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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 28/09/2026

Some good news on the internecine bus throwing front

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't know how you live through the last 10 years and believe Hegelian historiography/Great Man theory is utterly baseless, that one extraordinary individual *cannot* redirect the flow of history.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 26/09/2026

if you're a jewish-israeli politician, you're allowed to incite genocide against palestinians and retain your position as a senior cabinet official. if you're a palestinian-israeli politician, you cannot say palestinians are allowed to resist that genocide, or you will be banned from public office.

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 25/09/2026

NY Times forgot the Expanse so the whole list is discredited imo. Even though they're right about #1

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 25/09/2026

RE: Peltola, Alaska elected Don Young to the House for 50 years. Here's an anecdote about Don Young from John Boehner, who would later become House Speaker. TL;DR: a terrifying man

From politico: "The funding of pet projects in lawmakers’ districts helped leadership to keep members in line, but fueled a culture of venality and waste; boondoggles like the “Bridge to Nowhere,” a 2005 project calling for a $223 million earmark to construct a bridge to a remote, sparsely populated Alaska island, became symbols of congressional excess. Boehner never accepted an earmark in Congress—and he enjoyed railing against those who did. His heckling once provoked Don Young, an Alaskan himself, to pin Boehner against a wall inside the House chamber and hold a 10-inch knife to his throat. Boehner says he stared Young in the eyes and said, “Fuck you.” (Young says this account is “mostly true,” but notes that the two became good friends, with Boehner later serving as his best man.)"

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 25/09/2026

Thinking about randomly starting a war that destroys the world economy and then completely ignoring the disastrous consequences immediately before my lame duck midterms, what do we think

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/09/2026

I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones!

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

co-signed as someone who attended one. yeah I was prepared academically for college, but at what cost.

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 22/09/2026

It's very weird the way Trump behaves almost as if from an alternate reality while within 50 feet of Zohran Mamdani, then reverts instantly to demon form when they part ways

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 22/09/2026

Every platform needs a “block Noah Smith” button during setup. I hate being reminded that that guy exists and has a career as a “journalist”

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 22/09/2026

It's legitimately very cool that NoPixel V has deputized GTA V's developers to extend the mutability of the game world into the engine itself. And there's officially DMs now. Getting closer and closer to the limitlessness of IRL role-play gaming, so much room to imagine already opened + unexplored

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 22/09/2026

I don’t understand why cops are allowed to lie, it should be like decades in jail, easy clap

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 20/09/2026

My favorite flavor of centrism brainworms is when they openly just tell you who they think it's reasonable to be prejudiced against as a voter, and it's just a catalogue of their own petty bigotries

Toxic centrist Tom Nichols says "not sure America is ready to vote for a Jewish president, and definitely not for a gay president" and then lectures about the electoral college, as if he's not just laundering his own hatred-based worldview as common sense

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People are actually pressured not to develop political imagination in this country. You are called naive, idealistic, not with it, at best.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cramped political imaginations lead down very regressive paths.

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 19/09/2026

So the media literally is choking and about to pass out over somebody finally making them do the math on why the US and Israel are so obsessed with keeping nukes out of Iran's hands? Got nobody but themselves to blame for that, it has always been just complete f-ing incompetence on their part

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 19/09/2026

Whenever I see people ask "why are we still talking about Hasan" I think "great question, but don't you already know the answer?" The rich have systematically dismantled all mechanisms for popular control of the agenda. Hasan has broken through that. Now we get to hash things out, despite the rich.

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 19/09/2026

the worst thing about GTA RP is that half of the people involved on both sides of the stream are angry, reactionary, and socially inept

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 18/09/2026

Don’t look now, but this is actually a great interview. Piker explicitly says a bunch of things people have been begging for him to make explicit. The comments and reactions to everything except the insane out of context pull quotes Axios used are super positive youtu.be/hBJx9ypjF90?...

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Hasan Piker on political violence, Israel and why he praises China | The Axios Show

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 18/09/2026

And even more to the point, there is no point to a Democratic House majority that can’t summon votes *against* the fascists. How is it going to look & feel if the Democrats control the House but Jeffries has to agree to lose votes to a bipartisan coalition against trans people? Who does that serve?

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 18/09/2026

Geohash failing to provide a hash for Earth is pretty funny

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 18/09/2026

Listen, if you’re a Democrat who feels any type of way about folks refusing to vote for any Democrat who goes after trans folks, or any marginalized group — just pretend they’re officially Republican. Vote blue, unless they’re fascists. It’s really not hard to sort out imho

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 17/09/2026

This is true 24/7/365. Doesn’t matter if it’s an election year. Doesn’t matter how shitty our media is; failing to observe this is why it’s shitty. Tell the truth. Defend the tellers of truth. And offer no harbor to liars.

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 17/09/2026

The assumption that it’s better for Democrats not only to protect load-bearing false premises, but to publicly suppress anybody who fails to, is not rooted in any kind of empirical data! It’s purely prejudicial. You think we need to defend freely expressing the truth? Defend concealing it.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hasan should keep talking because more often than not he's right and it's good practice for Democrats to stop getting forced into sister soujah moments by consultants. those that fail should be primaried.

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 17/09/2026

WHY WOULD YOU PASS THAT

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 15/09/2026

Journalism as a mainstream institution is actually dead at this point. It’s beyond bad — stick a fork in it. We are going to have to start over. In hindsight maybe it was always true that power could color facts. But journalism as a profession is now a parody of the worst hate it’s ever gotten.

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 14/09/2026

This isn't about Bob Kraft. It's about the failure of our society to preserve an actual right to free expression. If liberals believed what they claim, they would have a problem with billionaires deciding what can and can't be discussed by people without abrogation of their liberties & lives.

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 13/09/2026

Gotta say I knew that transphobia, xenophobia, and Islamophobia were varying-amounts-of-latent diseases in the body politic. But I didn't expect them to meet such strong defense from liberals just as fascism is trying to exploit all three of them to win power. The shamelessness brings me to rage.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

do some of you not understand that almost half the American resident trans community has had to relocate? that their unemployment rate is massively higher than cis Americans? That I do not make the comparison to Black people under Jim Crow lightly? williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/trans-...

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Nearly half of transgender people surveyed have moved or are considering moving to more trans-affirming places

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 13/09/2026

One of David Graeber's most evergreen points: When liberals accuse folks of "voting against their own interests" it comes off as condescending & hypocritical. Why *shouldn't* folks vote for the greater good? Isn't that what liberals are doing? That's the frame to appeal to -- not selfishness.

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 11/09/2026

only one way to really prove that an AI can kill us all

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 11/09/2026

Kind of amazing how far the right has pushed its love affair with delusion. X has made it so much worse I think, because it lets them feel dominant while everyone else is appalled elsewhere. Reality is definitely going to slap the shit out of them pretty soon I think

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 10/09/2026

on this, the kirkiversary, i would just like to say FREE LINK

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 10/09/2026

louder for the callous triangulators in the back

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 10/09/2026

NoPixel V is fuckin awesome so far. the only thing missing is Hasan, who is too busy being meatcasted to the world by the president to play video games ig

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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hasan Piker is a better human being than Charlie Kirk ever was.

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i don't think there would be this many charlie kirk memes if the antiwoke crowd and kirk himself didn't make dominating virtually every marginalized group their core identity & then the admin + msm demanded reverence & fealty after the guy who said "school shootings are a price i'm willing to pay to preserve 2a" was killed in the 46th school shooting in 2025. we live in a violent country led by hypocritical monsters.

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 10/09/2026

As good a reason to harm-reduction-vote as any, but it points to an even bigger one: the Supreme Court is trying to end all vestiges of democratic self-government, which the current US Constitution really doesn't guarantee. & Republicans want that, almost more than any one other thing. We must fight

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 10/09/2026

Happy birthday to this thing

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 08/09/2026

Mark Penn is the guy who runs HarrisX, the push-polling outfit whose numbers just magically somehow always satisfy the priors of a bitter, snide little man named Mark Penn

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 08/09/2026

Now accepting any bar chart as proof of my priors

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 07/09/2026

If the centrists trying to 'sassinate Hasan Piker actually gave a fuck about antisemitism, they would have planned for the likelihood that their smears wouldn't work, but they didn't, and now the Big Tent will contain somebody that many people (wrongly) believe is antisemitic, which is normalizing!

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 07/09/2026

I went looking today and realized: that nice August poll that showed Zohran having a 69% approval rating? It was never covered by the @nytimes.com despite Siena, who conducted it, being one of The Times’ partner pollsters. The only major outlet to acknowledge it was fuckin USA Today for some reason

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tim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 06/09/2026

Median Voter Theory is an extremist ideology

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