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firstpitch
@TheFirstPitch
Bet you couldn't tell by looking at me, but I can run really fast.
Katılım Nisan 2012
471 Takip Edilen75 Takipçiler
Thank you for your service, Lt. Governor
Now let’s elect Francesca Hong and beat MAGA!
Mandela Barnes@TheOtherMandela
Thank you, Wisconsin.
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@thepondering_ since you reposted this maybe you could ask Krystal if she is VBNMW and why it should only go one way? I think this is what the argument is. They use VBNMW as a weapon but don’t hold themselves to the same standard.
Krystal Ball@krystalball
How quickly vote blue no matter who was abandoned. Now a top Jill Biden staffer is vowing to elect Republicans to support Trump's fascist agenda.
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They will never make me hate Hasan Piker (again). Argue with your mama. Mf has remained consistent for years and has never strayed from his beliefs despite everything people threw at him and the lack of support he had from his fellow twitch streamers when he needed it most.
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@0wlishness @RyanCMullally I told him he lost a debate and he blocked me. He is a baby.
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Since @RyanCMullally blocked me I have to scream into the void, but I find it horribly ironic that Ryan is pretending that he “knew this would happen” but watched Trump take the reigns and dumpster the entire Republican Party.
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@WajahatAli Do you think having a senate majority is important?
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He's a Republican. Just leave.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur
NEW: John Fetterman is beginning to wonder if Democrats still want him "So, if the Democratic caucus doesn’t want me, they could just let me know," he tells me. His issues go beyond Israel. & how Rs are courting him. w/ @frankthorp @ryanobles @news_jul nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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@WhickTv A landlord? What did Hasan say about landlords again? Something about them being great people.
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First they supported a billionaire in California, and now theyre supporting a global landlord in Michigan
The jokes write themselves lol
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
AES financial disclosure finally out, doing some multi-continental mom & pop landlording in Bangalore and Dubai.
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@WajahatAli Maybe we will just say it was stolen like AES said he would do.
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If Abdul El-Sayed beats Haley Stevens, who has been propped up by AIPAC, millions from billionaires, and the entire Democratic establishment, will these people ever truly recover, or will the freak-out continue until the election?
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@thepondering_ @Da_Woodge @usurpthachef How would you feel if it was Kinsinger vs DAC but you knew the Dems would still hold the house by 10 seats.
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@Da_Woodge @usurpthachef Over a Republican? Yep, the same way I’d unapologetically back Joe Manchin or John Fetterman over Republican challengers
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Not remotely analogous for the reasons I laid out in last night’s chat
usurp tha chef@usurpthachef
I have a feeling if @PiscoLitty and @thepondering_ had a Time Machine and they went back and listened to a 2015 carbon copy of this convo from a Republican standpoint they’d be pulling their hair out trying to yell through the screen warning them not to treat MAGA like a joke….
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@TheFirstPitch @thepondering_ @_slippin_jim I don’t care about the meta if you want me to open a twitter space right now I’ll do it.
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If you're a DSA member, stay the fuck away from Fox News unless you're a Mamdani-tier communicator 👍
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TV News Now@TVNewsNow
🚨 SHOCKING: Fox’s Shannon Bream quizzes DSA co-chair Megan Romer on her policies: “Abolish the Senate?” “True.” “Replace the Presidency and Supreme Court as we know them?” “Yep.” “Abolish ICE?” “Absolutely.” “Abolish borders + amnesty for anyone here illegally?” “As a long term plan, yep.” “Defund the Pentagon?” “Absolutely.” “Abolish prisons, at least in large part?” “Yeah… that is part of a long term program, yep.”
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@WhickTv Im nervous. She has momentum and he is good at talking and saying aipac a lot. I don’t see an upside for her here.
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@PiscoLitty @thepondering_ @_slippin_jim How should a candidate answer this question: “Is it good that DSA is winning and beating Dems? Or is it bad? Is the Democratic Party moving towards those ideas?”
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@PiscoLitty @thepondering_ @_slippin_jim Do you think, if asked, a democratic candidate should say that this woman is a part of the Democratic Party coalition?
I can get more specific about any of those terms if needed.
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@TheFirstPitch @thepondering_ @_slippin_jim ??? If you want specific answers then ask the question you want an answer to.
Without clarification, I don’t know what people mean when they generally say “are they part of the tent?” You have to clarify.
If you want me to condemn specific ideas or people, ask that.
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@thepondering_ If Dems are gonna cozy up to DSA there will be more people like this going on to Fox and making Dems look stupid. This is why the argument @hutchinson has been making is important and why gatekeeping the tent is good.
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@thepondering_ @_slippin_jim My understanding of @PiscoLitty idea is that he would NOT want Dems to distance themselves from this person because why shrink the tent and he doesn’t even know what that would mean. I could be wrong.
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@PodSaveAmerica The left gets to go on shows like yours and get coddled. Where do center left dems go and not get ambushed?
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Moderate Democrats can't complain about who gets attention if they won't fight for it.
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@aakashgupta Could WB have just hired a different actor other than Pitt?
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In 2002, Brad Pitt walked off a Darren Aronofsky film called The Fountain, seven weeks before cameras rolled. Warner Bros had already sunk $18 million. Around 400 crew members in Australia lost their jobs overnight, and the finished sets were auctioned off.
Pitt still owed Warner Bros a movie. That debt became Troy.
So the role he spent years regretting began as a legal settlement. He trained six months for a character he accepted to avoid an exit fee, then tore his Achilles tendon playing Achilles.
Then the story flips. Aronofsky rebuilt The Fountain at half the budget with Hugh Jackman. The passion project Pitt abandoned over creative differences grossed $16 million. The contractual punishment he hated grossed $497 million.
And Troy was the first film ever produced by Plan B, the company Pitt had founded months earlier. Plan B went on to win Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight.
The movie he calls a mistake built the company behind his greatest wins.
Movie Moments Analyst@Real_Moviescene
Brad Pitt publicly hated Troy (2004) and regretted taking the role. Pitt took the role because he needed to fulfill a commitment after withdrawing from another Warner Bros. project. To avoid legal and financial penalties, Brad Pitt agreed to star in Troy instead. He called it "a commercial kind of thing," saying the storytelling lacked mystery because the camera was always focused on him as the hero. Even so, he committed fully to Achilles. Pitt spent nearly 6 months training in sword fighting, boxing, sprinting, and weightlifting, gaining around 10–15 pounds (4.5–7 kg) of lean muscle to resemble ancient Greek statues. While filming, he ironically tore his Achilles tendon during a battle scene, delaying production. Looking back, Pitt admitted, "I chunked that scene... I blew that scene. It could be better. I would love another shot at it." Ironically, many fans and critiques believe that the flatness actually works for Achilles in the film — a character who doesn’t care about anything except winning battles.
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@NathanJRobinson Actually I think if she endorsed El Sayed today you wouldn’t think this.
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Actually I think this photo of Gretchen Whitmer is one of the single most powerful symbolic depictions of the contemporary Democratic Party leadership.
"decking yourself out in blue as if you're different but cooperating with Trump while pretending not to" says it all
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