There's A Sucker Born Every Minute #ABlueView 🧵
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@ablueview.bsky.socialThere's A Sucker Born Every Minute #ABlueView 🧵
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@ablueview.bsky.socialWhen Life Imitates Art in Only 17 Months #ABlueView 🧵
@PatChappatte's Apr 9, 2025 editorial cartoon on tarrifs correctly predicted what Apple actually did, and why, on Sept 9, 2026.
@ablueview.bsky.socialAI Needs a Shrink #ABlueView🧵
A great primer on AI, its danger & a proposed solution (AI labs are now growing AI MINDS and we desperately need people who can understand these artificial minds):
https://twp.ai/4hvp3Q
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@ablueview.bsky.socialTrump's Break From Reality #ABlueView 🧵
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@ablueview.bsky.socialTrump & RFK Are Making it Hard for Americans to Eat #ABlueView🧵 "Food-borne illnesses, funding cuts and layoffs... Policies enacted by RFK Jr have not delivered the expected results, but have instead hindered people’s ability to eat" The Administration "has gutted health, environmental..." 1/3
@ablueview.bsky.socialSunday Funnies #ABlueView 🧵
#SomethingDifferent #MakesYouThink #PoliticalHumor #SundayVibes #SundayFunday
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@ablueview.bsky.socialTrump F*cked the GOP #ABlueView 🧵
"“He committed the biggest mistake: he said ‘I am on the ballot,’ which is going to fuck us,” warned a GOP county chair" of a county where Trump’s unpopularity has made Dems competitive.
"“People will vote against congressmen & women to get back at Trump.”"
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@ablueview.bsky.socialJust Like in the US, Fascists Are Rising in Germany & EU #ABlueView 🧵
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@ablueview.bsky.socialSaturday's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Week #ABlueView 🧵
#BestOfABlueView #BestOf2026 #BestEditorialCartoons #MakesYouThink
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@ablueview.bsky.socialNever Forget: "I'm not going to start a war" - Donald Trump #ABlueView 🧵
He said versions of this repeatedly during the campaign but most famously during his 2024 presidential election victory speech.
Watch: https://twp.ai/4hvuKW
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@ablueview.bsky.socialWhile Warning of the Dangers of Socialism, Trump Promises the Government Will Send Every American $5,000 #ABlueView 🧵
@ablueview.bsky.socialSept 11, 2026 #ABlueView🧵 Boston Globe editorial: "Americans gave the government tools to fight terrorism. Now those powers are being used against us." "Over time the focus has blurred. Politicians diluted & distorted what “terrorism” meant. And 25 years later... What began as a sensible ... 1/3
@ablueview.bsky.socialTrumpapalooza (AKA, How Republicans Will Lose Bigly Because They Made a Deal With the Devil) #ABlueView 🧵
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@ablueview.bsky.socialThis Time, AI's "Manhattan Project" is Happening in Public & No One Cares #ABlueView🧵 Unlike the Manhattan Project to build doomsday weapons, no one is in charge of the many companies--whose only mantra is profit-- racing to create self-reproducing, artificial general intelligence machines. 1/3
@ablueview.bsky.social#JacksCampaign Update: Electorate #ABlueView🧵
(In this #JacksCampaign series I'm sharing a Campaign Manger's view of @JackRichardsonMa who's trying to flip a MA House seat Blue)
The 3rd Barnstable (Falmouth, Mashpee & Bourne) is older:
43% are 65+
66% are 50+
#VoteBlueDownBallet #VoteGOPOut
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@ablueview.bsky.socialDoes the GOP's Midterms Self-Destruction Begin in Earnest Tonight? #ABlueView 🧵
Trump has the weakest polls of any modern president at this point in a term: worse than his own first term, Biden, Obama, Clinton, Reagan, or either Bush.
So why would they go ahead with Trumpapalooza tonight ...
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@ablueview.bsky.social"Canada’s trade war with the US won’t end with tariffs" #ABlueView 🧵
Trump's War of Choice w/Canada "is entering a more dangerous phase. Canada’s counter-tariffs, which took effect Sept. 8, target roughly $27.6B of American goods. Ottawa has conspicuously left energy and other...
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@ablueview.bsky.social"Record-High 89% in US Say Government Corruption Widespread" #ABlueView 🧵
"... are also elevated, government corruption is seen as significantly more widespread.
In a country where many are polarized across a wide range of issues this is one case where bipartisanship reflects shared alarm."
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@ablueview.bsky.socialRecord-High 89% Say US Govt. Corruption Is Widespread #ABlueView 🧵
Gallup:
"Perceptions of government corruption are now higher in the U.S. than at any point in the past two decades and outpace most other countries, including advanced economies. While perceptions of corruption in business..."
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@ablueview.bsky.socialElon Musk Turns on His Dark Money Spigot #ABlueView 🧵
Starting now with $800,000 in Tx, Musk has "authorized [his PACs] to spend as much as $120 million on an effort to help elect Republicans this November." https://twp.ai/4hvW4W
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