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elizabeth dutton @elizabethdutton.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta go listen to this. @zaron3.bsky.social knocks it out of the park, as usual.

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 1d

He really is, and genuinely self deprecating, it was a super fun intvw

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 2d

then I def think you’ll dig this interview, he’s a good one, and it’s a fun look back and look at now through his eyes

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 2d

Joe Isuzu was like a precursor avatar of our modern era of bullshit, except he was fun

for Very Special Episodes, I interviewed David Leisure, AKA Joe Isuzu, abt his days as the lying pitchman car salesman and the strangeness that came with his outsized fame

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Being Joe Isuzu

Podcast Episode · Very Special Episodes · 10/29/2025 · 48m

podcasts.apple.com

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 4d

think a lot of so-called “normie” white folks are abt to be in for a big surprise abt how many white folks are the recipients of SNAP and WIC and other govt subsidy programs

hint: they’re the majority of recipients, regardless of what racist AI vids suggest

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Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 5d

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 8d

feels like the Confederacy played the long game

and now a neo-Confederacy is waging a quiet second civil war

Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 8d

There it is.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 9d

We cannot keep having the same conversation about hypocrisy. This no longer matters

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 10d

this feels more and more likely with each passing day:

Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · Oct 2

what if they never reopen the government? what if he just governs by executive order?

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 10d

41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House.

This political moment is profoundly disgusting.

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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 10d

75 years ago, my friend Ronald McNair was born.

Denied books as a child at his segregated South Carolina library, he later became the second Black American in space. And today, that library bears his name.

Happy Birthday, Ron. Your legacy continues to inspire us.

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 10d

if anyone needs a new drag name, just came up with one by mistake. instead of prima donna, you could be Post Madonna

would work well if you’re white and have face tatts

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 11d

think when he says “everyone” he just means “white people I like”

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 11d

in 1955, in his book Essays in the Public Philosophy the journalist Walter Lippmann said, “if what is right and wrong depends on what each individual feels, then we are outside the bounds of civilization.”

today, our president is pushing us into that place outside the bounds of civilization

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 12d

Oh we have plans! just waiting for more details to emerge

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12d

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12d

Obama sharing a video of himself wearing a crown and flying a King Obama jet that dumped shit all over Americans would have been the only thing the news networks talked about for weeks.

Meanwhile, Trump doing that very thing couldn't even warrant a discussion on the Sunday shows today.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12d

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12d

the grievances of the Right are 'legitimate' and exist because the Left 'goes too far.' The grievances of the Left(s) are illegitimate because they are disfavored groups who should be grateful to get to live in this country.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 12d

I am remembering how the Tea Party protests in the Obama administration (2009-2010) were covered and thinking about how that coverage compares to the No Kings protests. #contentiousky

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12d

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 12d

we aim to help! think we all need it

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Zaron3 @zaron3.bsky.social · 12d

this is just embarrassing for the so-called paper of record

what a betrayal of the American people and of the paper’s duty to cover the news

this is toadie behavior

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 12d

Time to check in on how the ol’ Grey Lady covered seven million Americans protesting fascism yesterday… Ah! There it is, 38 headlines and several large ads down the page with a one minute read.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13d

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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