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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As if Roosevelt bought oil from Hitler and Tojo in 1940.

joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course, Trump’s been perfectly willing to reject white asylum seekers too, as long as they’re fleeing Russian prison. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-fled-a-...

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He Fled a Dictatorship. We Sent Him Back.

Russian activist Leonid Melekhin sought refuge in America. His reward was a one-way trip to a penal colony.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good thread, thank you. Getting back to democratic norms is going to be a long haul.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“We started to decline the moment we stopped hating, eradicating and expelling jews,” reads one message. “Exterminate the jewish state,” reads another. According to the FBI, this was posted by a professor at Haverford University, who stalked his Jewish colleague. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

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Religion Professor Accused of Harassing Colleague With Antisemitic Posts (Gift Article)

The professor at Haverford College in Pennsylvania was charged with cyberstalking in connection with what federal prosecutors say was a series of threatening messages to a co-worker.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t know, but how weird it would be if Dems win Tx and lose MI. Don’t think that’s probable, but not impossible either.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

from what I can see, this kind of standard is reserved very selectively for one country and one people.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Agree. There are 364 days every year to criticize Israel and to discuss the rights of Palestinians - and I’d agree w much of that discussion. But on one day commemorating the most sadistic kind of pogrom targeting Jews, Mamdani spends 2/3 of his comment talking abt how Israel kinda deserved it. And…

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And above all, claw back as much as possible of the corrupt $$$ his family has made. As long as they’ve got that money, they’ve got a lot of power.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Or, better yet, get universities to lower their costs so students don’t have to take out insane loans.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gd chance extremists win in France too, and possibly rw in Spain. Japan also swung pretty hard right, partly in reaction to immigration issues, tho not to to an extremist extent. Modi still firmly entrenched, and Erdogan having some success w his brand of neo-Ottoman populism. Long way still to go.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

completely to deal with the consequences of aging societies, and having too few young people to support their spending.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

French govt spending is already 57% of GDP. Despite this, students are protesting underfunded schools with poor conditions. France is also in a huge debt crisis. Yet both Melenchon and Le Pen are campaigning on expensive new policies. Rich countries are failing…

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She does seem to have the gravitas & experience to do a solid review. Hopefully will be fair in this highly political environment.

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As a Ukrainian, I don’t understand how anyone can call this war a “complicated conflict”

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The gas prices are succeeding. By far Dems’ best friend rn.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No, obvs not, which is partly why a lot of voters are turning against Trump. But this doesn’t undercut original point, which is that “we’re losing our superpower status,” while true, is not an argument that has much effect w Trump voters.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The phones don’t help, but extremist movements came along long before phones were invented. Also, some other factors are broadly common to all these countries - backlash against immigration & rapid social change, economic stagnation esp in more rural areas.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not a weird decision, just a blatantly self-enriching and corrupt one.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s no perfect solution to this, some part of human nature likes authoritarianism (true on left too). But can mitigate to some degree w/ moderate policies on social issues, & offering genuinely good gov’t alternatives.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yup, backlash to tentative increases in immigration brought in a right-wing gov’t in Japan too.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If Dems are smart and don’t swing far left. First party to recognize that most voters want a moderate, sane government that works to solve people’s problems can build a longterm winning coalition.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

True, but also true most Trump voters I know wd say “being a superpower meant my nephew got sent to Afghanistan or Iraq.”

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’m down. Big, patriotic, everybody’s invited to the bbq… and no mention of Trump.

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joaquin437.bsky.social @joaquin437.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In the US at least, fertility rates are significantly higher among conservatives and the religious. I wonder if that will move our politics farther to the right over time. Well, the future belongs to the people who show up for it.

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