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Michael David

@paxuniversalis.bsky.social
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The vibes here? Immaculate.

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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I hate being one of those people but I almost cried.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
about 50% of Bluesky is the 5% of people who are about 3000% more engaged with politics than the average person having daily slapfights over the future behaviour of ppl who decide who theyre going to vote for depending on the last colour they saw and won't remember who they chose 5 min later
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My big fear with Talarico now is not that he’ll lose. I hope he doesn’t, but he probably will lose, because democrats mostly lose in Texas. My fear is that when he loses, trans people will be blamed for not being enthusiastic enough about someone who threw them under the bus at a key moment.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The position of mainstream US/UK Jewish communal organizations is that the West Bank is in NO WAY part of Israel and it's unjust to judge the Israeli state by its actions there, but also you're obliged to treat it as if it's an inalienable part of Israel in every other way. Schrödinger's Occupation.
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you think this looks bad I literally don’t even think I’m the same species as you.
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If I had to write an article that sounds like a raging antisemite was trying to imitate a Jewish person, I’m not sure I could write a better article than “we should force Americans to sell their blood for money to fight a war on Jews behalf”
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When I was young I started pronouncing certain things more like Katherine Hepburn because that's how I wanted to sound. I was going for pretentious New England old money. All that and I still ended up sounding like I'm from New Jersey.
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you see this, post a not quite star trek.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.
A poster for the old Nickelodeon tv show Space Cases. It shows a variety of young aliens in space uniforms.
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can I ask a question that may have an obvious answer but I can't think of it? Why do politicians post something on X, and then instead of also posting on Bluesky, they post a screenshot of what they posted on X? It makes it look cheap and lazy, and reminds us they still use the nazi site
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s pretty important that we call out his disgustingly racist this is at every opportunity. It’s bad enough that they’ve totally whitewashed how Muslims were treated after 9/11, now they’re using it as a cudgel against any Muslim running for public offices.
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolutely nothing could have prepared me for this happening.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Regularly destroying or disposing of books or records is a completely essential part of any archival or records management or librarianship program.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Miss when Presidents were honest like this 😔
independent.co.uk
Obama called Trump an ‘idiot’ and Don Jr. a ‘f****** moron,’ diary reveals
Former President Obama reportedly apologized for using crude language during the call, but continued his blunt criticism of the Trumps
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's a real problem that a lot of Democratic elected officials and leaders actively hate their primary electorate.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Conservatives in 2016: TRIGGERED LIB???? Conservatives in 2026: We are installing trigger warnings in the Smithsonian
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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jessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE ACKROOMS
Cathy in the backrooms
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "Therein lies the work of America -- a striving, a bettering, the reaching toward perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before."
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I always say it’s easy to hate leftists until you hang out with centrists. The way centrists on this site are freaking out over the Dem primary results are making it very easy to love leftists.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/06/2026
NEWS: In a stunning upset, Mamdani-backed Darializa Avila Chevalier will defeat five-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the NY-13 congressional primary. With victories by Lander, Valdez, and now Avila Chevalier, Mamdani went 3-for-3 with his endorsements in New York City's Democratic primaries.
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
For my latest video, I found this absolute masterpiece of a Clinton smear ad from 1995. Is this YOUR vision for a better America???
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Bob Van Brabant @bobvanbrabant.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Happy pride!
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Had some worries about the Hacks finale but you crazy kids really pulled it off 🥲
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/05/2026
We received hundreds of submissions to our 2-K jingle competition, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Cardi B helped us choose the top 5, and now it's time for New York to vote on a winner. Head to nyc.gov/jingle to pick your favorite, voting is open from now until 10pm on 6/3!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This condescending "Jews who support Mamdani - or even just engage with him - need to be pitied, because they know not what they do" schtick is worse than open hatred. I'd rather be openly despised by these people than pitied for supposedly being too stupid to know what is good for my own community.
Post by Endjewhatred: "Some Jews showed up to help Mayor Mamdani celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month.
That is painful to see. But it should not make us hate them. It should make us understand what years of intimidation, exclusion, and communal gaslighting can do.
This is what happens when Jews are told, over and over again, that acceptance requires surrender: surrender your Zionism and your peoplehood, surrender your history and your trauma, surrender your identity and your right to object when politicians embrace movements that demonize your community.
Some Jews internalize that trauma. They become props for people who would never accept the Jewish community on its own terms.
But we cannot abandon them. They are our family. They need love, not contempt. They need community, not applause for self-erasure. They need empathy, and a path back.
Jewish pride does not require apology. Jewish safety does not require submission. Jewish belonging does not require serving as cover for those who would dictate our identity.
We are here for every Jew who is ready to come home. We are here to #EndJewHatred."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵
Someone on Threads writes: "The Met Gala feels like real dystopian shit.

People can’t afford groceries or gas. But we’re going to celebrate this event which is nothing more than wealth porn."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.
Bugs Bunny giving a monster a manicure, caption: My I'll bet you monsters lead interesting lives.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Virginia state govt losing most of its electoral support and getting six months of bad press and constant attacks in order to scrape out four new districts while Florida does it overnight with no discussion or controversy is going to be the story of the next few years of post-VRA gerrymandering.
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Michael David @paxuniversalis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There's this myth that independent voters are somehow more mature and level-headed than their partisan peers. And it's like, these people don't even know what the weather is.
A graph showing how often people of different political parties look at specific news topics. It shows that almost across the board, independents are far less likely to look at the news.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
happy lesbian visibility day xoxo
job interview….. vs…. Lesbian visibility week meme but it’s Fritzi Ritz in two cute outfits
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I don't know whether it was staged or not. I DO know he & his regime are a disgrace to this country & will live in infamy long after they all face charges, are convicted & imprisoned. History is written by dispassionate scholars baed on facts, not MAGA cult-members completely divorced from reality.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Kash Patel was at the hotel bar yelling "shots shots shots" and things got out of hand
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They think you're stupid.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/04/2026
my edgy Covid take is that I while I did socially isolate until vaccines came online for the good of society, I absolutely loathed being unable to see people in person, throw a party, or travel for over a year, and I enjoyed absolutely nothing whatsoever about any of it
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
honestly it’s hilarious that he’s trying to fight the pope and the pope is like “I don’t think about you at all”
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/04/2026
The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
either we spent billions of dollars to kill a bunch of innocent people including a school full of children to accomplish nothing but giving their oppressive government an extra $40 billion a year in shipping tolls or we're going to back to killing more people in two weeks
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt
Planet of the apes the musical
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
LISTEN. Thank you, Cecellia Wang.
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