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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel

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I like to post and see posts. Director of Research at The States Project, the views expressed here are my own.

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Eve by Cat Bohannon feels like a necessary accompaniment to Sapiens or The Third Chimpanzee, eye opening stuff

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The biggest issue with Biden coverage is that he’s now The Story, which means that most of the press is focused on The Story and not any of the context or consequences. If we were having a serious discussion about qualifications for presidency, age, and the two main candidates, I’d be fine with it.

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Media criticism on a holiday weekend, couldn’t be me

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we’re in danger

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Gregory Hays's avatar Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

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I had no idea that Keir Starmer went to school with the most important Englishman of the last 50 years (Fatboy Slim)

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I forget who but someone once said England is like if New York, LA, San Francisco and Washington, DC were all the same city and everywhere else was Fort Wayne

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At first I thought this was about Alexi Lalas

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A lot of you have never dealt with message board drama before and it shows

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kamala takes the stage as the presumptive nominee to the organ riff from “not like us.” the crowd goes wild when she says “our opponent, the certified lover boy? certified pedophile”

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The Comey Letter was sent because he was worried someone from the NYC FBI Office ("Trumpland") was going to leak the investigation anyway!

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Aaron W. Gordon's avatar Aaron W. Gordon @awgordon.bsky.social
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Let The Other Party Completely Body Your Own Country For 14 Years seems to be an effective electoral strategy.

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Dentist told me I was grinding my teeth a lot I was like yea that was expected and no offense but that’s the least of my concerns right now

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Quick, guess how many seasons of Nurse Jackie there were

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Jean-Luc Melenchon is in the proud French tradition of leftists who are just total shitheels

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I respect what Claude Simon was trying to do in The Flanders Road but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

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Cool, no rush or anything

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M.P. Broache's avatar M.P. Broache @mpbroache.bsky.social
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“Politics would be interesting again,” no politics should not be interesting, normal people should not have to invest time and energy into saving democracy because our institutions are collapsing, give me boring, mundane politics any day

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as a politics knower I think the democrats should simply do the thing that makes it easiest to win, but also aligns with both all my prior posts and all my most panicked recent posts. this is very simple and obvious.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Who’s that other guy in the picture, I bet he’s sorry he tangled with an aggressive senator like Al Franken!

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The Skies Belong To Us by Brendan Koerner is an enjoyable read and I want to know what happened to Cathy Kerkow. Also remarkable that airlines were just able to make people put up with skyjacking for a decade because they were cheap and could bully Congress.

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I noticed comparativists were usually the ones having the debate over whether Trump was actually a fascist

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Orange Man Bad explains far more than many comparative politics PhDs care to admit

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Ned Resnikoff's avatar Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social
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Very far down the list of things that are bad about Project 2025, but since it's in my wheelhouse I do feel obliged to note that a second Trump term would be a gift to NIMBYs. They're promising AFFH repeal + aggressive defense of single-family zoning. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

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Jesse Raub 's avatar Jesse Raub @jesseraub.bsky.social
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time and time again people are confused that the content they see is directly related to the people they follow and that they’re absolutely lost navigating the internet without an algorithm force feeding them lowest common denominator dreck

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Zander🚈🔰's avatar Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social
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Transit funding = antifascist praxis

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Also in both cases he basically made the reasoning up out of thin air because his formative legal experience was thinking Watergate was good and the VRA was bad.

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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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Timothy Burke's avatar Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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16 million more people with health care coverage Significantly lower health care expenses for seniors 700 million-some free Covid tests sent through the mail The most pro-union NLRB general counsel in history People convicted of domestic violence now banned from owning guns and so on

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It's not October

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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seems newsworthy, can’t wait to hear about it showing up in paragraph 47 of another piece about how biden is old

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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Seems more like a prequel to the original but it's his script, so.

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Republicans have spent the last 4 years getting a lot more openly racist so if Kamala is the nominee she’s going to bait them into saying a lot of really nasty stuff that turns off swing voters

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Thanks my son didn’t get the reference so I put it here

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What color is the boathouse at Hereford??

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Dave Weigel's avatar Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social
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No offense, but the McConnell mythmaking has convinced a lot of people that a 52-48 R majority would have refused to seat a Dem justice for four years. I am very skeptical of this and did reporting around the time on it - there were enough Rs who were willing to confirm Garland if HRC won.

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I think it was like 2017 when an Airbnb basically became as expensive as a hotel but without a bar in the lobby

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Just a funny comic for pals to read!!

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