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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 6h

Cool thread. My alternate framing to this dynamic, unsurprisingly, is going to center consumerism as politics. We’ve had “sacrificial, participatory, and enduring relationships” to institutions, and now we have “transactional and self-centered relationships to institutions”. Amenable to RW and LW!

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

I'm gonna try to articulate something I've been thinking about for a while, regarding *why* disillusionment, distrust, & dissatisfaction with democracy are rising.

Almost everything I read takes this phenomenon as an exogenous shock, assuming no one chose to make it so. I suspect that's incomplete.

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GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 6h

My wife makes more than me and it’s never been a problem because I’m not insecure and we just split expenses based on our income split - she pays 60% and I pay 40%. This is all pretty easy and a 50/50 split is really an anachronism.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 7h

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The plight of the trophy husbands — Business Insider

Kim Dhatt, a 34-year-old recruitment specialist, was in a relationship with her ex-partner for four years. When they first got together, he earned slightly more than she did, and the difference didn't...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

Sorry I’m gonna go back on my bullshit here: National Consersvatism’s entire ethos boils down to “this problem, that we created, exacerbated, and oppose any effort to combat, is very bad. We will solve it by making it worse”

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

I suspect populist parties bootstrapped their own political support by weaponizing the residual, ambient distrust present in all societies & MAKING MORE OF IT, spreading & intensifying it, by propagating narratives of distrust & corruption. By repetition & uptake by other political actors, it rose.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

there are a couple of ways to think about this, one is that no one should be running for their first senate race at this age, and the other is that if platner can’t beat her, he definitely can’t beat collins. i think he can. everybody needs to stop crying and start fighting.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 12h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 17h

I think it may have been 2006? That is when I really started hearing voter fraud as a huge meme.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 18h

Long Black Veil was described as an ‘instant folksong’ bu its songwriter when it was written.

I think You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alove has similar vibes. Written as the theme song for justified I think.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 20h

beetle bailey arc where we learn who in camp swampy will obey orders to fire on american citizens once the insurrection act is invoked. my picks are rocky, zero, and, surprisingly, plato. killer surprises everyone by making a big show of not doing it. beetle simply goes AWOL

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

Let me strongly emphasize that you should not give someone money for committing a gross breach of professional ethics. You also shouldn't hire them for a prestigious new job but our industry is garbage, alas!

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 19h

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.news has learned 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.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

There is no statute of limitations for murder, including under UCMJ.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health

Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 21h

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 1d

Tapping the “moral courage” sign

This is why Clausewitz says mere intelligence isn’t enough: a smart person can easily be paralyzed by the endless possibilities they can imagine

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

a couple of people have criticized this "but what if you do bad things with all that power" but like. look around you. the right has already grasped the power at hand and is using it. "republicans use the state to advance their goals; democrats unilaterally disarm" is not a sustainable equilibrium!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 19h

The amount of willful ognorance media people have about this is like, reason why the political press should be found better jobs #327 but it definitely is one. I think about it every time some 23 year old ghoul is on a panel show.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 19h

Kind of shocked this had not happened already.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 19h

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.news has learned 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

Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 20h

This matches my experience.

Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 1d

Oh and the way it stood outside existing politics and could destabilize things in its favor.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 1d

They simply lacked Spain’s power and reach and other advantages (smallpox).

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

also i know why they are accusing me and nikole of antisemitism

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1d

Burhan is the goat urbanist YIMBY. He’s also one of the kindest, most thoughtful people I have met.

if you live in Cambridge, he deserves to be ranked #1 on your ballot

Cllr. Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in a generation, triple-deckers and affordable apartments are legal again in Cambridge.

Impossible? It wasn’t.
Inevitable? It’s wasn’t that either.
It was a choice.

Vote Burhan #1 on Nov 4th and keep choosing housing.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 1d

Nazis pouring out their fourth Reich cereal. Shocked and dismayed they take a second look at the box. “OOOPS!!! All Görings.”

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