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Cynthia Erb@cynmar.bsky.social |
109 followers 226 following 72 posts
Writer, retired film studies academic, cats!, League of Women Voters, Fan of the Midwest
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.
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Cynthia Erb
@cynmar.bsky.social
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I did too.
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Michele
@ibumichele.bsky.social
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I've just written an angry missive to letters@economist.com
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Cynthia Erb
@cynmar.bsky.social
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Good. I didn’t know Democrats share Trump’s distaste for elections. But I want one of the candidates to be from the real primary. Hard to campaign on democracy when you’ve rigged the process.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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The New York Times Crisis of Confidence: badly shaken in the wake of bad editorial decisions, many are calling for the paper to resign.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.
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John Yuda
@yuda.org
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He voted in both 2020 and 2022.
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Cynthia Erb
@cynmar.bsky.social
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Naturalization ceremonies are so moving.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Jeramy Neugin
@lostcitymagic.bsky.social
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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I will bring this one back every year
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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If you care about the USA, the single best thing you can do today is to contribute to a downticket race thats close. The second best thing you can do is cancel your NYT subscription and use that money for the purpose.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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a lot of people seem to think my annoyance here is with jokes about political violence, which i’m on record saying are fine and cathartic. my annoyance is with people who disengage with effective forms of politics and replace them with fantasies
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Lupita Nihongo
@otsumamiboy.bsky.social
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Makes my skin crawl that these people have to spend the twilight of their lives being denied justice by people who weren’t even alive when they were brutalized and that what were supposed to be the best years of their lives was stained by an overt rejection of justice.
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Thought experiment: Imagine if Obama, after claiming an election had been stolen from him and being convicted of 34 felonies, was granted immunity by SCOTUS justices who had taken undisclosed luxury trips on George Soros' dime. The fact that you can't even imagine this scenario tells you something.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Heritage: it will remain bloodless so long as the libs agree to take cyanide.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
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Everyone else is focused, rightly, on the threat, so let me just remind you that it will not remain bloodless, whatever the left decides to do or not to do.
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N. K. Jemisin
@nkjemisin.bsky.social
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Isn't it interesting that they're trying to frame themselves as initiating *that* war instead of the Civil War? Wannabe Confederates still don't like being called what they are. Probably because it reminds them they lost the first time.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Already feels bad, like the Trump years did, when there was no way to escape knowing horrible new things multiple times a day
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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maybe the worst I’ve ever felt was the morning of November 9, 2016, I felt completely hopeless all day we are staring down much worse now, and I’m feeling a lot calmer - possibly because I have my kids now, and I’m responsible for making a world for them to live in giving up is not an option
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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while i am at it, i don’t think it is necessarily true that a woman of color is predestined to lose a presidential election, but i think attempting it under these circumstances and in this time frame takes a bar that’s already higher than it has ever been and doubles it
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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i’m just asking you to take a moment to consider this from biden’s perspective: most of the fundamentals still look good for him. he’s beaten trump once. swapping the nominee this late has never worked, and there is *every* reason to believe republicans in every contested state would contest it
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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anyone who thinks harris is gonna get an easy walk from the nation’s newspapers and editorial boards if she were to become the nominee is absolutely lying to themselves
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.
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Cynthia Erb
@cynmar.bsky.social
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Yes. I admire Kamala Harris but it occurred to me the press would just find some way to depress her candidacy.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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I know everyone says "their reporters do great work" and that's true, but over the course of my life, the New York Times has institutionally had multiple points at which it was important to choose "be evil" or do the right thing and they've fucked it hard every time
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Emily St. James
@emilystjams.bsky.social
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As a Californian, can someone tell me why Gavin Newsom seems to have the heart of every MSNBC Boomer I know? Even on his best days -- and he's had some good ones! -- I can, at best, muster up an eye roll, a heavy sigh, and a "FINE." But they talk of him as some bold champion of progressivism!
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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i imagine folks who work there would say differently if they could, but from the outside, it looks a lot like sulzberger is trying to brute force his way into being the next murdoch
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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the biggest reason the political conversation is so fraught right now is all the options suck Biden stays in and we deal with age stories every day until the election? bad! Biden drops out and Harris tries to step in and run? bad! there is no obvious solution, so every path is easy to get mad at
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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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Cynthia Erb
@cynmar.bsky.social
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My biggest fear is another Trump presidency spells the end of public protest.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Official act. Immune.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like
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Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.
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Joe Hill
@joe-hill.bsky.social
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Was working on a text and laboriously typed "Siouxsie and the Banshees" only to watch helplessly as autocorrect changed "Siouxsie" to "Susie" and all of a sudden I want to burn all of Silicon Valley to the ground. That's not an overreaction is it?
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Cynthia Erb
@cynmar.bsky.social
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I like him. My main thing is early voting begins in 10 weeks and I can’t see the logistics for replacing him.
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Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
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Had lunch with a former colleague today and she asked if I missed it. I have not had a single death threat, nor have I been assaulted, or racially abused, since I stopped working for the NHS. Why would I miss it? Even if my writing career failed spectacularly, I still wouldn't go back to the NHS.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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there is another aspect to all of this, which is hard to admit, and it is this: Donald Trump is a much stronger candidate for office than people give him credit for he has survived scandal that would destroy anyone else irregular voters in electorally important areas come out to vote for him only
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in New York www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/c...
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Kandy
@kandyelmo.com
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bringing this here because i've had it
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Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
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Americans, looking to move abroad: “so where can I live that isn’t fascist, won’t wilt under climate change, and has a Whole Foods?”
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Roxane Gay
@roxanegay.bsky.social
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.
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