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...while stealing massive amounts of sensitive data and inserting backdoors to the online infrastructure of huge swaths of the federal government.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 14h

more importantly, ossoff's voters know who john lewis was and what he did for voting rights. this is local politics in GA.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 14h

this is *why* he's winning by so much.

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 15h

That's the problem, Mike. It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your Congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online, it's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 20h

gerrymandering, voter suppression, churches, racism, etc. i think we're about to see some unlikely places flip next month, but the deck is hella stacked against us.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 23h

online democrats reflexively afraid of their own shadows trying to imagine how trump will beat them with some dastardly plan, instead of focusing on how to run up the fucking score. it happens every election cycle.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 23h

the outgoing speaker cannot bind the incoming house.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 23h

the clerk does not have the authority not to seat them, the incoming majority constitutes itself, and has the authority to remove the clerk if they so choose. this is entirely different from a special election when congress is in session, and from the senate, where 2/3 of the body carries over.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As a historian, I learn with my fingers, typing the most important words in what I read into notes as a way to literally embody the information. To tell an "AI" to answer a question, then proceed according to what it outputs, is the opposite: the lobotomization of thought.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it really feels like a sacrilege, the way they talk about this most central of academic methods as if it's a mindless chore to be outsourced to a bot.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

but i do hope that the world sees what the american people do, through our votes and direct action against the regime and its crimes. our elites are deeply rotten, and that alone is a serious geopolitical threat, but the people may yet redeem ourselves by fighting and beating this rigged system.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

that the consequences actually occur, and that the government's behavior makes a clean and lasting break, will matter more than the specifics (although i agree that the US should join the ICC). only time and action will make it clear whether the trump admin was a coup or a stable recurring phase.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

local party orgs are so weakened in deep red single-party states like MS that it would be far better to funnel that money into organizing, staffing up, and building GOTV infrastructure than messing w/ TV ads.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

miller needs to be one of the first targets for impeachment hearings, along with hegseth, RFK jr, and vought.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

TBH the only way to get the bond market under control and interest rates down again after the trump shitshow will be making a big show of cleaning house as ruthlessly as possible.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

high gas prices will continue to be a big push factor in the interim.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“For example, you can see echoes of the Sicilian campaign in our Iran strategy”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

if they use up grid capacity and water resources, and if the energy is generated in ways that pollute the air we breathe, it still affects us even if the data centers pay for the resources they waste.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

there we go, there's the class-based culling.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ok, then what do you do with all of the students you fail? the point of public education is to educate the public, not to cull everyone who isn't a top performer.

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wrote about why the left has so little to say about public education (and why this is a big problem). educationwars.substack.com/p/whats-left...

educationwars.substack.com

What’s Left for Public Education?

The left has no vision for public schools - and that’s a big problem

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the founders envisioned a grifting wannabe dictator, the constitution is set up to prevent just such a type—but they did not imagine a situation where the GOP and its allies in the judiciary would be part of the coup. jefferson assumed the country would rise up in rebellion if the elites failed.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

not just the SS, the termites have wormed their way into every institution, and DOGE has inserted backdoors into everything. the good news is that those who were there before will have an idea of who will need to go, the bad news is it will take time tp carry out, during a rolling crisis.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

but don't kid yourself about the vulnerability of any system to powerful people simply refusing to follow or enforce the law. systems do not have magical binding power obeyond what those who constitute them choose to do. any system can be broken, cf. many historical examples of regime collapse.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

we have two moves left to play: 1) the electorate replacing the politicians in power with a new batch willing to forcibly assert the constitutional system and rule of law, or if that fails, 2) direct mass action against the entire political system in a revolutionary sense. we will try #1 in a month.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

no constitutional order can do this when both the majority party and the judiciary blocks any effort to hold an aspiring dictator to account. at a certain point, all systems depend on the character of the people who run them, and all rules and structures are hollow if people refuse to obey them.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#MedievalSky This from the New York Times, minutes ago: "Has plague ever been used as a bioweapon? Maybe — but it’s been a while. In the 14th century, according to one account, a Mongol army catapulted plague-infested bodies into the Crimean city of Caffa." Please don't let this nonsense persist!

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

worth remembering that there is no party registration in SC, so what they call "GOP voters" includes people that would be considered independents, swing voters, and moderate/conservative democrats elsewhere. it's hard, but not impossible.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

bullied into looking for kale recipes by the veggie box...

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ADHD productivity as hadouken

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

and even then, it's inferior to both chard and spinach as a soup green.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OK but those song guys' degree of literacy was absolutely bananas. it's humbling even reading them talking about it.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i guess i don't understand the point of doing something and then not actually doing it.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Viewing this video changed the trajectory of my day earlier

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

teachers *live* for those moments when you can see your students working through ideas like that.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

nope. the entire point of doing essay research is the experience of doing it. if you outsource that labor, you don't learn how to do it.

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

don't forget crypto and NFTs for money laundering

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boo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

funding those longshot downballot races increases turnout statewide, and primes the pump in case it turns into a rout. no downside, smart move.

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