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BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social |
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Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
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Jonathan M. Katz
@katzonearth.bsky.social
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McEntee for those of you who don’t know is a wildly misogynistic alpha male TikTok influencer who posts on an account called “Date Right Stuff.” He’s also a failed college quarterback who entered politics through via a Fox News job he got from his industry dad and a viral trick shot YouTube video.
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BeijingPalmer
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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as I said to a former friend of hers, I think mental illness is the generous explanation here, but it reads more to me like curdled resentment and 'jokes'. the 'aliens' here aren't actual aliens, they're non-white people
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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I just counted home page stories. The Daily Caller has five anti-Biden and six pro-Trump stories. The New York Times has seven anti-Biden stories and three that give this style of both-sides treatment to Trump. The Times really is sprinting off a cliff to satisfy their nepo-publisher’s vendetta.
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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It can’t be repeated enough: transphobia is a warning sign for fascism. The rights of trans people are a canary in the mine, and when they’re assaulted it means we are all under assault.
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BeijingPalmer
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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one of the classic 'bought a libel action, didn't realize what would happen' examples
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BeijingPalmer
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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formerly 'left-wing' UK philosopher and transphobe Nina Power has been exposed in her own text messages as a literal Nazi (occult variety)
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BeijingPalmer
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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They are incapable of imagining anything really happening, especially to them. Covid broke through that which is why there’s a deep desire to forget about it.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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I've said this before but I decided a long time ago a lot of anti trans nonsense is driven by middle aged bores who get a little thrill from saying "penis" over and over
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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many things make me angry about the supreme court but one of the biggest things is just that none of those cowards in the gang of six will ever take real questions from the public
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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people you know go missing, and you never find out what happened to them
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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all presidents so far have only done gentle, kind things, and definitely not bugged the offices of their opponents, or chanted "lock her up" at rallies, or stolen nuclear secrets, or done a coup, or trafficked drugs to contras, or sabotaged ceasefires and hostage negotiations, or tortured anyone
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.
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Adam Serwer
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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Lydia Polgreen
@polgreen.bsky.social
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Tobias Harris
@tobiasharris.bsky.social
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Honestly, one thing that the elite-focused accounts of the American Revolution and its aftermath obscure is the extent to which ordinary people were *pissed off* and took matters into their own hands.
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BeijingPalmer
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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josh keating gave up doing 'if it happened here' because it just became the reality
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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The Roberts court knows that it's safe to hand unlimited power to abuse or kill political rivals to the president even when a Democrat holds the office because Democrats wouldn't do it
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Luke’s American Revolution
@lfschleusener.bsky.social
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"Interviews, diaries, love letters, and declassified documents describe a two-front war: one on behalf of the United States and one within the armed forces, similar in some ways to the experiences of the African Americans and Japanese Americans who served."
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BeijingPalmer
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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have to note that this position would be insane from a left perspective *even if it were true that Trump was a normal Republican.* A normal Republican president is far, far worse than an infirm Democratic president.
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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There it is: A position completely untethered from empirical evidence, as ridiculous analytically as it is dangerous politically, propagated by anti-liberal leftwing intellectuals who are solely animated by their disdain for “the Libs” and have abandoned any regard for accuracy.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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Both the “black jobs” remark and using palestinian as a slur are hopefully clarifying as to actual Trump’s ideology and worldview, in contrast with the imaginary trump some people have built up in their heads as the memory of his administration has receded
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Pwnallthethings
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very angry to see Jamelle Bouie so regularly speaking sense. Very rude of him to keep writing and saying things that are just objectively correct
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Remember, this is America, the world's greatest democracy. If you're mad at John Roberts, don't protest at his house, focus on defeating him the next time he's up for reelection.
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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We knew going in that House Republicans would make the 118th Congress a clown show, and wow did they deliver. Number of bills passed by Congress, past 20 years: 109th 482 110th 460 111th 383 112th 283 113th 296 114th 329 115th 442 116th 344 117th 362 118th 65
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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once again i think that mark lemley’s article on the “imperial supreme court” is the most perceptive thing written about the roberts court and its overarching project harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-13...
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
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For some reason Kardashev never envisioned a civilization that could harness all of the sunlight that falls on their planet but uses most of it to create pictures of extremely busty ladies with three knees and fourteen fingers.
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court overrules Chevron on a 6-3 ideological vote.
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Critical Russ Theory
@russellgaleti.bsky.social
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Okay but hear me out. You win your proximity to the President by being a lifetime Model UN Front-Row Kid rambling statistics about Iceland’s tax structure. Thus nobody around a President will know what’s good for a President. Source: I have to see these goddamned dorks.
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Lydia Polgreen
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Look, America has big problems but the absolutely unhinged freak out about trans women in the UK is breathtaking. My god, who has the time for these insane “concerns”? www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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Pwnallthethings
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So my first question to Governor Smith, and then to you Mr Lector afterwards, if you please: Governor Smith, during your term you supported local entrepreneurs in the catering business, and Mr Lector, you've kidnapped and eaten several children. Why is your approach better for the local economy?
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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One of the things I can’t get my head around watching the Biden/Trump debate prep from afar is everyone in the media treating it as normal. Just another Presidential debate. The first debate between a sitting president and a felon and insurrectionist is not normal. It should be watched with horror.
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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wow. truly selfless. imagine having a career path paved in front of you to become an evangelical megachurch pastor and choosing instead to compete in the olympics.
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🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)
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BREAKING: Bolivian general who appeared to lead a failed coup is arrested after an attorney general opened an investigation against him.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The media isn't interested in the biggest technology story of the 2020s, the rapid transition to clean energy, because 1) it will destroy a bunch of oil based wealth and is a boring, competirive low margin business 2) it makes Democrats look good for helping it and they want Republicans to win
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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you know what, i'm very content to congratulate self-identified democrats for holding their line on this one
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Dave Karpf
@davekarpf.bsky.social
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Hey, survey researchers? Don't do this. Headline in my inbox this morning: "23% of U.S. adults now use AI language models like ChatGPT – the tipping point." Actual survey question (which I had to click a link and read 17 pages deep to find): "Have you ever used an AI language model or a chatbot."
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Mark Harris
@markharris.bsky.social
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I'm very comfortable thinking of these people as my enemies. Someone else can win them over. I want them defeated, marginalized, and bereft of hope.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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peak 2024 story, the rotting zombie of a dead company murdered by private equity uses generative AI to make an awful branding movie about the origin story for a company that has not existed in any recognizable way in many years
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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the thing is, this isn’t even new, the EMAILS! reporting looked about the same and clinton cash was more or less a successful planned op that depended on the NYT’s advance publishing and willing participation
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BeijingPalmer
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I thought both writing and acting did an amazing job of making Lisa feel like a whole person and her death completely shocking, even though she was only on screen for a few minutes
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BeijingPalmer
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I do, but I think it was an understandable decision because it would have made the movie feel *about* that when it wasn't?
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