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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 9h

it says right there he’s the Democratic candidate so obviously you have to check “Democratic”

Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 9h

The op-ed doesn’t even try to connect the argument to the shutdown, it’s just the usual points people make about term limits

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 11h

The amateur sociology in Hillbilly Elegy does seem very similar to Chua’s work

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 16h

I believe OPM is making all agencies ask this

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 23h

>young, telegenic veteran
>affiliated with Bernie Sanders
>says they regret past homophobic comments
>running against the establishment

anyone know what Tulsi Gabbard is up to these days?

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 23h

>young, telegenic veteran
>affiliated with Bernie Sanders
>says they regret past homophobic comments
>running against the establishment

anyone know what Tulsi Gabbard is up to these days?

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

root against the alleged pedophile whose fans got mad about the Super Bowl halftime show

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

“you people” as in everyone other than the eclectic mix of Twitter poasters crashing out defending the honor of a Blackwater merc with a Waffen SS tattoo they heard about a few days ago?

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

USAA and some other credit unions that serve federal employees offer shutdown loans

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

Wrong, New York is one of two states in the country where a sore loser candidacy is legal

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sore_lo...

Sore loser law - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is.

diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

I mean that’s just Leninism

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

tfw it’s your first day at the Nazi uniform factory

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

Odds are that when we learn the story behind this it’ll be stupider than anyone imagined

Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

The Obama White House officially rejected a petition to build a Death Star

petitions.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/response/isn...

This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

petitions.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

We’ll find out when soldiers hear they’ve received $100 in airdropped crypto tokens

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

They’re really going to do an SVO in Venezuela huh

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like their calculus was that Democrats would cave due to caring more about the people harmed so they’re staying the course on signaling callousness

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

Austrian from Austria or GMU?

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s a safe bet that Rob Schneider does not read 19th century literature

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

That friend’s name?

Jeffrey Epstein

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

Yes but being a manchild who complains a media franchise online is conservative-coded

Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

the Stanislavsky method of political communication

Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a reason Andrew Sullivan coined the term “South Park Republican” to describe the sensibilities of young conservatives in 2001. That cohort is Trump’s base

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Steven Crabs @blorgu.bsky.social · 1d

didn’t those turn out to be region-locked when Brown tried to play them