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Jeremy Wattles

@jtwattles.bsky.social
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”Work as if you live in the early days of a Better Nation.” Educator, Sometime Poet, Runner, Political Junkie. I believe in the Public Good.

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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Final Issue of How to Survive a Hamilton Winter open.substack.com/pub/howtosur...
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How To Survive A Hamilton Winter
Issue Three : Living Well
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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Issue Two of "How to Survive A Hamilton Winter" is here. Check out our students' meditations on labyrinths, saunas, and the process of entering spring. I also wrote about tomatoes and war. substack.com/@howtosurviv...
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How to Survive a Hamilton Winter
Issue Two: Winter Blossoming to Spring
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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A little bit of new writing from me and the students at Colgate in the Literary Journalism class with Professor CJ Hauser. We are thinking about "How to Survive A Hamilton Winter." open.substack.com/pub/howtosur...
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How To Survive A Hamilton Winter
Issue One : It Feels Good To Make Something
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷
Bad Bunny wearing an OCASIO 64 jersey
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🚨 SCHUMER just now: “Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.”
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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This angle. My god.
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025 Potshots by @jtwattles.bsky.social in @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevitymag.com/current-issu...
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Potshots | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Today I have a piece up in the new issue Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social Thanks to all who have supported me in the last year as I’ve tried to recommit to writing.
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Oh yea we've got tons of evidence for this
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 25/07/2025
This is true! The most common thing I hear from regular liberal people is frustration at how they can see shit is fucked up but nobody is speaking for them (which is why they love AOC & Mamdani, ppl who ARE in their social media feeds actually fighting for things) but from pop culture? crickets!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...
an excerpt from the linked essay, which reads: "In June 2016, a California woman filed a lawsuit alleging that, in 1994, when she was 13 years old, Donald Trump raped her at a party at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan. Trump and Epstein are longtime associates. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years,” Trump told New York Magazine in 2002. “Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” The woman remained nameless, but announced she was coming forward for a press conference on November 2, the day before the election. She then cancelled her appearance and withdrew her lawsuit, citing threats to her life. Trump (and Epstein) have denied her story.

Some twenty women have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct. Several women who participated in a Miss Teen USA pageant Trump owned have also told stories of his walking in to inspect them as they changed in their dressing rooms backstage. “Don’t worry, ladies,” one recalled him saying during an episode in 1997, three years after the alleged child rape at Epstein’s, “I’ve seen it all before.” The girls present in this episode included one as young as fifteen.

The dissonance is stupefying. There is no need for tinfoil-hat messageboard speculation or Lovecraftian True-Detective-style secret conspiracies. The exploitation and abuse of minors is right there, as cruel and ghoulish as you could imagine, out in the open. They are everywhere, overwhelming. Any given allegation will be debated endlessly and then forgotten, such that, while all of them may seem entirely plausible, no single one ever seems to rise to the level of being the one that will push opinion (or prosecution) over the edge. No one story seems like it can ever make a difference, precisely because there are so many of them."
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This is what's called a limited hangout; they're releasing some grand jury evidence that is a tiny fraction of what they've got.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My god these guys are such spectacular morons gizmodo.com/billionaires...
Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews.

“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”
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Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado @delgadoforny.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Last night, I endorsed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. While we don’t agree on every issue, we share a deep commitment to tackling the affordability crisis that’s hurting New Yorkers. Democrats should be able to agree that making New York more affordable is a fight worth taking on together.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I told you we’d be back
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Bro really said "we have nothing to lose but our chains"
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is high art
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I wrote about ghosts and hauntings open.substack.com/pub/ingridro...
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On Ghosts and Hauntings
That there could be a singular victim, or many victims—this is terrifying to the State.
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Jeff Coltin @jccoltin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Telling mayoral race scene yesterday: Lander criticizes Cuomo, then reporters ask about Mamdani and he dodges. It’s the DREAM strategy in action. Or maybe DRAM, at this point.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
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Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I wrote about the idiotic and anti-human vision that is currently replacing the republic. I will now go back to thinking about what a cleansing flood might look like. defector.com/billionaire-...
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Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | Defector
The most important thing to know about both the chittering Renfields gnawing through the ductwork of the American administrative state and the billionaire sociopath they serve is that they don’t care....
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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Brilliant as always from David Roth. defector.com/billionaire-...
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Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | Defector
The most important thing to know about both the chittering Renfields gnawing through the ductwork of the American administrative state and the billionaire sociopath they serve is that they don’t care....
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Just got this tip from an airline pilot
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
She's braver than essentially the entire Democratic Party and the entire media industry
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Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
My new deep dive on how Trump “won” the popular vote. I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole). www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...
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How Trump “Won”
The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority
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Joseph Henderson @josephenderson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My experience as a Millennial in the United States is just wealthy and powerful people never, ever, ever being held to account for the bad shit they do. Just over and over and over. I have zero faith anymore in the rule of law. Or maybe this is how it’s always been and I’m just finally getting it…
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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Check out this podcast with my friend @lylerubin.bsky.social
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Trollman @trollman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This goes not only for healthcare CEOs but every single executive in a position to do something about the problem. Walmart home Depot Lowe's Kroger Albertsons all of them need to pay a living wage and stop letting their employees take government subsidies because they refuse to pay them fairly
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...
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Luigi's Manifesto
Exclusive: read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
In the past 5 days: —Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide —CEO of largest US health insurance company killed —Martial law declared in South Korea, fails in hours —French government collapses —Assad regime collapses Weeks where decades happen…
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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Good Morning.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Normalize thinking of tech oligarchs as robber barons rather than transformative technocrats
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Yep
BLM was in many ways the last moment of true hope in America for many progressives and liberals. It was truly participatory and grassroots, it addressed the core existential issues Americans faced, and it shifted discourse in a way that was unprecedented. Which meant that when it lost its prominence, the hope around these subjects also faded. The Gaza protests failing were a reminder of that moment, a reminder that the power structures in America are so disparate that even the largest movement in American history faded quickly, and that no matter how many young people protested, Israel’s war crimes would continue unabated with full American support.

All of which then taught many Americans that power can’t be challenged, participation was pointless, the rich would stay rich, and that the climate would keep dying.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I didn’t leave X because people there had different opinions and ideologies, I left because it stopped being fun. I get on social media to chat with people who think thinking is fun. X stopped being a place where that was true.
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Jeremy Wattles @jtwattles.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
i'm grateful for new readers here. i founded Bolts 3 years ago to cover local politics, & Twitter's spiral was alarming for small newsrooms like us that want to engage readers. so here's my ask: follow us at @bolts.bsky.social! & sign up now to get robust, independent news: boltsmag.org/newsletter
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Brown University transfers 225 acres in Bristol,RI to a preservation trust of the Pokanoket Tribe. Mount Hope is the ancestral home of Metacom, a leader of the Pokanoket and the chief sachem of the Wampanoag when the English purchased their land in the 1670s. #LandBack www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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Brown University transfers 225 acres of land to Pokanoket tribe in Rhode Island
The land was the ancestral home site of a historic leader of the Pokanoket Tribe who died during King Philip’s War in 1676.
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