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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

I think for obvious reasons it is not correct to conflate public executions carried out by the state as spectacle with videos of murders by law enforcement that have been recorded often at considerable risk by observers. These are two different bad things done for different reasons

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17h

DHS raid on Rep. Omar is a great example of very bad by rule-of-law democracy standards, pretty good by consolidated authoritarianism standards. Deeply wrong, with lies, bigotry, harassment, abuse of power. AND a sign of weakness, limited capacity, failure to make the dictatorship of their dreams.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

it's a bit concerning that instead of responding to obvious political incentives and moderating on some of their worst and most unpopular policies, the Trump administration is getting more and more extreme

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

perhaps this is a lesson that judges need to stop taking the government at its word!!!!

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh god this is going to be the plot of Boots Riley’s next movie isn’t it

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There are many valid reasons SNL should stop inviting Shane Gillis to host but one big one is that he’s not funny. That monologue was *awful*

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Calling my shot: we will see less than half as many pundit-consultant pieces about this Latino realignment as we saw in the other direction 2021-2025, because a Latino blue shift doesn’t fit the Dems-Too-Woke narrative

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To the extent it ever actually moderated, the right-wing retrenchment on LGBTQ+ rights—particularly when it comes to trans people—is one of the scariest shifts of the Trump era, not just because it puts real people in danger but also because it shows how unsafe all civil rights gains are

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In 2016, there were serious thinkpieces about how the Republican Party was totally cool now with LGBTQ+ rights based on rhetoric from Trump that was basically “I will protect queer people from the scary brown terrorists”

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not to mention that it conflates “thing the US did in the past but largely/entirely stopped doing” with “thing [other actor] currently does.” In some circumstances, “we learned better” actually is a meaningful difference!

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In the future I think it’s probably best to avoid having rhe kind of leaders who think it’s a good idea to livestream an execution

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The whiplash of crossword construction as a hobby is so weird, I was feeling down about four rejection emails in 24 hours and then realized that this weekend I have puzzles running in three different outlets

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/10/2026

truly lost the thread

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Annihilation” rules, “Air” is pretty good, other than that…

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And then, 29 minutes later, WikiLeaks began publishing the Podesta Leaks in a clear effort to counteract both of them

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seems pretty immediately clear to me!

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s time we acknowledge that the first person to do the “Help! I’m trapped in a fortune-cookie factory!” bit was an unparalleled comedic genius

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They’ve already been doing it for 11 years, fervently denying that they have heard any of his speeches or read any of his posts

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why it’s not thought about that way is that Schulz got more sentimental over time, but also because it paved the way for things like “Calvin and Hobbes” to explore similar ground

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I read a biography of Charles Schulz a while back and it was striking to learn just how revolutionary the strip was when it debuted for this very reason

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It applies most strongly to Trump, but you also see it with other “populists,” e.g., the people who convinced themselves that Platner’s glaring flaws would actually make him more appealing to average voters

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s the George Costanza theory of politics—many Trump critics and much of the press have convinced themselves that they are so out of touch that they assume that, if they think something looks bad for Trump, it must actually be good for him

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 2016, media was so enthralled by a Republican criticizing George W. Bush for Iraq that they didn’t care that Trump’s criticism was not enough war crimes or resource theft. And when Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, the push to blame it on America, especially Biden, came from right and far left.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And this continued all the way to 2024, where a lot of supposedly smart people in the media treated “Biden/Harris will send your kids to war in the Middle East/Ukraine, Trump/Vance won’t” as a serious proposition, despite how obviously backward it was

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There continue to be many examples of people extending Trump way too much credulity but the notion that he ever was the dove in any race is among the most galling

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There’s something weird going on with O’Hare lately, I’m at a wedding in Chicago this weekend (but unfortunately can’t make the tournament tomorrow) and everybody—myself included—seems to have a different multi-part air travel delay horror story to get here

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The notion that a person (man) can atone for their sins by being good at a completely unrelated job is so incredibly grotesque

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

begging people covering sports to stop referring to athletes maybe facing consequences for their (alleged) violent actions as "adversity"

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The GM of an NBA team got canned because his wife was tweeting sensitive information about player injuries from her burner accounts, a scandal which surfaced in part because she kept making non sequitur defenses of his fashion choices

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is it too much to ask that the various podcasts I listen to coordinate their release schedules so I have a consistent amount to listen to each day

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the team the Pope roots for goes from worst team in history to the World Series in two years I think that literally proves Catholicism, right?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also their position is that it is not just ok but *constitutionally required* that the president have the authority to rig DoJ if he wants. bsky.app/profile/dave...

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not only did that have zero impact, when, after multiple years, the only charge they could bring was minor and unrelated to the central conspiracy theory, they just claimed it was yet more proof that the investigation had been rigged

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s the same as when people who know full well that they personally colluded with Russian entities in 2016 claim the Mueller investigation is a hoax. They know it’s not true, but they also think that by shouting PETER STRZOK enough times, they can convince people it was.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two things: -Rather than confident there *was* a coordinated attack, they may merely be confident they can *convince people* there was a coordinated attack -What confidence they have is IMO clearly rooted in their own MO when it comes to propping up investigations of their opponents (see: Ukraine)

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is it just me or is the clear implication of the “Caitlin Clark fan” pivot that a man who goes to a women’s basketball game must be gay (or at the very least, emasculated), which Schmitt thinks is embarrassing in and of itself?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not to mention: Who was the president in 2008? Were they perceived as handling the economy well, or did they do such a terrible job that the opposing party won the presidency in a landslide, plus the only Senate supermajority this century?

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The whole sequence from Welles is incredible—crazy to think he wasn’t even *nominated* for any acting awards that year

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of David Perdue’s flailing in 2020—the “TOTALLY EXONERATED, NO WRONGDOING” ads and skipping the runoff debate were so clearly the move of a campaign that didn’t expect a real contest

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine encountering this commercial as someone who’s never seen the original sketch

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And (IIRC) because he walks away immediately you have no way of knowing whether he’s really bought into it or if it’s just a convenient line he’s cooked up—just like you so often can’t tell if someone’s a huckster or is high on their own supply—and if that even matters, given what he’s doing

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was thinking last night about Harry Lime’s “cuckoo clock” speech being historically inaccurate, and how integral that is to “The Third Man”—like so many real-world villains, his justification for his depravity feels rational in the moment but falls apart the second you actually look into it

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If it turns out that it’s one of the participants and/or a listener who’s specifically trying to rig the results, does it still count?

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