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Clare Malone @claremalone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🎧Latest Still Counting is live.🎧 And it’s a (not-actually-that-early?) 2028 Democratic Primary Draft! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sti… We’re also on YouTube! Like and subscribe and tell your mom about us!

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Regarding Cornell and media discussions and discussion of higher education, generally: stop calling them boys (and girls) and kids. These are adults. Their parents can refer to them, however they want. We should refer to them as adults.

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey all-a new episode is out: Roman & I talk about why you can't mail lottery tickets or infernal machines, but you CAN mail back your vote-by-mail-ballot for the 2026 midterms: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Nonmailable Matter

Podcast Episode · What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law · September 26 · 48m

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The meaning of a phrase like “she loves god” is different than she loves Frank or she loves people. It is closer to “she loves dragons.” But even there it’s incomplete because if you told me that you loved dragons, I would not assume that you believe that dragons are real.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

in the car, every day is a decent start.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t love Gemini is right about the dates or the “reasons“ for the “practicality,” but if you are looking for a decade when we lost our fucking minds, the 80s seems a good candidate and the larding up of cars ad especially trucks with more doors than the number of people who drive n

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why is Bob Barker touching that man’s ass?

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love the idea that what makes a great film is the film itself. It’s hilarious nonsense. “asking a photographer what kind of camera he uses is like asking a chef what kind of oven they use.”

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Felix and co gets it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

do people say they are lonely? Or what did they say about how lonely they are etc. which doesn’t make it not valid, obviously. But it’s a little bit like measuring how rich people are by asking them: how rich do you feel? Richness and loneliness are both social concepts at least as much as

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One problem with the loneliness, epidemic is essentially semantic: What does it mean to be lonely/how do we know if someone is lonely? assuming we are not talking about an objective measure like: are you alone or how many people do you see or talk to on a daily basis, what we are measuring is:

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“If a system's behavior depends entirely on rules written in advance, then the system can only be as flexible as those rules permit.”

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Put the bunny back in the box.”

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It is a war crime that there is no season 2:

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think technically every undergraduate major is “pre-law” and also “pre-med,” It’s just that very, very few of us ever go to law or medical school.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Even if you can get them to acknowledge that, the reality is, he voted for Trump for any number of reasons as a package. Or at least those things have become culturally packaged as he has become someone who literally has DJT flags.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Strongly about one or more issues and so announce that those are the reasons they voted for the person. My one friend who voted for DJT three times always says it’s about the spending. But you cannot have a conversation with that person where you point out that the spending has gone up because

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

civil rights, industrial policy,” or any other small batch of things. The truth is that I vote for someone because on a range of issues and/or in terms of their general Fitness for office I prefer this person to the other people available to vote for. But people can’t help themselves, but feel

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Of course, the reality is that most of us do not vote for anyone because of any particular issue or narrow set of issues. Like if anyone ever stuck a microphone in my face and asked me why I was going to vote for anyone it would be incomplete at best for me to say ‘the economy, education…

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... It’s kind of fun to imagine that there are people out there who say that they voted for someone to do a particular thing or a particular range of things who will now make excuses for why those things aren’t done or say that they were done when they were not.

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Opinion | Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts

The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If I ever become an academic administrator one of my early sets of meetings will have the headline: faculty, tell us about your current research. Everyone should know something about what everyone else is doing. And it repeats on some cycle.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"All the things you care about are ugly."

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"The crown is a weight that crushes."

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"I'm sorry you feel that way. But thoughts aren't facts."

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Existence is a series of absurdities leading to infinite nothingness."

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The only tofu content you need is: freeze it, thaw it, cook it with anything and it is excellent. Any foodie nonsense beyond that is maybe not insane but worth ignoring.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"fuck off" is not a "call for violence" this is a deranged claim marina

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Rodney Mullen is an amazing skateboarder, Terrence Howard is an amazing actor. But something about their shared polymathery seems... not quite right.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I will almost certainly vote for whoever the Democratic nominee is in November, but Abdul El-Sayed has lost my primary vote.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The champions of the world, joined by the embarrassment of the world.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Joyce certainly thought this Worldle word. #pshaw

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hot take: The existence and consumption of "dairy" by humans is a far bigger catastrophe than the morons who are choosing to drink raw milk.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked

the ancient “don’t email my wife” meme, there’s a beige suburban house with
“STOP NOW
don’t email my wife!!!!”
written on the white garage doors in red paint

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

were. I am someone who was raised Catholic but now am not. I don't identify with the things I don't believe/the experiences I have not had. Or I try not to.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A connection beyond/apart from blood. At most I am Italian-American etc, which should generally be read as: American with ancestors from/some vibey connection to this previous country of residence. This mostly goes for other belief or history-based identities. I am not a Catholic because my parents

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

They would be doing it as the children and grandchildren etc of immigrants. I am in no meaningful way an 'Italian' etc. I wish I could speak Italian, but that would not make me Italian. Identity is subjective, but here is my default: you have a nationality by citizenship and/or residency...

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My various ancestors who did not pass languages onto their children maybe should have, but the people who were born in the US are: Americans. If they were speaking Italian and German, for instance, they would not be doing so as Italian and German immigrants.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I just watched a long video about the importance of immigrant communities maintaining the language of their nation of origin. I have no problem with people speaking whatever language they want to speak. But when you are talking about people who were born in a country: they are not immigrants.

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

'Don't you dare try to assassinate our guy after we assassinate your guy.'

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Phil Renato @philrenato.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Theory: someone wrote a script for La La Land, but then they could only get two charismatic actors and they just let them play around for 1646 hours.

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