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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Ok so who's the most cursed Antipope option? Is it: 1. J.D. Vance 2. Sohrab (is he still Catholic?) 3. Matt Walsh 4. Candace Owens 5. Adrian Vermeule

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Trump sues IRS, Treasury Department for $10 billion over tax return leak | Reuters share.google/rcM4qMLIdiR5...

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

When you edit your piece to include the administration's stated response and then your changes become outdated three hours after publication. (At least I was right?) www.theunpopulist.net/p/has-the-tr...

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

State-level accountability creating perverse incentives for the Trump administration is a big part of my analysis here. www.theunpopulist.net/p/has-the-tr...

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti reveals that we are perilously close to the point when the desired incentives flip into the perverse ones, for both legal accountability and the survival of the MAGA state capture program.

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Listened to the Bulwark interview with her and by god I tried to be charitable but this is the only takeaway I can come up with.

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Gobsmacking irony for Donald Trump, a man who won the presidency with no political experience and who is frequently proven to be incompetent, to advocate voting for a Democrat on the grounds that they are competent and experienced.

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Earlier this year I was given the opportunity to join The UnPopulist as a contributing editor, and I was glad to take it because I knew I was joining a team that understands the danger this moment presents and is committed to opposing it. I couldn't be happier to be a part of this work. Subscribe!

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Talked about this as a potential outcome for tomorrow's episode of Discourse Machine. We didn't even get to release the episode before it happened

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Philosophy: (This is great for my mental health)

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

*puts on academic hat* it is objectively awful that our politics is Like This *takes off academic hat* on the other hand:

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Birch Thought is undefeated (I wish it was defeated) But it really is epistemology all the way down

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Extremely "let them eat cake"-coded

Screenshot of a tweet from Walter Bloomberg saying "BESSENT SAYS NOT WORRIED ABOUT EMPTY SHELVES"

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"yeah sure we shouldn't have sent this guy to a labor camp but you can't make us undo it" is a brazen level of fascism for two months into this fucking thing

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"The primary system" delenda est.

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I also think that a critical component of understanding post-material politics is that modern politics is driven by epistemic problems in ways that have been present to lesser degrees, but are now dominant. The below chart is one of my favorite ways to intro my research to people:

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The American color revolution welcomes all allies including this guy

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/w...

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Me every time I see something he posts:

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Read 'em and weep, or something I guess

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I rule in my own favor and award myself my own five dollars, etc.

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

If you'll indulge me in a little rant, I am so unbelievably tired of the idea that we owe respect to stupid ideas or that we ought to "take people's concerns seriously." All that gets us is the proliferation of stupidity. Being a dumbass should come with a societal cost: being told you're a dumbass.

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

New theory of history, or something

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Your December reminder that you can always just make yourself a nice cozy pot of soup, and this will almost certainly make you feel better.

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Between this and "I called your tailor" I can only aspire to this level of being a hater when I grow up

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Just really impressive resilience here

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

AI developers: we have rules preventing our AI from giving bad responses! The rules, confronted with my bored friend:

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Birch Smith @birchsmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Partial disagree: it's true that there's no evidence that going to the center more would have won tthis. But it's also true that there's no evidence that going to the left more would have won this. In a blind test (not identified by candidate) Harris' policies were more popular. But...

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