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@mjraskob.bsky.social
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Sweetness & light. | “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.“ | Some writing at: mjraskob.substack.com

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 27/07/2026
the cape fear tv show is the perfect argument against prestige tv: a flawless movie that was already remade, stretched several times longer than you already know it needs to be. bardem is amazing though
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have been moving & driving all day, but what in the name of Sam Hill has been happening here.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
now that I’m thinking about it, this is what the American people wanted done to someone (it barely mattered whom) after the pandemic.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
that’s bait (the bait is also the worm in RFK, Jr.’s brain).
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yeah, this is what Hitler believed. Like this is very literally what Nazis believed.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Very smart. Democrats must reject labels & unite around issues that matter to working American families.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I am a total sicko for midcentury gospel music about God judging the land & visiting chastisements upon it. It goes so hard.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Logan Pearsall Smith:
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Feral Hogs Rule Everything Around Me
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
ha ha leafy green vegetables are gay
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The brightest minds of progressive media & policy have come together to demand that Governor Andy Beshear shoot the monster chewing the power lines.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Someone inclined to be mischievous might observe a certain symmetry between the view that removing American intervention would solve the ills of the international system and the idea of the self-regulating market economy.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It’s kind of funny their vision was/is “abolish governmental agencies that cynically disguise capitalist control as aid & journalism” & not “use governmental agencies to expose & combat capitalist control through journalism & aid.”
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A youthful Christopher Hitchens speaking (google Hitchens Thatcher spanking).
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I am not really interested in the specifics of Will Stancil’s arguments or feuds at this point, but metadiscursively, they are significant.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It’s so embarrassing when people take these labels seriously.
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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
so many dreams come true at once
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
not persuaded this is the actual brand.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ah, a Dorothea Lange for inessential workers.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I don’t know if there is any event—or series of events—that could change the attitude in that room.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If there’s a chance that my choice (or lack thereof) helps me gain influence with the winner, this becomes much easier.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I do think that culture significantly affects the feasibility of establishing & sustaining a Nordic-style welfare state.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Two captured Luftwaffe officers discuss whether Hitler has failed or been failed:
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
vaccinée?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The second strategic failure is that the American people (re)elected a worthless fucking moron like Donald Trump, who is boundlessly confident despite knowing nothing about anything and so asked the US military to do the impossible for no reason at all because he got lucky in Venezuela.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What is in the screenshot at left has been the argument of dozens of books at this point & hundreds of articles.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Wisconsin is also a state where I think you might see what has become a hobby-horse of mine, the spectre of each side of a divided electorate radicalizing & feeding off the other’s radicalism.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
somehow too many people still think that Wisconsin is a solidly blue state that merely is temporarily embarrassed.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
all military history has been building up to this post:
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Stanley Baldwin really underwent a political conversion, hmm.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A man must always live by his work, and his wages
must at least be sufficient to maintain him.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

Don’t mourn for me, friends, don’t weep for me never,
For I’m going to do nothing for ever and ever.
Epitaph for a charwoman, traditional,
quoted in ‘Economic Possibilities for our
Grandchildren’, John Maynard Keynes, 1930
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I would not be surprised if Pete Hegseth still had a Strava account
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When people tell you you just don’t understand what 2008 was like when Obama was running, this is what they mean. A Young black man running for President told America openly in his youth he habitually did cocaine and then he won Indiana
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One wonders what these people, who claimed that Democrats would lead America into disastrous wars, thought was bad about war in the first place.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I think it’s 346 days until we have a reason to celebrate the Fourth of July (or 347, since this was posted yesterday).
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I am not learning about the $50,000 argument unless I am paid at least that amount.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As a head of marketing for Taco Bell, I witnessed firsthand my colleagues’ submission to groupthink about the dangers of cyclospora.—for The Free Press.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Elon’s “I’m not far right I’m a normal guy from 15 years ago” shtick is extra ridiculous in the UK context because he’s not, like, advocating for a return of the Cameron Tories but telling people to vote for the nationalist right wing offshoot of the nationalist right wing offshoot of the Tories
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Not a great interview overall, but this clip is just devastating Elon says Britain is headed towards civil war, the interviewer asks Elon when he was last in the UK, he says years ago, and then Elon accuses the interviewer, **who lives in London**, of living a cloistered life youtu.be/QTGCSYn0piw
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Elon Musk on Europe, the far right and civil war in Britain | The Economist
YouTube video by The Economist
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I seriously doubt that Elon Musk now is capable of regret or reevaluation of his actions—on a neurological level, even.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I think slight caution should be exercised about people going from conservatism to left-liberalism/democratic socialism in under, say, a decade—& not because they may lack zeal, but in part because they may possess it in spades.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The “Popular Front” of the 1930s receives undue nostalgia & esteem.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I think decent politicians can emerge from the DSA, but the organization should not have a larger role in US politics nationally.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Sir Ian McKellen, wyd.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There are some wild stories of how enterprising Britons did industrial espionage on the continent in the eighteenth & early nineteenth centuries.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
a huge chunk of the top talent IN AMERICA is first- or second-generation and from china. the only reason china doesn't completely dominate us here is that american immigration policy is very good at stealing their best research staff. it's a good thing nobody's changing that!
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
me whenever I hear A Noise.
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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
lmao.
Consequently, the task of the New Novel is nothing less than to seek

“new forms for the novel... forms capable of expressing (or of creating) new relations between man and the world, to all those who have determined to invent the novel, in other words, to invent man. Such writers know that the systematic repetition of the forms of the past is not only absurd and futile, but that it can even become harmful: blinding us to our real situation in the world today, it keeps us, ultimately, from constructing the world and man of tomorrow.”

With the change of a noun or two, this could easily be the coda of an address on American foreign policy, delivered by Professor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to the ADA.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 23/07/2026
Camels, the animals that evolved to withstand heat, are dying en masse from heat share.google/E0HjQJd7yHyz...
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Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soar
Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.
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