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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 17h

Leaving the house is expensive, I find. When I go “out there” it costs money. There are ZERO patisseries, bookshops, bakeries, bookstores, pastry shops, antiquarian booksellers, or combination boulangerie-used-book-dealers whatsoever here at my home.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18h

Everyone in politics and media does spooky voice about high corporate taxes and high top marginal rates, and then you look up the period of history where we had that and it's called ~the golden age of capitalism~

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 18h

Steve Bannon can put all the shirts on in the world and the defining feature of his “look” will still never exceed “accumulation of unbathed sweat, which can be smelled in pics/video”.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

Some of the wrongest in politics are “popularists,” who say public opinion can’t be changed, so politicians should never try to lead, only follow polls. This meant treating 2024 as permanent, conceding on immigration and other things. But as @gregsargent.bsky.social writes, the opposite’s working.

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 21h

I know otherwise smart folks who believe raw milk contains beneficial ‘stuff’ destroyed by heat. (It does not.) This BOTHERS me way too much. After all, I engage in risky behaviors, y’know? It’s the belief that irks me, not the behavior. I often wish I could power-down my botheredness for a bit.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 22h

A welcome change to see Dems go left on immigration, something Obama didn't do until pushed by DACA activists and Biden didn't either. We need to see a full-throated defense of immigration as a good thing, and not just on economic grounds. Talarico is doing that. Hope more Dems follow.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Humpty Dumpty shit

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fascinating transformation from denying that racial dog whistles were present to demanding that they be present

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cutting funding for humanities majors doesn’t make them nonexistent; it makes them accessible for the wealthy only. I don’t want to live in a world where the only people who can be music majors or theology students are wealthy.

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIRD WAY: We think it’s important to note that, no, WE DID NOT COME TO OUR SENSES. People need to recognize that’s 100% NOT what happened. The left & trans rights folks in THE GROUPS BECAME REASONABLE — NOT US! They finally arrived at a Pragmatic Place™ — where the Cool Centrism Clubhouse® is!

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

1 - You have got to be fucking kidding me. 2 - I’ll take it. A win’s a win.

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yikes on bikes. Yeah…pretty sure this one qualifies as a YIKES ON BIKES scenario.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The case for capitalism is that if you can't provide maximum value at lowest cost you won't succeed. Trumpism is the opposite of that, esp as relates to fossil fuels, where the rules are "if you can't compete, call us and we'll protect you from those pesky markets." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/c...

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The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.

In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Damnit all to hell. <grumbles> Sigh. <adds superhero thingee to queue> Lessee, finally on s4 of LARGE MAN SHOW (which is indeed as good or better than ever), so I should be ready & super-late for some (by then nonexistent) “Lanterns discourse” by early 2027…ish. Ready thyselves for takes!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Technically, the New Dealers gave it to the Greatest Generation and to the Boomers, but yes, absolutely

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is it exactly. And even if they had the imagination, the tyranny of choice embedded in every single thing means no one has the bandwidth for any of this and paralysis sets in

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s always a grand idea to dig on the Hometown Holler podcast. For certain episodes I think it’s an EXTRA GRAND idea… …y’know, when the topic and/or guest is extremely…uhh…well… *WHEN I AM MENTIONED BY NAME* Yes, dear Internet friends, you should definitely make time to check out this episode.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Donald Trump increased the price of gas, and now he wants you to have to buy more of it." Doesn't seem like a difficult messaging challenge for Democrats.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...

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An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself

An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This last bit is my biggest complaint about the calls to suspend or rescind fuel taxes: Taxes are small compared to both the price increase and the whole price of the product. You'd be saving cents and paying dollars while each new purchase *drove up* the price of the increasingly scarce remainder.

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m not trying to belittle the harms of these things but… …every time “CNC PARTY” is mentioned, I have to put some effort into not imagining an awesome get-together of woodworkers in the shop of that one wealthy pal who owns a CNC machine, and everyone brings a board that needs intricate routing.

A CNC router carves floral designs in wood.

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Must be that Murc’s Law inevitably alters the way Republicans see themselves, too.

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Republicans never actually believe that Republicans are in charge of anything, it’s one of their more baffling pathologies.

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Making misanthropy into a basis for criminal charges in Britain might complicate my dreams of living on a canalboat in Oxford.** **from which I solve the many byzantine murders of/by the local scholars (obvs)

Geese along the towpath in front of a traditionally painted canalboat on the Oxford canal.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

today in psychoanalysis still slaps a lucky dude cremates his own status, legitimacy, legacy

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Punished Cat Guy (aka Johnny Bag o’ Snails) @majima.club · 27/09/2026

Anyone who wants to trade in their cachet just DM me, the cachet-master, and I’ll send you a funny postcard.

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🌦️Wifeguy Auteur🌦️ @delugeduvall.effigyfilms.com · 25/09/2026

if “we’re all cam girls in a surveillance state” ya’ll better be acting in solidarity with actual fucking cam girls 😒

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NC peeps. I’m conflicted about clueing you in because, once you find this place, it will try to suck your wallet dry and it *will* shrink your clothing. But, oh, it’s a wonderful way to be a junkie. Greensboro NC’s Augustino Gusto European Bakery is stupid good. (try the Cream Cheese Cruffin)

Wooden sign at Augustino Gusto European Bakery

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t.

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’d be kinda handy if the timer on your phone automagically started another timer, counting up when it hit zero. So you’d know exactly how “too long” the thing in the oven was overbaked.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New from me "If 'owning centrism' means the Civil Rights Act & SSA are cautionary tales... examples of what not to do — for fear that in five, fifteen, or fifty years some unknown pendulum could swing back to smack future Democrats — then I’m far less tempted to own anything of the sort than ever."

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Socialism and Its Discontents

If this is centrism, I’m a hard pass. The American people want principled fighters more than popularist pandering.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brexit never ended

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you find this riveting, allow me to recommend ALL the prestige antihero tv shows on the NYT list. The only way to make this story compelling for me is for that pos BMSB to die immediately. (And if a couple of british detectives happen to show up to solve the murder? Well, I’m listening…)

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kinda weird (structural justifications notwithstanding) that True Detective is the only show out of 100 that gets to be evaluated on a single season.

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Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Must-read story about Whatley's communications w/officials after Helene. #ncpol “After review, no records exist for this request,” “No responsive records were located using the search criteria provided,” Story by @coryvaillancourt.bsky.social www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

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Records show recovery czar Whatley’s scant Helene engagement

Searches of communications found little evidence that Trump’s recovery czar ever engaged with officials on rebuilding Western North Carolina.

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NC Budget & Tax Center @ncbudget.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Grateful for your town’s firefighters and EMT? The proposed property tax levy limit amendment could threaten the funding that goes to our emergency responders in your local area! Learn more: ncbudget.org/what-95...

graphic showing how $950 million is a conservative estimate of the local revenue that could be lost statewide from a 2% property tax levy limit

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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m self-aware enough to know that I consume TV in ways others do not. I know my heuristics. So I know I’ll never watch BB, Succession, or other AAA “lives of the powerful & broken” shows. I now tell fans “it’s on my list” & they think i’m forestalling spoilers… but it’s to NOT say “aww hell nah.”

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 25/09/2026

a culture where highbrow ppl are obsessed with tony soprano and lowerbrow ppl are obsessed with being walter white is in retrospect BEGGING for a strongman

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.

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