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Jamison Foser

@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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Political consultant, media critic, and longtime Cassandra. www.findinggravity.net

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 7h
NRSC frantically churning out memos to the White House warning that control of the Senate will come down to key races in Yemen, Paraguay, and an uninhabited weather station in the Bering Sea
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 7h
sure why not
Screen shot of the beginning of Palmer Luckey’s Wikipedia page, which identifies him as cofounder of another bullshit right wing company with a name that makes clear its founders read but did not understand Tolkien. Also there is a picture of him, about which I can only say “what the fuck”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 8h
... the fuck?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h
the rampant misandry is because of the continual rape
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 9h
weirdest little twerp I ever heard of
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12h
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
seems like this guy has already lost a little too much intellectual dexterity
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mike Johnson is like three days away from telling reporters he's never even heard of Donald Trump
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it physically pains him to salute?
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
a year ago the Cillizzas of the world were saying democrats were falling into Trump's savvy political trap by criticizing ICE. Now a Kansas Republican senator facing re-election is sweatily tweeting his concern about ICE.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Usually when Collins gets upset by media - and that is her standard procedure - media, especially Maine media back down Not ProPublica as you can see below - and they have the receipts to back it up So this has got to be a especially jarring for her and her team
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
while I agree nobody should ever believe a word that oozes out of jd vance's lie-hole, doing so is insufficient justification for being banned from jd vance's boss's white house
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Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reupping this entire🧵by @notaaroncraig.bsky.social -- this time, with extra thanks for including my newsletter, ItsNotYouItsMedia.substack.com
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It's Not You, It's Media | Jennifer L. Pozner | Substack
Media literacy tips, analysis, advocacy — and feminist parody songs! — from award-winning media critic Jennifer L. Pozner, author of It's Not You, It's Media (media literacy graphic novel, Fall27) and...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
All of this, from @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
look it's easy to say Bret Stephens' latest column sucks but if *you* were Bret Stephens I bet you would be pretty heavily invested in spreading the narrative that writing awards are devalued when they go to someone other than a white male mediocrity, too
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
is the New York Times still trying to make this guy a thing?
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
say, this reminds me: After Susan Collins voted to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh wrote the decision that gutted a key federal bribery statute
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if you wan to understand politics you can read National Journal today or me six months ago. the choice is yours.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Area Man Admits He and His Colleagues Are Ineffectual Dunderheads
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think it would be just swell if the New York Times replaced this microwaved fish sandwich of a columnist with someone who bases their observations about America on a friend group that is a little more representative, or perhaps a little less imaginary.
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
find me the sasquatch you cowards
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
our experiment with putting the dumbest fucking people in charge is unfolding with soul-crushing predictability
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And this is pretty funny: Trump's PAC now sees an urgent need to spend in Texas districts that Republicans just heavily gerrymandered to the GOP’s benefit, after he corruptly commanded them to do so. Oops! newrepublic.com/article/2155...
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Next week I am teaching about this (people are not ideological) to freshman in my INTRODUCTION to American politics. It's literally the foundational finding of the entire field of public opinion research.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW POLL: 53% of Americans support expanding the Supreme Court, including majorities of both Democrats and independents. Two weeks ago, House Dems stood united to keep that option on the table. Happy Constitution Day! law.marquette.edu/poll/
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am not saying all "effective altruists" got high in their freshman dorm and had a contest to see who could come up with the most convoluted million-year fantasy scenario to morally justify doing whatever they want right now, I'm merely saying their philosophy wouldn't be different if they had.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 17/09/2026
Republicans don’t care if children get sick or die, pt. a million
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
deleted my 2nd-to-last post because it (mildly) violated my "Election Day is in a month and a half and there are Actual Nazis on the ballot and that, not intramural elbow-throwing, is the more meritorious focus, no matter how righteous the elbows" philosophy deleted my most recent post by accident
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the list below to reform the Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS is incomplete without expansion. Pass it on.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
hammer procurement will be funded by a 100 percent tax on kalshi winnings and a 200 percent tax on cybertrucks
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
jd vance has the charisma of soggy cardboard but supposedly makes up for it by being the smart one
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"To visit Springfield now is to travel to a city being invaded and psychologically tortured by a man who my adoptive home state of Ohio gladly returned to the White House so that he could conduct his sprees of ethnic cleansing and immiseration." -- @swin24.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
how bad do you have to fuck up to get arrested in bourbon county
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You will want to read Rebecca Traister today, of course. www.thecut.com/article/glor...
Back in 1968, while she ironed her clothes for the antiwar march and smoked a cigarette, Moses Znaimer asked the then-34-year-old, pre-feminist Steinem what she wanted to be when she “grew up.”

“Free,” she told him. “And old. And a little mean.”

Steinem was free. And she grew old. But she never actually got mean, at least as far as I could tell.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A lot of people who claim they hate the wrong *kinds* of feminism in fact just hate feminism.
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Take Back the Court @takebackthect.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We would like to thank House Republicans for their valuable service to the court expansion movement.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
a fun thing about trying to get Walgreens to fill a prescription is it saves me the trouble of repeatedly hitting myself in the head with a large mallet
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fletcheredington.bsky.social @fletcheredington.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
really seems like they should have booked an additional guest whose role would be to simply respond "yiiiiikes" to everything Michelle Cottle said
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“If you want to represent Michigan you better put some respect on Ohio State’s name” is a helluva take even for Cancun Cruz.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
everybody grow the fuck up
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Mike Rogers just held a rally where he hugged Donald Trump, embraced him on stage. Did any of you hear about that? The media wants you to think that Rogers' association with the President is less relevant for the public to be informed about than Abdul El-Sayed's association with a Twitch streamer.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
reskeeting with alt text bc this is a funny as hell way to dismiss someone's dumbass argument to their face
Screenshotted excerpt from a conversation transcript, reading as follows

Cottle: My guess is that you then completely reject the idea that we wound up with this wretched administration in part because of the backlash to the excesses of woke, especially alienating young men, who were told they were the problem, just generally speaking.

Bouie: [this line is highlighted] I completely reject that for simple reasons of linear time. This administration was elected in 2024. At peak woke, when Nancy Pelosi was wearing kente cloth, Democrats won a trifecta, right? At the--
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Asking your AI chat bot to “please roast” your perceived adversary is the most Loser Shit in the entire recorded history of humanity
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yes?
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trump gasoline is cheap for the same reason the stereos for sale out of the back of a truck in the parking lot of a strip mall are cheap.
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