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Jack

@jack12240.bsky.social
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Proud Detroit Lions fan, decent political scientist, better teacher; all opinions and views are my own

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The “a man of his time arguments” are always bullshit because if you were, say, a Taíno, you probably thought Columbus was terrible regardless of what people in Spain thought. But yeah, plenty of people in Spain thought he was too brutal too.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 11/10/2026
The anti-anti-Trump movement has been as damaging to he country as the pro-Trump movement. The basic idea of the anti-anti-Trump faction is that they themselves criticize Trump sometimes, but any political or legal figure who tries to stop Trump is always going too far or not doing it the right way.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is why Musk doesn't mind that that Twitter revenue is down 59% (or Ellison w/ CBS). He's more than making up for that loss via Twitter's political effects--ingratiating to Trump, fomenting racist panics, etc--which help SpaceX and xAI get favorable public contracts and regulatory treatment
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m sorry but even as a scholar I think sometimes it’s appropriate to say: what the actual FUCK is wrong with some people
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"First time Trump voter" five days after the January 6th Coup attempt:
Jack Buhring: Donald Trump we all stand with you. You have more people on your side than you know. If you can't get it done its hard to tell where this country will end up. Keep fighting!!!
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the clear throughline behind every Trump voter is a refusal to believe that their behavior has consequences
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Shane Gilgamesh-Anaximander @kafkaroach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guy in 2006, who writes for a living: "Learn STEM! Writing & Humanities is a dead end" Guy in 2016, who writes for a living: "Learn to code! College is a dead end." Guy in 2026, who writes for a living: "Learn to lay bricks! Everything else is a dead end."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Will this trend continue? I have no idea. But it is very striking to me that after years of being told I needed to learn to code (I actually did, in high school, but ok) and to do STEM, the numbers-and-code folks have mostly managed to automate away their own jobs.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But far more importantly, the voters make no appearance whatsoever in Justice Alito’s reasoning. He, like the government, does not dispute that using the rule in 2026 would disenfranchise millions of our most vulnerable people. He doesn’t care. It’s despicable and antidemocratic.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For MSNOW, I wrote about the Trump administration threatening to strip colleges of their tax-exempt status as part of its larger segregationist agenda.
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Opinion | Trump’s next high education target: schools that help Black students
Victor Ray: American universities must stand up to Trump's plan to re-segregate higher ed
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/09/2026
In addition to eugenicist and neo-Nazi social media posting, Musk is a big supporter of the neo-Nazi Party in Germany and spoke at one of its rallies last year. He has a 1st Amend right to be a Nazi, but he’s a security risk and should have his govt security clearance and contracts revoked.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026
that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is also a great example of how purported conservative virtues are a complete farce. Hypocrisy and lying/deliberate misconstrues are okay as long as they “validate” their actual racist and Christian nationalist values.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is both comically hypocritical coming from Trump’s lapdog and a crass, ignorant misunderstanding of taqiyya, which is the doctrine that it’s permissible to conceal your religious faith in the face of severe persecution.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There is no real way to train a historian without having students immerse themselves (repeat THEMSELVES) in the material. Its what sparks that interest in the first place! Its when they have their baby eureka moments, and begin to form connections and think historically. gAI is poison for all that.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
the retconning is to support the argument that "trump won in 2024 because of anti-woke." but other than some nebulous "vibe shift" and the prominence of a few podcasters, there is vanishingly little hard evidence for this claim.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm not going to name names, but part of the reason the industry tolerates them doing such disgraceful and unethical things is because of the in real life 'they're really nice in person, really!' defence Of course they are! If they acted like that in real life they'd be ostracised & unemployable!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 14/08/2026
Of course, it is the equal protection clause that also forbids actions like the Japanese internment. Another example (of many over the last 10 years) where the problem isn't flaws in our Constitution, but a president and Supreme Court that refuse to follow it.
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Gerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I know everyone's already dunking on this, but fact of the matter is that there are things worth defending that can only be dealt with via military force. And I wish that weren't so, but defending these things is just, and necessary.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/08/2026
On the other hand, nothing is more decadent than refusing to make those hard and sometimes costly choices. Nothing is more decadent in the Trump era than declining to take a stand. Nothing is more decadent than saying because no one is perfect I can’t take sides. Easy and decadent.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
the big complaint generally revolves around schools, but the timeline there was pretty sensible: most schools were fully remote until the vaccine rollout, after which they fairly quickly moved to in-person learning.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There is rising actual antisemitism and conspiracism surrounding the state of Israel and its place in global affairs. And the organizations that should exist to call that out are wasting all of their credibility refusing to distinguish conspiracies from accurate descriptions of Israeli war crimes.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
But you can see why. Those big families? Usually have farms. That makes them farmers. And you can't say bad things about farmers! That's why rural outreach sucks. It's not because "Dems aren't trying." It's bc the problem in rural politics is a 3rd rail that *nobody*- in any party- will touch.
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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The homerun derby being exclusively on Netflix is maybe the most American "tragedy of the commons" development
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