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Joe Emison

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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 04/08/2026
One of the most fascinating/saddest/stupidest experiences of my life was seeing how an FTC consent order was drafted (by someone who didn’t know what they were doing), and then how even that person didn’t understand what it said. Not surprisingly, it was not effective!
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/08/2026
the thing about this absolutely blatant market manipulation is that it’s going to work until it stops working, and when it stops, a whole lot of shit is going to go very sideways very fast
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/08/2026
this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
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The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos
Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 01/08/2026
My second least part of this inferior website is all the idiot scolds who decide that the best use of their time is to identify as many common words as possible that they find offensive and then accuse random people of supporting genocide or some other terrible thing for using said words.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I think the world would be a better place if more people would keep their insights secret from everyone else
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 28/07/2026
I couldn't agree more, @mikedrucker.bsky.social
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 13/07/2026
ZOOM IN: Critics of corruption consider it harmful to society. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE: Some of them could have more power after the midterms. BE SMART: Better get while the graft is good.
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 12/07/2026
I’m amazed at how bad music criticism is relative to TV & movie criticism. I’m not sure quite why, but something like 70% of the music criticism I read just misunderstands the music. (Thinking most recently about the Pitchfork review of The Great Divide and a concert review of twenty-one pilots)
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When a Democrat praises Lindsey Graham and ignores his vital role in enabling an autocratic takeover of American government, it's because it's all a game to them. It's because they view Congress as a private members club and because they are immune from the consequences of government action.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/07/2026
Super disingenuous framing by HuffPost. Look. I'm the king of calling Bernie and his Bernie Bros and the DSA Bros out on their anti-Black racism. This is not that. He was asking a *Black leftist*, how they address nonsense from *Black centrist* because as a white leftist, this is not his place.
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 11/07/2026
One challenge in maturity is whether you can swallow enough of your pride to support what is right and just and ethical, or whether your ego will prevent you from ever admitting you made a mistake.
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alexsartorius.bsky.social @alexsartorius.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Tweet from @hotgirlhala: "this does not help your cause" - guy who hates you and your cause
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 21/06/2026
Speedrunning the journey from “calling everyone snowflakes” to “demonstrating how to be a brittle snowflake”.
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Birth of a nation is like Citizen Kane. The first time you see Citizen Kane, you’re like “wow it really is THAT good.” you see birth of a nation for the first time in your life. “wow it really is THAT racist.”
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 20/06/2026
You’ll be so surprised to know that this piece is so incoherent that it doesn’t actually tell you what the left doesn’t want you to do on Father’s Day, and what you should do (apparently?) is to buy the writer’s book (?)
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Damn I didn't know cheetos were made out of ingredients
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 17/06/2026
According to my Amazon Echo Show, the “trusted news sources” for daily news briefings are the NY Post and Fox News so I threw my echo show in the garbage.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
/3 Anyway, I don’t think Jesse would devote himself to helping get minorities in Europe killed. But I think he would do a multi-part series critiquing and mocking anyone who didn’t want minorities in Europe killed.
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 12/06/2026
NY Magazine is a usually a great publication, but this article is a logically incoherent “flooding the zone with shit” take. G&T programs for sure are imperfect, but this long article adds nothing useful to the discussion.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
lol Mariska literally sprinted from her second show to the Garden www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Me, a smart free thinker who won’t surrender to the Woke mob: how is it possible a Republican lost in Los Angeles
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Ukrainian bandersnatch @buzogryz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I am terribly sorry I am not an avid reader of yours, but I don't think your objectively incorrect statements are going to be less incorrect in broader context of all your bsky posts
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 07/06/2026
This show is fucking great
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 06/06/2026
I never thought I’d miss Donald fucking Rumsfeld
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
/2 Also: notice the parallels between Trumpism and the sort of Matt Stoller politics on display here: the notion that what the people really want is to be able to be douchebags in public without any social sanction. The commonality is being assholes; whether it’s for left or right is just cosplay.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
here's what i wrote
More so than most of his predecessors, Trump strained against the limits of the presidency. He never understood that the office was bound by higher law — that his power wasn’t absolute. He never understood that he was an officer of the Constitution and a servant of the people; he never understood that he was a subject and not the sovereign.

It was because of this fundamental misunderstanding — itself tied to his bottomless solipsism — that Trump tried to twist and turn the presidency into an extension of his ego. To the extent he failed to accomplish this, it was only because he was stymied by those around him — officials who chose to honor their commitment to the Constitution over the interests of one man. Those same officials now warn that if he is given another term in office, he will rule as a tyrant.

America got lucky. It won’t get lucky again. Free of the guardrails that kept him in place the first time, affirmed by the Supreme Court and backed by allies and apparatchiks in the conservative movement, Trump will merge the office of the presidency with himself. He will shake it from its moorings in the Constitution and rebuild it as an instrument of his will, wielded for his friends and against his enemies. In doing so, he will erode the democratic assumptions that undergird our current constitutional order. And he will have the total loyalty of a Republican Party that itself is twisting and abusing the counter-majoritarian features of the American system to undermine and unravel democracy in the states it controls.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Incredible. A+, 10/10, no notes
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mike @coldsportstakes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Sure, Trump is explicitly hijacking the country's 250th anniversary to make it a celebration of himself, but it's pretty rude of everyone to point that out and say it sucks instead of just going along with it."
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get? LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The current vision of “masculinity” coming from the right is “spoiled asshole teenage boy who wants a mom who will fuck him in addition to doing his laundry and also will never tell him to turn off Call of Duty” and I don’t know why more Dems don’t push back on it by merely pointing that out
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying.
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 24/05/2026
“I want a historic home in a historic district but also I want to replace the leaded glass windows with vinyl” should be a capital crime
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 22/05/2026
I wonder what its like to write for the daily mail and be paid peanuts to search twitter for people pretending to be fans of Stephen Colbert writing fake tweets so you can publish an article based on them.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I don’t think DOJ should hand the president a multi-billion dollar slush fund he can divvy up between criminals he likes and his private bank account, nor that he should be able to buy stock then use taxpayer funds to boost that company. It’s corrupt. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 18/05/2026
Got a new one to send to Gartner when they try to pitch me on their services again.
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 17/05/2026
TIL you can appropriate multiple cultures in a single product
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 06/05/2026
In theory I love getting told whether or not I’ll have WiFi on my flight but this is just confusing. Sent 8 minutes apart.
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 06/05/2026
These “responses” to a correct statement are awful. Zitron has completely lost his ability to think rationally. If institutional investors want to own pieces of a company at a price the company is willing to sell, it makes sense to sell.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
absolutely incredible thing for bret stephens to say out loud
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OTHERWISE WE ARE GRADUATING YOUNG PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT THEY ARE MUCH SMARTER AND MUCH BETTER CRITICAL THINKERS THAN THEY ARE, AND THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN  PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE SMARTER OR BRIGHTER THAN THEY REALLY ARE
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
democrats: we're waiting for our good friends the republicans to wake up and turn on trump republicans: we're indicting james comey for an instagram pic and trying to get disney thrown off air cause jimmy kimmel talked shit about us
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
TBH, I think that this order is (even) more of a scandal than the interim opinion it's supposedly based on. Defenders of the court's behavior are using the controversy over the shadow docket to avoid defending the court's refusal to explain itself all on the regular one.
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Joe Emison @joeemison.com · 26/04/2026
I’m completely done with Taylor Lorenz.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
funny how reagan shows up every time something about the united states sucks
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