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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg Subscribe to my newsletter "Tusk" about US parties, campaigns, and politics: http://smotus.substack.com

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6h

Right? I'd recognize Roy Hobbes anywhere

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6h

New at Tusk: A look at two very different conservatives — Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bill Kristol — and how a break with Trump on one issue can lead to a break on many others

More like Marjorie Taylor Blue amirite

When a Trump ally loses faith

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 21h

Looking forward to joining @alexiscoe.bsky.social for a History Lunch Live on Tuesday at noon ET!

My Descent Into Medical Specificity; or, Being Right in the Most Boring Way Possible

Introducing: History Lunch Live

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should really interview the director of Antifa and get a look at their organizational chart

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

The US has military bases all over the world in large part due to its success in WWII & the Cold War and it having by far the world's largest military and economy. How exactly does Qatar get an airbase in Idaho?

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

If you're constructing a massive expensive thing that you demand everyone worship, I don't think its *critics* sound like the Antichrist

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

@juliaazari.bsky.social

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

You callin' the Wolf?

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Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

Students and faculty can’t speak out about political issues anymore or criticize a dead activist but a therapist has a constitutional right to try to reeducate gay kids?

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

Babe Ruth had a .342 batting average

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d

This is both a cool flex and an amazing figure

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 4d

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

A scatterplot of the number of rejections (y axis) by year (x axis)

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Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Seth Masket, Andrew M. Riggsby , and 1 more Lisa W. Fazio, Seth Masket, Andrew M. Riggsby, Jeff Carter

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 4d

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

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Reposted by David R. Miller, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Michael Evans

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote back in June that Trump is essentially attempting a Little Rock 1957 deployment only this time for white people, and he just tweeted it out
smotus.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 4d

Second prize is two dinners with Trudie & Sting

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

Does he think fishing boats are just wealthy guys going out for the day to drink beer and catch a marlin?

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

I grew up in LA and was taught to take my dishes to the sink. It's a shame that world is gone.

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

Like half of LA is broke screenwriters and probably 5-10% of them are good, which is a lot of talented people willing to work cheap! And still the sub-prestige level of TV writing is such garbage.

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

"Species" may be a precedent

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

I'm watching "Zero Day" on Netflix and I can't remember ever before seeing so many very talented and successful actors delivering such stupid performances in a project not directed by George Lucas

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Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no not la policia

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

Thank goodness, Spotify will finally recommend music to me

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

But they are highly qualified in that they were made to feel bad for their choices one time at previous institutions

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Reposted by Richard Price, Seth Masket

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 5d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

It violates federal law

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

Putting Johnny Fontaine in that new war picture at the demand of the Corleones will definitely help restore the power of the Screen Actors Guild

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

"We cannot set a precedent where the party in power uses police force to indict its political opponents."
-Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

Which is the passive part?

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d

A student told me about this but I had to confirm myself: when you call the White House Comment Line (202-456-1111), there's a recording of Karoline Leavitt blaming Democrats for the shutdown because of their love for illegal immigrants.

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6d

Oh I thought it was disfigured and unusable