, again, you're debating semantics. Again
We live in the beginnings of a fascist state. We are not total fascist yet if you want to get that specific. But it's creeping.
So, again, you're debating semantics. Again
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I drive my friends nuts sometimes with my insistence on specificity and language, but that’s because words begin to lose meaning a weight if they are not used in the correct context.
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The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat.
And Congress is letting it happen.
And Congress is letting it happen.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
What we have here, in addition to Trump's gaudy, vacuous bric-a-brac he has glued to wall in the Cabinet Room, is our monumentally incompetent SecDef telling the most unhinged president in history about an attack on another civilian small boat, this time in the Pacific.
What we have here, in addition to Trump's gaudy, vacuous bric-a-brac he has glued to wall in the Cabinet Room, is our monumentally incompetent SecDef telling the most unhinged president in history about an attack on another civilian small boat, this time in the Pacific.
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat.
And Congress is letting it happen.
And Congress is letting it happen.
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“A House of Dynamite” is all too plausible. I’m a nuke expert - and it scared the heck out of me.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“A House of Dynamite” is all too plausible. I’m a nuke expert - and it scared the heck out of me.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.
But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.
But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
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So frustrating to read his comment because the Never Trumpers are the most consistent voters I know - 100% consistent for Clinton and Harris - while the progressives I know in Boston and NYC were not. Something about Bernie not being given his due and Kamala personally bombing Palestinians
September 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So frustrating to read his comment because the Never Trumpers are the most consistent voters I know - 100% consistent for Clinton and Harris - while the progressives I know in Boston and NYC were not. Something about Bernie not being given his due and Kamala personally bombing Palestinians