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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"the modal furry" is quite the turn of phrase.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The deepest, most serious mistake of the IR field is the concept of « Russia’s legitimate security concerns ». They don’t exist. Never have. Russia has not been threatened even vaguely in its entire post-1991 existence.

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Raise a child who can cook, that's all I'm saying. I'm wrangling an interview into an article and the delicious smells coming from the kitchen are keeping me going.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What Trump did NOT do was even purport to show a single ineligible voter voted in the 2020 election, or that any voting machines were actually compromised, voting machines or voter registration databases breached, or election results inaccurately reported.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump’s Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He Made a Pitch to Pass the SAVE America Act But Offered No New Fed Mandates electionlawblog.org?p=157434

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Trump's Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show That Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He ...

Donald Trump gave a national address where he made some recycled claims (“burn bags,” anyone?) about supposed voting machine vulnerabilities, about thousands of supposed noncitizens registered to vote...

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Rorshach speech. Simultaneously a nothingburger of incoherent rambling, an effective admission that after a year of investigation they can't find any evidence of election fraud, and laying the groundwork to deny the outcome of the midterms.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The 2000s consensus foreign policy triumvirate of McCain, Lieberman, and Graham, gone.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Pretty sure that was the combined rumble of the finale.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Gonna wake up everyone across the city, is this?

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

11:45p and the Petworth neighborhood in DC has absolutely set off more fireworks since 830p than will be lit on the Mall in a few minutes.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 05/07/2026

There is nothing wrong with loving your country and loving the potential of your country. Patriotism doesn't have to equal nationalism. Letting the MAGA fuckwits define what patriotism is is a losing strategy.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I did the fireworks on the Mall thing once in college. Got a spot right by the stage they usually set up on the Capitol end. Sat out all afternoon; high was 98 deg. It was miserable for healthy people in their early 20s; today is going to be really bad for some people.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's worse than that. He's talking about the Taiwan Strait btw mainland China and Taiwan. He's saying that because we don't need it for oil transit, then Taiwan is not important.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Nah. By then everything will just be javascript.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Yup! Otherwise you get a state leg made up of car dealers and real estate developers.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Additionally, from a candidate skill development and media production perspective, they're doing the things you'd do if that was your plan.

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atomicbell @atomicbell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Big news!

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I still feel the time in high school when I played Take Five as an audition piece for the jazz band and utterly flubbed it.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. Too many to add to ArtemisTimeline.com, so I just put up a tool at ArtemisTimeline.com/vote so that people can vote on small batches allowing for all of the images to be sorted! (yes, I posted this before, but I had to fix something!)

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Artemis II Photo Voter

Help surface the best photos from NASA's Artemis II mission. Vote on a random batch, or rank specific moments.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Ah, yes, toning down the rhetoric.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

There are many very good reasons to mock Kash Patel, but his height is not one of them.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I just fact checked this and that's eleven significant attempts

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I get May Day in lots of countries is more generically associated with democratic socialism and organized labor, and its origin in Chicago. Sure, whatever. This ain't Europe. Ask an American what they think of May Day and you'll get a blank stare, most likely, or else "like, tanks in Red Square?"

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Happy 204th birthday!

Ulysses Grant in uniform, leaning against a tree in front of a tent, Cold Harbor, VA, June 1864

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

To state the obvious, it seems that the President gets very little sleep. At 80, that's a really bad sign, especially given his baseline level of (in)coherence. (Yes, it's possible that they schedule these to run in the middle of the night as some kind of agenda-setting tactic. I just doubt it.)

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

And I can say, from personal experience, a real barrier to considering reforming redistricting in the first place!

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

But the absolute kicker has to be 7. From Arlington all the way to West Virginia is such a politically and culturally disparate range as to be barely cognizable as a group of people that someone could actually attempt to *represent.* You'd have to be bipolar and schizophrenic to internalize it.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The new 10, 3 and 9 are at least defensible from a communities of interest perspective. But the tendrils of 1, 7, 8, and 11 reaching all the way to DC is just insane. At least 1 is "95 corridor." The 4th would make sense... without Richmond. Hilarious.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Asking for a friend who lives on Observatory Circle

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Given my background on the issue, re-upping my thoughts on VA redistricting referendum for tonight's results.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In short, I think the best outcome is probably that it passes, but that it's close. I want the voters to be reluctant to do this. And I want political leaders to think it's not politically tenable in just about any other situation.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Third, I'm not sure the map as drawn is sustainable for Democrats. Spanberger's numbers are probably an outlier. It may well be a lesson in hubris that backfires in 2 or 4 years, making it less attractive to repeat for either party.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The VA referendum does have a few saving graces. First, it's temporary: it doesn't eliminate the redistricting commission, just pauses it for a cycle. Second, that means pulling this again would require yet another referendum; that's a lot of friction, which is good.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I know two things are true at the same time: the supporters of effective, representative democracy can not unilaterally disarm in the face of today's abuses of power. And I know a race to bottom - Constitutional hardball - leaves everyone worse off. It poisons the well for the future.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In 2007 I led a bipartisan redistricting reform effort that came *thisclose* to passing. I had friggin Ken Cuccinelli on my bill for Christ's sake. An old friend succeeded a few years later with the system VA has now. Yet I am deeply conflicted about tomorrow's Virginia redistricting referendum.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

9 months with no childcare-a 1st grader in "zoom school" and a toddler at home. A full time job that had little patience for that reality. Parents I couldn't see for a year. While so many of my countrymen eagerly showed how little they cared for others? I'd do it again, but it was the F-ing worst.

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

@davidpierce.xyz made the joke in the last 30secs of the pod, but I *seriously* wonder if the first thing the new Apple CEO announces at WWDC is that he's "pausing" new AI projects. Ride the current sentiments, ground yourself in the creatives as core audience/ethos, emphasize the Apple values, etc

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Smart interesting read skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It's worth considering if Iran intends to stretch this out as long as possible to hurt Trump politically. With the side benefit that never agreeing to a final deal helps their domestic politics. Squint and it looks like what they did to Carter.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just over 24 hours between these. 🤡

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David Solimini @commsdirector.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I recall Amb Edelman saying we had the percentage of their economy that the USSR spent on defense right. It's just that we drastically overestimated the denominator. If your bureaucratic process *needs* the bad guys to be good, eventually you'll argue your way into them being smart... And right-ish?

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