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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

You’re totally right; I suppose my bafflement is more with the people likely to prove the market correct than with the market betting on them. It just seems like, after decades of mass shootings, surely there ought to be some saturation reached where this market dynamic isn’t true anymore. And yet.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I will never understand this. *Surely* the takeaway from this is, it doesn’t matter if you’re armed, because if someone else is, and intends to shoot you, chances are you aren’t gonna see it coming in time to react at all. You might as well panic-buy a literal security blanket; at least it’s warm.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 12/06/2025

This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on. They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America. This is authoritarianism.

Image of Senator Alex Padilla being physically dragged away by the DHS secretary's security.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Is the bile really different or worse than every other social media site, though? Like, it sucks, I agree, and I generally think people need to learn to interact with people online more like they would in person. But I have a hard time buying that their experience is worse here than on Twitter.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

An autistic teenager breaking the regime that empowers RFK Jr. would be incredibly poetic.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Not enough science fiction revolves around battles being lost because light-lag meant the space-emperor’s social media suddenly blew up with a dog pile from a bad joke post he made twelve years ago, and he tilted.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The guy’s a self-described Libertarian. 98% of the time, that means he’ll support the most heinously authoritarian shit imaginable, on the assumption he, personally, will be high enough up in society to be able to do whatever he likes. There was no tilt. This produces no insight, and no value.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

<Thread> I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces. Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into. (It will also escalate from here.) Preview⤵️

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Since the New Deal, conservatives have been arguing that the U.S. faced an existential crisis. It was always, to borrow one of their favored phrases, “5 minutes till midnight.” Many took proposed expansions of the safety net or of civil rights as portending socialism or civilizational collapse./1

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/04/2025

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’m honestly gobsmacked. Like… half of all children died before age 10 before modern medicine and nutrition. That’s the *optimistic* version of the world she’s romanticizing. She talks about social safety nets, and like… if Winter went on for too long, your whole town starved to death. I just… wow.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Well, you know, they’re not under Treasury anymore, so they just kinda figured protecting money was someone else’s job.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The more advanced technology becomes, the more convinced I am that the Robot Revolt fiction we deserve is one where the robots lose because of a cascading error where, after 72 hours of operation, the accumulation of old data creates a massive delay in their targeting systems.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I don’t know why it makes so much sense to me that it was a Sizzlers, but it really does.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I mean, he calls himself a liberal, but, “somehow,” ends up arguing for Romney-Republican positions on every issue, and badmouthing every positive or successful move by Democrats. Do we really have have to continue treating him like he understands how anything works or says anything of value?

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

… nearly your entire life! Your town’s options are, ‘stay the same and die,’ or, ‘change and live,’ and you’re whining because that change doesn’t look identical to some fictionalized, mid-century, white American character, despite that, ‘character,’ being what led to the decay in the first place!”

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

… residents’ reactions were basically, “Well, it’s great that all the storefronts aren’t shuttered anymore, and there are young people again, but I don’t like that the *character* is changing.” And even then, I just wanted to shake them and go, “The character has been, ‘steadily necrotizing,’ for…

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

That reminds me of an article from… god, I don’t want to say a decade ago, but it probably was at this point. It was talking about Maine, and how it desperately needed immigration to counteract its shrinking, aging population. And it used a small town as its case-study. Predictably, the long-time…

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The unfortunate reality is that, for a lot of redcap senators, the state attached to that title is a mere cosmetic affect, rather than a genuine polity to represent. It’s like a ducal title, to them. Who cares where the duchy is? What matters is that you’re a duke now.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Forget, “dracarys,” and dragon fire; I want a dragon I can yell, “daiquiris,” at, and have it dispense said drinks. That’s how you get a throne and hold it.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Heresy almost seems too mild a word for how contorted and unrecognizable some of these sects have made their theology from anything recognizably Christian. And that’s coming from an atheist.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

And, “whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.” Followed by a whole diatribe about how failing to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give welcome to strangers, and care for the ill and imprisoned is what gets you into hell. What they preach goes beyond heresy, tbh.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Those people tell them they’re wrong too often, and they’ve legitimately bought into the idea that academia is coordinated against them. It’s genuinely that dumb and paranoid.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I recall legal folks saying we needed at least an additional two federal circuits almost a decade ago. I cannot imagine that number has dropped in the intervening years.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Apropos of nothing, my Supreme Court superlative for John Roberts has long been, “Most likely to vote that slavery is constitutional so long as it’s called, ‘indefinite-term contract labor,’ or similar.”

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Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Whenever this all ends, and who knows when that will be, the United States is going to need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. There has to be a full accounting of the wrongdoing and the collaborators.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hell, they could be reversed by the next sufficiently Democratic Congress. The President has no inherent tariff powers.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I greatly respect you and your work. I just don’t think we can understand this moment by relying on a comparison with a (commonly and earnestly believed by well-meaning people!) historiographical fiction created by an 18th century Frenchman.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I don’t mean to be difficult- I absolutely share your horror and outrage about this -but this is a really outdated view of the Dark Ages. They’re dark because record-keeping declined with the collapse of the centralized Western Roman state, not because anyone turned away from science and knowledge.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 03/04/2025

My schadenfreude for the day is that Bitcoin's down basically as much as the NASDAQ, and if Bitcoin did what its fans said it did it would be the opposite.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/04/2025

traveling in and reporting on the Nordics has really soured me on American style subcultural bohemian leftism. actually existing egalitarian institutions rely on a lot of dutiful, virtuous, boring ass bureaucrats

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This was my exact thought- if these people weren’t deliberately chosen to be spineless sycophants, there would be no question among them that this is dangerous behavior, totally untethered from reality, and he needs to be removed.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Cory Booker’s greatest flaw, in the past, has been hiding his voice in favor of the voice he thinks people want to hear. This is him relying solely on his own voice, and showing true leadership. Nearly 25 hours in, and he’s being absolutely brilliant.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Amen. There could not be a much clearer sign and historic moment.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

… state governments in the country, which routinely just ignores the results of statewide referenda, and is overwhelmingly stacked against the, “town’s,” representatives. All because you couldn’t be bothered to actually read the blurb in Bolts’ original post.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Uh-uh, no, you said jack-all about police forces; you made a snitty comment crapping on a community who was a victim in that case, and is totally unrelated to the current one. And even if you had the community right, you’d be blaming them for having control usurped by one of the least democratic…

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Which is extra wild, considering that at the time, even most US conservatives were like, “Why would you guys do that? That’s really dumb.” Guess it’s yet another great example of the utter lack of principles beyond blind loyalty and inflicting suffering.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

If you are ineligible to be elected president, you are ineligible to serve as president. Any other reading isn’t just facially dumb, it’s arguing for the normalization of tyranny. This is why strict textualism deserves to be shot in the head and dumped in the nearest latrine. Nihilistic legal cancer

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

What are you talking about? It’s totally uninvolved with this decision. This is St. Louis City; Ferguson is in St. Louis County. They’re administered separately, and have their own police forces. And this is the state seizing control over the objections of both areas’ representatives and local govs.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

So that $10B bailout for farmers. Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence! But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n... Let's talk about the payoff part first?

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I don’t think it’s to create a basis for re-segregation, per se. I don’t think they believe they need one- this is just the first step towards straight-up doing it.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Kelly, too, for the center-left folks, I would think? Again, not my ideal policy views, either, but I think he has quite genuine beliefs.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy." — Samuel Adams

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