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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brian Beutler gets at a really important point here about how the consultant class keeps the Democratic party in thrall to bad research methodologies. How are consultants' narrow empirical claims about voter sentiment ever interpreted as positive warrants for a particular strategy? It's asinine.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Imagine unironically referring to the "big three" tv networks as "the nets" this side of 2010.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just inject this into my veins: Beutler presents a succinct and cogent overview of the consultant-industrial complex that's stifling Democratic politics. Their meddlesome, proven-loser horseshit is the single largest source of my anxiety and despair at the moment.

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Frontline Democrats Are Not Beautiful And Unique Snowflakes

Inside the mailbag: Jared Golden ... Mike Johnson ... Iran War

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I admit, all this definitional foofaraw about AI is mind boggling. What is actually at stake with these declarations of what qualifies as intelligence or consciousness, and what merits such strident claims here? To be sure, I'm stupid enough to know that this terrain has been well covered already.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In fashioning their strategic advice, do Dem consultants' models ever price in this kind of reaction? Is there ever an evaluation—quantified or not—of downstream effects like voter turnoff, intracoalitional conflict, damage to the party brand, consequences for fundraising, etc.?

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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A prophetic Katharine Hepburn from 1942, speaking to us of 2026 (You can watch it on the TCM app right now, as I just did.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_abR...

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excerpt from keeper of the flame

YouTube video by beverly crusher

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

the Supreme Court should not have sent this man a very clear message that he was a king above the law

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services??

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Moxon is brilliant here. Consciously or not, he's advancing a very productive understanding of politics as rhetoric. Today the word rhetoric is usually meant pejoratively as mere verbal ornamentation or bs. But behind the word lies a 2,500 year-old discipline dedicated to the art of persuasion.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When Democrats act in ways that show fear by kowtowing to bad faith Republican talking points what they're showing us is that they don't yet have the backbone needed to change the direction the country has been heading since 2016.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Six solid weeks of Center for American Box Wine demanding we throw the Michigan Senate seat over a personal grudge with a twitch streamer: crickets The most shit-on group in the country being angry they were shit on again: SAVE YOUR PETTY GRIEVANCES FOR AFTER THE ELECTION, YOU SELFISH JERKS

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/09/2026

The vitriol directed at me and other members of the trans community for having the audacity to declare our votes are not to be taken for granted. By cisgender people who otherwise have called themselves allies. I wish it weren’t so utterly predictable.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm Jewish and if a candidate triangulated on antisemitism to win an election, I would most certainly pressure him to do better *right now* and would hope my fellow Americans would do the same. I see no reason why our trans siblings and those who support them should demand anything different.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Talarico's trans stance is infuriating not simply because it's wrong on the merits, but because it's the very brand of losing, consultant-brained shit that delivered us to this moment. How many times have centrists told us if we compromise, the right will only stick it in a little (they promise!)?

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In modern American history has there been a single issue where Republicans consistently hammered Democrats for their position on a topic, Democrats responded by capitulating on it, and then Republicans just… Stopped attacking them over it, does this strategy even exist in reality, seriously asking

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.

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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
* Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
* Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

You cannot publish the phrase “reverse decades of structural disinvestment in public higher education” at the New York Times. It’s illegal. You’d be arrested.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 05/09/2026

sharing again for the weekend crowd. the humanities aren't in crisis, they're under attack -- because they're dangerous to people in power, because they ask their students to imagine possible worlds.

from the article: "Our tendency to see religion as a matter of personal, interiorized belief has led us to view its study as intellectually niche—or, to put it in neoliberal corporate speak—as a “low-skill” distraction. This is true of how we view the Humanities in general, of course—that, as Lauren Horn Griffin has so well explained, they’re seen as little more than “personal enrichment.” But that, she continues, is a right-wing act of controlling unruly ideas, of pushing to the margins disciplines that ask difficult questions of “invisible” power structures—say they’re irrelevant, deny them resources, call them “unprofitable,” make them disappear. But faculty, especially but not exclusively in Religion and other Humanities disciplines, often work directly against these forces. Because the discipline of Religion is attuned to issues of (presumed) interiority as well as actions in the public sphere, it’s these faculty who are some of the best situated to ask uncomfortable questions of those in power—be they federal policymakers or university administrators.

At (regional) public universities like ours, this means highlighting a population that is quite different by class, race, gender, and sexuality than found at, for example, the Ivies. Humanities education, including Religious Studies, helps inure students to authoritarian thinking. At their best, the Humanities are attentive to the frictions that create lived experiences—particularly those that are oftentimes marginalized. The Humanities explain how things have been different, could have been different, could be different now, and may be different in the future. They are about possible worlds."

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is why some people think Jeffries and Schumer are doing a good job (”They don’t have the votes! Forced most discharge petitions ever!”) and some people think they’re doing a bad job. They have different views of Congress. D leaders good job: sure, in Old Congress. But Old Congress is deadz

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Beutler puts his finger precisely on what's so maddening about Jeffries' announcement. And if you're a late model millennial who's never NOT watched Dems cede ground to reactionaries, give up on oversight and opposition, lose twice to DJT, etc., I think anger and disgust are fair reactions.

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Hoping Someone Else Stops Trump Is Not A Plan

A whistleblower exposed his illegal scheme to cheat in the midterms, and House Democrats turned around and funded his government. It’s a bad omen for 2027.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm tired of too-polite assessments that "Jeffries just isn't the right leader for the times." The man is a civic abomination. He's a shitheel hack dedicated to the proposition that being a Democrat is dreary, hopeless, and dire. He neglects our vital institutions. He belittles our democracy.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"I shouldn't have to say it, but I am" has to be among the stupidest sentiments ever expressed by a politician. "I shouldn't have to convey my values and intentions, but (haughty sigh) I guess I have to for you dipshits."

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No one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass

YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Democratic candidates are falling all over themselves to say negative things about Donald Trump. But is criticizing a popular wartime president really smart politics?

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It is simultaneously true that Ossoff said nothing even remotely misogynist and that Republicans pretending to care about politicians who demean women are exhibiting farcical levels of bad faith

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

No major media seems interested in the fact that senior DNC staff is openly undermining Ken Martin and literally withholding documents they don't want him to see, and you can bet the reason for that is that those are the same staffers media depend on for leaks so reporters won't spotlight them.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There's a piece on the DNC autopsy in the New York Times that I think everyone should read because it's very important context but there's one crucial part about this above all. Here's the piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

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Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter

A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What do you think, @geoffgarin.bsky.social? You advised the Harris/Walz campaign in 2024 to not go after the opposition for being weird. You said we had to lay off all the “weird” talk because it was too negative. Is this the kind of behavior you wanted to keep holding in a positive light?

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 31/07/2026

🧵on the AAUP endorsement of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary, the first-ever electoral endorsement in the organization's 110-year history. 1

"For the first political endorsement in AAUP's 110-year history, we are proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed because he shares our vision of higher education as a public good. He will fight for tuition-free and debt-free higher education and a system that works for everyone-not just those who can afford it."
-TODD WOLFSON,
AAUP PRESIDENT

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Mychal sits & shares that Ms. Rachel posted, “Black boys deserve to grow up.” This is not controversial, it is hope. Black library kids deserve to grow up to become Black library grown-ups. Black boys deserve to live in a world where that has not always felt true. Black boys deserve joy ✨

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

the establishment had its shot for over 30 years. it ultimately resulted in two terms for bush and trump. obama winning just papered over the very deep rot on the inside and now the bill is coming due. it is way past time.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Graham Planter should be required to dig Lindsey Graham’s grave. It only makes sense.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

At my Midwest town July 4 parade, I saw a cute little kid, whose parents are from Chile, wearing the jersey of Lamine Yamal, a Spanish soccer star whose parents came from Morocco and Equatorial Guinea, cheer as some old Shiners did wheelies in scooters streaming American flags. That’s my country.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Oh, BTW: the Democratic president should select someone other than John Roberts to swear them in on January 20, 2029. Could be their spouse, could be a judge from their home state, could be Bad Bunny. Anyone. Just not him.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

How about a real online safety program?: a long overdue, robust regulation of Silicon Valley firms with regard to antitrust, privacy, hate speech, political corruption, etc.

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If this were dystopian fiction, I'd be cursing at the author for laying it on so thick.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“Why do we feel a paralyzing sense of dread all the time?” I type into my Paralyzing Sense of Dread Machine that lives in my pocket.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm imagining an emerging technology that enriches workers and is based on stolen corporate patents while also driving up the cost of private jet fuel. How quickly would that technology be regulated out of existence and its creators imprisoned?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

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