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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1h

I will say once again that if Irish Republicans and former British paramilitaries in the War of Independence could be in a popular front together in Spain, you can be in a popular front with a guy who does annoying posts sometimes

Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 12h

Whatever your thoughts on Will Stancil, there are entire neo-Nazi group chats dedicated to him specifically because they believe that he as an individual must be destroyed for their movement to succeed. You should reach at least that level of hate by Nazis for me to take your resistance seriously.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h

There’s a reason Ezra Levin is on Trump’s enemies list, is being investigated by the government, while no one much cares about Talia Jane.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1h

This, then, was the Weimar Republic in 1932: clear vision and political impotence, fear, suspicion, and moments of irrational hope; among the politicians of the middle, politics as usual, but with everyone else, a sense of emergency.”

— Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
https://a.co/cruR33e

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 9h

I’m just thinking about how my kids are only alive because my wife’s family was able to escape - like many other lucky European Jewish leftists - through Portugal in 1940, and boy the specific “escape to” example seems ominous here

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

I really think we need to reconceptualize this shutdown as the last stand for the rule of law and Art I. Bring it to default if that’s what it takes. If Congress can’t assert the power of the purse, we are in “move to Portugal” territory of screwed.

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 12h

This cannot just be about healthcare. The existing constitutional system hangs in the balance. The rule of law is now baked into this shutdown in a huge way.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 9h

Jacques-Louis David really nailed this vibe

Socrates holding forth in a painting before drinking hemlock

Marat, stabbed, in his tub, quill in hand

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 12h

You used to have to go out to socialize with your peers, in proper third spaces like, say, a Munich beer hall wait hold on bad example

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 12h

If I wanted to use artificial intelligence to cook I’d just follow the comments under recipe blogs like “0/5, disgusting recipe, I substituted nonfat yogurt for butter”

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 12h

Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.

Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 12h

Not particularly close for me

Lucinda Williams album cover for Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 13h

I’m guessing someone living in Charlottesville can relate, but man does this feel accentuated in a blue (college) town in a swing state. Seen lots of coverage of what Wisconsin voters think, feel, and want. I don’t think any of that has been about Madison, much less Milwaukee.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 14h

Look, they’re just kids. Soon they’ll grow out of these youthful hi jinx and into the sober professionals who write the Nuremberg Laws

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 17h

These people want 1789 levels of democratic inclusion with 1989 levels of American power. Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the Civil Rights movement are all illegitimate

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 20h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 18h

PSA from my run today that there’s a few days every year when the maple forest in Owen Conservation Park is the loveliest place in Madison, and we’re probably about a week away

A series of thin maple trees. Brilliant yellow is mixed e green

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 18h

My post pro-Millennial anti-Boomer take (non politics edition) is that there’s nothing the Beatles did on the White Album better than what the Magnetic Fields did on 69 Love Songs

youtu.be/PNehrGHip00?...

The Magnetic Fields - Long Forgotten Fairytale

YouTube video by Jfrog the Virus

youtu.be

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 21h

Provo’s 2nd most booked Hall & Oates cover band

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 22h

It's easier to get people to die for a cause when they feel like the alternative is that they're going to die for someone else's anyway

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 22h

Once again listening to Sinéad O'Connor's iovely, haunting version of "The Foggy Dew" (sorry to the Chieftains, it's hers) & you could do a lot worse than "Twas far better to die ‘neath an Irish sky Than at Suvla or Sud el Bar" as a summary of WWI radicalizing people

www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWn...

The Foggy Dew - Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains, 1995

YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

I’m as sympathetic as anyone to the argument that the Democratic Party needs younger people in positions of power and I would submit that an almost 50 YO guy who has been in Congress for a decade and is happy to throw Trans people under the bus for perceived political gain ain’t it

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

his announcement post has 7 likes. be sure to drop a block on @sethmoulton.bsky.social so his posts aren't tempting to interact with.

Seth Moulton announces his run for US Senate, 1 repost, 2 quotes, 7 likes

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

No worries!

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah the joke is that the post said she was in exile

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

Nuzzi, in a remote village in Siberia with other cancelled people, scrawling out descriptions of sexting with RFK Jr on hoarded sheets of birch bark

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

“Welcome to [the 54th consecutive] Nettle and Mud Week!”

Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I watch Bake-Off and see how common of an ingredient passion fruit is in the UK it just makes me think that the Empire didn’t collapse nearly hard enough

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I watch Bake-Off and see how common of an ingredient passion fruit is in the UK it just makes me think that the Empire didn’t collapse nearly hard enough

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT now possesses the cutting edge technology to recommend fedoras, tell you every state's age of consent law, and quote "the Fountainhead"

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

This is obviously racist, self-sabotaging, and awful, but also someone who got really into learning Welsh has the opportunity to do something very funny

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

I participated in a 1990s LARP event today (didn’t plan ahead and had to physically go to Office Max to buy printer ink)

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 1d

This machine creates Dean Philips voters

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