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Phil Klinkner

@pklinkne.bsky.social
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Soon to be retired political scientist

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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I used to lifeguard at the college pool where Ditka and other Bears would walk in the shallow end as PT after knee surgery. Everyone else would just stroll leisurely back and forth across the pool. Not Ditka. He would charge across the water like a speedboat, leaving a wake behind him.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’d see him driving in his car with his assistant coaches. He’d take his hands off the wheel so he could gesticulate wildly, then grab the wheel just before the car would go off the road.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Bears used to train right on my college campus so I’d see Ditka around all the time. He was quite a character.
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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
horror story in five words challenge: “Ross Douthat YA fantasy novel”
Screenshot of a fuckin tweet from actual publisher WordOnFire (heard of them before? I hadn’t) that reads “Brand-new novel from bestselling author
@Douthat60, The Falcon's Children, is available for preorder now: amazon.com/dp/1685783775
This novel will be released through Word on Fire Luminor in June 2027.” There’s an image of the terrible cover that looks like shit and Douthat’s awful face. I checked the amazon link and it’s real, God help us all
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Even assuming this actually happens, the US uses about 500 metric tons of diesel a day so I doubt if this will change prices very much.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1.5 Reich?
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Last Tango and Cash in Paris
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Withnail and I, Tonya
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ready Player One Battle After Another
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Longest Day of the Jackal
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My dog did the same thing
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ghouls www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Everybody know that the WSJ is owned by that well-known radical leftist, Rupert Murdoch.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🎶The final countdown🎶
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That's only 1 point above where he was after January 6.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Isn't this because the LLM models incorporate user responses so if people are assholes to Claude, then Claude will be an asshole to people? Garbage in, garbage out.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do they even have reliable GDP data before 1900?
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Marx Karl Marx
ALT: Marx Karl Marx
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yarvin's basilisk
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.
Trump nodding, Susan Dell emoting.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oy veygan
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He looks like Uncle Fester
nytimes.com
Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He's really struggling too. Watch the short, quick arm movements.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a pretty fun political trivia site. Yea or Nay №59 — Read My Lips 14/15 · Majority Whip 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 politicaltrivia.com/yeaornay
politicaltrivia.com
Read My Lips | Yea or Nay
George H.W. Bush begins with a cabinet rejection unprecedented in three decades, fights the flag wars of 1990 — and then, at Andrews Air Force Base, trades away the six most famous words he ever spoke...
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He played Lenin!
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“I’ll fake my own death”
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Andrew is such a twat”
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Keynes would have been awesome on social media.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NSFW
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m guessing there are more Trump voters in LA county than in any other county in the US.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They should have done this when the university president ran over a protestor’s foot
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We produced Johnny Carson, John Wayne, and Captain Kirk.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There have only been 3 Democratic Senators from Kansas since it became a state in 1861. And only one of them got into office by winning a non-special election.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Prior to redistricting, the GOP didn't hold any seats that Harris won by double-digits.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2026 just keeps getting better and better.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Ms. Rowling, this is a Wimpy's"
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe he means take them out for dinner and a movie.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BTW, I reviewed Buchanan's book when it came out. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
thenation.com
The Base Camp of Christendom
Pat Buchanan surely holds the record for the greatest impact on a presidential election with the fewest votes. With less than 0.43 percent of the tally nationally, he still managed to decide the 2000 ...
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Buchanan is mostly an anti-immigration screed and his concerns are primarily cultural and religious. Murray's is just a frontal assault on the whole idea of human equality.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t underestimate how influential Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve has been on conservatives.
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This book came out 2 weeks before we realized that a pandemic was unfolding. It was not the time to be asking people to rethink immigration enforcement. But I still think daily about how we had a window when maybe we could have done it.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As I tell my students, all constitutional doctrine in b.s.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You know you’re in deep trouble when…
politico.com
Ken Paxton’s secret weapon: Ted Cruz
Cruz is boosting Paxton with fundraising and advice as he mulls his own political future.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It all depends on what the generals are willing to do.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pointing out that Bill Ackman supports Shinkle is a good way to help Lasher.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just another example of how elite opinion loves to pretend that deficit cutting is a neutral political position, not a subjective choice and to box in the range of acceptable policy choices for Democrats.
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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No option for raising income tax rates for the wealthy above pre-Trump levels. No option for wealth taxes. No option for taxing capital gains the same as regular income.
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