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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dems have poured enormous resources into his campaign. It’s the progressives - most conspicuously Bernie - who are MIA.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People who wanted to own him as an asset to achieve their national aims.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Isn’t the bigger problem that the wind is blowing his beard in one direction and the water in another?

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Except he doesn’t. AIPAC hasn’t donated a penny to his campaign. The largest donation to his campaign comes from Equality PAC, an LGBTQ rights group. So yeah, it’s antisemitic.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The majority of white voters have voted for the Republican in every election for the past 60 years. A majority of the white electorate is racist.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Well, it wasn’t a minority of white people, but a solid majority. All three elections. They voted for the Republican, just like they have in every single election since the Voting Rights Act was passed. Racism is not a “minority” phenomenon in the white electorate.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You think the Michigan Education Association purposely designed a poll to create the false impression of a Republican lead?

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

So the court has put off the merger until next year? What has to happen between now and then to stop it altogether?

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If the Holodomor was murder (it was,) so is the destruction of USAID.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It doesn’t. It means that making one, and only one, of the world’s many deeply complicated and horrible ongoing catastrophes into the one and only lens through which to view all the others is insane, counterproductive, and often an indicator that there are ugly motives at work.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Trump/Musk’s destruction of USAID is responsible for ten times the number of deaths in Gaza and will end up a world-historical cataclysm. Why doesn’t this issue, which the US government is even more directly responsible for than the horror of Gaza, get anywhere near it’s attention from the Left?

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You can’t be serious. You think not having to pay for marketing, packaging, profits and executive salaries will leave people LESS well off?

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No, it’s not. It’s “your” when “lying” is a gerund. It functions as a noun.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

NYT is always "progressives should abandon their principles! Sell out! Sell out! SELL OUT!" This is something you will constantly find at the NYT, a piece dressed up as a news article that is editorializing frantically for a political position, not neutrally presenting the facts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/climate/democrats-climate-change-oil-gas.html

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

He’s a military vet, of four tours, a self-described “history buff,” whose favorite movie is an obscure WWII film that features several characters sporting the Totenkopf.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

the vision for positive masculinity is feminism.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

oh my GOD I've been a Democrat my whole damn life and my whole damn life I've been told that if we demonstrated greater ~nuance~ around my right to MY OWN DAMN BODY, we'd regain/hold on to power. MY BODY IS NOT YOUR FUCKING BARGAINING CHIP.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

So the what is the supposed “condescension” you’re referring to?

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The election of a US Senator is every American’s business. And expression of justified fear and worry about real world harm to vulnerable people is not “condescension.”

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

75,000 dead soldiers. 75, 000.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“Private lives.” Yes, who can ever forget the UN’s famous Declaration of Universal Private Lives.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The Battle of the Bulge would like a word.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

i really do think they believe that because they're "good" on policy that they don't owe people anything on a human level, and if you're a woman who believes in the same policies but also understands the capacity even "good" men have to be cruel then you're weak

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Except for the part where he’s not, at all.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I mean, when you’re livin’ on a prayer…

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Dear White House correspondents, It's not too late to develop flu symptoms and decide that you should stay home and miss having dinner with fascists. Think about it. Sincerely, Mark

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Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Turns out the Weiss-washing has been even more hands on than we thought. tinyurl.com/3ye626er

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

And she’s hosting Stephen Miller at the CBS table!

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Trump made deportation his brand from day one. The 1st sound bite of the 1st Trump campaign was “They’re sending rapists & murderers. They’re not sending their best.” It’s been his focus, often to the exclusion of everything else, for 12 years. Folks didn’t have to watch the RNC to know this.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A fine day to say no to kings and yes to democracy!

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

You’re a fucking idiot. She was trying to encourage support for arming Ukraine at a moment when a sliver of possibility had opened.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

When her emails provided a look behind the curtain at Hillary, we saw an integrity completely at odds with her public image of corruption. When Epstein’s emails provided a look behind the curtain at powerful men, we glimpsed corruption completely at odds with their public image of integrity. h

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Serious Men and the Water They Swim In

I’ll never forget the feeling I got about an hour into reading Hillary Clinton’s emails after they were released in 2016.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Bullshit. People in the crosshairs of brutal American violence are allowed to complain about it. “Crybaby?” Jesus Christ.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

He (and we) could succeed at both electoral politics and fighting fascism if he used his position to shape public opinion instead of merely reacting to it.

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