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Yeah they’re not super fancy but I think floresheims are pretty good value for the price (have bought a few pairs over the years) and I’m mad that they’re Trump coded now

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

A big part of the conservative movement is retconning 20th century American history with pure ideology: the New Deal was tyranny, Joe McCarthy was good, Richard Nixon was treated unfairly and his only real sin was not being conservative enough. SCOTUS is giving this retcon the force of law

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Clearly Cox believes that partisanship is more important than civility in some circumstances or he wouldn’t have backed Trump in the general election. He should be asked to explain in detail how he weighs one against the other if he’s gonna be allowed to wag his finger at others over the matter

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The segment on last night’s newshour was pathetic. Bennett did challenge Cox a bit on how Trump stands against everything Cox claims to believe yet Cox still backed Trump in 2024, and Cox’s explanation was basically just “oh but I didn’t back him in the primary” and then they just moved on

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A season where he threw 250+ innings with an ERA over 4 and another when he went 17-13. These are the kind of beautiful pitching lines they took from us

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 19/09/2026

i fucking told you lmao www.patreon.com/merrittk/pos...

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i don't believe talarico is a bigot. im pretty sure he isnt. but if he apparently "has to" answer bad faith questions in a way that appears to compromise on the rights of one group of people being repressed to get elected, it's fair to ask what else he will "have to" do once he's in office

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The $5000 dividend thing is stupid and obviously a lie and I wish the media covered it accordingly, but, as much as Trump loves to break the law, I do not think the fake dividend proposal is illegal based on the statute people are sharing on here

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:

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Ed Sheeran’s fans came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.

Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage. Or feeling so unwelcome by the opening act that you leave early.

This isn’t new for Macklemore. He has a record of demonizing Israel and Israelis, falsely accusing Israel of genocide and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior.

This is completely unacceptable.

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wasn't Ringo pro-brexit? Anyway yeah Lennon doesn't strike me someone who'd have gone anti-vax but complaining about about cancel culture and embracing anti-trans stuff seem like pretty good possibilities

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And scrolling through the comments I note that several other people came to this exact conclusion. Idk if he'd have been anti vax...but I'd bet he'd have made an appearance on Bill Maher's show at some point

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

100%. I'm convinced he'd eventually have become an annoying reactionary centrist like John Cleese

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well, was that guy's heart fixed?

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What I cannot stand are self referential ad campaigns, where getting the "jokes" (scare quotes because they're always unfunny) requires having seen other commercials in the ad campaign, like a freaking Marvel movie. The Liberty ones are some of the most insufferable

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Maybe the obituary reference was aspirational

Tweet from the odious Bethany Mandel during COVID, in which she declared that she’d rather people die than her be inconvenienced: “You can call me a Grandma killer. I’m not sacrificing my home, food on the table, all of our docs and dentists, every form of pleasure (museums, zoos, restaurants), all my kids’ teachers in order to make other people comfortable. If you want to stay locked down, do. I’m not.”

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The argument is basically (a) that Bates is badly run (maybe so), and (b) therefore academic generally has lost its way. There is essentially nothing connecting (a) and (b). Bates and its specific problems are simply assumed to be representative…but whether that’s true is kind of important!

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'll sometimes read a piece like TAH's and come away thinking that I don't agree with it overall but that it made some good points...but I was honestly a little surprised how thin the argument in this one was

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

He wants the agents to be able to commit routine aggravated assault instead of murder, how benevolent

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Revealing post. Republican ghouls are good at charming reporters in private, so reporters think it’s just an act when they attack the press. But actually the charm routine they put on for reporters is the act, and it would be nice if we had a DC press corps that didn’t keep falling for it

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Meanwhile, today Crowley is the safe, moderate choice who defeated the hard left, but we all know that just a few weeks from now, that narrative will be conveniently forgotten and the stories will be like, "Tom Tiffany: Milwaukee NAACP member David Crowley is just too far left for Wisconsin!"

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"The birthright citizenship clause is only meant to protect the children of slaves" - the direct ideological descendants of people who didn't want to protect children of slaves because they wished slavery hadn't been ended

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If your income is cut in half or doubled, will either change have a material effect on your day to day lifestyle?

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Collins announcing she’s voting no is how we know 50+ votes are already in the bag for him

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Separately, this might be one of Christgau’s most savage consumer guide entries

Robert Christgau Consumer Guide capsule review of Gold by Ryan Adams: “asked for Gram Parsons, they gave me Billy Joel”

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m afraid to know, but is cat power serious there or being sarcastic? Hard to tell from the screen shot. (Not surprised about Ryan Adams, seeing as he was outed as a sex pest.)

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

💯 And as Sheehan noted before, the Tigers’ run differential is very good, suggesting a better performance down the stretch than their record so far. If anything the tigers should be deadline buyers!

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Another reason to do scotus jurisdiction stripping plus creation of a constitutional court with final say on such matters. President AOC or Kamala or whoever gets to appoint the whole thing at the outset, so if there are a few mediocre centrists like Kagan, nbd. (Fwiw, Sotomayor is mostly ok imo.)

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So what do we think are the odds Jared Polis is in talks with Bari Weiss to do "left" commentary on 60 minutes when he leaves office

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Setting aside the legality of canceling the grants, what is the point of even having a federal constitution if an administration can just do this? Throwing the book at Vought needs to be a priority for the next Democrat attorney general

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I also like Ossoff because he reminds us that if we want to run a conventionally attractive candidate we don't have to go with Newsom

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Would like to see more info about the answers from other contestants that were deemed correct...You could split hairs over one of his Art. III powers answers that he got dinged on (states vs citizens of other states), but tbh I'd have scored that one wrong because the 11th Amendment stripped it out

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Interesting. I like Reynoso and would have strongly considered voting for him if I lived in the district, but this makes me less sad he lost. (Ftr I also think Valdez is good and I’m glad she’ll be in Congress.) hellgatenyc.com/pro-israel-s...

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Yes, Pro-Israel Super PAC Cash Hit the Commie Corridor Congressional Race

Election season is never really over. Plus, more news for your Wednesday morning.

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

And the thing is, the centrist pundits are well aware that this isn’t how voters choose candidates—there’s enough political science research on the subject and Yglesias himself did a favorable Vox write up on the Achen/Bartels book some years back—and yet…

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The version of centrist popularism we get from Yglesias et al presumes voters are intimately familiar with the specific wonky areas where Democrats are supposedly too far left and vote accordingly…but that conception of politics makes absolutely no sense if the “folk theory” of democracy isn’t true.

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The funny thing about Yglesias is that he used to tweet stuff like “the way to win is to adopt all of my personal substantive and stylistic ideological preferences” as a sarcastic bit making fun of others, but that now appears to be a genuine expression of what he believes

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

And that court doesn't *have* to be the Supreme Court. Congress could create a specific constitutional court and strip SCOTUS of the relevant jurisdiction under the exceptions and regulations clause of Article III

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I have become pretty radicalized against the existence of administrative courts. it’s gonna be a pain in the ass but every judicial function currently done by an ALJ should be done by article iii judges

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Russell Sharp @russms.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Oof fail on my part! I thought today was the 15th lmao. Still don't regret canceling my subscription though

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

When the GOP senators who voted to impeach Trump and subsequently lost their seats die they will (with the exception of former Pres nominee Romney) be footnotes in the news. Because he sold out our country and stayed in office when he died, Graham gets different treatment. A lesson!

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