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Marcus Mauney

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Scribbler. Working on Prosopography in the 3rd Century Roman Empire. Late Roman Empire/Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages enjoyer. North Carolina expat in California. Appalachian and old man undergrad.


Marcus  Mauney's avatar Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social
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The yawning gap between elite media reaction and normies view of the situation is so vast. Every conversation is some version of: "Sure, Joe's old, he's been old and it sucks, but have you seen Trump? He's completely insane."

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Chef Gaykwon's avatar Chef Gaykwon @gaykwon.bsky.social
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This guy was such a G for telling his evil wizard cyborg boss that his religion is bullshit during a work meeting.

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Will Stancil's avatar Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social
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Biden has been the most successful progressive president in half a century and the current “progressive” line is that he should immediately resign in disgrace at the insistence of the New York Times. Can you not see how this is an insane hysteria? How social media has completely broken you

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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No but I love when all you beautiful sickos start posting shit like "Bogroubler flips Hambarn upon Gwynyychlyyrah! A huge result!" It's like hanging out with people being poisoned by carbon monoxide. None of those places are real

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Marcus  Mauney's avatar Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social
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I love most of these words could be true.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Tory party's strategy of having their entire talent pipeline just be being rich and having had your empathy beaten out of you as a child by the South England Boarding School For Making Monstrous Children apparently not helping them connect with voters

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Patrick Stokes's avatar Patrick Stokes @patstokes.bsky.social
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With the electoral demise of Jacob Rees-Mogg, I thought I'd dig out my Mogg-related posts from the Old Country.

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Dan O’Sullivan's avatar Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social
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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

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pockets and sedition's avatar pockets and sedition @yoboseiyo.bsky.social
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from your lips to the ears of any god who cares to listen.

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Marcus  Mauney's avatar Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social
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It's particularly cathartic observing reactions to UK elections from over here in the States. A toast to all of you enjoying good news. I sincerely hope we get to do the same this November.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer's avatar lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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Marcus  Mauney's avatar Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social
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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent." is a quote for the ages.

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Brendan Nyhan's avatar Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social
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What I'm thinking about today 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar 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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Internet Archive's avatar Internet Archive @archive.org
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You want your MTV? ⬇️

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

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Marcus  Mauney's avatar Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social
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Which just confirms the entire thing is window dressing for people who need that fig leaf to justify their support of this garbage to themselves. "Please Justice Roberts, manufacture some cognitive dissonance for me."

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Enron Hubbard's avatar Enron Hubbard @euphoria5l.bsky.social
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I want them to weep when they lose. I want them to sit there, crying into their celebratory wines, knowing that they will never have power and that they will be a footnote in history. I want them laid low, to suffer the pains of knowing that they have lost, forever.

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Sean's avatar Sean @publichealth.bsky.social
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sure it’s heritage being heritage, but their continued escalation of the violent rhetoric and threats is not to be taken lightly. especially not after j6

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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The institutions have failed to defend themselves

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Liam Hogan's avatar Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social
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The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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sam alito salivating at the chance to make this life for americans

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J.M. Berger's avatar 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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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

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Marcus  Mauney's avatar Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social
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I'm honestly surprised Google's AI slop didn't tell her to get a bigger blowtorch.

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Marcus  Mauney's avatar Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social
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Has he considered Noem as a running mate? Shore up the dog murder fan votes? Kennedy/Noem 2024 "She blasts em, he basts em."

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Ian Boudreau's avatar 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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Tim Onion's avatar Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
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I love this guy's posture. He always looks like he's in the front row of an airplane where the roof just flew off.

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badly-drawn bee 🐝's avatar badly-drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social
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rolling out this gem again

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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lets be honest, the toughest SOB holding a US passport is Jimmy Carter and it isn't close to close, one of the few people in history who went into a nuclear reactor came back out and nothing at all happened and now dude has lasted over a year in hospice, literal brain cancer cannot beat this guy

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar 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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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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a funny thing Biden could do, unitary-executive-authority-wise is just order GSA to stop cutting paychecks to a bunch of Republican judges and law clerks for a while.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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well in a second term trump can just drone strike lorne michaels

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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Fuckin called it

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Jeffrey Vagle's avatar Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me
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Avi's avatar Avi @cricketmice.bsky.social
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George Lucas in 1999 making a movie about how the senate and Supreme Court are hopelessly corrupt:

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Ashton Pittman's avatar Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Wisconsin about the importance of the Supreme Court.

She warned that 2016 was "make or break" for the court—and the country.

National media—focused on her emails and Trump's antics—barely covered the speech.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...

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Marcus  Mauney's avatar Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social
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Incel/Gamergate Twitter must be in shambles right now.

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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NYT, eight bluesky posts so far today. Trump is a king posts: 1 Biden is old posts: 3

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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you and me both franz

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Marcus  Mauney's avatar Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social
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He's just an empty vessel for the ambitions of the most obsequious and morally vacuous shitheels imaginable.

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