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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well the government will suffer irreparable harm if they are unable to execute Pike, so you have to let them do it. This isn't a decision on the merits, she could still win on the merits after her execution.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'd only heard of it until recently. But the line in here about "saying more about the listener than the song" - on one hand that's certainly true about me. On the other hand he wants to treat that as an insult, as if I have some moral obligation to have heard about popular songs.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m sure that the developer clamoring for access to Yosemite is promising Trump a kickback of some kind, but to me that’s incidental to the larger point that Trump loves to ruin good things. His orientation is anti-human and anti-civilization and he does whatever he can to hurt people.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One step past "anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism" - "Judaism is Zionism". And the moment the GOP becomes anti-Israel they'll turn this exact chain of reasoning against back against them: "you said it yourself, your 'religion' is just loyalty to another country". (to be clear this is false)

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We're in early-2012-gay-marriage territory. The shift in public opinion has already happened, the shift in politician opinion is inevitable. A lot of people are unaware how much their side is losing, and their heads will be spinning within the next 12 months.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It occurs to me that - same way a generic speech about patriotism and selflessness now codes as anti-Trump and partisan - in 2029, the media will discourage discussions about rebuilding our military capacity as being too Trump-focused.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If Republicans aren't going to do anything to regulate AI then it's not up to me whether it becomes a bipartisan issue, and the way to maximize the chances of regulation is to maximize Democratic gains in November.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Usual thing with Ben Gvir is he says out loud the policy Netanyahu tacitly pursues. Best example, when he posted video of prisoners being abused (with himself present). Netanyahu condemned him, but there's no way he didn't know about it already. He's just mad Ben Gvir admitted it publicly.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I wonder if a big part of the turn in public opinion against Israel is simply that thuggish behavior like this has always been happening, and now it just gets written up in Western media more often.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It should be easy to go against Lawler. The cap on the SALT deduction was going to expire, they needed Lawler's vote to extend it, Lawler voted to extend it. He sold out his constituents in an extremely clear-cut and high-profile way!

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Also the things that woke 1 was reacting *to* was also worse ... e.g. Harvey Weinstein being a free man in a position of power. The reason for the discussion of the excesses of wokeness is that liberals are willing to acknowledge it, whereas conservatives are still all in on Trumpism.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The alleged motivation for the anti-trans position here is protecting women's sports. But the most likely (and very clearly obviously intended) effect of this stunt is to give the WNBA some legal/PR problems. I'm sure they have the lawyers lined up already to sue the league.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Lay the groundwork now for a future Dem president to cut big checks to blue states as an indemnity for the actions of the Trump administration.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The idea that they're going to give unnecessary medication to soldiers without any doctor's opinion based on vibes is so clearly fucked up. And people who care about soldiers' health, as opposed to proving how tough they are by proxy, should be outraged

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Rubio should also realize that if Trump officials accept mass pardons for their crimes, this sort of extradition is an obvious workaround that will 100% be on the table, including for him personally.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Agree with this e.g. for gambling, drugs, certain sex stuff. Also, I think technology is part of the problem. AFAICT this intermediate category historically involved some amount of hypocrisy - people publicly condemning things they did privately. Harder to do when everything's online.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Funny thing here is Goldman wants to go with this canned "why do they criticize Israel and not other countries" rhetoric, even though Mamdani brought up Saudi unprompted in the original clip ... so he briefly acknowledges it but then soldiers on ahead with the original canned rhetoric.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Apparently, you're not allowed to post: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

fixed your headline

A hit song on the Billboard 100 charts is termed *$k$-good* if it is _ever_ in a weekly top-$k$, and *$k$-immediate* if it _debuts_ in the top-$k$.

An artist is *$(n,k)$-Olivian* if their $n$ first $k$-good hits are all also $k$-immediate.

*Headline 1.* Olivia Rodrigo is the first $(10,10)$-Olivian woman.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I suspect that if any (male) candidate running in the Republican primary outwardly liked interacting with children as much as Obama, it would be a major liability and attack point for the other candidates and the media.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The way no one even bothers to try to stop Elon Musk anymore - he's allowed to take hundreds of billions of dollars in exchange for empty promises, or incite pogroms and push white nationalism, and no one pushes back or tries to constrain him at all - feels like a society that's simply given up

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I saw Peter Beinart speak at my synagogue back in 2012, when THE CRISIS OF ZIONISM was first published, and much of his talk was about the central importance of Israel and Zionism his worldview and the the Jewish people. A lot of why he's evolved the way he has since is that this was the response.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Release the Epstein Files, of course, but spare a thought for a trafficking empire of possibly equal scale, involving Trump, his admin, & foreign gov't leaders, *happening right now.* You knew Tate was a creep. But it's bigger than that. Heidi Blake reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Wow sounds like a terrible guy to support as president, but I'm glad that Cornyn blew the whistle on him as soon as he found out.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Might just be the lighting, but looks like a fake hand that you'd buy for a Halloween costume. Or maybe, based on The Rock, how your hand would look after being exposed to nerve gas.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I must say, I don't understand how a team with Mark McGwire, WIllie Mays, and Babe Ruth, with a team OPS of .964 and a team ERA of 2.02, wins only 97 games.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Why the Supreme Court sucks: 1) After saying the decision in LA doesn't affect their decision in AL, they promptly vacate the decision in AL to take into account their decision in LA 1/x www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/06/2026

my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This reminds me of the Fetterman (ugh) "you live in New Jersey" thing against Dr Oz. It's such a minor thing, but they hammered it repeatedly. No tax credits or whatever, just "you live in Jersey".

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"I don’t believe Frum is a stupid man, and I don’t think he is really that interested in the treatment of Palestinian detainees either way. ... . Whether or not it is true, he doesn’t think it should have been written."

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Big hit to the "everyone is twelve" theory

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I did a thing to guide people in these trying times

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

And that was in exchange for not making nukes! This time it's ~15x as much, in exchange for *beginning discussions* about not making nukes!

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

People will say "oh I'm not say *all* criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, but ..." so allow me to: Posting this openly implies much worse they're doing off camera. On account of both, we should cut out every favorable treatment we give them until they undergo deradicalization.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

IMO a difference between the parties is that Dems will loudly attack this person - fringe candidate and probable right-wing plant - amplifying the idea that Dems have an issue in the process ... whereas Republicans maintain a wall of silence around guys like Randy Fine, who's actually in Congress.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

All the super-pro-Israel people pushing this war, 20 years ago were also pushing that Ahmadinejad was an existential threat to Israel and the US and a regime change war to *remove* him was justified. Will any of them comment on this?

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

IMO the relevance of this is that he represents a lot of what MAGA types *claim* MAGA represents. There's a definite contingent that likes him more than Trump. If I were talking to Rogan I'd say "this is proof, Trump/MAGA don't actually support any of the things you voted for him to do."

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Haven't seen the whole speech but this seems like an appeal to the "MAHA" people ... which is fine but Dems should emphasize that the "MAHA" thing is basically a scam. MAHA is a trademark for ultra-processed snake oil BS, meanwhile the EPA allows toxic fertilizers and forever chemicals in water.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels" - Robert Byrd

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This has a sneering tone as if it's obviously bad, and I kept waiting for some shoe to drop like, the diapers suck or they're paying way too much. But instead this sounds like a fine, sensible, practical program that they can't come up with any real complaints about.

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I've always thought a good microcosm for 2024 is that Trump won both the pro-Israel and the pro-Palestinian vote, each side thinking he agreed with them. Obviously this was just Trump massively, shamelessly lying but raises the question of how they got away with it. Below helps explain it!

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Art Vandelay @artsvandelay.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Think @jamellebouie.net is right, that for mass communication, this all pales in comparison to short-form video. It does seem relevant to journalists who take the conversation on Twitter as reflecting the zeitgeist, and write stories in response - I'm not sure how to fix that exactly.

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