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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 39m

I can barely conjure opinions on what to wear in the morning

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 1d

Lol there were like 1500 in *Wooster, Ohio* on Saturday

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

The Tea Party's biggest distributed event was on tax day 2009, with 750 modestly attended protests. No Kings had 2,600.

Its biggest single gathering was on 9/12/09 in DC, with somewhere between 75K and a few 100K participants. No Kings had 5-7 million.

So: No Kings dwarfs the Tea Party. [2/3]

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 13d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 16d

Everyone on the right knew.
Everyone on the left knew.

Think y'all in the media might have been the only ones fooled. Or were you just trolling everyone, too?

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 18d

They truly believe that if they can control the media, education, science, health, and the military, they'll control it all and stamp out dissent.

If they read US history, they'd know we've been here before... and it led to mass movements and social change that shook this country and the world.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18d

Good morning! You feel like you’re going crazy because their attempts to bludgeon you into submission with weaponized unreality aren’t working on you.

Keep it up. You’re doing great.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 20d

I'm not a political genius, but I'm pretty sure the party that published a 600-page manifesto on how they want to shut down the federal government are the ones who shut down the federal government.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 21d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 21d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 22d

They do not have enough popular support.

So they are trying to outlaw / silence opposition.

And that’s where we are.

Pushing back has never mattered more.

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 22d

Why yes, the values of labor and the ownership/rent-seeking class are *not* aligned, thanks for noticing.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23d

girl what the fuck. do NOT piss me off with this shit

Updated 1 hour ago • 29,841 readers
Gen Z's employability problem
By Rachel Kleinman, Editor at Linkedin News ¿
Generation Z's values don't align with those of today's hiring managers, writes Suzy Welch, professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, in The Wall Street Journal. According to her team's analysis, just 2% of Gen Z members prioritize achievement, learning and an unbridled desire to work - the values companies prize most in new hires. That disconnect complicates an already challenging professional landscape for young Americans. Recent data shows that artificial intelligence automation is eliminating entry-level roles, a phenomenon that disproportionately affects Gen Z workers.

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 23d

An affirmation that too many people hold that worldview, maybe, sure. But an election can't change that the worldview is empirically and morally wrong.

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 25d

Change your voicemail to "please do not leave a message, and send me an email instead," and then never answer your phone.

(And then feel free to say yes all you want)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25d

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25d

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 25d

True, in the same sense that all models are false but some are useful

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25d

In 1945 the US Army said that a fascistic politician would also be an angry hyper-nationalist who tried to encourage his fellow Americans to reject ideas like "the brotherhood of man" and the importance of international cooperation as embodied in organizations like the UN. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

The second fascistic tactic to look out for is anyone who tries to amp up nationalistic animosities toward other nations or peoples, framing attempts to foster international cooperation as forms of weakness. The idea that all humans share the earth as equals is anathema to fascists.

2. Fascism cannot tolerate such religious and ethical concepts as the "brotherhood of man." Fascists deny the tradi fothin fational coy peration. mess
race." The brotherhood of man implies that all people-regardless of color, race, creed, or nationality
—have rights. International cooperation, as expressed in the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, runs counter to the fascist program of war and world domination.
In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people

in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations. Right now our native fascists are spreading anti-British, anti-Soviet, anti-French, and anti-United Nations prop-aganda. They know that allied unity now foretells the certain defeat of fascism abroad. They know that post-war allied unity means world peace and security.
They realize that fascism cannot thrive or grow under these conditions.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 26d

What's sort of striking about the Trump cabinet is that most of the prominent members have overlapping but varying versions of "dramatically unqualified," like there are psychopath true believers, soulless amoral strivers, full-on misanthropist sadists, it's really a melting pot

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 27d

This is exactly what we've all done with mere cloth paper representing the same store of value, because the value of currency doesn't come from the material value of the stuff, but the social consensus that it plays a role in facilitating commerce.

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 28d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 28d

Autism is not a "disease" or "epidemic".

Autism has a strong genetic component.

There is no evidence that vaccinees or Tylenol cause autism.

Access to autism diagnostics have dramatically increased as reported rates increased.

Neither Trump nor RFK Jr are scientists or medical professionals.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28d

> @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 28d

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

Illustration of three people standing on a hill beneath a huge orange sun. Large black text at the top reads: ‘It’s a Beautiful Day to Yell At God.’ One figure raises their arms and shouts ‘WHAT THE FUCK?’ while another says ‘COME OUT! WE JUST WANNA TALK.’ Bold text in the corner says ‘FACE US YOU COWARD.’

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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 28d

toot tooooooot! clockin in at the Fresh Hell Factory, ready for my shift 🫡

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 28d

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29d

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

A lot of people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel shows why it's important for businesses and the public to understand that two-thirds of Americans are not Trump voters

www.gelliottmorris.com

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