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David Call
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actor / filmmaker / woodworker / flyfisherman / jeep cherokee xj rescuer / guy from that thing https://t.co/qnDCAFxwGV
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I know that it’s a very Bluesky thing to assess the problems as being from overexposure to X, The Everything App, but I really do think a major driver of this is the young men that are most visible to Dem policy elites and podcasters are from there, or swim in those waters as well.
so basically what we are seeing lately is an unfortunate confluence where D elites and D-aligned podcasters (i repeat myself) are both convinced that they have to appeal to young men and are also convinced that this requires drastically lowering their standards because evidently boys will be boys
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a visitor at a Texas university reports that new Texas laws forbid instructors discussing gender in any circumstances; even if tenured, professors can be fired for teaching anything to do with LGBTQA+
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and that's why it will be so important to harass them without mercy. pain must be felt bsky.app/profile/dave...
So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.
Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.
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it's really weird when you get to a certain point in your career and you realize how many people around you have wikipedia families
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The lost art of the movie theater marquee
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let's fire an unpopular take, while we're here. in 2025, a substantial percentage, perhaps a supermajority of claims to be "working class" are actually a sort of Foucauldian jostle for - ironically - power, an attempt to legitimise your actions through the cosplay of being the Right Kind of Person
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What a blighted place in history, where socialism has lost politically, but won rhetorically; where in fact it has lost politically so much that its rhetoric is weaponised to attack all its principal claims about human life
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How I feel about political candidates
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Conservative conceptions of manhood always included being quick to anger and the tinge of violence but it also included not whining, being taciturn, being hardworking , etc. Clint Eastwood, not a 12 year old raging at Mom for not having chicken nuggets.
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What's "small" here is John Fetterman, a person so weak of mind and devoid of principles, so used to the lazy grift he switched to after winning office, that he won't even criticize corruption so brazen it has no parallel in American history, the President literally paying himself a fortune.
Fetterman describes Trump trying to steal $230 million from taxpayers as "small ball, and I think we have much bigger problems than worrying about those things."
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There is a full-on push in NYC right now to use "Mamdani doesn't make Jews 'feel safe'" as a cudgel to get Cuomo into office, and it is utterly disgusting. You know what makes me feel unsafe? People who casually characterize us as a trembling single-issue monolith scared of the big bad Muslim.
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It is an absolute scandal. An embarrassment. A tribute to the long history of state terrorism that codifies power. Shame, shame, shame.
Breaking News: North Carolina state senators approved a new congressional map that could give Republicans an extra seat. The state House is expected to pass it.
North Carolina State Senate Approves New Congressional Map in Effort to Add a Seat
The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year.
nyti.ms
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because i'm a dumb little baby who has no grip on reality
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

It really ain't hard y'all.
We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.
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"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.
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all very reminiscent of how Brett Kavanaugh’s life was going to be “ruined” if he didn’t get to be on the Court over a few measly sexual assaults
"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.
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It’s outrageous they’re killing innocent people, but we also need to stress, every time, that it would not really matter even it were absolutely certain that they were drug traffickers. Murdering criminals is still, you know, murder.
The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no evidence they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had proof, they’d face a court, not a drone.

The law still applies, even to suspected drug traffickers, and right now, the Administration’s story isn’t adding up.
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ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.

Make statues of this.
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Anthony DiLorenzo: PIX-11 was tipped about ICE raid. NYers react:

"People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."
ICE agents clash with large crowd in Lower Manhattan: ‘Shame’
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