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David Nir @davidnir.com · 09/10/2026

"Ask snot what your country can do for you; ask what snot can do for your country"

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This is spot on. Republicans seldom get hit with the same sort of fecklessness rap that so often dogs Democrats because Republicans hate Democrats to their core—and it shows.

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"It's so the postseason doesn't take forever!" I don't live near a team that makes the postseason, I just want to be able to watch their games in the regular season at the appropriate time for baseball

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Hey, while we're here, can I complain about the season ending like half a week earlier than usual? Am I the only person here who actually likes late September baseball games? I shouldn't have to look up on like 9/25 & see there are only two more games left Also stop making Opening Day so early!

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Really sorry to hear about this!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

there's years of me extending criticism to Democratic strategists on here, I don't think anyone is saying this is mutually exclusive & it feels weird and off-key to suggest it might be

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the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

unfortunately with a depleted offensive line, things fall apart. the center cannot hold. the Falcons cannot hear the falconer. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Things of that nature.

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What's funny (not really funny) is that both Islamaphobia and antisemitism are worse than my old ass can ever remember them being and that's because there are White Supremacists running the government and White Supremacists running the media.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/10/2026

🎯: "I am routinely shocked by the number of political operatives who treat … partisan media consolidation as beneath their notice. They can attend infinite roundtable discussions critiquing and defining the party’s message, without ever bothering to notice that the complete takeover of the media."

davekarpf.beehiiv.com

Your political message does not matter if your target audience cannot hear it.

Your message doesn't matter if your target audience doesn't hear it.

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"Not Emanuel Wilson!" is what I was shouting after I almost lost a cupcake matchup last week when he put up 20+ out of nowhere

Come on, people, be an adult! Be responsible! It's OK to have standards! And don't let other people you hate make you compromise what you believe in b/c "this person isn't as bad as you're saying" (while still being pretty bad a lot of the time!) (See: Platner, Piker, a bunch of other people)

One way this plays out is people being negatively polarized into defending someone who's a dubious/bad actor b/c opponents' criticism of them is "unfair," "over the top," or when people ask "why are we talking about this when your side's example is worse" All of this should be strenuously avoided!

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There's no coach in the NFL I trust to be less honest about injuries than Sean Payton. The only reason he's not the least trustworthy in my lifetime is because of John Fox.

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As much as I hate the Manfred Man all I can think about is "you don't have to hand it to ISIS"

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can almost see why Drake Maye believes that, because this year no one has been able to take "one small step for a man" behind the Pats o-line

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We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Save big money at Menards!" That's how we afford the helicopter obv, it's all a long play

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The main lesson of the last 25 years of the GOP holding power is that they are totally incompetent at governing & everything breaks & many people die as a result (Katrina, wars, Covid, ICE, etc). Ask yourself if that ever appears as the central frame in media coverage of politics & the two parties.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wrote about Elon Musk, and why it bothers me that he is still first and foremost described in the media as an entrepreneur, rocketeer, or tech mogul, when the most salient fact about him is that he is now the world's most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...

religiondispatches.org

Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White Supremacist

The latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.

nytimes.com

An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The option of not moving on from "this is an illegal, unconstitutional outrage that should end his presidency immediately" was available to Peter Baker & every other journalist in the country, not only in 2019, but still in 2026.

publicnotice.co

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.

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Tony Dungy once wrote a book called "Quiet Strength," but his latest behavior is merely "Loud Whining"

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/10/2026

The Onion has had terrible jokes about politics for at least five years. It's awful. A lot of their non-politics stuff is still really funny but they are literally incapable of not doing this stupid, dumb bit every time & none of them know anything about politics whatsoever

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the U.S. press can't acknowledge the biggest cause of U.S. division is right wing extremism (and the attack on civil rights, consumer rights, ethics, female reproductive rights, and the rule of law), because you might upset advertisers, sources, subscribership, and white male conservative ownership.

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The real solution is for voters to not have the memory of a goldfish and consistently hate far-right authoritarianism more than they hate being mildly inconvenienced

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One of my fastest running buddies once said something along those lines about the sport of running (when I was being insecure about starting out as a runner w/o being that athletic): "if you can do it, you can do it."

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Also: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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On the other hand, the Scrubs reboot is surprisingly decent for how hard the show crash-landed at the end last time. I'm enjoying the new episodes a fair amount. Like, not as good as the original but a gazillion times better than season 9 & on par with seasons 7-8 (I think OG show tailed off mid-S6)

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I'm extremely online but have a ton of normies in my life. Everyone I know constantly talked organically about GoT for years on end. I heard at best stray references to Succession from the same people, like, maybe once or twice total, all time. Really did not hit the same way w/ the public

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If Jefferson & Higgins are both out, I'm probably starting him and Bijan next week

The Falcons are actually really good if Michael Penix is healthy. Don't at me.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People get mad at me when I say what you just said, but I've been around all of those spaces or known people from them at some point, it's pretty accurate. Except I'd maybe swap Lutherans with Episcopalians/Anglicans. And Presbyterians oughta be in there near the Methodists

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"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

newrepublic.com

The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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I'd love some idea of whatever it was that happened to Parker Washington this past week

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People are constantly getting the implicit message that they're not part of a larger community or public in any way that matters & it can't be good for the social fabric of an ostensible democracy. People need to feel like their concerns can be heard, that they are part of something larger than them

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Could be irrelevant & a crank opinion, but I really believe the trend of commercials no longer explaining who celebrities are is part of a larger trend of social atomization that's also part of this on a large scale "doesn't matter if you know who they are" "doesn't matter if I hear your opinion"

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It's gonna be rough replacing Terry with Mack Hollins/Ryan Flournoy

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Voters don't understand how their actions & consequences are related. Politicians forgot how the art of politics works, how to lead, how to convince voters of something, how to maintain a political coalition, etc. Both voters & politicians have completely failed at their jobs. Long-term fix here

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the civic foundation of the United States of America is totally rotten. definitely not a short-term fix. I think everything you've said is accurate. people need to believe in something (and be informed) for a democracy to work!