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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I remember c. 2011 explaining how relational databases can work OK with no indexes when they're small, but when they get big, you have to index them. The analogy began "You remember uh...phonebooks?" Which always got a laugh. Might well get a blank stare, now.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We've only known that other galaxies exist as entities unto themselves for a century — we used to think they were small and inside our Milky Way! But the obsolete terminology stuck around a long time after we figured that out. www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-h... 🧪🔭

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We Had a Name for ‘Galaxies’ before We Knew They Existed

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still sparks confusion

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

i like this article just for the image asset

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

idk which possibility is more damning for Schumer either A) he helped orchestrate the fold OR B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding

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DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

People need to understand that every fifty to a hundred years evil dipshits will build an ideology that valorizes being an evil dipshit and this will need to be beaten back every time. No country is safe from this. In fact, exceptionalism can make it worse.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/07/2025

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Man these things were *expensive*. The football game is $32, which is roughly $132 today. However, the replica version (of Football I to be fair) is *$17* today, which was $4.38 in 1980. Computer miniaturization often makes these sorts of inflation-neutral calculations meaningless.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I remember my father’s mother telling me that I would’ve had a great aunt, except that when my grandmother was something like 9, she brought home smallpox, her little sister caught it, and she died. I can’t imagine how guilty young grandmother must’ve felt for something that wasn’t really her fault.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

So pleased to see this, and so proud of the brave folks in Budapest! I’ve been shocked and dismayed how quickly gay rights have gone from being solidly established to suddenly under open attack. Glad to see resistance and we need to do the same when the pull this shit in the US.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Went to the Antioch, CA #NoKings protest today! Marched a mile and a half. Lots of nice people with creative props, had a wonderful time. Organizer said she counted as the march passed her and estimated 500 people, which is a lot more than I was expecting. Lots of support from passing drivers, too!

Two protesters at a No Kings Day march. On the left is a woman in shorts and a T-shirt holding a sign that reads “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. —The Declaration of Independence.” On the right is a man in a Hawaiian Shirt with blue ocean waves on it, cargo pants, and a floppy sun hat holding an American flag.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Given that I ruefully share a birthday with The Dear Leader, I strongly approve of the branding of “NO KINGS DAY.” I mean Flag Day was fine before but obviously things have changed a bit since I was a kid.

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U.S. Federal Department of Propaganda @usfdop.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Love this analysis from Michael Podhorzer: Swing voters didn’t vote for Trump because they wanted a corrupt autocracy; they voted against Democrats for having no vision or plan and didn’t listen to Trump or believe him. That’s why his polls collapsed when people realized what he was up to.

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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I left twitter even though I had over 250,000 followers who cared about the NHS, because it was no longer an effective place to speak to people. If there’s anyone out there who cares about the NHS-give me a follow. If the local election results have told us anything, we need to get organised!💥

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Truly a sad day we’ve gotten to where “doing your job under the Constitution as an elected official” truly merits a “Profile in Courage” award for Pence. But it is well-deserved. apnews.com/article/penc...

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Former Vice President Pence defends Constitution after getting Profile in Courage Award

Former Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly defended the Constitution after receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It turns out that Walz was using a nonstandard Signal client, which was open source. Media got a picture of him running it and people found unencrypted credentials in it — a huge security no-no. Now someone hacked their system and got a bunch of chats: www.404media.co/the-signal-c... 🍿

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The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

My girlfriend’s initial reaction was “What? Why? Does he know it’s a museum?” and my answer was “He knows he saw ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ on TV in the 80s.”

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Wait until we see what it looks like in 2026 after RFK, Jr. makes it impossible to approve a new vaccine in 2025 and the rate goes from 49% to 0%.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“If goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.” — Otto T. Mallery (though commonly attributed to Bastiat)

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Very timely LegalEagle / History mashup from www.reddit.com/user/Charles... on Reddit! www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMem... I don’t know for sure but perhaps inspired by: youtu.be/TPQeZalnArY

Top image: LegalEagle on YouTube with a bust of Cicero over his face confidently saying “Caesar is Not Immune from Prosecution, Duh.”

Bottom image: LegalEagle with a bust of Cicero over his face covering his mouth with his hands and in bold letters “WE’RE F*CKED” with the episode title “Caesar is Immune”

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This seems pretty big, but obviously the final constitutional crisis — where Trump is unequivocally ordered to bring them all back and refuses — is yet to come. Whatever the route we use to take there, whatever exact case or legal argument finally terminates at the Supreme Court.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It will be very interesting to see what this delay has been about. Judge Xinis was hopping mad and then suddenly did a 180 and approved this week long stay. Why?

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I'm pleased to announce a new episode of Doomed To Repeat It! We look at The English Civil War and how it influence Madison in writing the US Constitution. We see how Trump is evading Madison's design with Garcia. And review the Nazis deporting Jews from Germany. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGtZ...

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These Guys Were All Dicks. And So Is Trump.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/04/2025

"We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly." Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This is absolutely correct. Seeing how unpopular he is and how much push-back Trump has gotten in the past month has made me more optimistic than I've been since the election. We must keep fighting, but we're doing better than I expected us to do. Helped by his own incompetence, of course.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Makes me think of Churchill to Chamberlain on his capitulation to Hitler at Munich: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.” The question isn’t whether or not you’re at risk of death. The question is whether you face that standing or kneeling.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Stop surrendering in your posts. No more “America is done” or “America is cooked” talk. From now on, make it unmistakeable: F* this. Nope. We don’t do this here. Absolutely NOT. Those are the captions. Use them.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Yes they anticipated the tyranny of the minority. The 3/5th Compromise essentially guaranteed it. If all the slaves in the south could’ve voted we never would have gotten to the Civil War.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Yes they anticipated the tyranny of the minority. The 3/5th Compromise essentially guaranteed it. If all the slaves in the south could’ve voted we never would have gotten to the Civil War.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I believed this after the first Trump administration. I sadly knew Biden was not the person for the job when he came in. It will be much, much worse after the second Trump administration and even more urgent that we do this.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/04/2025

“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost: theatln.tc/Dub5DrW8

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

250 years ago, when the American Revolutionaries won their first battle over the British at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. I then talk a little more about how that event has been commemorated, and read Ralph Waldo Emerson's short poem from 1837, "Concord Hymn" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyDQ...

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Today is the 250th anniversary of the “shot heard round the world”—the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Untrained American militia faced British regulars, securing a shocking victory that kicked off the American Revolution.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Tonight is the 250th Anniversary of Paul Revere’s Midnight ride! He was signaled that British forces were marching in the morning to confiscate the arms of the colonial rebels. Revere rode all night through the countryside to warn leaders of the threat.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Of course after I posted that, MeullerSheWrote is not going to be able to continue live coverage, but Roger Parloff is going to try. I’d tried calling in myself originally but couldn’t get in so good luck to him. bsky.app/profile/rpar...

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Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)

Senior Editor, Lawfare. Ex-Fortune staff. Published in ProPublica, NYT, New York, New Yorker, Yahoo Finance, Air Mail, etc. Practiced law a long time ago.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Judge Boasberg had a hearing this evening on an emergency ACLU motion to give 30 days before anyone can be deported, so there will be time for them to file a motion of habeas corpus. Currently in recess until 7:20PM EDT, but MeullerSheWrote on bsky has a livestream: bsky.app/profile/muel...

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Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com)

NOW: Judge Boasberg has called an emergency hearing regarding the imminent movement of detainees to CECOT in El Salvador. I'm on the public line and I'll post what I can about the hearing here. 1/

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Happy to announce we’ve put up the first episode of my new show, “Doomed To Repeat It” on YouTube. In it I compare the recent Signal group chat fiasco to other times in history that messages have gone to people other than their intended recipients. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TW8d...

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Messages Gone Awry

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