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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I dunno, sounds just slightly *elitist* to me. Do people in red hats like the sound of this guy? Or do they assume "he must be a dumocrat"?

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just imagining Steven Miller and Russell Vought saying this in 20 years, warning us that Emperor Barron Trump has finally gone too far (by excluding them from the spoils)

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Topics that everyone, so far, has been wrong about: *Physics at tiny and huge scales *Nature of money *Gender roles What do these topics have in common? Invisible shapes, which we fail to think about clearly with our meat brains, which live inside these shapes

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If we want a high trust society with social cohesion, we could try adhering to the ideals espoused in our national founding (+re-founding) documents.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are several years where I paid thousands for an ACA plan and did not get to use it, because the deductibles are so high. I paid for it in case of a major illness or hospitalization, which thankfully did not happen!

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Need help embossing this embroidery: no destination but pre-

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If any citizens can find their next shred of morality through cost-benefit analysis of OUR national budget, so be it

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A slim voting majority has TWICE said "we don't trust our experts, so we're handing control to our misogynists, racists, bullies and thieves". That happening TWICE leaves no person (here or abroad) trusting it won't keep happening, without serious reform, which is a tall order. Sucks to be anyone.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hope a decent fraction of decent people also understand that reducing our labor force by deporting workers produces inflation.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I call upon my fellow US-ians to recognize the humanity and intrinsic value of Cuban, Venezuelan, Iranian, Chinese, and Canadian people

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Dave Mittner 🇺🇸 @dave.mittners.net · 11/09/2026

This is when Democrats should come in hot with a comprehensive UBI plan. If Trump's bullshit actually gets people excited, Democrats can capitalize on that with a better articulated, better designed, and actually critically needed system that makes Trump's $5000 promise look pitiful.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This sales pitch may succeed in the corrupted landscape of 2028 What would need to happen for it *not* to work? We need a big majority of voters to: 1) Understand Republican party racism is wrong 2) Recognize Vance is wrong for having ridden along with persecution, destruction, and corruption

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think Donald's next review should be of the deathbed repentance of Lee Atwater. Maybe Donald can help us figure out what Lee was saying, and what it really meant.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There is no going back to the pre-MAGA status quo (which was not great), and our way forward must include concepts that were not in play in 2016. Key is most MAGA supporters don't have ideas. They just have vague inclinations, e.g. populist anti-elitism, which can be turned against...billionaires!

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Many people understand "government" as generally an instrument of domination and control. They are not entirely wrong about that, unfortunately. If we view "government" as a provider of useful services, we are certainly partially correct. Govt. does provide many useful services, including vaccines!

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

IMO what's lacking from the left isn't the material delivery, but rather combative populist messaging that "we are sticking it to your enemies, the corrupt billionaires" <-- who are in fact quite literally "elites" Today's wrestling style politics requires it, and without it our side looks wimpy

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Miller is right that that midterms are "our chance" to SMASH the brake on Miller's evil "negative migration" policy SMASH the corrupt mad king Donald the Hutt SMASH these f-ing anti-American nazis #SmashTheBrake

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We desperately need accessible remedial education for the general US public: What is "the economy"? What is "rule of law"? What is "public health"? What is "international trade"? What is "national security"? What is "postgraduate education"? What is "fascism, corruption, and imperial decline"?

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don't want any more aid to go to this person's government from my country's government. After these Kahanists have been removed from power, we can reconsider, but not until then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The point of this post is not to ask "who most deserves our antagonism at this moment", but rather, "whom can we sustain the most productive anger against, in the long term?" Our opponents do this, and it works for them, because people like rooting against villains, when a story is compelling.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We need a sustained stream of organized rhetoric against the nexxus of Trump and the billionaire oligarchy. John Oliver styley, for hours every day. Whoever does it effectively becomes our new leader; clearly folks want Ossof to keep escalating. It takes a lot of hard work, self discipline, courage.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

But he's clearly also a tort reform savant - "I'm trying to save this country from vultures like me!"

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

QQ: Why is the brightest object in the sky still called "The Sun", and not "Rosie O'Donnell is a total slob?" Why still "The Moon" and not "The 2020 Election Was Stolen"? These are missed opportunities. Sad.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imitation, including nostalgia, is a mental trap that seems to promise safety, but leads us to blunders

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just like "sanctions", but directed at our actual enemies

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This will of course be a bluff-charge. The goal is not to disrupt church services with real "debates" about objective truth vs. faith, but rather to point out: 1) These are different kinds of thinking 2) If universities must be ideological battlegrounds, then so might be other social institutions

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

But of course political freedom, freedom of speech, which is surely an individual right, is not the same things as academic freedom. When an institution pays you to do research, write publications, and teach students, your "freedom" there is within the bounds of what benefits the institution.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

TIL: law of the jungle is no law at all

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe the right way to begin SCOTUS reform is to bulldoze their building in January 2029

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The key point to remember is that the Trump admin is murdering, imprisoning, and deporting thousands of human beings based on racism and lies, all as a show of "strength". Any chance we have to be "mean" to them in a way that draws attention to their weakness and incompetence is not to be missed.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"business" -- what a swell word!

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

AES might win his election as an empirical matter, but that doesn’t tell us whether he’s ONTOLOGICALLY electable. We’ll need to follow the opaque reasoning of op-ed columnists to judge whether he IS electable or is merely a guy who gets elected to things.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the immovable object in western ecology and politics

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Single-payer for pharmaceuticals and devices (anything that can be prescribed, and delivered via economies of scale) will be a political home run. Single-payer for doctors is so much harder, administratively and politically. Please, please, please do the Pharma4All first.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Mike Johnson has pre-emptively not heard of this. He will announce that he has not heard and will not be hearing.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Might have found the unamerican elitist everyone's been searching for! Do you know if you own stock in this guy's companies? Do you care, or is that somehow not your problem?

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Framing a struggle that regular citizens understand: GOOD folks who believe in fairness of economy and elections vs. EVIL corrupt racist billionaires, accumulating power for themselves Our political action should reinforce this frame. Short version is "Democrats vs. Billionaire Oligarchs"

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This should matter a LOT to everyone in industry and media who pretends that Donald is governing in a semi-normal fashion, because they personally don't mind the hatred, racism, corruption, lawlessness. Republicans are STEALING OUR MONEY and WE ARE PISSED

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you don't like fascism, then DON'T INVEST IN IT

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

How about an AntiFA ETF with ticker XFAS which is just the S&P500 minus the nazi stocks. When people start moving money in there, fascist stock values will drop, creating news cycles and further drops. I can do the finance part, but will need a frisky semi-aquatic lawyer/poster

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publicporpoise.bsky.social @publicporpoise.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If wealth is the job creator, the philanthropist, the bondholder, THE TAXPAYER. At all costs it must be protected and therefore the right to be a rentier must be. They must be able to profit. They must be able to acquire.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Been thinking we need a new "Roosevelt Party" that is mostly FDR-coded, with some progressive Teddy stuff thrown in (public lands! trust busting!)

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The answer is that we need a loud, steady narrative of reasonableness to help people stay oriented to reality. This narrative should briefly refute each piece of reactionary nonsense, but it must also steadily describe real happenings, real problems, and real solutions.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wait, are we sure it wasn't "take a roll at 60 minutes"? That could explain a lot.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Ugly truth is that too many people are (still!) willing to jump on board with "immigrants (+urbanites, academics...) cause our problems", against all reason. The effective wrestling counter to that is "no, __X__ cause our problems." The best value for X, for many reasons, is billionaire oligarchs.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Track 1: Touching My Stove Track 2: Undecent Incident (electric) Track 3: Private Blowtorch Party Track 4: Always Plugged In

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wishful thinking. Republican problems are temporary, because Rs are energetic about creating and pushing narratives and the Dems are not. If the Dems can become the party of Mamdani, AOC, Bernie then the nation has a future, but corporate Dems are going nowhere.

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The jello hates the bowl, but...it's still the bowl! Plot twist: The bowl now thinks it's the jello

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