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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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nuked from orbit 🫡🫡
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Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social |
47601 followers 569 following 2363 posts
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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nuked from orbit 🫡🫡
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Matthew Downhour
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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"flubbed"? He mispoke between a billion and a trillion and corrected himself? That's a flub?
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Kristian G. Andersen
@kgandersen.bsky.social
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Really good 15 min TWiV episode with Paul Offit outlining how false and irresponsible the recent lab leak nonsense from @nytimes.com is.
I for one appreciate the brevity - there really is nothing more to it.
If you're interested in the topic, give it a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukv9...
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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This was such a treat!
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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tbf the clip is extremely funny out of context
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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immediate ctrl+w
www.persuasion.community/p/ending-our...
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Nailed it
www.persuasion.community/p/how-wester...
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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I like the coconut tree memes as much as everyone else but I do think we should all be on the same page about Harris's quote actually making sense when you realize she was telling a story about her mom and illustrating a point about education.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Byron C Clark
@byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Her 'deplorables' comments were both completely fine in context and 100% accurate and they still spent a week talking about how disastrous it was. If you read the text of that speech in a vacuum you would think the framing was perfectly fine.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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If you want to make the case that Biden should step aside anyway, that's fine. But the entire concept of giving the right speech or deploying the perfect "framing" to make this not look extremely bad for Democrats just isn't possible in the media environment we have.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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People really need to give up the idea that politicians have the power to 'sell' their actions to the public. Regardless of what he says, Biden's message will be filtered through the media and boiled down into horse-race headlines. It will be *very* obvious he's stepping aside after a bad debate.
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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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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Illusion, I just rode this all the way home from goodwill!
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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Am I going to an Independence Day party? Brother, I bring the party wherever I go.
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Aaron Huertas
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
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Yascha Mounk joins the ranks of political pundits who are making it clear they have no idea how elections actually work. Anyone who can come up with a way for a party to self-organize a democratically legitimate primary in a month should just go ahead and lay it out!
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Dave
@daveamp.bsky.social
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Just another reminder that Yascha Mounk may be the absolute worst political scientist alive, regardless of what criteria you use to develop your ranking.
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❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆
@sababausa.bsky.social
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Yascha Mounk tipping his hand that he and the rest of the centrist & right-of-center media would 100% run the Claudine Gay playbook on Kamala Harris
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Here is his 'solution' btw:
1. Spend all summer running a bizarre, non-binding, never-done-before fake primary.
2. ???
3. Defeat Donald Trump
bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Another asinine 'solution' to the Biden Problem, this time from Yascha Mounk. Again, these people think their *entire job* is political strategy and predicting poll numbers. Yet they somehow think that spending months drawing attention to their own party's weaknesses is a good strategy!
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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I agree that Harris has significant weaknesses as a politician but this is an incredibly ugly way to put it. Also: A centrist candidate choosing another centrist as his running mate — still not the left's fault! Leftists hate Harris, that's actually one of her weaknesses.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Blaming leftists for leftist bullshit or blaming centrists for centrist bullshit, anyone can do that.
But blaming leftists for the failures of a centrist politician? That takes Yascha Mounk.
www.persuasion.community/p/how-americ...
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Branden McEuen
@bmceuen.bsky.social
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I think it’s telling that if you search “Trump AND rape” on the New York Times website you don’t get a single article mentioning the E. Jean Carroll case but if you search “Biden AND old” you get 18,026 hits.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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I think what makes this difficult to discuss with any kind of rigor is that Biden staying in is bad and Biden dropping out is also bad! There are no good options available so we’re all flailing to figure out which bad thing is gonna be like 15% better than the worse thing
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Most homeless people were living in the same city when they became homeless. Climate migration is a real thing but it’s not that much of a factor with homelessness
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?
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J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath
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OG_McDuck
@ogmcduck.bsky.social
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Giving up the incumbent advantage because a bunch of disingenuous and/or nihilistic journos have condemned Biden like he's an old building seems the dumbest thing imaginable. Biden wasn't my choice in the 2020 primaries, but he's the president now, and just being the president is a big advantage.
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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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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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I actually think people are getting a bit over their skis on freaking out over Biden! We're talking about one terrible debate performance, something that can be turned around with a few good TV appearances. And bowing out could hurt Dem polling more than it helps.
bsky.app/profile/bikm...
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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"They can't even pick a nominee who doesn't have dementia! His VP pick was so bad they skipped her and had en entire second primary. And we're supposed to trust these people to run the country?"
bsky.app/profile/kami...
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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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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Sticking with Biden or running Harris would be *far* less risky than dedicating two of the next four months to Democrat infighting, followed by an unprecedented delegate voting process and dubious chances of even getting on the ballot. Knowing this shit is supposed to be these people's job
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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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Cloud's Strife
@jmgreene28.bsky.social
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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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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Turbo Duo Lipa
@cambrianera.radical.town
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The TERF argument relies entirely on secret, unprovable assertions. As long as everyone else is a secret pervert, they can be discounted. They deny it? That's exactly what a secret pervert WOULD say.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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The institutions have failed to defend themselves
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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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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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I hate this piece of shit.
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Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
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The point in here that “it’s so cool to be trans that kids are just faking it” is bs is so, SO important. My 7 yr old was being so relentlessly bullied after kids caught sight of his enby SIBLING that we had to get admin involved. They had to move the kids off the bus to make it stop - in *Seattle*
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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I do not understand why the pandemic destroyed my ability to respond to texts and emails
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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excuse me stewardess, I speak TERF
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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The thread she's responding to isn't particularly helpful either. I think the reason some men are criticizing TERFs is because trans people can already access bathrooms and women's shelters and we don't see them committing sexual assault! TERFs are lying; that's why they're being criticized.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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He is very lucky to be facing someone who became a significantly weaker candidate over the last four years! This doesn't actually happen in politics all that often.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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I am *way* too deep in transphobe lore and even I don't know what the fuck she's talking about here
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