Potato says "Remember Geraldo Campos, Renee Good, Alex Pretti,"
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• super duper stitious
• currently dirty as hell on opsec
- Literally is there any reason to not have this be a 24/7 news story (other than also needing coverage of the concentration camps & etc)
- "Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong
- Trump job approval rating by news platform 🟢 Twitter/X: +9 🔴 Facebook: -7 🔴 Cable TV: -10 🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14 🔴 Local TV: -17 🔴 Instagram: -21 🔴 Broadcast TV: -28 🔴 TikTok: -28 🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33 🔴 Reddit: -40 www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
- Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
- This rollout was more than a little fumbled
- I am always saying this
- This is definitely not true of all religions, and it's not even true of all Christian sects lmao
- IMO part of the reason is that they think progressivism inevitably leads to things like these ICE/CBP abuses; that is, to be more specific about what exactly the "obvious error in their thinking" is, IMO it's that—that they (erroneously) think progressivism lead to the very thing you're against 1/2
- "or travel" is hilarious lol I mean, obviously this is a terrible situation. But that is funny
- Harris made definite missteps and took some horrible positions. Sexism and racism also played a role. Why can't both be (obviously) true lol
- He is as pathetic as he is malevolent
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- F O R R E A L I feel like I been taking crazy pills about this!!
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- What kinda waluigi ass bullshit is this
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- Sen. Elissa Slotkin is refusing to voluntarily comply with the Justice Department investigation into that video she organized urging U.S. military members to resist illegal orders. Slotkin's legal team is requesting Jeanine Pirro preserve all relevant documents for "anticipated litigation."
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- fuck yes
- Yes ma'am Madam Chairman
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- Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto
- You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.
- Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
- Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go
- The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
- That's right Chairman AOC
- Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
- Potato Fact Check: 🟩 True, but potentially misleading Reason for the rating: Dems do, in fact, have them pinned good; however, that only helps if they keep them pinned for the count rather than inexplicably letting up
- dudes rock
- You got it ✅ I haven't even used it since the boycott so why not delete it lol Remember kids: NEVER cross a picket
- (This is more or less a useless quote, I'm screaming into the void about a small nuance) Once again, they do not need to cover all polling places. As a matter of math, they *still* do not have the guys even with the proper denominator, but the proper denominator is not ≥100K, be serious lol
- Thread of the Day 🥇 #PotatosSkeetOfTheDay (A minor tweak of award title to encourage you to read the whole thread)
- this is more "how do you do fellow kids" than "pokemon go to the polls" many theorized it couldn't be done but she sure showed them
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- I think you can change "many" to "all", right? I don't recall a single instance where they were telling the truth, tho maybe I missed or forgot one
- If you're in Texas, here's the relevant info: www.votetexas.gov/get-involved...
- A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”
- Among (lots of) other things, this is going to flood the federal courts of appeals with cases in which the BIA might previously have cleaned up the IJ's messes. When something like this happened in 2004, the circuit courts ... did not respond favorably to the government's positions in those cases.
- So fucking what. Walk past them with your middle finger up and VOTE ANYWAY. The mission has NOT changed no matter the obstacles in the way.
- Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- This is the same Katie Britt who sneered that Dems' reasonable demands for restraints on DHS are a "Christmas list" and blamed Dems after the ICE murder of Renee Good
- I think that's around the ratio of ICE+CBP to Americans, right?
- Easy to deal with: So why didn't you act? If you knew it was wrong and did it anyway, why should voters trust you to act in their best interest?
- over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- I feel we're seeing the opposite of "unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum"? We see unity among conservatives and among the rich & powerful, but that's meaningfully different to "across the sociopolitical spectrum"; specifically why I bring that up is cause it is useful in reducing misogyny
- It's because they are a bunch of rubes (Source: Come on lol. Plus raised by them)
- "trying" is not dooming "will" is dooming "Trying" is important to blast rn, for the reasons OP cites, but just putting out there what the distinction for me is. We gotta know what they're planning, but I intend to disrupt their plans
- Trump and the Republicans are trying to rig the election. That's not being a "doomer," that's acknowledging reality. Democrats need a coordinated, national response to these coordinated, national attacks. We need an "Elections Czar" My latest solution in @thenation.com
- shopped fyi
- We have a couple years to ease the Strong Accountability Option into the Overton window, goal is to get into the debate and then polling 50%+ by 2027
- 🙋 I can think of one metric he doesn't beat me in
- you ever click on someone's profile and realize you weren't following them when you thought you were lol
- I mean!!!!
- Saying "I'm Antifa" like that is a "holding up 3 fingers" moment of course, but it'd be cool to get more specific confirmation of RW connections
- Jonathan Jackson had the hardest task of anyone and he broke it off in a way Trump didn’t even realize he was being roasted
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- I'm endorsing Gov. @KathyHochul because she's someone willing to engage in honest dialogue that delivers results. Along with the movement that powered our campaign, it's how we secured a historic agreement on childcare. And we're just getting started. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
- Is he even capable of going five minutes without proudly announcing a new constitutional violation? All signs point to "no"
- I keep saying it, doing things helps You will likely make a small to moderate positive impact in the world. You will likely make a large positive impact on your mental health. It's win-win
- 1. lol at just going on and on about how the whole thing was really about his ego 2. lol at hyping up ego as good at the prayer breakfast
- As a person of faith, and more specifically a Christian, which is what he meant, let me explain how/why I vote for Dems My faith teaches me to respect immigrants and treat them the same as native-born Americans; to help the poor, prisoners, the oppressed Democrats fit that bill better 1/4
- Simple as!
