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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This seems like the academic equivalent of using a jailhouse snitch to frame a suspect. And everyone’s a suspect.

DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

That depends on who we elect. If the Trump people had that platform, they’d be ramming it down our throats tomorrow. Mamdani’s success in accomplishing so much in six months, despite his predecessor’s $12 billion deficit, has made average folks realize “we can’t do it” has always been bullshit.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Mandate publicly financed elections for federal office. After you pack the SCOTUS. Outlaw stock trading for members of Congress. Institute revolving door laws banning future lobbying by Congresspeople. Repeat at the state level state by state.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just remind them that “DSA stands for ‘Do Something, Assholes.’”Watching the “leaders” of both parties using our tax dollars for genocide abroad and state-sanctioned murder at home was the last straw for normies who work 12 hour days and can’t make rent.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“Search it up?” Who says this? Bing users?

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

CNN is already clutching their pearls over Water(bottle)gate. It’s exhausting. Fortunately, everyone can relate to throwing water bottles when talking about the American health insurance system.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Texas barbecued brisket was a true multicultural endeavor involving Central Texas Czech and German immigrants, South Texas Tejano barbacoa, African Americans, and West Texas cowboys. Like European Jews, they were making something godly from a tough piece of meat.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Why do you even care, loser?

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

All news sources are pundits any more. In fact, with few exceptions they always have been.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Kyle Kulinski had a good retort to this (I paraphrase): “Our Tea Party is getting universal healthcare and ending wars, yours is pedophilia and concentration camps and carpet-bombing schools.”

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sooner or later, even American CEO’s will come to understand that hiring well-educated workers and paying them well will actually improve margins - and create customers who can afford their goods and services. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

finance.yahoo.com

Microsoft cut its engineers off from AI because the bill got too big — why AI might not take your job after all

The math ain’t mathing at many of the giant Silicon Valley firms.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Zionism was devised by British evangelical Christians in the 1860s. (Tho Napoleon tried to kickstart an Israeli state 60 years earlier as a pawn in his own imperial schemes.) Today there are twice as many Christian Zionists in the US alone-30 million-as there are Jews in the world.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Exactly, which is why the conflation of antisemitism and antizionism, such as in the IHRA working definition that some US lawmakers are trying to codify into law, is dangerous for all Jews. If charges of antisemitism are used to shut down debate on Israel’s war crimes, the word becomes meaningless.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Paxton won by being endorsed by a guy who illegally moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a country club prison and pardoned a January 6 terrorist who went on sexually abuse two middle schoolers. Not to mention the dozens of accusations against said guy. Talarico has a lot of clapback material in his arsenal.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It is responsible for political strategy, branding, and the party platform. They run the party. They influence the selection of superdelegates and run the convention. So of course it’s hugely influential in candidate choice and messaging. If it wasn’t, no one would care about their autopsy fail.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The DNC has a huge impact on who we get to vote for, and who gets to run our lives. If our only choice is between Democrats and a lunatic fascist death cult, we want to have people with decent policies, or at the very least people competent enough to win and keep the fascist death cult out of power.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

If it prevents the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, the destruction of Iran and subsequent obliteration of Israel, global economic Armageddon, the possibility of Israel using nuclear warheads, and the regional war becoming WWIII, we should all gladly tell Trump he won bigly.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

They’re going to have to rename the Streisand Effect the Hasanabi Effect, because every attempt to silence or sideline him just gets his message out to more normies, who are in a very receptive mood at the moment. Seeing the Trump admin follow establishment Dems off the cliff will be gratifying tho.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Well, that’s a bargain compared to what he gave Argentina, who didn’t even have his balls in a meat grinder. That’s a W in Trumpland.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Don’t discount the fact that he’s building an enormous bunker underneath the ballroom. Big enough to contain its own McDonald’s kitchen and warehouses full of Adderall, coke, Xanax, fentanyl, and Little Debbie cakes. For waiting out protests against cancelled elections and martial law.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

He also famously described the runaway spending of just Reagan’s first term as “the hogs were really feeding.”

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Why would HW Bush be excepted? First of all, his team was extremely influential on policy matters during both of Reagan’s terms, to the point of speculation that Reagan had dementia and the HWB team was running things. Second, Reagan’s drunk-sailor-on-shore-leave spending continued under HWB.

Chart showing spending under US presidents from Eisenhower to Trump 2.0, with almost all presidents presiding over eras with greater deficit spending than surplus aggregation. Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only presidents who oversaw surpluses rather than deficits.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Expand the court, investigate Alito and Thomas for graft, prosecute if (when) it’s found, convict if (when) found guilty. Publicly finance presidential and Congressional elections. Offer statehood to PR and DC. Go big or go home. Project 2029 needs to start now.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Yeah, we thought Nixon was bad. Then we got Nixon with charisma.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Max Apple, too. They tried to warn us.

Image of the cover of a paperback book from the 1970s called “The Oranging of America” by postmodern fiction writer Max Apple. The cover features the title in orange text and a large ice cream cone, on the top of which are several orange roofed Howard Johnson restaurants and a desert with a saguaro cactus and large American sedan that resembles a Cadillac or Lincoln Continental.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Gerald Ford was a prophet.

Image from AZ Quotes with a picture of President Gerald Ford and a quote of his quip that “Ronald Reagan doesn’t dye his hair - it’s just prematurely orange.”

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The fact that there are actual shooters who are caught and survive is why I’m skeptical of the false flag narrative. On the other hand, when do shooters in America survive? We’re the nation where a 12 year old boy with a toy gun was shot literally 2 seconds after cops arrived on the scene. So weird.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ironically, for the first time since the 1970s I’m hopeful for the left. The public has long favored left wing policies, but now they realize the Democratic Party is an impediment and it’s not hyperbole to say Republicans are fascist. But what a price the world’s paid for that enlightenment.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I don’t know, man. He’s by all accounts a smart guy. He could have talked to some folks at a gun show. Even ChatGPT could have given him a better game plan. Of course all that assumes normal conditions-extraordinary security, not-crazy targets. Nothing about this scenario is normal.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Two were hand-me-downs. The Savage was a Xmas gift. I was told the shooter was using an over and under but from what Ive read it was a pump chambered for 6 (or 8) shells. So if his aim was a mass shooting at say 10-20 yards or so, yeah he could have done some damage.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Yup. A Savage single shot 20 gauge, a very old Mossberg bolt 20, and an Ithaca 16 gauge pump. All my dad’s castoffs. He even sawed down the stock on the bolt 20 so that an 8 year old me could shoot it. Later I graduated to borrowing his 12 gauges.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Yeah, I owned three shotguns by the time I was 10. Very familiar with the damage you can do, especially with buckshot at close range. Which makes this attempt all the more ridiculous, as his stated aim was to limit harm to bystanders. A rifle with a scope at distance would signal a serious attempt.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit, American composer It’s not hypocrisy. It’s right privilege.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

People forget, but Reagan was regarded at the time much like Trump-first as joke (Gerald Ford’s “prematurely orange” quip effectively ended Reagan’s 76 campaign), then as cult menace (SNL did a skit about “brain snatchers” converting friends into Reaganites), then as demented (84 debate glitch).

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Taking a shotgun loaded with buckshot instead of a sniper rifle to assassinate a president, releasing a wiseass memo-manifesto in advance, and then not actually pulling the trigger is a great metaphor for the Democratic Establishment though.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Wait until someone complains it’s an affront to the red states to have a Democrat-colored pool.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If Virginia farmers are suffering under Republican rule like Texas farmers are, they might be grateful.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

True and yet he beat Beto in a debate. I think we have some Democratic Party consultants to thank for that.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The shart stain is a nice touch

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Counterpoint: Peter Thiel and his buddies watched Lord of the Rings and sided with Sauron.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We can do better. Cheney went to single digits.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“They’re innocent.” Of what? Was their crime that they were supposedly related to an Iranian military guy Trump assassinated? So yeah, they’re innocent because there was no crime. That it was all a lie makes it even crazier but it was batshit bonkers to start.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The “Mr. Oswald” of Elvis Costello’s “Less Than Zero.” He spent three albums warning us.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Think of the insurance premiums and deductible expenses you pay for healthcare - by far the highest in the world - as another tax you’re paying on top of everything else. So that we can kill, maim, displace, and bulldoze into mass graves people who didn’t threaten us even in their thoughts.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My own positions would probably take a book to explain (if for no other reason than the exercise of writing them down would be the only way I could organize them into a coherent thesis), but I would say I’m communitarian and solutionist. Hence why the current crop of DSA candidates appeals to me.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’m not sure I’ve ever listened to an entire stream but I’ve certainly listened to him for hours at a time. (Not a fan of watching someone chowing down and running off for bathroom breaks but that’s the medium today LOL.) He’s become very informed and extremely eloquent. That’s why he scares em.

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DJ Mac @djmax.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’ve watched him since he was a pup doing BroTips on TYT. He’s objectively very wrong on occasion (“Russia won’t invade Ukraine”) and some of his takes are a bit too Old Left orthodox and seem kind of anachronistic to me, but he’s better than most of his peers and far better than all his critics.

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