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J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
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There's like 10 different kinds of DC brain making this situation worse than it has to be
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Charlie Thomas@cthomasjamh.bsky.social |
283 followers 211 following 169 posts
Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine.
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J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
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There's like 10 different kinds of DC brain making this situation worse than it has to be
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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Should have said Wigan Kebab
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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This is more and more where I am. There's only so many once-in-a-generation realignments that haven't shown up in any other election results of the past four years that I can believe in, anecdotes or no.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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Man, I am gonna have to repost this like daily this week, huh?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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Just unfollowed someone so fast on the other site after they shared a post talmbout people being selfish for 'fearmongering' about Project 2025 in order to get people to vote Republicans' stated intentions are scary, but providing accurate info about them is not fearmongering! It's just the stakes!
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Assistant to the Professor
@darinself.bsky.social
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Dems: Joe Biden, who is currently governing quite well but is also old, should drop out. GOP: Trump, who is a convicted felon and led a coup, is our nominee and we will eviscerate anyone in the party who disagrees Media: The bigger story here is age.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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the fact that the same people pushing Biden to drop out immediately are also proposing shit that wouldn't fly on The West Wing makes me think we need a complete and total shutdown of the nation's op-ed pages until we can figure out what's going on
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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"Politics would be interesting again" Oh, jeez, I'm sorry that SCOTUS Team 6 waterboarding democracy to pave the way for a felon-messiah-king who's vowing to use the presidency to deport millions and imprison his foes for treason hasn't been INTERESTING enough for you. Let me jangle some car keys.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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If you're so concerned about the stakes of this election you could just... spend the next four months writing about the stakes of this election. A constant drip of articles calling the Democratic nominee unfit is also not a great strategy for winning!
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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Doggett has been in that seat since I was an undergrad at UT- and I don’t even want to talk about how long ago that was. When he first popped up with this nonsense I was shocked he was still a Texas congressman
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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William Shakespeare
@shakespeare.bsky.social
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’tis true that we are in great danger, The greater therefore should our courage be.
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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Oh Jesus Christ
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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The current iteration of media Bidenposting involves Joe Biden acknowledging that it's a bad news cycle & that he takes it seriously, which is bad press only in the universe where admitting something is happening is more damaging than denying it
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election
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Hayes Brown
@hayesbrown.bsky.social
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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Fucking Golden. Look, I get that Dems in red districts occasionally need to throw out a “well, I don’t always agree with the president, who I think overreached” but his shit was a little too far and too cute by half here
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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That and also like, if you’re approaching Dimon that tells me every other Johnny Unbeatable has passed and we’re well into “flattering fanfic” territory, which can be a good story but means there’s no real serious effort to remove Biden.
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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Yeah, between “unnamed ally noted Biden sees campaign damaged, recognizes work needs to be done” and “dem donors approach Jamie Dimon about potential run” it really seems like there isn’t a lot of gas in the tank here.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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Not for nothing but the times running a single-sourcer that says "Biden recognizes that he can't fuck up like that again" amid a bunch of editorial slant does tend to make me think that Sulz is getting frustrated that it's not working. That's not even a good single-source backstab!
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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Insipid. Biden has been seriously considering this since before he left that stage. That this has finally broken through to meet the shabby minimum standards of what can go to print is not itself newsworthy, & the Times's conviction otherwise is central to its dysfunction
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Aaron van Dorn
@aaronvandorn.bsky.social
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"Not dropping out" is extremely potent political magic.
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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But also… how is this controversial at all? The media is in a feeding frenzy so yeah the campaign is now harder. Obama then offered advice, which I am certain Biden is getting from all comers. 🤷♂️
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Sharon Kuruvilla
@sharonk.bsky.social
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"democracy may die. see page 4 for details"
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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How am I supposed to believe this is serious or even correctly conveyed if the ally isn’t named? The Times has shown itself more than willing to bend phrases and take singular points out of context in service of its narrative and not knowing who this is makes it useless gossip.
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David Bowman
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Call me a fuddy-duddy but it seems that an unprofitable accelerationist technology that has the potential to destroy many of the underpinnings of society should probably not be feted by shareholders.
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The Fig Economy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
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At my most worried, this is what worries me most. I don’t have as much confidence as I wish I did that the earnestly worried people who want to replace Biden, if they don’t get their way, will knock it off once the question is resolved.
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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I mean, I am in need of a new career path since academia is… well, academia. Time to start outlining and looking up synonyms for “turgid,” “passionate,” and “fiscal”
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Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
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Should be on all columns: “DISCLAIMER: I am well-off enough to simply depart the American experiment when it all goes wrong in November and old enough to not care about the end of democracy and “the climate” and WWIII and stuff. Absolutely do not listen to me and maybe do not do this. But maybe do?”
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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bsky.app/profile/hamm... sadly no! But it also tells me the cycle is running on fumes- this isn’t “Governor Pritzker is hiring outside national Dem staff and has scheduled a press conference” this is fanfic.
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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@thomaszimmer.bsky.social’s post about the anti-anti fascist left nails him and his ilk so well. I just have such disdain for them, particularly since we are long past the point where their stances have completely diverged from reality.
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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I mean what gets me here is that at this point they are reporting on absolutely non-starters like a fringe group trying to draft Jamie Dimon to run. All the “Johnny Unbeatable” candidates have declined to throw their hat into the ring. There’s obviously no there there any more but they keep going!
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Sharon Kuruvilla
@sharonk.bsky.social
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i genuinely dislike moyn on a personal level
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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Weirdly this is sort of why I was disappointed that the sentencing for Trump’s hush money trial was delayed- it feels like the only event that could even break through the insane feeding frenzy going on over at the Times right now.
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Josh Sternberg
@joshsternberg.bsky.social
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It's pretty disheartening to see the most influential news org push a narrative that, while important, is by no means the most important story right now. A week after a poor performance, the top 4 stories on the NYT homepage is about Biden's mental facilities. Meanwhile democracy dies in the open.
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Aubrey Gilleran
@aubreygilleran.bsky.social
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I'm of the opinion that Biden age discourse isn't a pure media invention. A lot of people watched that debate and had the same instant reaction, and that's newsworthy. But major, important events happened immediately after, and the fact that the media can't move on shows this is now about them 1/
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild
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@russms.bsky.social
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I hate this court so much and even I am astonished by this case. It writes new provisions into Art 2 of the constitution that were unnecessary to decide the case at hand and that cannot be repealed by legislative action or even undone without a new case of presidential law breaking before the court
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Charlie Thomas
@cthomasjamh.bsky.social
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Sharon.
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DJDynamicNC (he/him)
@djdynamicnc.bsky.social
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"voting doesn't make a difference" ok sure mate, now I just gotta decide which is more likely, that all the votes in all the elections in all the world have never mattered in any way or that some cynical lackwit on the internet is wrong
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jesse
@jesseltaylor.bsky.social
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Kind of amazing that the NYT hasn't even tried to sneak in the token "maybe the sitting President shouldn't withdraw from the race four months before the election" piece
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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The Fig Economy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
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Like this shit isn’t what we “need to hear.” It’s doing a he said she said on the abetting of open fascism and the weaponization of our government by a criminal while saying those fears are just claims that liberals made.
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Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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Biden’s age/debate performance is a story worthy of coverage. But is it worthy of coverage more than *4 times as prominent* as the decision that there is no more law for the President?
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jesse
@jesseltaylor.bsky.social
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FYI: this book was in constant rotation for my daughter for nearly a year - it's absolutely wonderful
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Nied
@nied.bsky.social
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Someone was *just* talking about how if there are any legs to Biden actually suffering from mental issues we'd start seeing staffers leaking. Now THE biggest pusher of this story comes out with just that & the tea is so weak it might as well be warm water.
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bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
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REPORTING: jim clyburn is ready to throw biden to the wolves. it’s kamala time ACTUAL QUOTE: “i want this ticket to continue to be biden-harris”
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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They're desperately pulling out all the stops on the full court press to get rid of Biden even if it means they have to lie to generate a story keeping it alive
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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The idea that these are the top stories when the Supreme Court blew up the constitution yesterday makes me want to scream and cry forever.
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@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social
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Oh we are John Brown-pilled and Reconstruction-maxxing today? Bet.
youtu.be/E1mpFCRbuFw?...
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