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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only

@edino.bsky.social
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A true DINO. (In reality a progressive incrementalist.) Math and board game fan. Phila, PA Tax the rich.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 6h
Here’s a prediction: Brown will do better vs Husted than El-Sayed vs Rogers. This is not a value judgment! It’s a guess about how people will vote. (And I’d guess both win.)
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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 18h
“‘Choosin’ Texas’? Ha, no pardner, I’m Choosin’ TAXES. Howdy, I’m Big Jim Medlock and I’m here to tell you how the social democratic welf
James Medlock (really Karl Polyani) wearing a cowboy hat
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 19h
Yesterday we had four generic poles released which were Ds +12, +14, and +15 (QPac, Angus Reid, Economist) and then the Harris poll which has RV tied and D+2 w LV. Genuinely want to understand what Harris is doing to get that answer. Not herding, which is good, but...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
tell me you flunked geometry without telling me you flunked geometry
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Which do we think is more likely as of today: 1) Rogers wins MI 2) Hamilton wins KS
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let’s hope Marist is right this cycle: maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...
maristpoll.marist.edu
Home of the Marist Poll | Polls, Analysis, Learning, and More
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion (MIPO) is a survey research center. MIPO is home to the Marist Poll and conducts polls on politics, the economy, sports, technology and more at the local, state...
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The number of people alive at any given point in time with agency is disputed, but it is clear that it is very, very small. The latest discovery is that none of the 25ish dems who voted for the college sports bill have it; it’s the fault of Chuck Schumer, who voted against it, that it passed.
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
News dispatches from earth 2, where super intelligent dogs are the dominant species.
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is no laughing matter. In the last few months it’s happened to me with beers and like half a bottle of wild turkey, in the latter instance they even had the gall to use my favorite whiskey glass and put it in the dishwasher. Infuriating.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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Jeff F @jfeej.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Disappointed the referee didn’t say “he was giving them his business”
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Um, guys:
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I guess that must be judge Zoosha.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
why? when we already have bluesky??
discussingfilm's post: Netflix has announced a new reality series titled ‘THE NEW STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT’.
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There are a frustrating number of people on the internet who would die in a fire before accepting that anyone besides normie democrats has agency.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GOP spending $200m to get it from Talarico+6 to Talarico +5
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Broke: Relitigating primaries from when you were too young to vote. Woke: Relitigating primaries from when you weren’t born yet Bespoke: Relitigating the 17th amendment, which led to the existence of senate primaries
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Low-t alarico 49, Paxton 44 in new TPOR poll. (Abbott up 50/46, unfortunately)
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Donamacetrix, is this anything
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How much money do we think Nate Silver has bet on the fat bear week tournament so far?
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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh yeah, that's good bluesky right there
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Repeat after me: I am not hornier than William Shatner. I am not hornier than Katie Tightpussy. I am not hornier than Kristi Noem. I am not hornier than Slavoj Zizek. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be hornier than I am.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think the batch of NYT senate polls is totally believable; if anything the MI number is even better for El-Sayed than expected. We’d like to see a better number in NH but there’s been concern that Pappas is just a so-so candidate. We knew Collins would massively outperform a generic R.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The margins in PA-10 (D +5.2 points) and in PA-7 (D +3.2 points) indicate a Democratic swing of about 8 points from 2024. One component of this swing is evident in the choices that President Trump’s base, white working-class voters, are making in these races.” www.fandmpoll.org/franklin-mar...
fandmpoll.org
Franklin & Marshall College Poll Release: PA 7th and 10th Congressional Districts, September 2026
The attitudes of the state's voters in these districts show patterns similar to state and national data. Democrats are favored in the congressional races, economic issues are a top concern, and Presid...
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whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
kinda interesting how seamless the switch to "look what happened to labor" from the previous 15 years of "the dems would basically be a right wing party in europe" was for some people
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s going to be extremely frustrating that in 2027-2028 a bunch of people on social media are going to blame the democrats for everything Trump does since the dems will control congress, and these galaxy brains will insist we could just shut the government down for 2 years.
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
trump can solve this by renaming "disapproval rating" to "approval rating"
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Do You Have Any Idea How Little That Narrows It Down
ALT: Do You Have Any Idea How Little That Narrows It Down
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When Rakich stops spending time chumming it up with/enthusiastically covering the at-bats of republicans who voted to invalidate the 2020 election, simply because they’re playing a sport he likes (baseball or softball), I will take this criticism more seriously.
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The internet seems convinced that the leaked numbers of the Marist TX poll (Talarico +6) are “real”, at least in the sense of “what the pollster really believes”, not necessarily in the sense of “how people will actually vote”. I guess we’ll know definitely in an hour. Big if true!
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here is the check that Susan Collins' PAC got from a defense contractor's shell company in exchange for millions of dollars in government contracts
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s genuinely unclear to me whether they think a decent number of their core voters will like this (bc they are assholes who think that “undeserving” people are using govt resources) and thus that it might help, or whether they’re just such true believers in cruelty that they don’t care.
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Suffolk MI poll is obviously good news for us overall (El-Sayed +7, Benson +16), though even without doing any crosstab analysis I note one thing that does raise a clear concern about partisan non-response. The sample was Harris +5.8 on recalled vote. So about 7 points off from the 2024 election
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Marist has Turek crushing Hinson in Iowa by 8. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/2026-m...
maristpoll.marist.edu
Home of the Marist Poll | Polls, Analysis, Learning, and More
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion (MIPO) is a survey research center. MIPO is home to the Marist Poll and conducts polls on politics, the economy, sports, technology and more at the local, state...
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Does anyone on here want to learn the game twilight struggle with me? I’ve played it ~5 times and like it but am not any good. I like nerdy board games but haven’t ever really gotten into war ones, I think the impact of the dice luck kind of turns me off. But I want to give TS another shot.
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OrcGirlBoss @orc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gas high
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Quantus has GCB at D+8.6, trump approval at -20. Looking good sir. drive.google.com/file/d/1NumW...
drive.google.com
Quantus_September2026_National_Survey_9-21-26.pdf
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Building a political movement around the view that immigrants should have greater freedoms and be welcomed more upon relocating than people born in the Midwest. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
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Walter Mondial @dabenner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Abyss gazing , it’s not good for you
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 18/09/2026
A version of the "Aella's birthday gangbang" Sankey diagram but it's about Bluesky posters thinking about posting Sankey diagram jokes, leading from "thought about Sankey diagram joke" through various iterations of workshopping and writing the joke (with various dead ends due to forgetting about it, losing interest, etc). Eventually at the end the joke is finally posted; some posters do numbers with it, some don't, some came in a fluffer
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ok now Trafalgar saying Talarico is ahead in TX is really something
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As a longtime advocate of vegetarianism, this is an odd moment for me.
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Insider Advantage, which at minimum should be considered an R leaning pollster, has Pappas ahead of Sununu by 8 in NH. Not really sure what Cook was thinking in moving that race rating.
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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
emersoncollegepolling.com/kansas-2026/
emersoncollegepolling.com
Kansas 2026: Hamilton and Marshall in Tight Senate Race; Masterson Leads for Governor  - Emerson Polling
Economy top issue for voters A new Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media poll finds 45% of…Full Release & Results
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