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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bubba's got back (Mar-a-Lago face with McDonald's booty)

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(Yes, I had a friend from Texas in college.)

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Unfortunately, much of his studio work has a very dated '80s sheen. The songs are great, but the production ain't. There used to be some amazing live bootlegs floating around, but sadly our streaming era doesn't seem to have preserved them.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Townes is the man. Steve Earle had a good cover album of his tunes a while back.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thanks, I've been long out of touch with this stuff and will eagerly check it out.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The schools that stood up to Trump thug demands—first Wesleyan and Princeton, then Harvard, then many others who were emboldened—have won in court and earned honor in history and support from alums. Columbia showed that appeasement always loses. It's never enough. Don't do it, Yale.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What a tremendous piece from David Pressman and Arne Duncan. Yale trustees will own any capitulation to President Trump. It will be their historical legacy, it will be their shame. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Yale’s trustees face a decision with profound consequences

A lesson from Hungary: Boards don't capitulate to authoritarians. The people on them do.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tell us why Usha never consented to visit without telling us Usha never consented to visit.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A vague and abstruse description of post-Nicaean dogma, i.e., the doctrine of the trinity? On second thought, I'm pretty sure that's not what this twit intended.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If agentic AI were worth a damn, surely it would devise a way to spare me from March Madness discourse. Yet, alas, here we are, again -- as always.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

people use the shorthand, "it's because of capitalism" to explain why our modern condition is so fucked, but i think "it's because of nationalism" might be equally if not more accurate

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

That honestly sounds more interesting.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

meta-discursive comment: the incentives of social media where making an incorrect naive prediction is seen as much more embarrassing than making an incorrect cynical one are very bad.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Five years ago.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I read it rather recently. It's one of the better contemporaneous accounts by a foreign observer.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I'm watching folks steadfastly insist that 'actually military history isn't popular' and, like, just the most casual glance at what public-facing history content and books draw views should tell you that if this is your experience, something is probably wrong in your department.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Nah, the Chinese are much worse, as evidenced by the efflorescence of terrible quality Chinese restaurants wherever their package tours operate (and the fact that they pretty much only travel thusly).

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hannah draper @jankypants.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Absolutely delightful thread. Stick around for the nether regions discussion!

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Heather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Neither divided nor corrupted," can you even imagine?

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

As an erstwhile Philadelphian who still keeps an eye on Pennsylvania politics from my perch abroad, I have to say I'm pretty burnt out on this playbook. That was John Fetterman's whole schtick, and he's been a disaster. Will they never learn?

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It's really mystifying that these guys can't just take the L and move on.

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Şimdi tüm kitapçılarda…

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I know it's the most recent episode, and probably occasioned this query, but Bibi's invocation really takes the cake.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

It's hard to see Trump dumping his good buddy Tom Barrack.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm just bummed that no one responded to the following, so I'm gonna keep banging my drum. bsky.app/profile/meho...

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Dunno about the name, but I've got your theme song: "Goin' home late last night / Suddenly, I got a bite / Yeah, I looked through a window and, yum, what I saw / A mustachioed man slicing lamb halal"

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

GEM de Ste. Croix: “The Helot danger was the curse Sparta had brought upon herself, an admirable illustration of the maxim that a people which oppresses another cannot itself be free.”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The comparison of Israel to Sparta is literally what Hannah Arendt predicted would happen back in 1947.

Writing for Hannah Arendt:
"And even if the Jews were to win the war, its end would find the unique possibilities and the unique achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed. The land that would come into being would be something quite other than the dream of world Jewry, Zionist and non-Zionist. The “victorious” Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities. The growth of a Jewish culture would cease to be the concern of the whole people; social experiments would have to be discarded as impractical luxuries; political thought would center around military strategy; economic development would be determined exclusively by the needs of war. And all this would be the fate of a nation that—no matter how many immigrants it could still absorb and how far it extended its boundaries (the whole of Palestine and Transjordan is the insane Revisionist demand)—would still remain a very small people greatly outnumbered by hostile neighbors.

Under such circumstances (as Ernst Simon has pointed out) the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta. Their relations with world Jewry would become problematical, since their defense interests might clash at any moment with those of other countries where large numbers of Jews lived. Palestine Jewry would eventually separate itself from the larger body of world Jewry and in its isolation develop into an entirely new people. Thus it becomes plain that at this moment and under present circumstances a Jewish state can only be erected at the price of the Jewish homeland."

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Gee, I wonder who the helots are in this schema.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This reminds me of the hooding incident in Iraq that deeply scarred US-Turkish relations and was a footnote at most to the US public

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I suspect this would play out differently than Giuliani having Yasser Arafat seized in the middle of a performance of Beethoven's Ninth at the Lincoln Center in 1995 during celebrations for he U.N.'s 50th anniversary.

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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Strong Napoleon III vibes from Trump. Purports to be a restoration, actually more of a last gasp.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/08/2025

My increasingly close-held crank take is that we need to be way better about casting off childish things, or at the bare minimum recognizing they’re for children and feeling weird about that

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