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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 19h

You’re aging pretty well. I hate you. You obviously moisturize.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the day is young unlike Denny Hastert

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wasn’t aware Rahm Emanuel had chances to nuke. A fraction of zero is still zero.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Rahm is great at making democrats lose their minds. He loves it, so don’t give it to him. There is no constituency for Rahm Emmanuel. He’s irrelevant.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The quickest way to lose a US senate race is to telegraph that you’re just using it as a stepping stone to higher office and have no plans to finish your term.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In a country with such broken norms, it’s good to have so many Norms.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...

teamster.org

U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union

(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We can only imperfectly figure out who voted and why with exit polls which are highly susceptible to self-selection bias. There are no exit polls for people who don‘t enter in the first place.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something I’ve heard about during my trip to the Gulf? War profiteering. Often by U.S. companies. Let me tell you what I learned. And why a Democratic Congress should do something about it

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will state again for the record that nobody in politics gives a shit why you don’t vote. There is no such thing as “strategic non-voting.” There is only an incomprehensible, contradictory list of excuses for apathy and disengagement that varies from individual to individual.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For some reason the YouTube algorithm is serving up all sorts of discourse from 6 months ago in TX-Senate. All sorts of influencers promising how the democrats were gonna be sorry because of how they were going to use “strategic non-voting” in November. I wonder if that’s still operative.

A dense poll cross-tab. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/04/polls/times-siena-texas-poll-crosstabs.html

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tucker: GDP is just one measure of an economy Bluesky: GDP is just one measure of an economy, chart pervert

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you bitch about “moving the goalposts” when the goalposts are being move *toward you* then you’re not a very good debater and likely have not very clear principles.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are legislators across the country in both the majority and the minority who do exactly what you want but you have no idea that they exist because they aren't the mayor of New York City.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes he’s a talented politician; but there is no way, no how that that same exact dude would be the guy to emulate if he were a member of Congress, because nobody would know him from Jasmine Crockett or any of a number of millennials with selfie sticks.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mamdani is obviously particularly charismatic and media-savvy but he also has strong, nearly dictatorial powers and doesn’t have to beg some republican to get a vote on an amendment.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why can’t every Democrat just be Mamdani, this site constantly asks? Because not every Democrat is a strong mayor in a big city. it’s easier to be an influencer online when you have vast actual power and influence than it is if you’re one of 535 members of congress and in the minority party.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not really? On the whole, executives do this all the time because they’re the star of the show, while legislators do not, because citizens don’t give a damn about caucus politics and look at legislators self-promoting as crass and corrupt.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

John Hickenlooper was very good at this, but he has discovered as many do that it gets harder do when you’re a junior senator than it is when you’re a big city mayor.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Practice makes perfect, especially when you have to find a vein while blackout bombed, as executioners often are. Only way they can soothe their consciences.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Great minds et cetera and so forth

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think come people understand the degree to which the US thrived in the 50s and 60s because we were supplying the whole world which had been flattened by WWII while our industrial capacity was unscathed. That was never going to be permanent.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So 1234 W. 68th Ave is 12.3 blocks west of Broadway and 68 blocks north of Ellsworth, on the south side of 68th. Bonus: 8 blocks/mile going N-S, 16 blocks per mile going east-west (exceptions apply)

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Everything east of Broadway (0) is an East address and everything to the west is a west address. Avenues are numbered; streets are not. Even addresses are on the east or north side of a street, odd addresses are on the west or north side.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most cities have consistent rules for their street numbers and names, so if you know the rules, you can find your way. E.g. in Denver, Streets go north and south, avenues go east and west. Everything to the north of Ellsworth Ave. (0) is a North address, everything to the south is a South address.

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Colorado Secretary of State’s Office @cosecofstate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Colorado County Clerks are sending ballots for the 2026 General Election today through October 9. Did you know you can track your ballot? Sign up for BallotTrax at GoVoteColorado.gov!

The General Election is November third, twenty twenty-six. Eligible Coloradans can register to vote, update their voter registration, and vote up to seven p.m. on Election Day! You can track your ballot from sent to counted by signing up for BallotTrax! Visit Go Vote Colorado DOT GOV for important election information.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you look up whether early voting has even started in Texas? (It has not)

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bro those aren't your packages. That bin included an 86 year-old lady's cancer medicine. These two dudes stole every package in the building on Tuesday. @denverpolice.bsky.social now have 25 clips of these guys from various angles. Stay safe out there.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pretty sure he wasn't allowed to tear down the East Wing yet did it anyway.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They‘re not even starting because there is no early voting anywhere in Texas until October 19th. Sharing stuff like this is voter suppression. Stop it.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Texas does not start early voting until October 19th so this is not a thing that could have happened In this election.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of course even if it’s a tulip bubble, tulips didn’t cease to exist. A huge portion of this site seems to believe that if they just call it a clanker often enough, it will disappear and they’ll be proven right all along.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Republicans love flooding the zone with bogus polls but they generally don’t sell them as internals, rather they try to make them look like independent public polls.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The only way I wouldn’t be mad about it is if they bracketed the spot on both ends with a news report about how the spot is illegal propaganda and a news report about how old and incontinent Donald Trump is.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Small liberal arts schools generally aren’t generally going to the the ones demanding the return of the billion-dollar research grants they lost even though they kissed the ring. Could be I wasn’t talking about you.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Covid was the inflection point for so many people I know—people I was traveling through life with in 2019 whom I don’t even speak to in 2026 because they went off the deep end and stayed there.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shave yer fuckin stubble, take a shower, and comb yer fuckin hair. Slob.

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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m not gonna comment on his apparent age, but if you for no good reason intentionally go on international television looking like you just woke up on the floor of a crack house in a pool of your own vomit, that’s a you problem.

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