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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Interesting to see what public opinion is at large here. Almost impossible to imagine a high school student protest movement of equivalent scale in the US, but I'd guess public opinion would be more negative if it did.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Certainly is the opposite approach to that of Diane Moon Glampers, though. Modern liberalism is far more interested in spending money to raise some people up (whether you think it justifiable or not) than doing so to hold other people down. Contra your fear yesterday, few modern libs would love DMG.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Separately, been here and following you for quite a while. I generally find your commentary interesting, but you are certainly a contributor to that volume misalignment, so far as I have been able to observe.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's a volume question, Tom. I've seen far more (digital) ink spilled calling for the Democratic Party to change to attract non-MAGA Republican votes than to convince those same Republicans that they need to accept policy losses.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

let's start seeing the articles making the argument to Republicans that, yes, they will need to swallow policy losses if they actually want to end MAGA?

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Instead, we hear over and over that Democrats must keep moderating and bending over backwards to accommodate people with conservative policy preferences. The Democratic Party as a whole is quite moderate already. Instead of further insisting on Democratic voter moderation,

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's fine. But they need to realize that their policy preferences (which could be stated less charitably than you have) are not those of the Democratic Party. Given that they have lost their own party to MAGA, and given the rule-of-law crisis we're in, they are the ones who must adapt more.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Strictly speaking, it is crazy to say, because SpaceX will always be part of the Earth economy, so it can never be worth more than it.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From that very article, it seems that he hasn't reconsidered anything at all: "The remarks were published this month in "So Ordered," a collection of Alito speeches that he says reflect his judicial philosophy and outlook on the country."

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Those Soren Aldaco straight-to-camera ads are probably the anti-Sherrod ones being run most often in the Cleveland market. I think two versions of the ad have aired a wild number of times combined.

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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And people are obeying? Why? Because the AI can change some codes and turn out the lights?

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

True, but perfect triangulation won't do it either, as you know. The group of people you're talking about broadly have inconsistent & sometimes incomprehensible political preferences. If someone goes from Bernie to Donnie, it is unlikely that you'll win them over by being Clinton (Hillary or Bill).

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Surely Congress will act to maintain its authority over issuing letters of marque and reprisal on the high cyber-seas!

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NPR @npr.org · 15/08/2026

The White House memorandum is thin on details, but it aims to give private businesses the ability to sabotage or spy on certain foreign actors. n.pr/4wFY0iY

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Trump administration wants to allow companies to hack foreign cybercriminals

The White House memorandum is thin on details, but it aims to give private businesses the ability to sabotage or spy on certain foreign actors.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Still what I consider the best game ever made.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

For a man who normally is strongly on the "words have meanings" side of things, I think you're way off base here. Democratic socialism is literally not totalitarianism, and no candidate on the left is presenting anything even remotely resembling something even slightly adjacent to totalitarianism.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

If anything, we had John Hancock as President of the Continental Congress, fulfilling a very different purpose but still the presiding officer of the only national body that we had.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Feels like maybe they are leading with this bunch of pro-Administration decisions because they know striking down birthright citizenship is still a bridge too far even for them, and that will make a certain person ferociously angry with them.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

There is also a big issue on breaking confidentiality through AI use, isn't there?

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is an absolute absurdity of a speech even given his usual standard.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Taking from the rich (in ignorance) and giving to the poor (in character).

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This continues a terribly dangerous line of thinking we've heard before: "Something bad happened, and there's no evidence - we just know it." Laying the groundwork to deny results later.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Would be very objectionable if they only asked the Jewish group about Israel, but doesn't seem like that is what happened here.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

As far as these things go, it seems all had to agree to same thing: "[A]nyone who participated in Pride had to accept its political manifesto, which was published last Wednesday. The document touched on dozens of political issues, including the situation in the Levant." www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...

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Italian Jewish LGBTQ group banned from Pride for refusal to denounce Israel | The Jerusalem Post

Keshet Italia slammed Roma Pride as antisemitic in a Tuesday press release, and the "unprecedented exclusion" of the only Italian Jewish LGBTQ org. was a removal of a mask from the organizer's face.

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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I agree with this. Hearing UHNW folks complaining about personal taxes is maddening. Just STFU and pay your taxes. <Gift article>

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Just stop moaning and pay your taxes

Fetishising tax avoidance in the US must end if the republic is to survive

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I think you are at best speaking imprecisely here. Minority govts are not at all rare in parliamentary systems. Of course a majority must allow the govt to exist, but that doesn't make it a majority govt. They are certainly not abnormal. www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...

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Understanding minority governments in parliamentary democracies | Blog | University of Essex

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

But what are they waiting for? If former Rs recognize the gravity of the situation, they must accept that policy on tax rates & spending are less important than the Constitution. Ds are regularly told to moderate; who is telling former Rs they need to accept left-leaning policy as part of the deal?

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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your hands.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The Roberts Court respects no principle that it is unwilling to abandon if such abandonment advances the interests of the Republican Party.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Don't worry, we'll be three days away from a peace deal by Thursday, I'm sure.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

No, no, I'm sorry you fail to understand what was said.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This is a deeply uncharitable take on what Skeletired said, almost as uncharitable as reacting to your comment with "I think it's unhealthy to believe that all things that are not perfectly good are equivalently bad and therefore indistinguishable."

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

They needed to add the article date to that title, yes.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It is actually not possible for RFK to be more completely wrong. This is the most wrong you can be.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I don't think it is something you hear from politicians much at all, which I think is the bigger point. It is wrong to suggest that there are no results to find for this, though. It is academic and advocacy language.

Results from DuckDuckGo for the search "justice-involved population"

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This is a world-historical level of ignorance from Moreno.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

That would be a good idea. It's a pretty cheap shot to say it three minutes after you personally decide to offer some opinions on who to run to in 2028, though (in a post where you start off by saying you won't handicap for 2028). How about we focus on 26 before declaring who is a bad bet in 28?

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

That is several paragraphs into the article, where they have already called him "President Trump" on first reference. It is standard practice to use "Mr." on subsequent references. As it is the first reference they make to Biden, they use the full name and title.

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David Johnson @whodan2.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I have a joke about joke structures.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The downfall of so many libertarian efforts - cyber- and otherwise - can be summed up by their failure to understand the fundamental truth of the first line of a John Donne poem: No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe

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