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Tim Bates
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The food at this place is terrible, and such small portions!
The Sportwashing Jersey
June 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
You can’t have more tariffs until you finish the tariffs you ordered!
June 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I think it depends. Palace winning the FA Cup meant something. Spurs had a terrible season but winning the Europa will stay with the fans forever.

But I take your point. The Conference League is a fake competition and the Community Shield is a glorified friendly.
May 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
May 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I agree it’s an abomination. Congress should spend dramatically more money on kids and disabled Medicaid enrollees.
May 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I totally think it’s fair and good to call your Rep, call them out at town halls, etc. That’s democracy! They work for you!

My comment was more about this tendency on blue sky to pile on

w/r/t her voting record, she voted for the SAVE Act, which was bad. But she also voted against the budget!
April 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The comments in this thread are a good example of the Bluesky bubble.

MGP ran against a Proudboy Christian nationalist and defeated him in consecutive elections in an R+5 district that Trump won by 3 points.

She’s unconditionally better than the Republican who would seek to replace her.
April 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I think Dems should make clear that the perpetrators will face criminal prosecution in the next Dem administration.
April 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
many such cases #CAleg
April 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I think Abundance is popularly viewed as a book about the future of the Democratic coalition, and therefore a contest with the populist/anti-monopolist coalition that aims to lead the Party.

TBF, there’s a lot in the book to that effect and the media tour to highlight those parts didn’t help.
April 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The chief complaint about Biden was that he was old and incoherent
April 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
“It’s actually good the stock market is tanking now regular Americans™️ can buy stocks!”
April 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
bc sandwich
February 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This quote by CD4 is a good summary of current leadership, all of whom understand the housing crisis in the city but few actually want to do anything to fix it.
February 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The Immortal Khan does not have time. He simply requires that you amplify His message.

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
February 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Was at a birthday party last weekend and anecdotally this is very true.

People disconnected from the news cycle just unaware of the ongoing bureaucratic coup.

This hasn’t broken thru like a George Floyd protest or women’s march despite the grave constitutional crisis.
February 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Depends on scope and execution of the deportations. The high water mark for the generic ballot in 2018 occurred during the family separations coverage.
January 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM