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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'm not sure what keeps me there, what keeps any of us there, beyond inertia. We're in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we've glided well past the edge of the cliff and it's slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast. What if we just stopped?"

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What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"What gets lumped into 'cultural issues' these days includes higher education, immigration, racism, transgender rights, policing, abortion, sexism, religion, voting rights, and numerous other matters. Labeling those issues as 'cultural' or 'social' trivializes them." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Listen, Rosco P Coldchain might be the most ridiculous name in hip hop today, but this album he did with Nicholas Craven is fucking fantastic.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I turn up the brightness up all the way on every video game I play so that nothing can jump out and surprise me.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Social media isn't built to handle an article like this. We're too glib and judgemental and everyone is so intent on getting their dunks off. It's impossible to have a real conversation about something so difficult.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the same issue that frustrates me in basketball when arguing with people who still underrate Jalen Brunson. "Sure, he can get it done in the close out games against the top competition in the playoffs, but what about during the low pressure game against the Pelicans in February?"

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A few movies that I haven't seen listed yet: Nothing But a Man Chameleon Street Hollywood Shuffle Boomerang

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One of the many reasons you shouldn't base your opinions and moral judgements about the world on electoral strategy is that it leads to people reverse-engineering theories of electoral strategy entirely to backfill justifications for their moral beliefs.

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PeterVersus @peterversus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Beatrice is also just straight-up correct? No one is immune to propaganda, but you should feel some shame if you fell for the framing posted by a Manhattan Institute guy

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes. Islamophobes don't want him to attend 9/11 commemoration because he's Muslim. Full stop. No need to "try to understand."

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

“did woke 1 go too far?” they intoned while stroking their beards.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was in my mid-30s when I decided to give the Beatles a try, see if they're as good as people say they are. I randomly got Abbey Road and Let It Be, and listened to Abbey Road first. Loved it. If I had listened to Let It Be first, I would have been slandering the Beatles for the rest of my life.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is the kind of carrying on that I approve of

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's even crazier than that. It's "I can't even tell you what it means, my usage of the term is totally incoherent. It'll mean whatever I want it to mean in the moment. But it absolutely doesn't mean what you've always meant by it "

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I love my grey beard and despise my white nose hair. 😤

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There is, of course, one exception to Black people's diminished standing, which is when Black people criticize other Black people or otherwise testify in ways that confirm white people's hopes and beliefs.

THIRD RULE
Few blacks avoid diminishment of racial standing, most of their statements about racial condidtions being diluted and their recommendations of other blacks taken with a grain of salt. The ususal exception to this rule is the black person who publicly disparages or criticizes other blacks who are speaking or acting in ways that upset whites. Instantly, such statements are granted 'enhanced standing' even when the speaker has no special expertise or experience in the subject he or she is criticizing.

FOURTH RULE
When a black person or group makes a statement or takes an action that the white community or vocal components thereof deem "outrageous," the latter will actively recruit blacks willing to refute the statement or condemn the action. Blacks who respond to the call to condemnation will receive superstanding status. The blacks who refuse to be recruited will be interpreted as endorsing the statements and action and may suffer political or economic reprisals.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Derrick Bell wrote many years ago that Black people trying to speak to their own experiences routinely have their testimony discounted because it's seen as too biased: special pleading. In public discourse or a court of law, only white people can be objective about race, only men about gender, etc.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

Anyway that’s how you wind up in this rhetorical game of whack-a-mole where every concept associated with Black people is transformed into a “politically divisive” term to be avoided- DEI, woke, defund, CRT, intersectionality, identity politics, police and prison abolition, affirmative action etc-

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"He had the energy of a man of culture who enjoyed talking and thinking about art as much as experiencing it. He said the word 'art' in such a way that you imagined it capitalized." I wrote about an amazing, unexpected encounter with Michael Wright. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/live-wir...

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Live Wire: Michael Wright, 1956-2026

An ode to a troubled, troubling, brilliant actor with a romantic spirit.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 21/08/2026

all the reactionary centrists are "race science curious" at best, and they believe critics - even well-credentialed, obviously knowledgeable critics - are simply rejecting scientific inquiry due to the power of woke.

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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026

And the number of ostensible liberals who have been doing the "Well OK the person laundering this attack is racist, but we shouldn't ignore the merits of their point" line of reasoning since the 'CRT' moral panic days has been incredibly revealing.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026

The “aside from the racism” approach, where interlocutors believe they can suss out the bigotry at the heart of someone’s argument to then engage the “good faith” bit is exactly how Rufo and Hanania and keep laundering their work and why reactionary frames are adopted across the political spectrum.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Look, this is Trump we're talking about. She can be whatever flavor of evangelical nut that you want, he's not gonna keep her around unless he can grab her by the pussy.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wasn't this the name of the villain in that Harriet Tubman movie?

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Red Mars trilogy The Green Bone saga The Xenogenesis series

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Someone quoted AOC's full answer (to "provide context" in defense of her), and it's notable how her framing shifts the debate from reining in the police to lowering crime rates.

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Ainz Ooal Goon @nemzero.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

The same people using "woke 1" as discourse thought we were post taboo and endorsing totenkopf man.

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Ainz Ooal Goon @nemzero.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

Memoryholing the 2020 uprising into banal ass "woke 1" further shows how unserious the white left that leads this kind of discourse has always been. They want Black Americans to trust them while also declaring Black folk their impediment, priming anti-blackness as a feature of their constituency.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

Yes and dismissing those same people as “wacky” while lifting up the police as partners should be seen as a move to reduce the influence and power of people who forced him to hold to his promises.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

“What time is it when politicians across the political spectrum, from AOC and Ossé to Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, suggest that progressive and left organizers are “woke” and “crazy”?”

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

But I’m an asshole for pointing out what’s happening

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

many such cases among critics of identity politics

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Patrick Claybon @patrickclaybon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The HYPOTHETICAL person you're trying to connect with hates me more than they'll ever trust you. Just speak plainly.

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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

George Floyd was murdered, millions of people concluded that something was fundamentally wrong with American policing, and six years later a prominent figure who once spoke to that anger can casually describe the politics that emerged from it as “Woke 1 was crazy.” That IS anti-blackness to me.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

That’s it and that’s all, and journalists who do this are willing accomplices.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Steelers decided that they're tired of undeservedly clawing their way into the playoffs, so I'm expecting them to bottom out this year.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The crash out when they don't make it past the 2nd round again will be legendary

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have uncles who are still alive and in their right mind, who grew up in Mississippi and they were right around the same age as Emmett Till. My mother's brothers, who I've spent countless time with. This monstrous crime happened just yesterday.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Reading this made me remember my main reason for preferring Nas to Jay Z: Nas always struck me as a not really smart dude who often stumbles into startling insights, while Jay Z always seemed to be a very smart dude who goes far out of his way to avoid saying anything insightful.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com

Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that I just canceled my DashPass because of DoorDash’s disgraceful campaign against D.C. home rule.

DoorDash is urging Congress to nullify a new D.C. law imposing a 20 percent tax on food-delivery services—not merely by overturning that law, but by prohibiting the District from enacting any new tax without prior congressional approval. That is an extraordinarily sweeping assault on D.C.’s right to govern itself and an odious insult to the District’s residents.

I am especially disgusted by DoorDash’s public claim that it is somehow defending D.C. residents while actively seeking to strip us of our right to govern ourselves through our own democratically elected lawmakers. Please do not pretend that disenfranchising District residents is an act undertaken on our behalf.

I intend to publicize DoorDash’s attack on home rule as widely as possible and urge everyone I know to boycott the company.

Shame on you.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026

Setting the level of “normal” police brutality in seeking a political settlement to escalated violence towards immigrants is a part of that “premised on anti-Blackness” part I talk about.

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