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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of my childhood heroes. She still had so much love and joy to share. RIP Dolly Parton 😢

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Nick Hanauer @nickhanauer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you are Catholic, I urge you to read this terrific article on the intersection of Market Humanism with Pope Leo's new Encyclical. betterpolitics.substack.com/p/magnifica-...

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Magnifica Humanitas and Markets Built for Humans

An initial look how a new "market humanism" can foster the reception of MH

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The problem with Megan Romer is less that she's a tankie and more that she's genuinely very stupid.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The intense hate for and projection onto @neeratanden.bsky.social and @shannonrwatts.bsky.social from the left over on the Bad Place seem dripped in heavy misogyny. Wasn’t surprised by the usual bleaters — but honestly feel disappointed prominent influencers that should know better are partaking.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Online far leftists who’ve been fed a diluted form of Marxist-Leninism, most recently by the post-2016 DSA, mistakenly believe in powerful central committees in the shadows because that’s how communist “democratic centralism” works to set policy directives and provide orders to indoctrinated cadres.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Democratic "establishment" is such a nebulous and disorganized thing they very often aren't even on the same page with each other. Consider how many contested primaries have senators, not just Sanders but other totally mainstream liberals, endorsing different opposing candidates.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The way the far left since inception solves the incoherency of contradictory *simultaneous demands* is by forcing purity tests, then excommunicating all who don’t toe the new party line.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Second major case since 2025 of an African American found hanging in a tree in Mississippi since Trey Reed at Delta State University. In both cases authorities were quick to dismiss as suicide before pushback. RIP Tasia Fortune @phillewis.bsky.social www.mississippifreepress.org/tasia-fortun...

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Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home

The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"They were fanatically demanding that I accept their doctrine... They were like blind men trying to guide the blind." — Richard Wright. "The God That Failed [or 'I Tried to Be a Communist']." 1949 Part1 archive.is/202410141532... Part2 archive.is/202505192237...

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I Tried to Be a Communist

“I asked for a definition of what was expected from the writers—books or political activity. Both, was the answer.”

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed probably holds more progressive as opposed to far-left views. Pandering to far-left during the primary now looks like to be a big mistake. Words matter in communication. There are more ways than one to say something, FDR figured it out — but the far-left cadres probably won’t let him.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

DSA trajectory seems eerily similar to the Tea Party which later morphed into the MAGA cult. Makes me a bit sad because on my journey left after leaving GOP I met some genuinely well-meaning old guard DSAers who have all since left after being pushed out by the communist MUG and Red Star entryists.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I think people often think accounts online are bots when they're just human beings with so little ability to reason that they have reduced themselves to something indistinguishable from a machine.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People in the replies who do not know the difference between the small-r *republicanism,* which is the belief in popular sovereignty, civic virtue, and the rule of law, and the Republican Party as a political party’s *brand name,* yet reply with total confidence. Peak online ultracrepidarianism.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 30/07/2026

This case infuriates me so much bc it’s a case of marginalized trans people being recruited and groomed by violent cis men into throwing away their lives to accomplish nothing,and people have presented the prosecution as if it could happen to anyone in an express effort to create more such radicalsc

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The most true thing I’ve learned about politics over the last decade is that people who revel in cruelty are untrustworthy allies of the left. If you follow someone who engages in and celebrates cruelty, even on social media, because you like their politics, they will betray you and those politics.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Becoming increasingly apparent why these guys don’t like HR ladies

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/07/2026

There is no good reason why legitimate ICE officers should be concealing their identities, especially at an international airport. A screaming woman pinned to the ground, being handcuffed, and later wheeled away. “I’m from Ukraine. Please, somebody…”

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Trump called the war a “skirmish” and boasted “only 18” soldiers died. I don’t know if Pvt. Gonzales considered herself a hero but I know this — she paid the ultimate sacrifice in the performance of her Duty as Citizen as did her fellow patriots senselessly lost. Let not their sacrifice be in vain.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Trump’s dedicated base is 36%. The bottom is finally starting to fall out. Can’t buy gas or pay bills with culture wars.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Women were some of the earliest disciples of Christ and played a big role in the early Church: • Mary Magdalene • Joanna wife of Chuza • Mary of Bethany • Martha sister of Mary • and of course Mary, Mother of Jesus

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

America got scammed. And like all victims of scam, America *chose* to be scammed.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One of the reasons Rs want to kill the ACA is that it has given workers more leverage against employers, more freedom, more power.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A big reason for Democrats to promise prison time for Republicans in power and the use of the state to undermine the Republican Party as an organization is because our former allies need to believe that someday soon, America will cease to be like this.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

heads up: you might be getting "flocked." here's what you need to know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuOK...

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‘Get it the ‘FLOCK’ out’: Students rise up against AI-powered license plate readers

YouTube video by MS NOW

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Would one first burn down one’s own house with no plan to rebuild? How about burning down one’s own house on the advice of another? Beware.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

One interesting thing about this controversy is that there's nothing stopping all these whiners from making their own adaptation of The Odyssey. (thread)

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

At a time when our democracy is being tested, these conversations and our collective action matter more than ever. Read more about my conversation with @chenoweth.bsky.social, Danielle Allen, @ericholder.bsky.social & @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social at the @aft.org Convention: www.aft.org/news/meeting...

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Meeting the moment in unprecedented times

Working people today are facing unprecedented challenges, including rising inequality, democratic backsliding and attacks on our fundamental rights.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China

His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Two weeks before the 2024 Elections — The Economist: US economy “the envy of the world” under Joe Biden. Too many took good governance and steady leadership for granted and now we are all paying for it. www.economist.com/special-repo...

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The envy of the world | Oct 19th 2024 | The Economist

The envy of the world. Special reports from The Economist. You've seen the news, now discover the story.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Two months ago at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. I was just stating the obvious. Something we could all see. In the past week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE in Houston, TX and Joan Sebastian Guerrero was murdered by ICE in Biddeford, Maine.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Piracy via pronouncement.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I have always appreciated Marc and his team but even more so since he broke down why the voter file is the holy grail of election manipulation for my Substack. Link to my discussion with him in nect skeet 1/

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP Sam “Dr. Alan Grant” Neill, one of my childhood heroes 🙏🏼

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My anecdotal observation is that the young, being naive, passionately but ineffectively push for their causes due to lack of experience in getting results. Perhaps the same can be said for the old, who feel that their time is short, dropping principles in a final desperate attempt to create change.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

When will Americans wake up to the fact that there are certain elements on the ascendant left that are wholly manufactured and controlled by the same elites they rail about?

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So there’s a famously pugilistic poster on here (who has me blocked) who said, essentially, that character doesn’t matter when choosing to vote. Only policy. And I think that is just fundamentally backwards and, ultimately, the reason why the online left keeps falling for lying grifters. (Thread)

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The fucker is not leaving: Platner just placed an ad for a "research director". He's either staying in the race or doubling down on picking his replacement - the staffer's job includes "opposition research", "vetting plan", and "anticipate opponent lines of attack". h/t @lily77.bsky.social. 1/

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In periods of American Progressivism the agenda was reform not revolution. Right there in the label: PROGRESS Revolution requiring destruction doesn't guarantee better outcomes; regression is high. Creating bulwarks to lock in reforms then adding new reforms is the literal definition of progress.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 06/07/2026

Like I said, there's no small amount of finger-pointing that's going to happen as a result of this. But Platner was a creation of Ryan Grim, Bernie Sanders, and Matt Stoller, as much as he was of Pod Save America and Matt Yglesias. That's what has to be reckoned with.

Anonymised skeet saying "Beg pardon. Dems/liberals are not the left of anything except capitalism."

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m so incredibly incensed. Trump’s blatant malfeasance has given us a once in a lifetime chance to realign back to the arc of the moral universe only to be repeatedly knifed in the back by the dilettante class cosplaying tribunes of the people — while blaming our troubles on Jews and Black people.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

OK, things I would like to talk about in light of PlatnerFail: 1. How much of the "Kamala loves genocide" was sexism. 2. How there really is rising antisemitism on the left and we should address it 3. How the rise of Bernie has been disastrous for Black Dems and why that's bad, actually.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I’m loving this for the President.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Joe Biden, and the aspirational America we must still believe in on our nation’s 250th. As we honor the sacrifices of preceding generations of patriots, we must focus on the good they chose despite their own human imperfection. Nothing is guaranteed if we don’t fight for it. It’s our turn. 1/7

An X (formerly Twitter) post by Joe Biden on July 4, 2026 with a message on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. The attached picture is of the Bidens watching the July 4, 2021 fireworks and celebration over the National Mall from the Truman Balcony of the White House’s South Portico.

“Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that's where the work began, not where it ended.
Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.

Now it's our turn.

There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.
250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.

Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished.
Let's keep writing it together.”

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

TY @charlotteclymer.bsky.social for your beautiful words: “We can wake up every day and be grateful for the America that exists and the America we want. Patriotism is a choice. Believing in our potential is a choice. Believing we can be better and inspire each other to do better is a choice.”

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Thank you @malcolmnance.bsky.social for your moving reading of the Declaration of Independence. On the occasion of our Great Nation’s 250th Anniversary, we declare our independence from this traitorous band of thieves and their would-be king. youtu.be/kScsHcaS0eg

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July 4th A New Declaration of Independence w/Malcolm Nance

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