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who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

The idea they get to live as little dictators over a captive workforce is half the appeal and ideal for a lot of people working in and around football.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

i’m still chuckling about this. imagine being a pair of professional shitstains and then crying like this in public about a joke at your expense

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They're mad because a former president and the last presidential candidate openly supporting him means they can't whine about how the Establishment is sabotaging them

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026

Everybody's loving this clip, for good reason, but it should remind everyone that cities therefore have an obligation to build enough housing that all these marginalized and outcast people can come and afford to live in them on minimum wage *without* becoming homeless. YIMBY!

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wonder when Bill Burr will be collecting checks again in Riyadh

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The saving grace is, in many of these backsliding countries, only a minority want the most fascist parts. Appears to be about 30-something % into it, with another 20-30% that doesn't really object to the fascism (or necessarily care) and will swing to it if, say, prices went up. Which isn't great.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

With great consistency, people who prefer authoritarianism to democracy envision themselves in charge. Could be them personally, could be vicarious, but they're always the boot, not the face. It's basically a way to say everyone should shut up and accept that we're doing my preferences, not theirs.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

past a certain point of wealth you stop thinking anyone else has a right to correct you about anything, and that all of your arguments can be won on the basis of "I have more money than you do" this doesn't exactly lead to "benevolent" in practice

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

that's why i just don't think he's worth responding to anymore. he's a professional rage-baiter. that's what he does.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Organizations like the ADL exist at this point to protect the state of Israel from criticism, but cloak it in the language of “fighting antisemitism.” By being an actual committed non-Zionist who is against antisemitism, Mamdani calls their bluff.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These American Jewish advocacy organizations are actually more threatened by Mamdani releasing a comprehensive anti-antisemitism plan than they would be by him being openly antisemitic, because it forces them to admit that one can be an anti-Zionist without being antisemitic.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A recurring controversy in left-wing spaces is "Was Person X being antisemitic or does he just call everyone he's arguing with a 'filthy lapdog of the globo-capitalist elites who should be liquidated along with his spawn'?" and I'm kind of tired of it, to be entirely honest.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think it's pretty clear by now that there is nowhere near a majority of voters, anywhere, who inherently see far-right authoritarianism as extrinsic to the success or survival of democratic systems.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In Trump’s first term, he escalated in Afghanistan, bombed Syria, escalated with Iran, and loosened rules of engagement to allow more civilian casualties. Out of office, he said the problem in Gaza was Israel held back too much. But for some reason, “anti-war” types didn’t think that mattered.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tucker Carlson’s frustrated bafflement when confronted with basic things like “the UK’s GDP is larger than Russia’s” and “in 1994, Ukraine, Russia, US, and UK signed a treaty called the Budapest Memorandum” shows the state of Putin apologetics. Without lies and conspiracy theories, it falls apart.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, the conspiracy theory requires believing that Gorbachev, the person best positioned to know what really happened, lied about it repeatedly for no reason, and stuck to a consistent story. AND requires treating that probably-didn’t-actually-happen word in private as above a real signed treaty.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

there are still a lot of funny people out there but it sure seems like every prominent comedian from 2010 falls into the latter category at this point

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the vibe these days just seems to be “make sure we’re the dumbest people ever and that everyone knows it, please keep punching me in the nuts”

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The bigger running problem is that it looks like a certain amount of the electorate is stuck in a mode of "vote the opposite of Current Thing until pre-COVID economy again;" and that's... harder to fix 🤷‍♂️

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i feel like i'm going to be such a cranky old grandpa whenever people in the future talk about 2024 it's impossible to understand the collective refusal of tens of millions of people to engage with baseline reality and then immediately regret the promised consequences of their actions

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

these fucking ghouls should never know a day of peace for the rest of their lives

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

i once saw [eminent labor historian] say "look you idiots, labor unions exist to advocate for their own members." but like. if that's true. do you actually think the implication is *good* for solidarity?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

the birthright citizenship question is, to me, the clearest evidence that originalism as practiced is just living constitutionalism for right-wing jurists. the originalist answer is the conventional one is the textual one, but that was basically unacceptable to much of the right.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks for the great work you've done at Vox, Zack. And best of luck in your new endeavors.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Occam’s razor: he is a Nazi.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He’s that kid in the back of your intro to IR class who read chomsky and thinks he knows everything

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Putin apologists of the right (eg Tucker Carlson) and left (eg Noam Chomsky) got what they wanted: a U.S. government that treats the war as not Russia’s fault, cuts military support for Ukraine, and pressures Ukraine to give up land in exchange for the Kremlin’s word. It has not resulted in peace.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If blue collar work was inherently upwardly mobile, everyone would do it. But the world doesn’t work that way. Capitalism doesn’t work that way. And people who romanticize blue collar work as having a quiet dignity are being patronizing, even if they don’t intend to

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The people talking about the dignity of being, say, a welder, have never welded anything. And as far as “the pay is actually good” arguments go, the starting pay is good. The pay a few years in is good. But there’s a ceiling and it hits at about the same time the physical toll of the job does

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

there is a whole swath of "dirtbag leftists" whose "leftism" was just contrarianism coupled with a superiority complex. many of them have podcasts.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

there is a certain type of person who believes firmly that the United States is the worst country in the history of time and, like people who believe that the United States is the best country in the history of time, all of their other beliefs flow from that point.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Right, “culture” or “assimilation” is obviously a canard. The bigots mean race — some of them are just smart enough to know that more people recoil if they say “race” and relatively fewer will if they say “culture.”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve said before and I’ll say again that you can’t cleanly distinguish between a politician’s personal morality and public conduct, because sopulist campaign promises are often reflective of low moral character, and low moral character usually leads to poor performance of one’s public duties.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

More plausible that the reverse is true: Manhattan Institute’s more technical scholarship is what lends mainstream respectability to an unreconstructed racist like Christopher Rufo and gains him regular access to, say, the New York Times.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Example #63725 of MAGA racism being about degenerate white trash resenting brown people and immigrants being harder working and more successful than them.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They don’t vote for these things in the booth though. If they did we’d all be in a different situation bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

random acts of violence like this are disproportionately committed by severely emotionally disturbed people who incinerate the social contract required for urban living we really need to be more proactive in forcing people like this to get treatment before they hurt themselves or someone else

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's almost as if the administration's China hawks were largely careerists who believed this was an issue they could rise on!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2026

if you take seriously Musk’s stated beliefs i don’t think there is any plausible explanation other than door #2

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She's still not voting for Democrats after all this. Amazing. She must really hate trans athletes or something.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even people on the left seemingly make this argument, or at least that the campaigns were unclear in their messaging!

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The most generous assessment of why Hispanic and other immigrant communities decided to look the other way about with Trump's anti-immigrant messaging is that they thought Trump would magically cut prices on everything by 50% and decided to tune out ALL other discourse. Still on them!

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here were Hillary's campaign promises on immigration in 2016. Would have been nice if certain people on the left could have gotten "excited" about this but alas, there was a free trade bill to protest.

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