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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

@hcrichardson.bsky.social While the poll numbers presented here are not good for Trump, that only half of the Americans surveyed are not saturated in coverage of Trump's corruption is a massive failure on the part of the mainstream media, and the success of his allies in social media.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I guess the NYTimes can't print "free pussy in alum pu" (because readers are fragile flowers), but does anything think that describing that Snapchat post as "encouraging [other frat members] to enter the bedroom where Jane Doe was undressed" is an accurate summary of its meaning?

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe depends on where you live a bit. Statistically. . . .

CDC chart showing flu activity highest during month February, followed by December, then January/March, averaged out since 1982.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Also, it's a bribe, with an obvious quid pro quo.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Geneva conventions oblige signatories to prosecute individuals who commit certain crimes OR to extradite them. These particular crimes may not require extradition, but under President Ocasio Cortez, who knows, Trump is on the beach at Mar a Lago, Cuban naval vessel happens to pull up. . . .

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Shout outs to @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social for his relentless reporting; to Jose Alvarado, who took the photo that brought me to tears in an instant; to principal Norma Vega (who I'm proud to call a friend); to the amazing staff at Ellis, esp. Hedin; and to Dylan and those who remain behind bars.

Principal Norma Vega embraces Dylan Contreras in the hallway of Ellis Prep upon his return to school

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The link for that "The American economy is the envy of the world" opening sentence is the famous Economist article from October, 2024, the very end of Biden's term. I don't think the word "is" means what you think it does.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

And the source for how Spain's solar supply isn't all that helpful? This guy, quoted without noting his rather obvious conflict, natch.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Since he retweeted the Nazi and gave an interview to a Nazi? He explained the tattoo lots. The other stuff, no.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yes. People often assume that since the Constitution was written more than 200 years ago, these questions are a matter of interpretation. But they aren't! The text of the Fourth Amendment is exactly on point:

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

In education we've been besieged by AI boosters (sadly including our AFT President, Randi Weingarten), because that's where the money is. Here is a request from a large network of NYC schools asking for money to support AI college counselors. Don't tell me they're coming after just the crap jobs.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

No press coverage of the story whatsoever.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Tapping the origin-of-the-term-"imperial boomerang"-sign again.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I wish Mother Jones had chosen this art instead, centering Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre. Rhyming history and all that.

Painting of Boston Massacre showing Crispus Attucks - a free Black man - as victim of Red Coats firing on crowd.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

@jamellebouie.net is smart on all things, and I've appreciated his skeptical approach to "Trump will steal the MTs," but I do wonder if scenarios in this piece, combined with Bondi's ransom offer to Minnesota (voter roles for ICE out) and the FBI raid of Fulton County EB give him second thoughts.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

@eschatonblog.com It only took them 19 paragraphs to get to the significant part of the story. Trumpies now control the most influential social media platform.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Origin of the term imperial boomerang:

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

First sentence of the article is false. Goldman was not "cheered on the left" when he ran in 2022 - he was well understood to be a tepid centrist. He only barely won because 2 genuinely left candidates (Carlina Rivera and Yuh-Line Niou) and 1 fake one (Mondaire Jones) split the progressive vote.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

@newyorker.com Just came across this line in David Sedaris's piece in the latest issue, and the social studies teacher in me feels compelled to point out that AA didn't come up with that line. It was Fannie Lou Hamer. awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2019/08/09/i...

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

@eschatonblog.com Poor Larry. It seems Epstein had him on speed dial. And the House Dems who released the photo decided to redact some names, but not his! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Photo of telephone in Epstein's residence in his Caribbean island, with speed dial names, some redacted, some not. "Larry" is not.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

@repdangoldman.bsky.social @katz.theracket.news If your faith prevents you from taking a stand against an apartheid state carrying out genocide, you have no business representing anyone in Congress.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Can you imagine America siding with war criminals? We would never do that! Oh, wait…

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"Among the reasons cited by analysts for the Social Democrats’ decline in Copenhagen were voter fatigue over the prime minister’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration, which have partly inspired a newly unveiled asylum and migration policy in Britain."

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

@eschatonblog.com Don't hold your breath waiting for David Leonhardt to write a follow up.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Agreed. Encouragingly, it looks like NY10 Dems have learned that lesson. This quote, from Alexis Aviles in Hellgate, sounds to me like she's getting ready to withdraw.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Less consequential, but Center for American Progress seems to have defenestrated him, too.

Center for American Progress Staff and Fellows page has banner explaining that Larry Summers is no longer with them

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

@eschatonblog.com Until last night, he was also in charge of the economics plank of "Project 2029" at the Center for the American Prospect, where he was a "Distinguished Senior Fellow." This morning, however,

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

@eschatonblog.com In a NYTimes story about the Times of London being fooled by a fake Bill de Blasio impersonator, whom they quoted criticising Mamdani (despite the real BdB's outspoken support for him), they still manage to slip in this graf:

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Well, fuck. You were right, I was wrong. Seems like his Pod Save America defense was not altogether honest.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hannah Arendt, Personal Responsibility under Dictatorship, 1964

Arendt notes that those who claim to simply obey dictators actually support them.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

200,000 civilians killed by US forces in Iraq. 46,000 civilians killed by US forces in Afghanistan. Not saying that I agree that US soldiers deployed in US cities are monsters, just that our forces did kill tens of thousands of civilians in those places. www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Table from Johns Hopkins Watkins School of International Affairs showing human cost of post-9/11 wars.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Question -should parents have to worry that their child will starve to death because an occupying power has decided to cut off all food and medicine?

Headline from Al Jazeera: Gaza hunger 'catastrophic', says UN, as 40,000 babies suffer malnutrition," with an image of a starving toddler with a cast on his arm.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Answer, yes - he's told them it's all Hamas' fault.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Meanwhile, is this you? How many kids have you helped starve to death since you posted last?

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

This is my fucking Congressman. Why is no one primarying him?

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

@joshtpm.bsky.social @roxanegay.bsky.social It's time for reporters, like this one at Politico, to stop asserting Epstein's suicide as fact. We now have 2:53 of excised jailhouse video and allegedly oversleeping guards to give us strong reasons to suspect he was murdered.

Politico story reports Epstein's suicide as fact

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Did they count these two incidents? Cuz I know they were a little confused at first.

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