Standing Bi 🌐🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

he/him | political science major | god's most productive Liberal™

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[Standing Bi 🌐🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @SimplyStandinBi]

"There arguably is no comparable point in the history of this country — not even when Americans fought each other during the Civil War — when the very constitutional framework has been so close to succumbing to the authoritarian whims of a single official"

Chat how cooked are we

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers were drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for possible executive actions and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting. 

🔗 https://t.co/n6AfgIyZNm

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

@rowanfornow i mean taking a sledgehammer to Republican structural advantages is my second priority after prosecuting this entire administration so fuck it i'm down

[cww @cww_0]

We are a populace guided exclusively by oppositional defiance disorder

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Christopher Nolan says the online backlash to ‘THE ODYSSEY’ comes with the territory.

“These conversations that happen before people see the film – they’re always irrelevant. Because no one having them knows what the film actually is yet.”

(Source: https://t.co/J378r5GWMy)

[Standing Bi 🌐🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @SimplyStandinBi]

@AndrewJ132 @TaglesTopGuy Maybe you shouldn’t define whiteness as a recessive trait if you want to “““protect””” white people

[Joe @electionsjoe]

GRAHAM PLATNER DROPS OUT OF MAINE SENATE RACE

[Standing Bi 🌐🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @SimplyStandinBi]

@DSA_Watch @grahamformaine

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Americans celebrated 250 years of independence from Britain this weekend.

Ken Paxton spent it with the British.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

And now it'll be "why didn't Schumer prevent me from forming a parasocial relationship with a rapist" because Democrats are mommy and it's mommy's job to keep baby from drinking the stuff under the sink.

[The Political HQ @ThePoliticalHQ]

🚨Maine U.S. Senate Poll🚨

🔵 Troy Jackson - 48%

🔴 Susan Collins (Inc) - 43%

Wedgewood Polls
405 Likely Voters
7/6

[Standing Bi 🌐🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @SimplyStandinBi]

@dontsippy @dj_mackelfresh “Believe women” unless it’s a candidate you like LMAOOOO fraud performative support for women

[Standing Bi 🌐🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @SimplyStandinBi]

@adamscochran @hasanthehun I believe in Troy Jackson.
https://t.co/4z6pQm5JKd

[The Political HQ @ThePoliticalHQ]

🚨Maine U.S. Senate Poll🚨

🔵 Troy Jackson - 48%

🔴 Susan Collins (Inc) - 43%

Wedgewood Polls
405 Likely Voters
7/6

[(• ˕ •マ.ᐟ ★ @Y40IFRQTTING]

Actually the metaphysical root of all injustice is the grievance of MY identity!

[Fudge_🌎 @FudgeSmith111]

"1776 wasn't an accident. The patriots of that era understood themselves to be heirs to an older civilization who would carry it forward,"

The Revolutionary War was an explicit rejection of this idea and the founders took ideas from all over and syncretized them.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that’s where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.

Now it's our turn.

There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.

250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.

Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Literary what Martha Stewart went to federal prison for and he just announces his kids are all guilty.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is fascinating to me, because beyond the surface level it illuminates why conservatives are often so full of shit.

The baseline here is that there's a heatwave, and Mamdani asked New Yorkers to adjust their thermostats to help the grid. This is regular practice in red and blue areas of the country. Daniel posts a defiant "I'm not gonna do what mommy tells me!" style post. He surely thinks he's a very clever boy here.

Now if the message is "This is a free country, and I love my AC, and by god it's my house and no government bureaucrat can force me to change", then fine. Sure. But there is no law being proposed here. No police are bursting down your door demanding to check your thermostat. It's a request from a community leader, a polite ask that you engage in a very small pro-social sacrifice.

You would think conservatives would understand the idea that local communities should pull together in times of need. For the 'common good', perhaps. You'd think. And that they'd be happy if no government force was involved, if they could act merely because they had strong moral character and believed in private charitable action.

"Nobody should ever ask anyone to sacrifice for the common good, even if it's just a polite request" is just dipshit nihilism.

But I suspect Daniel doesn't actually believe in those conservative ideas. Or if he does, they're a distant second to the true guiding star of conservative thought: owning the libs. Given the chance to help people or own the libs, conservatives will always own the libs. Given the chance to demonstrate strong principles or own the libs, they'll always abandon the principle to own the libs. The actual philosophy of the right is merely "We hate the left". And it's sad.

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

I am formally requesting that Aaron Rupar takes the day off.

[Standing Bi 🌐🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @SimplyStandinBi]

@esjesjesj To be fair, Wong Kim Ark was a 6-2 decision; this is actually just about par for the course when it comes to the Supreme Court