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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · Jan 8

I've been working on a market liberal case for democracy. That case now spans four pieces, all of which are linked in my latest blog post.

ft most prominently Don Lavoie, Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social, Benjamin Constant, Adam Smith, and James Buchanan...

Democracy for liberal people

Market liberals need liberal democracy

www.janetbufton.ca

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 1h

I am once again demanding that fall colours last as long as really-existing winter and winter last as long as really-existing fall colours.

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 17h

I hope it wasn't too rough to have it brought up. It is one of the best things on the internet for our family, and I share it all the time. Many more delicious beans consumed (and one less anemic preschooler) in the world.

I am glad that time is behind you. I hope that kind of feeling is, too.

Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 1d

(In case you don't know.)

Cassoulet — Frenchy meat and bean stew

YouTube video by Adam Ragusea

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 1d

Once @aragusea.bsky.social demystifies cassoulet you can do things like use turkey fat to make 15min meatless (not vegetarian) canned beans for a 3yo who only wants white beans (which matters for some reason) and the "bean sauce" that sticks to them when we fish them out of cassoulet. #foodsky

White beans in a skillet with what might approach cassoulet with meat and more time but is perfectly sufficient for Their Majesty Thing 2.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d

Innovation is at the center of economic growth. Congratulations to three who’ve taught us so much.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 2d

That this is basically the understanding of Gramsci I get from libertarians and conservatives who don't want anyone to be a Gramscian makes this explanation seem more likely.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 3d

Exodus 8:4.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3d

John 18:38.

Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator.

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 3d

For want of partridgeberries, I'm making cranberry pickles.

Cranberries are more one-note than partridgeberries, though, and I wonder if anyone on #cookingsky #foodsky has experience substituing them and would recommend adding something like a little quince.

A bluish pot with a mixture of onions and cranberries and a wooden spoon sticking out. Some sugar and warm spices coat the berries and onions.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 3d

This whole movement is one of the greatest activities in the information domain that I have seen from Americans over the past 9 months. Bravo.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

www.nytimes.com

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 3d

I demand the NYT hire this photographer for all the features of and interviews with the worst people in the world.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 6d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 4d

It's not so much 764 in particular (though they're very bad) but the fact that the FBI helped the RCMP understand that simple nihilistic evil-for-clout was something that needed investigation and not just the stand-in for an explanation when someone had no real answers.

Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 4d

Not that anyone needs a reason to feel worse about this, but FBI investigation has also been instrumental in helping agencies abroad take note, as with 764 in Canada.

www.cbc.ca

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

Of course I'm no fan of status quo ante FBI, much less DEA, ATF, etc. Hardly ideal on the civil liberties front, the lot of them. Still, not *everything* they do is bogus. Sometimes they do go after actual bad guys doing real bad stuff. Turning that off like flipping a switch is... not a great plan.

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 4d

If was the FBI investigation of 764 that finally helped the RCMP start supporting the families of children victimized by the group in Canada.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

It's more of a slow burn relative to everything else going on, but the fact that federal law enforcement for everything other than the immigration thuggery has effectively stopped is going to have consequences.

Landry Ayres @landryayres.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s an explainer on just one of the many neglected investigations sacrificed for the sake of Trump’s cruel immigration crackdown I did for @theunpopulist.net.

Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 4d

Watching Aaron Glenn dance is 100% wholesome content, though.

Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 4d

Also, Furby? Again??

Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 4d

Thing 2 (3yo) is curled up in bed sleeping very sweetly next to a Furby lent to us by the neighbour kid and I am sure this is going to end badly but the expression of betrayal when I tried to remove the Furby was too much for me to bear.

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 4d

After everything, it will be weirdly right if an IRL frog meme becomes one of the symbols that takes down American fascism.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 4d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 4d

Hey Canadasky: Write your MP and tell them that birthright citizenship is worth defending. You cannot take for granted that the pundit class is with you on this.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 5d

The Conservatives are right: Canada should end birthright citizenship

We don’t have to follow Donald Trump in this effort – we can just follow the likes of Britain and France

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5d

Machado is a good choice. She'll be controversial because she's in the fight, not above it. That makes this prize continuous with the 2021-3 streak of honoring opposition figures and dissidents rather than do-gooder organizations or already-powerful officials.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 6d

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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 5d

The "libertarian moment" was about defining libertarianism so broadly that someone out there thought that "libertarian theocracy" was a perfectly fine way to combine words.

(Also, follow @sonsofpatriarchy.bsky.social if you want to understand Christian nationalism in the United States.)

Sons of Patriarchy @sonsofpatriarchy.bsky.social · 5d

This interview between Ross Douthat and Doug Wilson for @nytimes.com Opinion is the best we have EVER read/listened to.

Doug was outmatched intellectually, culturally, and politically.

We would LOVE to get in contact with Ross and discuss his conversation with Doug.

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 6d

Perhaps the most definitive refutation of Bari Weiss' longrunning projection of herself and The FP as post-partisan, not-on-your-side truthtellers is CBS's acquisition of The FP and installation of Weiss as EIC *precisely* at a time when Paramount was desperately seeking to curry favor with Trump.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 5d

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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