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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

true in America, too, which is why i continue to endorse the loud embrace of cosmopolitan elitism as a counterweight.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/10/2025

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2025

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A city that sat out most of the Revolutionary War and rioted to not participate in the Civil War stole the Yankee name. It should be a Connecticut minor league team name.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I really think our reactionary age is downstream of the three heads of the Scam Economy, Wellness, Social Media, and Gambling/Crypto

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 01/09/2025

a very high proportion of centrist punditry now just boils down to "progressives yell at me on the internet and i don't like it." you would think that getting paid millions of dollars per year would give you thicker skin

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It was and remains a very curious feature of the US presidential election that it was fairly transparently a "sufficiently many voters are mad about inflation" election but it was treated as a huge Zeitgeist Shift by both proponents and opponents of Trump. This led to some over-confidence from Trump

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Some of it is because they hate themselves and think he’s some kind of natural voice of the real people that they are not.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

i lost a lot of hope for state-level resistance to revolutionary trump actions after covid when it was demonstrated that cops would just ignore directions for blue state governments and refuse to enforce mask mandates or business closures etc. bsky.app/profile/emos...

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Thank goodness the issue of whether it matters if older Presidential candidates are mentally fit to serve went away forever when the press demanded that Joe Biden not run for a second term

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

our legislators can only see in terms of messaging bills, they're barely even legislators anymore

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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

There is a deep pathology in these people to constantly find new ways of saying that anyone just having center-left sympathies is an elite, insular and out of touch with the real Volk.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2024

if you kill a disfavored person in the street the leaders of the republican party will try to make you a national hero. absolutely not an ominous sign for the future.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/12/2024

in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/12/2024

the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This sort of democratic backsliding, where Republicans seek to overturn the effect of an election by reallocating powers away from positions they have lost, has become almost routine now. But it should remain shocking.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Kennedy worship in 2024 is pathetic in any context, but apologizing for an anti-vaxx crackpot in a position to get a lot of people killed because a mediocre president from 60 years ago gives you the warm fuzzies is put-a-bag-over-your-head disgraceful

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

We are called Palestinians. And our men and boys are worth life too.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

to the "lived experience" point there's also a big divergence in polling about "do you think the economy is good" and "how are your personal finances right now" questions. People say their own finances are good but the economy sucks bsky.app/profile/goos...

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