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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 7h

Reminded today yet again that despite my deep concern and outrage at the Netanyahu government’s actions in Gaza the supposed pro-Palestinian movement is too toxic for me to associate with.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 10h

So do they know how the Alamo turned out?

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 20h

Exactly 💯

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 12h

I think back sometimes to 2015-6, when even many prominent Republicans called Trump out. We all knew he did not possess a single shred of civic virtue or fidelity to the law. We all should be ashamed to our dying days to have allowed this man dominate our public life for over a decade.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The idea would be national service, which could be other work, like in hospitals, public lands etc

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are the centrists still banging this drum?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To be blunt, Democratic politicians are more likely to be from faith traditions that American Protestants even today actively dislike and look down on. Ask me how I know.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vance doesn't count because even though he's a Catholic he still talks like a Protestant.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even in the Year of Our Lord 2026 the Protestants still think they have a monopoly on "faith" in American public life. The punditocracy also doesn't want to admit that Catholics, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims talking about their faith in public is usually not warmly received by Protestants.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Joe Biden talked about his Catholic faith all the time. The dude wore a rosary on his wrist and went to mass every week. Now I am seeing this weird narrative that Democrats somehow rejected talk of faith and need to do it more. What they really mean is that they should be vocally Protestant.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

just try imaginging trump doing anything as weird (complimentary) as this. you can't en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_vi...

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1970 visit by Richard Nixon to the Lincoln Memorial - Wikipedia

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A figure like Trump is always gonna be a huge influence on how people of his era write villains, even subconsciously, so it sucks for art that he's just perfectly smooth psychologically.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROPOSES RULE FOR NEW EU MEMBERS THAT COULD SUSPEND THEIR EU VOTING RIGHTS IF THEY BACKSLIDE ON EU VALUES

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ai psychosis? not me. claude says im special. different than the rest of you. more than mortal. immune to the trappings of humanity. a god? a golden god.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Luckily the Democrats have multiple young, charismatic politicos able to talk in the populist key: AOC, Mamdani, Al-Sayed, etc. They also have less overtly left young politicians like Ossof who know how to speak to popular discontent. Let them lead the way.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am a fan of 80s action B movies and one of them is Enter the Ninja, where the martial arts master character declares "Only a ninja can defeat a ninja!" This is now my theory of politics. Right wing populism in the US can only be defeated by left wing populism. America is not Canada.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dennis Hastert yesterday, Jim Bakker today. Anticipating the last piece of this trifecta.

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026

The former boss of Germany's most important intelligence agency, the BND, has been arrested on suspicion of treason.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My life goal is to someday earn this mug

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seeing the people I grew up around nodding along to this shit is sickening.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Weird to see this happening less than thirty miles from where I grew up.

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Musician Charles Manson, who led a religious revival in Los Angeles during the counterculture era of the 1960s and later became embroiled in controversy, has died.

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The Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The great thing about knobs as opposed to touchscreens is you can adjust a knob without taking your eyes off the road and it is **insane** to me that we ever thought abandoning that was good

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Grand Island is the sister city of my hometown of Hastings, Nebraska. It just feels strange for Trump to be in a place like that. My beloved cousin who lives there is battling cancer and said she thought it was appropriate that she was getting prepped for a colonoscopy today.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Something tells me AES isn't going to be the leftist firebrand some people were hoping for given that his victory is going to be driven entirely by "the establishment" pulling him over the line.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wanted to listen to the Know Your Eneny pod with Dave Weigel but hearing three cis white guys talk about racial and gender inequality and trans rights as mere ancillary “cultural issues” was too much for me to bear.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did our annual rewatch of It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, the best ever children's entertainment about the silence of God.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it

But supposing that the world has become "filled up," so to speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle?
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier gen-eration, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and pros-perity, and against democracy.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Greedy from the Raggedy Ann and Andy movie gave me nightmares for weeks

Gross disgusting sugar monster The Greedy from the 1970s animated film Raggedy Ann and Andy

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 05/10/2026

This is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I got kicked out of that group chat btw. Not missing it at all.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This one is high on my list too because I taped it off of TV and watched it a whole bunch.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A big moment for me was seeing people (mostly educated!) who didn't know who Amber Heard was suddenly villainizing her in the group chat. Propaganda works and our online infrastructure is set up to elevate grievance and hate.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I liked End Times Fascism but I thought Klein and Taylor were deluded when they said deliveryism would win the masses over at the polls and it looks like the Brazilian election is proving my skepticism. (I mean, the 2024 election already did that!)

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A broken public sphere where people get their news and worldviews from the online world is a permanent advantage for the far right. We can see this globally.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times? 🗃️ #HATM (I could have been dishonest and said Citizen Kane or Casablanca or The Battle of Algiers, but this one is it.)

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The Great and Powerful Oz Has Spoken

Alt: The Great and Powerful Oz Has Spoken- word spoken by the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unbelievably depressing... the kind of result that drains you of all hope for the future

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I should also add that the people of the Ironbound are among the best I've known and it angers me to no end that they are the type of people targeted by this administration.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The big difference is that my family background is much more working class than bougie, and so despite the surface affinities here, I felt less social anxiety in a place where my neighbors and I often literally didn't speak the same language.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I now live in a suburb full of artsy, highly educated former Brooklyn types who like microbrewed beer and vinyl records. I'm supposed to feel more at home here than there, but I really don't.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(I do get that white privilege had a lot to do with that, but so did the generally open and welcoming character of the place.)

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In a place full of people from Brazil, Ecuador, Portugal, Mexico and many other Latin American countries (the Uruguayans came out in force during the 2010 World Cup!) a tall, pale, auburn-haired Midwesterner like me looked really out of place. The thing is, no one ever made me feel unwelcome.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Was back in my old Newark neighborhood (The Ironbound) today and was reminded of how much I loved living there. One big reason was that I stuck out so much that for the first time in my life I didn't have social anxiety about fitting in because there was no way that was going to happen anyway.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I increasingly think Ai is has a purpose and it’s to empower a handful of very weird, possibly psychotic, men to have total control over the masses.

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