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randy r. potts@thephatic.bsky.social |
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editor, journalist, antifascist; Hromadske, New Yorker, Baffler, et al. 🇵🇱🇺🇦🇩🇪🏳️🌈 he/him for str8s; always here for the semiotics Baltimore by way of Tulsa
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randy r. potts
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my queer Ukrainian colleague Max Eristavi and I, bc the far right hates queers, produced the single most comprehensive report on Ukraine's far right back in 2015; yes Ukraine has a far right, yes the leaders are scary fucks, also they get only about 1% of the vote and have no real power in Ukraine:
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Too Big to Fail
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My perhaps lukewarm take is that is actually very bad news for Trump - people really start paying attention to the election after Labor Day, and he'll be getting sentenced after Labor Day. There will be no time to appeal before the election. He may very well be in jail on election day.
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randy r. potts
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 5/20
#booksky
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randy r. potts
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this has been hanging in our break room in my fedl agency for a year but it didn't really stick out until today
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Blake Emerson
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It’s important to understand that overruling Chevron and granting the president immunity—while apparently in tension—are of a piece. Together, they destroy the administrative structures that channel power and shift all discretion upwards to president. I explain here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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randy r. potts
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I could absolutlely imagine a lifelong union with a mango tree.
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randy r. potts
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I mean, I'm over gay men too. Dogs and cats are so great. Kids, great. Trees, the ocean, motorcycles ....
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randy r. potts
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I mean, straight men, what can I say, kinda gross :P
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randy r. potts
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haha omg, this is just how it goes, straight dude is having no sex and is jealous of attention baby is getting and seeking attention elsewhere ........
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randy r. potts
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Sanders is actually humble enough that he might actually consider this
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randy r. potts
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all in for this ticketttttttttttt
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Sharon Kuruvilla
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i think the funniest ticket combination that would piss every ideologue on here and Twitter off is Harris/Sanders
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randy r. potts
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when they should actually be discussing how to stay out of prison if Trump gets back in, a situation I have no confidence they have even once contemplated
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randy r. potts
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such a weird emphasis in the midwest on forcefully telling/expecting others to be happy and for ppl to feel compelled to comply
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randy r. potts
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yeh I'm reading that once this long weeknd is over, can't wait. I think about how we too often forget that many individual states have been functionally undemocratic for most of their history, that many are currently, and many will get so much worse, soon, no matter who wins the WH
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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it's the 2020 protests. i think they fundamentally broke conservatives.
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randy r. potts
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it was actually impressive how the entire MSM somehow memory holed the largest protest/uprising in US history, like we never got those "2 years later" reports - which, in my mind, suggests they were longterm more effective and more threatening than we remember.
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randy r. potts
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contemporary Poland is such a great test case
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randy r. potts
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*gotta up, omg
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Kevin M. Kruse
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The States Project is one of the best bang-for-your-buck options for your campaign donations. Even beyond it, though, state legislatures deserve your attention. Next time you're tempted to send money to whoever's going to lose to MTG, send it instead to a contested state leg seat.
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randy r. potts
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I really got up my posting, clearly
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randy r. potts
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gilded age comin back baybeeeeeee
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randy r. potts
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@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Nick bait unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-is-chi...
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randy r. potts
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never! ever ever
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randy r. potts
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😅
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randy r. potts
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low info swing voters def didn't watch it so he figures he can control the narrative on it?
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randy r. potts
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these are the people I still feel strongly will, in the last week or so, swing hard toward Biden - the status quo is comforting and this time around Trump just sounds like a blithering idiot who can't even properly crime
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randy r. potts
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SCOTUS wants il Duce and a newly-flexed US Empire bc both of those things also inflate SCOTUS
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randy r. potts
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in the world SCOTUS is trying to build the entire US govt is immune from the ICC
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Brooke Binkowski
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Something real bad is happening over on Twitter holy shit. I just saw some real bad tweets about immigrants from folks I had previously thought were anti-racist progressives
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randy r. potts
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kitty goddess has graciously accepted gift of cat bed with catnip sprinkled beneath pillow
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Jeffrey Vagle
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randy r. potts
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I am weirdly without rage, guess I expected all this shit so long ago it's almost a bit anti climactic. These people are who they are. We either beat them/keep them in their place or they start having like public hangings and shit .......
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Tom Pepinsky
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Americanists and lawyers ask, what does the Constitution say? Comparativists ask, who controls the High Court, the militia, and the clerics?
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Matti
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This is one of the things that keeps me going: the whole right-wing project is so close to falling apart, if we can just win.
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randy r. potts
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exactly
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randy r. potts
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yeh??? man, I feel like I've asked over a dozen friends and they're all like, "naw, couldn't make it thru the first episode"
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randy r. potts
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when Carmy says the hardest day of the year is every Saturday night at 8:15 - the rush, the strange stopped-time stillness, the panic, the sublime crush of every Saturday night, 8:15
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randy r. potts
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the love letter to those in the service industry that is The Bear
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Emergency Workplace Organizing
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Chuck Wendig
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You know how sometimes in war there’s the one side who has rules and thinks they know how war is fought but then they’re shocked, SHOCKED, when the other side runs out of the bushes and like, stabs their horses and shit? And that side wins? Yeah I think about that phenomenon a lot these days.
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randy r. potts
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the white evangelicals behind this power grab never imagined taking power via direct democracy - they know they aren't popular and they know they have to be as ruthless and cruel as possible - both to win power and to keep it
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randy r. potts
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for minorities who intend to stay in red states the main thing is, think thru all the things they are prolly going to ban, which things you can't live without, how you're going to protect yourself and those you love, etc - nobody should tell you you have to move but also? you can be proactive
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Nick Brumfield
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The road to defending democracy goes through Palestine, and everybody who's been yelling at me to get onboard for the better part of a year needs to fucking get that
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randy r. potts
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I think for most ppl it would just be an absolute emergency scenario? For me, I started making job plans abroad 3-4 years ago. I have published too many things critical of MAGA to stay under the radar very long as a Fed. I will most likely end up in Warsaw, a city I love very much.
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Anthea Butler
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African Americans will tell you that this country has never been fully a democracy, and white people are about to find out how the little democracy left is about to go up in a puff of smoke should Trump get back in the White House.
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randy r. potts
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I, personally, will revel in the doom-laden snows of Poland.
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randy r. potts
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you get up so late!
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randy r. potts
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they really would; I dunno if it could even inspire "horror" it's just too close to a very possible future
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