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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 6h

It actually isn't really "mind-boggling" that if your country treats visitors like criminals, fewer people may want to visit. I mean, unless you have a really easily boggled mind. bsky.app/profile/sema...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 7h

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Wednesday that taxpayer-funded concentration camps are not improper and do not raise any flags. bsky.app/profile/lega...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 7h

Chanting "mass deportation now!" at a rally is all fun and games until they start disappearing your neighbors and the concentration camps start being built, isn't it, you son of a bitch? bsky.app/profile/laur...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 8h

I submit to you that this is in no meaningful sense a news headline. It is itself an IPO pitch, and it isn't going to help. bsky.app/profile/reut...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 8h

As are all the political parties mired in the false consciousness of bourgeois liberal democracy and lacking the class consciousness to understand the role of vanguard political mobilization for the Revolution, Comrade. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 9h

Well, it would be more threatening and less pathetic, at least. bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 9h

Pete Hegseth *IS* Maxim Arturovich Pyatniski in the electrifying stage adaptation of "The Laughter of Carthage," bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 9h

Dude couldn't pass an exam on any of these topics given in a Sophomore Seminar at any randomly chosen state college. bsky.app/profile/theb...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 9h

Dead accurate. Grad school-level insult, too. bsky.app/profile/resn...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 9h

"When he agreed to halt aid to Ukraine in exchange for election interference and cash from Putin? AMAZING! "And that time he agreed to bomb Iran when the Gulf monarchies gave him over $1b by 'investing' in his fraudulent crypto scheme? Never seen anything like it." bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 10h

Even 12 year old me would have thought this was stupid. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 10h

"Miskatonic University, Pine City Vo-Tech, Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters, Gotham Municipal College, Alpha Complex Central Academy . . . " bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 10h

Dick Tracy Villain Syndrome - tragic, really. Usually only shows up when reality veers dangerously close to violent, implausible self-parody, so that tracks. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 10h

Cut him some slack. Hegseth is just trying to adapt to beat Iran. Seeing how effectively the theocratic leadership of Iran is beating us, he's decided that we need to instutiotnalize faith-based religious radicalism in the US if we are to have any hope of victory. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 10h

Redcoats? Wow - dude's activated my latent Tory sympathies in the Revolutionary War. Communists? This guy makes the White leadership in the Russian Civil War look brilliant. Hegseth would have been machine-gunned by Trotsky within hours. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 10h

The UK is "lucky" that the Ukraine War, the descent into fascism of the US, and other gathering crises have made the EU so desperate to build up its political, military, and economic strength that they would welcome back such an unreliable and difficult partner. bsky.app/profile/theg...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 11h

I wanna' decide who lives and who dies! bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 16h

hey is the strait open yet

Six hundred of our finest warriors joined SECWAR
for morning PT at the Pentagon ahead of his HISTORIC State of the Force address.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 11h

This is the set-up scene in the war movie that introduces the Leutenant put in charge of the platoon of talented misfits who gets fragged in the second act. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 11h

I guess that if you absolutely have to have fascist ideological purges of the military, you want them to be as stupidly conducted as possible. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 11h

A: That's . . . just impossible. B: No, remember - what's the first rule of Bluesky? A: Aaron Rupar always transcribes accurately. B: Correct. If he writes it, Hegseth said it. A: Gonna' check the audio, anyway. B: Go ahead. A: . . . .well, damn. B: Told you. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 11h

This Saturday Night Live cold opening is too implausible, mean-spirited, and stupid. They should fire the writers. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 11h

This is how Democracy in America is supposed to work - people are mobilized locally by something that affects their community; as that happens, the public is educated in how policy affects their lives & how they can change it. Cultivation of Aristotelian virtue as a bonus. bsky.app/profile/bolt...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 11h

In 2028, I will vote for the Presidential candidate who runs on consequences - the candidate who says that Liz Warren has good ideas, but that she is too moderate and cautious. Bonus points if their speeches feature the words "reckoning," or "fiat justicia., ruat caelum." bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 12h

By which he means that he, personally, has the highest individual wealth he has ever had. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 12h

On a Clear Day, You Can See This Is Absolute Bullshit. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 13h

Why you would value the unfounded opinion of a C-grade reality TV show host regarding a complex, technical question upon which your life might depend is not clear. But here's the empty assurance that Boeing paid him to give, anyway. bsky.app/profile/reut...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h

leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 14h

Time to test the class solidarity of Tocqueville's American aristocracy. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi Texas! California here. If your state's public records law has an exception allowing officials to withhold records that are "intimate and embarrassing," you don't have a real public records law at all. Democracy is reveling in things that embarrass public officials. bsky.app/profile/meid...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This . . . makes it sound so much more like reasonable public policy than the announcement and the policy itself deserve. Like, they put a power-sprayer on the sanewashing mashine. bsky.app/profile/bloo...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is too cute to be real. bsky.app/profile/reut...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That is the expression of a lower primate trying to puzzle out how to make the machine give him another banana. Yale Law has truly sent their best. www.axios.com/2026/09/29/t...

axios.com

U.S.-Iran talks yield little, raising odds of renewed combat

Neither side has been willing to budge.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh, sure, but Donald Trump promised that this would all change and Iran would surrender immediately after the Midterms. By the way - confused, Cro-Magnon JD Vance is the best JD Vance. www.axios.com/2026/09/29/t...

axios.com

U.S.-Iran talks yield little, raising odds of renewed combat

Neither side has been willing to budge.

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cool - hopefully this will keep Skynet distracted until we can shut down the data centers. bsky.app/profile/reut...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is that dude wearing a Handmaiden's Tale hood? Am I losing the ability to cognitively distinguish portents of divergent dystopian futures? bsky.app/profile/bloo...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wow - it took a long time for the revolving door of corruption to spit this guy back out into high profile lobbying. I wonder if he's reinvented himself as a MAGA-whisperer, since being a pre-Trump Congressional leader doesn't carry much weight under the current regime. bsky.app/profile/reut...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know that at no point may I ever say "Yes, this is the stupidest timeline that could possibly exist." Because either karma or the world's tormenting demon incarnate in the person of Donald Trump will take that as a challenge. And they can absolutely make it stupider. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I caught the Self Righteous Crones at Lilith Fair in 1997 at the Shoreline; they weren't the best act on the tour, but the songs from their debut album like "Personal Psychodrama," "Pestilence," and "Fall of Civilization" had the whole auditorium singing along. bsky.app/profile/chad...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is like the AI bros predicting the end of human life - they never explain how their preferred villains would actually accomplish this and they are really just engaged in marketing a crazy ideology. bsky.app/profile/chad...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So yes, breaking unions is more about control of workers than financial balances. But as an M&A lawyer, I saw that fund investors view a union at an acquisition target as an open-ended risk they cannot quantify & therefore will pay a large knowable amount to mitigate. www.epi.org/publication/...

epi.org

U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance

Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions. We estimate that employers spend roughly ...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That picture is photoshopped or AI-altered. Right? Or, uh, he's wearing a weird custom kevlar undershirt or something. Um, right? bsky.app/profile/down...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are so many people disengaged and apathetic about public policy? Why are people ignoring the danger of global climate change? It's hard not to be cynical when the threat of human extinction is being used to inflate an obvious asset price bubble in a securities market. bsky.app/profile/reut...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Modern weighted SH voting schemes wi. founders' preferred getting effective control is a Silicon Valley thing. I've negotiated this between founders & VC investors. I understand not wanting to give VCs control over your company, but things are different when you go public bsky.app/profile/rory...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wow - quite a coup getting Mr. Peanut, official spokes-legume for Planter's, to support Ossoff in Georgia. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, you can have federal securities regulation that stops this or you can let it go until the nascent system of completely unaccountable corporate governance catastrophically fails and equity investment markets collapse out of fear. Those are your kind of your options. bsky.app/profile/reut...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sure, they teach "issue-spotting" in law school, but they never prepare you for a client who specifically wants legal advice that misses the issues. bsky.app/profile/eric...

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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, in his defense, he *is* lying through his teeth and has no intention of ever doing anything like this. bsky.app/profile/boxe...

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