Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 4hObama implied that some rural voters are bitter, and we heard about it ad nauseum for 8 years 042
Reposted by DavedetteBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 5hOkay Kathy I see you 247764
Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 5hIdk, I think that could be pretty easily explained by either hochul being a very weak candidate, historically, or NY voters liking Dems less/Rs more at the state level than they do nationally (which is a pretty consistent dynamic across the northeast) 010
Reposted by DavedetteSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10hWait, what do you mean protesters are trying to topple a right wing government in the developing world? I thought we got rid of USAID 558780
Reposted by DavedetteWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9hOn here this is a preaching to the choir thing to say, but the turn against Indian immigrants is the sharpest possible example of ‘real debate, fake debate’ wrt heritability of IQ. 90% of the guys Just Following The Science are now waxing rhapsodically about white indigenous ways of knowing. 846459
Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 11hTbh, this is probably one of those cases when people protesting you is helpful 040
Reposted by DavedetteMicah @rincewind.run · 15hthe supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time" 282905655
Reposted by Davedettemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16hYou see, it's only "how are you gonna pay for that?!" when its giving Americans healthcare. When it's a supplemental Dept of War appropriations bill to spend billions to keep our sailors in The Strait of Hormuz in order to keep crude prices down before the midterms, thats just Supporting The Troops 427947
Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'd rather he'd just give him a hummer on the roof of the Iraqi embassy, as is tradition 010
Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why does his face look like it's made of lunch meat? 000
Reposted by DavedetteNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind. 37987324
Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Because the technology didn't exist to make photovoltaic solar panels a viable energy source until decades later 141
Reposted by DavedetteThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 182107041792
Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Well, at least now you know that not pursuing a career in comedy was a good choice on your part 030
Reposted by DavedetteValkyrie Thunderbitch @valkyrieladyk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The absolute, insane irony of hearing this kind of thing from the Human Rights Campaign, an org that has *actively fought against trans equality* for decades. "Trans inclusion will be a legislative priority over my dead body." -- HRC exec director in 1995 0289
Reposted by DavedetteFrovo @frovo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026BARTENDER: another round JIMMY OLSEN: no we’re done thanks BARTENDER: *removes glasses from bar* LOIS LANE: omg it’s superbar 141032164
Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I mean, they're sane, but they're also kind of NIMBY 090
Reposted by DavedetteChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And then those states did things like take over the Detroit public education system. You can't separate the effort to give power back to the states from the effort by those states to take power away from their cities through policy & through gerrymandering. 3303
Reposted by DavedetteMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“If you eventually face consequences you were never powerful” is a useful summary of the MeToo backlash 26211
Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wait, why are the British making cyberpunk cars before us? 210
Reposted by DavedetteMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 06/10/2026No matter how much we futz with the clock, the ultimate problem is that there just isn’t enough sun like November to April. The whole “daylight savings” argument was manufactured to keep us from asking the real question: why has science not figured out how to make the days longer year-round? 1919016
Reposted by DavedetteMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If our goal is to be a mass working-class organization, having a special pipeline to leadership for college students sits in profound tension with that. If you're 18, it shouldn't matter if you're in college, an apprenticeship, or just working: you're a grownup and can organize with the rest of us. 325616
Reposted by Davedetterev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026slopulism: the socialism of fools 117117
Reposted by Davedetteryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/10/2026we gotta scrap the entirety of DHS and start from scratch, with leadership we trust. the department is an insane clusterfuck anyway, you can sell it as an rationalization measure 1035954
Reposted by DavedettePwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Founders, repeatedly: so just to reiterate, and I cannot stress this enough, the president is absolutely not a king and can be removed, charged, or even executed if they start to do king things (250 years later) Alito: getting a lot of king vibes from this document 327944
Reposted by Davedetteheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan. 5053711248
Reposted by DavedetteSam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026seeing NYC politicians fucking *brag* about building less housing and more parking in a lot *right next to the subway* is going to drive me insane 1337033
Reposted by DavedetteFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saudi Arabia has a bigger defense budget than France and cannot even defend its own territory from one of the poorest countries in the world. 413221
Reposted by DavedetteChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The moral of this angle is more "you can't start wars with your neighbors & expect to retain total security". Like the Saudi military is incompetent, but even if they weren't they'd be facing a lot of the same challenges because they've made bad strategic decisions. Similar to why US is struggling. 18110
Reposted by DavedetteHellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026America is the main character of the Earth RPG, everyone is either an antagonist or a party member. This is the shared perspective of the right and left, they just disagree on build crafting. 0132
Reposted by DavedetteDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I am so beyond fucking tired of the insane levels of deference and plausible deniability news media orgs--esp legacy ones like the NYT--afford Trump and the absolute intellectual rot and cravenness that it represents among the ownership & leadership of those orgs 653698
Reposted by DavedetteGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026All Dem quotes must be twisted into the least generous interpretation ever while all Trump quotes must be tortured into coherence. 45314
Reposted by DavedetteJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322928636
Reposted by Davedetterev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026claude's ontological status is "an ant who lives on a map of the world." so it seems sensible to say that the map is not real, and the ant therefore isn't. the problem is that the moment i am experiencing is also a map of the world, not the territory, assembled asynchronously from sense impressions. 3943
Reposted by Davedettelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026say what you will about nordic cinema. no matter which country, no matter what genre, setting, or tone, you're all but guaranteed to be made witness to some of the most beautiful, luxurious looking wool sweaters ever put on the silver screen 28111165
Reposted by Davedettemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Aside from the obvious unfairness of people getting rich off of uncompensated stealing of creative works, we should think really hard about what it means that the people who keep winning economic jackboxes to become oligarch-rich are the ones who are willing to cheat and break the law 742476
Reposted by DavedetteMicah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position 412684560
Reposted by DavedetteJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This new study of UK Jews showing that 66%, two-thirds, identify as Zionist (www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...), makes me more skeptical of claims that only 37% of American Jews identify as Zionists (www.jta.org/2026/02/05/u...) because they're too afraid to do so because the word is stigmatized.theguardian.comBritish Jews more likely to identify as Zionist since 7 October attacks, research findsPercentage who feel ‘very emotionally attached to Israel’ rose to 51% in June 2025, up 13 points from before Gaza war 2368
Reposted by DavedetteThe Powell Nemo @thepowellnemo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I maintain that it’s unfortunate that we have a special word for jewish nationalism that makes it feel exceptional www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality...liberalcurrents.comThe Banality of ZionismZionism is just 19th century nationalism, and its conflicts are ordinary nationalist conflicts. 512425
