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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The root of why so many discourses about voting On Here are so toxic is that the people who actually decide most elections have basically zero involvement in them, and on some level we all understand that.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The lede of this story says Trump might be willing to walk away from Iran without a nuclear deal if it reopens Hormuz, which to me sounds like trading an Iranian nuclear weapon for recognizing Iranian sovereignty over the strait.

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Stats like this reinforce my belief that "too much money in politics" is an outdated concern. Maybe money can buy you technicians who know how to control a narrative, if there are any such people, but in its raw form it seems useless past a certain relatively low threshold

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

yeah, the issue with viewing elections as a linear algebra problem where you solve for the optimal policy platform is that you tend to generate candidates that cant credibly signal that they believe any of this

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"How the hell we gonna run Reform when we's the incumbent?"

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The "Parliamentarian" is an American government official who posesses 10 senatorial votes, but may only cast them once per budgetary period.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

the fact that this absolute shambles of a campaign operation drove the incumbent governor out of the race and won the primary with 73 percent should be a category 5 Red Alert for the establishment tbh

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Increasingly clear that, however much you may approve of the kind of politics Platner represents, he is not and now can never be a viable vessel for them.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

You're going to watch the entire legal establishment flip on its head, too, now that their lords and masters have informed them that it's a Reasonable Topic of Disagreement™. The idea that this was completely settled law for a hundred years is going to be totally verboten to mention.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I remember watching in total despair and bafflement as Pelosi futzed around with the idiotic proposal to remove Trump with the 25th Amendment. Even raising this cockamamie idea as a possibility made a mockery of the Constitution, which only envisioned one possible remedy for a crime of this gravity.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The elite psychosis about wind turbines and solar power feels very new, I do not think there was anybody in 1910 screaming that oil-driven turbines were a Satanic plot to undermine the True Christian Doctrine of steam boilers.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Companies ”voluntarily” giving the US shares to avoid making the president mad is among the worst forms of capitalism I can imagine

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Supreme court votes 5-4 not to raise inflation to 30%. yay

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I don’t worry about a few ultra-conservative or ultra-progressive people getting elected to Congress. I worry about Congress becoming increasingly irrelevant as an institution, replaced by executive orders and talk shows.

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I'm still on tumblr in the year 2026 and they are devising grammatical forms over there that God couldn't conceive in heaven

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Good thread; explains the whole of the sentiment. My rent is rising faster than my salary. Therefore, I know I will eventually need to downsize; tomorrow ill be worse than today. This certainty colors all of my thinking; I can be saving 1/3rd of my very substantial income, and still feel doomed.

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 22/05/2026

the only person i know who is (correctly, imo) screaming that the joystick has snapped off in our hand and no one even *can* fly the plane anymore is will stancil

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The good news is it means Trump doesn’t get exempted. He will suffer from the general malaise as much as, or even worse than, Biden did. The bad news is that it means the problem is probably still waiting for us on the other side of Trump. It’ll happen to us again. And it’s very hard to solve.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

and this circles back to "it's easier to imagine the end of American democracy than it is to imagine the end of the 6th party system"

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The odessey is a fantastic story, but not a majestic one, which is what people want it to be given its age and foundational role in our culture. It's like how some people want Mozart to have been this incarnation of the soul of music and then they read up on him and he was a fucking catboy

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"It says here on your resume that you worked as a United States Attorney for the Department of Justice." "Look, I was fresh out of college, I had to make ends meet..."

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The literal military, with the ability to throw people in jail for making statements that cast the organization in a bad light, is incapable of the level of message discipline you are saying is needed.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Cairo Smith:
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Not good if we've breached the threshold where even the sane are willing to die to oppose these people. They are a much larger demographic.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs

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Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans

Top predators drive changes in ecosystem structure. For the last ~370 million years, large-sized vertebrates have dominated the apex of the marine food chain, while invertebrates have served as smalle...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I think the problem for US media is that if you admit Hormuz is an almost irresolvable conundrum you also are implicitly arrayed against the president and his power-of-positive-thinking approach that it’ll magically open, placing you in the forbidden realm of Taking A Side

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Me: “Every single day I carry around a device telling me that packs of wolves are ravaging American cities” News: “Polls show Americans increasingly concerned about packs of wolves ravaging their cities” Commentators: “Clearly the metrics aren’t capturing the full extent of the wolf problem”

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The other day, I saw a homeless man in a park screaming at an old lady who had refused to give him money, "Well I got news for you - we got a new president, his name is Donald Trump, and he doesn't give an F about people like you! He cares about people like me!" That's really all there is.

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

people don't realize how concentrated GOP fundraising is. more than half of all money that they got in 2024 was from donations over $1mn. it's like 200-300 rich cranks that keep the party operating. underrated explanation in why they've gone so insane.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Individually one cannot, but it is striking (in a way that really advocates the old Marxist in me) that socially we can only really see a technology that saves a bunch of labour without generating replacement level jobs as a disaster. This is because we are *so* sure the profit will be privatised.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Spent all afternoon driving folks around and buying groceries for families in hiding. Played soccer for the first time since this mess started (even scored a goal). Just kind of overcome with emotion on the snowy drive home as I listened to music from my younger days. Hard to believe this is life.

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Partaker in Discourse @partaker.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Iron age tribes would examples like this to morally educate their kids. This is the kind of thing the Bible was written to prevent. This is more than a rejection of the 60s, the enlightenment, even the sermon on the mount - this is a rejection of fucking Abraham

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

none of these people can conceptualize loyalty beyond a racial basis, as if people can never be motivated by anything except tribalism. the idea of fighting for rights, ideals, etc just doesn't compute to them

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is by far the most cartoonish politics has been in my lifetime. Extremely kind & decent people vs. the absolute dregs of humanity. It continues to baffle me that this is not equally clear to the whole country.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

None of those ideals were “genocide.” Rather tellingly, none of those ideals were even “slavery,” and its absence in the founding documents is striking evidence of the guilty hearts of the men who wrote them, given its prominence in their actual lives

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Working in 2026 is sending an email to your client that you are an hour late delivering something because you had to figure out what to do with the running, unlocked car sitting in the middle of the street after the ethnic cleansing squad kidnapped somebody.

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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 05/02/2026

Fun fact: Ian McKellan is probably the first person ever to perform that monologue, 50 years ago

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 04/02/2026

All in all, while Le's frustrated asides got the most attention, this hearing is most shocking for how little control there is over ICE. Even an experienced and respected AUSA like Anna Voss can't get them within a mile of compliance.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 04/02/2026

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved

After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 03/02/2026

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

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large language marge @mcdonalds.help · 03/02/2026

I find it interesting that the legal profession is pretty much the only one acting like there's any possibility that this isn't permanent. It's not necessary to believe they have more virtue; just having the ability to think about what would happen to them if this ends is enough to set them apart

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