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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)

@spencerwindes.bsky.social
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Former magazine editor. Rugby old boy. Bike rider. Book geek. Bear. Proud resident of America’s Zion. Opinions my own.

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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like a weekend talk show host and part-time aspirational personal trainer.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This fucking narcissist needs to be impeached and removed from power. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...
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Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Having lived in the center of Amsterdam just blocks from the red light district, I can confidently say it’s 99.9% gawkers.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My best friend is Dutch, loves to visit America, and won’t come until the regime is removed. I don’t blame him.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of my favorite restaurants. I used to live just down the street.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Red tie just dragging on the ground, clown-size MAGA hat.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump’s suits should just get bigger and boxier and shinier in each scene until he looks like a goblin David Byrne.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yup!
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Balenciaga will sell you an old-fashioned rugby jersey, the kind you can get from a rugby outfitter for a hundred bucks, with their name sewn on it, for $1650. It’s not a clothing company (though it used to be), it’s a marketing exercise.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’ll be like every other significant advance in technology—something that criminals and thugs can weaponize and exploit until we finally get fed up and do something to make it safer.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The GOP: Grifters On Pay.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I stumbled into a Yellow Deli in Kyoto last year! It was a good sandwich, but while eating it I googled the cult. Yikes!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Four months since the United States murdered 160 little girls at their schoolhouse, and absolutely no one will ever be held accountable.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’m a resident of Utah. I approve of almost none of the paternalistic, holier-than-thou garbage our legislature pushes to keep us all attached to the iron rod. But I love that my state is going to sue these entities until they bleed.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Our country is behaving in a disgraceful fashion.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A political science professor once explained to me that the single most important factor in LA politics was public employee unions, and I’ve yet to see the lie.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Does your dog have representation?
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If you don’t believe in gathering facts with evidence, you believe in nothing.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Data centers have become a physical, tangible way to oppose the digitalization of modern life.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New from me: radleybalko.substack.com/p/how-bari-w...
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How Bari Weiss's Free Press laundered MAGA talking points about refugees
As Weiss rebuilds CBS News and 60 Minutes in her own image, her flagship publication continues to whitewash some of Trump's cruelest policies
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It helps to understand the Supreme Court if you accept the premise that John Roberts’ entire career has been working towards re-igniting the civil war.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Just a reminder that three months ago, the regime murdered 160 little girls at their schoolhouse, and absolutely no one will ever pay for it.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This thread, about Salt Lake County’s kook-infested Republican Party, is pure gold.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our country gets poorer every day these racists are in charge.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand." A real thing that was said, without shame, at a Christian prayer rally.
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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A trail cam check on Monday revealed 3 clips of a beautiful male jaguar in a Sky Island south of Tucson, in the ancestral lands of the Tohono O'odham. Jaguars’ northern range is being ripped apart by border wall, mining, groundwater depletion and climate-driven drought. @biologicaldiversity.org
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2026
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I was just discussing with a friend about how the presidency, unlike many offices, is mostly a comms job, and the Democratic base is desperate for change and sick of the same jawing they usually get. We were scratching our heads to come up with a respected outsider with charisma who could win…
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is exactly why I prefer to call it the Slaver’s Revolt.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The experience that 90% of the public has with Adobe is not being able to do something obvious that should be super easy but isn’t with a PDF.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...
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Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee’s Majority-Black House District
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Tears in my eyes.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If John Roberts set out at the beginning of his career to drive America towards civil war, he’s been a great success.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Even when you know it's coming, it's a shock. I think that's good, given the circumstances, inasmuch as it signals that we retain the belief that fascism is never a foregone conclusion. But worth also remembers we knew it was coming, and we know more is coming, & quick fixes aren't. Long struggle.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...
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Why Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
That’s bordering on Blake Moore territory.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Cruelty is their entire personality.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
“Disordered narcissist authoritarian builds bunker complex” is very much a dog bites man story.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It’s a Führerbunker.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Some gormless monster will get up on their hind legs and rant about sharia law until they give him the nomination. The same model Ken Paxton is currently employing, apparently successfully.
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
One word: heckling
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Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”) @spencerwindes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Americans were fleeced of $159 billion by the deranged narcissist in the White House, and he’s furious it’s getting paid back.
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