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Sean Andrews

@seannotandrew.bsky.social
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Lawyer; ex-civil servant, FF and paramedic. Seattle native. DC, now LA based. Hoya Saxa. Go Blue.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i see this argument a lot but this is an aberration in some clear, material ways. it’s only not an aberration if you treat it as an abstraction.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I haven't heard of her. I don't think even the politics hobbyists on Bluesky dot app have even heard of her. I see this as one of many signs that the media lives in a professional bubble.
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026
So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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Sean Andrews @seannotandrew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I know this is an annoying trope at this point, but Biden would have been impeached if he'd said the 13 service members who died during the withdrawal from Afghanistan were "small potatoes." I just don't understand how this isn't a presidency ending scandal.
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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My main takeaway from the Lindsay Clancy case is that there is no good reason to televise criminal trials and anyone arguing in favour should be viewed as suspect
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
as a reminder, the boat murders are a) very clear cut crimes and b) crimes where the command responsibility liability is limited to a couple dozen people, total, from pete to ac commanders it's the one specific area dems (if they have to pick only one) should be focused on making examples of in DoD
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
if companies see that democrats will punish them for abetting Trump-like figures, they will be more cautious about going all-in on someone who will disappear in 4-8 years
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 01/09/2026
High speed rail service to smaller cities is international best practice and a great way to boost ridership. Nothing about stops in Bakersfield and Madera prevents CAHSR from running express trains from SF to LA.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The only to understand about "MAHA" or Trumpism is that these people all believe the fundamental flaw with our society is that we devised too many ways to intervene against the laws of nature to allow The Weak to survive. They're solving the problem that some kids should be dying but aren't.
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Sean Andrews @seannotandrew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Your friendly reminder that Steph Curry--"short" by NBA standards and oftentimes (noticably) the smallest person on a court--is 6'4" and otherwise physically massive compared to 99.5% of the male population.
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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hasan Piker is simply not famous enough to normies to warrant this level of attention! He does not demand these endless statements! Nick Fuentes dined with the president and Republicans just played the “I don’t know her” game. No reason to play into this bad-faith shit.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As @brianbeutler.bsky.social argued, the next Democratic president should send bulldozers to the Supreme Court and tell them they have 15 minutes to decide if the Unitary Executive Theory is real.
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
LA Mayor Bass is supporting this.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/08/2026
Was there a greater TV show? No. No, there wasn’t. You can keep your Wires and Sopranos and Breaking Bads - this was peak TV.
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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you want to know why it feels like there is no direction or vision in LA, this is why. The LA establishment is stuck 50 years in the past, serving people like the Sherman Oaks HOA who want all the opportunity of being a global city while pretending their neighborhood is a village.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This has sent Trumpworld into a panic we haven’t seen since the WSJ published Trump’s birthday card to his best friend and partner in pedophilia. Any Democrat tut-tutting this needs to be ignored from this point on.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is the right-wing, coordinated defense and freakout prompted by ONE Ossoff line against Natalie Harper. Go on OFFENSE.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/matt... now this is precisely how the bully's loser friends act when someone finally punches the bully in the face
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If Dems go on offense against MAGA, you can capture the media news cycle and attention economy. Or, you can spend your time attacking the left.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Bill Clinton got House and Senate Democrats (zero Republicans) to pass a bill that cut the deficit by $500 billion through a mix of tax increases and spending cuts, setting the table for years of economic growth and a fiscal surplus. The party's reward was a crushing defeat in the 1994 midterms.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
One of the reasons I changed my mom's phone number was to stop these texts. She has dementia and kept agreeing to give monthly donations. I tried removing her name from lists and blocking all the numbers, but neither worked. The spam kept coming. This practice is immoral and exploitive.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 18/08/2026
whatever’s actually going on with trump and harp, they are deeply afraid of it breaking containment
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
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Steve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Disband ICE. This will be the minimum any Dem candidate will have to promise if they want to make it past their primaries.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The party in which he is nominally a leader just passed a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE but this mealy mouthed clown can’t help but undercut it. Jeffries must be replaced when Democrats retake the House.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I don't know if this is real or not, so I'm not commenting on the veracity of the statement. But. If it is true this is the kind of shit that would've had Biden out of office & in leg irons with the media running this quote 24/7 above the fold on every paper in America and on every cable news show
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The corporate media will demand a Democrat disavow words of a supporter a thousand times more than they will demand a Republican be accountable for the actions of their president
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Sean Andrews @seannotandrew.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For me, it's the "I pay a lot of tax" bit. How does he think that's relevant at all? Why? Money buying influence with politicians isn't enough, just the fact that you pay more in taxes means the government should treat you better.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2026
if the moderate wing of the Dem party would spend even half of the energy they are spending fighting the DSA on fighting Trump they wouldn't be losing so many primaries to the DSA
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Sean Andrews @seannotandrew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Stolen valor is a defining feature of MAGA politics.
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Sean Andrews @seannotandrew.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
One of the unfixable problems in all major league sports is ad $ correlates with ability but also location. Many players are willing to take a short term hit for long term gain in LA/NY specifically. The dodgers are shelling out $$$, yes, but they're also just playing the hand dealt.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/08/2026
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There's a claimed belief among lefties that they focus on lefties bc they don't have any leverage over the GOP. And ... that is probably why we fail to make GOP coddling of Trump politically costly for them. There was an effort--and some success--to do so in early 2025. Far less now, IMO.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
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Sean Andrews @seannotandrew.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Importantly, while pharma gets some credit, most of this was due to (a) basic science research funded by the USG to no specific aim at the time and (b) government supply chain funding.
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In my lifetime I don’t think anything has made me want to give up on this broken country like the mass shared delusion about something that happened just a few years ago. So many brains are just completely gone and they’re not coming back.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
the uk is destroying itself trying to appease nativists we have to just say immigration is good. because it is www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I will reiterate that Democrats should lean into the idea of an AMERICAN RESTORATION. It’s not only appropriately sweeping, but implicitly conveys that Trump has betrayed and undermined the American system in some fundamental way, rather than merely offering a competing policy vision.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/07/2026
“These people are serious. They really care about small businesses,” said Kelly, adding: “They get shit done.” This is the most solid gold of all the solid gold things you can say about a local politician - or any politician. Vote for people who give a shit about you and get shit done.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I do think, fundamentally, the anti-trans movement is best understood as an elite version of the satanic panic.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
when I say things like establishment democrats don’t have real beliefs, I’m talking about things like an alleged opposition to racism that accommodates … this
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