Moon Possum
@moonunit.bsky.social
Just a possum on the moon. Sometimes in Texas, also, for the oxygens.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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Not specific to this clip: If you're filming, periodically adjust position & get close-ups of faces, shoes, hands, gloves & tattoos. Make sure to film the agents milling in the background or in vehicles. If the situation warrants it, keeping quiet allows you to clearly record their voices as well.
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Not specific to this clip: If you're filming, periodically adjust position & get close-ups of faces, shoes, hands, gloves & tattoos. Make sure to film the agents milling in the background or in vehicles. If the situation warrants it, keeping quiet allows you to clearly record their voices as well.
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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A bunch of progressives are going to win primaries next year, and a bunch of centrists are going to try to reinvent themselves as progressives in order to win primaries.
These are both positive developments, even from the perspective of wanting the progressives to win their races.
These are both positive developments, even from the perspective of wanting the progressives to win their races.
December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A bunch of progressives are going to win primaries next year, and a bunch of centrists are going to try to reinvent themselves as progressives in order to win primaries.
These are both positive developments, even from the perspective of wanting the progressives to win their races.
These are both positive developments, even from the perspective of wanting the progressives to win their races.
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Only Democrats to have cast < 10 votes aligned with Trump this year
Merkley: 7
Murphy: 5
Sanders: 5
Warren: 4
Markey: 2
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Merkley: 7
Murphy: 5
Sanders: 5
Warren: 4
Markey: 2
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Tracking Senate Votes 2025
docs.google.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Only Democrats to have cast < 10 votes aligned with Trump this year
Merkley: 7
Murphy: 5
Sanders: 5
Warren: 4
Markey: 2
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Merkley: 7
Murphy: 5
Sanders: 5
Warren: 4
Markey: 2
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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How can it be December 2025 and Democrats are STILL voting for Trump's nominees?? What the actual fuck.
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
How can it be December 2025 and Democrats are STILL voting for Trump's nominees?? What the actual fuck.
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This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (David Ingram/NBC News)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (David Ingram/NBC News)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
@jasonkpargin.bsky.social I think about the Sound of Music "what is it you cunt face?" clip every now and then and it gets me every time 😂
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
@jasonkpargin.bsky.social I think about the Sound of Music "what is it you cunt face?" clip every now and then and it gets me every time 😂
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To many, free speech is more about the freedom to be offensive than about the freedom to challenge authority.
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
To many, free speech is more about the freedom to be offensive than about the freedom to challenge authority.
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Easy way to disprove that Trump genuinely believed he won the 2020 election is that Trump then became President, with a new Supreme Court decision giving him total control over the Justice Dept, and didn't charge a single person with what would have been the greatest fraud in U.S. history.
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Easy way to disprove that Trump genuinely believed he won the 2020 election is that Trump then became President, with a new Supreme Court decision giving him total control over the Justice Dept, and didn't charge a single person with what would have been the greatest fraud in U.S. history.
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
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NEW: St. Louis, MO has just passed a resolution to divest from corporations complicit in human rights abuses (including occupation, apartheid, genocide, or racism) within the city and abroad.
Becomes the biggest city in the US to pass such a resolution, according to organizers.
Becomes the biggest city in the US to pass such a resolution, according to organizers.
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
NEW: St. Louis, MO has just passed a resolution to divest from corporations complicit in human rights abuses (including occupation, apartheid, genocide, or racism) within the city and abroad.
Becomes the biggest city in the US to pass such a resolution, according to organizers.
Becomes the biggest city in the US to pass such a resolution, according to organizers.
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🧵There's a pernicious myth that Republicans have more money than Democrats. In fact, Democrats have raised more—including so-called "dark money."
Republicans have less money but understand politics better. This is why they win.
My upcoming e-book "What Republicans Know" discusses…
Republicans have less money but understand politics better. This is why they win.
My upcoming e-book "What Republicans Know" discusses…
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October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
🧵There's a pernicious myth that Republicans have more money than Democrats. In fact, Democrats have raised more—including so-called "dark money."
Republicans have less money but understand politics better. This is why they win.
My upcoming e-book "What Republicans Know" discusses…
Republicans have less money but understand politics better. This is why they win.
My upcoming e-book "What Republicans Know" discusses…
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this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
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We're there now. Republicans are killing SNAP. The Democratic Party should be out in every community GIVING PEOPLE FOOD.
This is going to be essential starting now. Project 2025 wants to gut every social service. They want to cut back on free school lunches. Start there - local Democratic Party staffers should be handing out lunch bags at schools once that goes down.
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
We're there now. Republicans are killing SNAP. The Democratic Party should be out in every community GIVING PEOPLE FOOD.
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NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
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An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
October 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
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The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do
Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.
Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.
Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.
Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people
October 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do
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A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
October 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not
American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving
October 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not
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Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.