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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I mean I get why the campaign account does it, but why are posters resurrecting a post from Juneteenth as if its new

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The secret is serenity is to break these phrases out often and without shame: -"I'm not sure" -"I don't know" -"I haven't thought about it." -"Hmmm. Possibly." -"It depends."

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"pro bono grassroots stupidity" 😙🤌

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The other thing about Draymond that annoys me is that he clearly wants to be Barkley 2.0 when he retires and he is just *not* that dude. Chuck is one of the most effortlessly funny and likeable people in sports media history and Draymond is an abrasive dick disliked by nearly everyone.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In honor of today's NYT sanewashing and recent discovery that Donald Trump is not very mentally acute.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If you want to see something funny, check out the YouTube comments from when Yglesias went on Joe Rogan and you will quickly learn why he sticks to Twitter and Substack.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

There are very, *very* few YouTubers who put out 90 minute videos where I know it will be worth my time, but Adam is one of them. Highly recommended if you're a musician or otherwise repulsed by the rise AI slop and people willfully choosing to deskill themselves.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 31/01/2026

new CBS contributor Peter Attia

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I am as explicitly as possible laying down a date-stamped marker that a federal immigration agent is going to die violently within the next calendar year, and that this will retroactively be used to justify policy. I am saying it here so I can angrily quote this at media figures when it happens.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I'm trying to picture time-traveler Thomas Chatteron Williams debating James Baldwin or Gore Vidal on the Dick Cavett Show and am getting second hand embarrassment for him.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Prestige journalism is full of people like this

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

One post-pandemic trend I have gotten sick of is how so many people look like slobs in public now. "But it's comfortablllleeee-" Stop. You don't have to wear a suit, but jesus christ pull yourself together a bit more. This, and the lack of basic decorum is turning me into left-wing George Will.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

It's really funny that despite all the anti-humanities sophistry and mindless tech worship of the past 20 years, being able to harness the skillset of a theater kid is probably close to essential for gaining political power nowadays. (Competently exercising said power, OTHOH - different skillset)

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

There are some people who get to talk like this. People who grew up in an affluent family on Long Island, graduated from Williams College, host a podcast for a living and have literally worked in the fucking White House are not among them.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Not returning your shopping cart back after you load your car is a sign of poor character*. *Parents dealing with infants/toddlers excepted (but even then, plenty of them *do* return their carts)

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I will also note that even YouTube is pulling this shit. After the Charlie Kirk murder, it was wall-to-wall coverage for a week, despite me manually downvoting every single of those videos. Any saturation similar coverage of the largest mass protests in US history? Nope. Makes you think!

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

What can you even say about that fucking paper at this point

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i do not think ezra klein genuinely grieves for charlie kirk. i think ezra klein thinks it’s professionally advantageous to perform grief.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

They didn't workshop this one enough. JD "Dunce" is right there. Take the layup!

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

America if the former Confederate states weren't structurally over-represented:

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The NYT would likely have the biggest viral piece in their history if they had their visual team do dedicated timeline/infographic on PedoCon theory. Their readership would eat it up. Weird they haven't pursued it!

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

In honor of Joe Rogan publicly expressing reservations about the president he went out of his way to elect, please enjoy this (genuinely) incredible exploration of what his Whole Deal is all about. It's like if Adam Curtis decided to focus solely on morons. It's great. youtu.be/_v3KiaAjpY8?...

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How Comedy Became a Dystopian Imperial Hell World

YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This remains the pithiest explanation of why Trump is the apotheosis of Boomer politics. www.slate.com/articles/new...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

next dem admin program needs to have an anti-Ivy League DEI program

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes Hope that helps

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This, 100% 👇 By far, one of the worst trends of the modern internet has been the growth of video-based commentary, where they take 10+ tedious fucking minutes to ramble through substantive points you could have read in text format in like 3 minutes.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

It's genuinely a civilizational tragedy that Los Angeles doesn't have a robust transit and bike system.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The GOP is extremely fortunate they were able to hand off their disasters to Democrats to function as the national sin eaters - Obama for the financial crisis, Biden for COVID and inflation. Not gonna happen this time. They have to sidle up to the table and slurp a huge bowl of their own shit.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I am also beyond exasperated with tech dickheads who got lucky many years ago purporting to be philosopher kings or general purpose public intellectuals.

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

increasingly feel like this is the correct read on our current situation

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

When people say they prefer college basketball to the NBA, it's almost never about the actual quality of play. It's a preference for the culture of college basketball, with authoritarian martinets yelling at black kids who can't yell back, at least pre-NIL. White daddy shit.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

100% agree with this, but this also just describes nearly all professional Libertarians. They've always just been bog-standard right-wingers who aren't religious.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I don't know what genius made this, but gotta get these fabricated and distributed across the country.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If you want to keep yourself sane, a helpful framework for thinking about the '24 election is that powerful oligarchs in charge of our information environment very intentionally wanted to inflict Trump on us again & pulled every possible lever to make that a reality.

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The year is 2005. A ghost appears and says "In 20 years, Donald Trump will be the president and the vanguard of global authoritarianism. You will have more in common with Bill Kristol and David Frum than Matt Taibbi." You say "Shut the fuck up. I'm trying to watch The West Wing."

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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Elon Musk and his many conflicts of interest are dominating the top of the @nytimes.com home page and app right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The amount of people with cooked brains is an extinction level crisis. We need lot more people to Touch Grass if civilization is going to survive.

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