DC Emperor of Ice Cream
@empoficecream202.bsky.social
Finally escaped the X hellscape. Just getting started here. Politics are super blue. Now what??
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Dems are fighting a tidal wave of money and entrenched (white) culture. Our own allies are always tepid at best. Yet all fire is trained internally about “messaging.” Dems are tree falling in empty forest. No one hears their message. Billionaires own all the vehicles. White people do the rest.
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"Quiet, Piggy" and "Things Happen" are the distillation of Trump to his very essence. One manifests his vileness and misogyny. The other his dangerous amorality. They are a window into where his soul would be if he had one.
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Quiet, Piggy" and "Things Happen" are the distillation of Trump to his very essence. One manifests his vileness and misogyny. The other his dangerous amorality. They are a window into where his soul would be if he had one.
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Control of the media is about 1000 times more important than campaign finance reform, but progressives have been almost completely asleep on the issue. See my interview with Milo Vassallo, ex. director of the Media and Democracy Project prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/E...
This week Dean speaks to Milo Vassallo, Executive Director of the Media and Democracy Project, about wresting back the free press from media oligarchs. As corporate consolidation has gutted local newsrooms and created vast news deserts, communities can rebuild civic journalism from the ground up.
prod.cdn.everyaction.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Control of the media is about 1000 times more important than campaign finance reform, but progressives have been almost completely asleep on the issue. See my interview with Milo Vassallo, ex. director of the Media and Democracy Project prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/E...
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Media ownership matters
Progressives have been incredibly negligent in not paying attention to who owns the media. It is far MORE important than campaign finance reform. See my interview with Milo Vassallo on Mostly Economics www.youtube.com/watch?v=4efF...
Mostly Economics Podcast #28: Fighting the Media Oligarchy with Milo Vassallo
YouTube video by Center for Economic and Policy Research
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November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Media ownership matters
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We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war: one in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war: one in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
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☕ Good morning. Here's some facts:
Trump has predictably been a complete and utter failure, because history tells us that is all this carnival-barking phony has ever been.
He was a rotten kid, a rotten businessman, a rotten husband, a rotten father, and is a poor damn excuse of a man.
My latest ...
Trump has predictably been a complete and utter failure, because history tells us that is all this carnival-barking phony has ever been.
He was a rotten kid, a rotten businessman, a rotten husband, a rotten father, and is a poor damn excuse of a man.
My latest ...
FIGHT OR DIE
It doesn't matter how we got here, only how we end up ...
dearlstephens.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
☕ Good morning. Here's some facts:
Trump has predictably been a complete and utter failure, because history tells us that is all this carnival-barking phony has ever been.
He was a rotten kid, a rotten businessman, a rotten husband, a rotten father, and is a poor damn excuse of a man.
My latest ...
Trump has predictably been a complete and utter failure, because history tells us that is all this carnival-barking phony has ever been.
He was a rotten kid, a rotten businessman, a rotten husband, a rotten father, and is a poor damn excuse of a man.
My latest ...
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Take it from some who teaches about drone strikes, “I shed no tear for that guy” and “this is bad, it shouldn’t have happened” can be normal reactions to have simultaneously.
Opposition to political violence isn’t about personal sympathy for an individual target per se, it’s about society.
Opposition to political violence isn’t about personal sympathy for an individual target per se, it’s about society.
September 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Take it from some who teaches about drone strikes, “I shed no tear for that guy” and “this is bad, it shouldn’t have happened” can be normal reactions to have simultaneously.
Opposition to political violence isn’t about personal sympathy for an individual target per se, it’s about society.
Opposition to political violence isn’t about personal sympathy for an individual target per se, it’s about society.
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It’s still hard to believe we’ve come to this.
September 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It’s still hard to believe we’ve come to this.
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Ahhhh, there it is. Guess what, Grandpa Waggle Finger would have got his ass wholesale smoked in a national election. To continue to think otherwise in '25, is a misogynistic bubble and tax bracket I'm not privy to.
September 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ahhhh, there it is. Guess what, Grandpa Waggle Finger would have got his ass wholesale smoked in a national election. To continue to think otherwise in '25, is a misogynistic bubble and tax bracket I'm not privy to.
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Hypothetically, if saving the planet meant all billionaires had to die would you jump into a vat of acid
Hypothetically. If complimenting trump meant that there would definitely be 2026 elections and the Dems would sweep Congress in a landslide , would you compliment Trump ?
Or, Is is that thought so abhorrent, you couldn’t bring yourself to do it. Even at the expense of staying the minority?
Or, Is is that thought so abhorrent, you couldn’t bring yourself to do it. Even at the expense of staying the minority?
August 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Hypothetically, if saving the planet meant all billionaires had to die would you jump into a vat of acid
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I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.
MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 08/22/2025 · 1h 22m
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August 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.
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Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
August 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
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‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔
July 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔
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This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better.
But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.
But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.
July 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better.
But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.
But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.
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There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
June 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
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This is so pathetically obsequious and misleading that I wish I could cancel my subscription again
Planes roared over D.C. on Saturday, tanks rolled along the National Mall, brass bands resounded and thousands of soldiers marched past cheering crowds, as the Army put on the largest show of military might in the capital in more than three decades. wapo.st/4dYFOck
June 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is so pathetically obsequious and misleading that I wish I could cancel my subscription again
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Coolest Subaru I have ever seen
April 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Coolest Subaru I have ever seen
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If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
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Fuck Chris Sununu . . . he is a liar and an American traitor.
April 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Fuck Chris Sununu . . . he is a liar and an American traitor.
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“Americans built the richest and most prosperous society ever to exist, and one part of that was the creation of an endless stream of handheld entertainments, which told them they were miserable and impoverished, and consequently the country committed immediate political and economic suicide”
April 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
“Americans built the richest and most prosperous society ever to exist, and one part of that was the creation of an endless stream of handheld entertainments, which told them they were miserable and impoverished, and consequently the country committed immediate political and economic suicide”