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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 43m

Yes - as @thomaszimmer.bsky.social @lilymasonphd.bsky.social have said this is the reason talking about the “authoritarian playbook” or general definitions of “fascism” isn’t that helpful for predicting what will happen in the US. This case will likely be different to past cases.

Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 1h

As someone whose professional interests have overlapped heavily with Przeworski's, I felt (and concurred with) this bit: "The brutal fact that we find it so difficult to predict what will happen under our current circumstances is evidence that we do not have theories we can rely on."

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 1h

As someone whose professional interests have overlapped heavily with Przeworski's, I felt (and concurred with) this bit: "The brutal fact that we find it so difficult to predict what will happen under our current circumstances is evidence that we do not have theories we can rely on."

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 50m

The fact that theres any conversation about “is the Saudi regime bad or not” is a PR win for the Saudi regime. Anything the artists might say or do now has to be weighed against what they already did: sent a big message to the US and UK that hey, dismembering critics isn’t THAT bad right?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 14h

1 year anniversary of this beauty

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 1d

suddenly thinking about a december message blitz from RFK, the NIH and the administration like, "this christmas, get your family the marburg virus. it literally makes you invincible"

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1d

The Enigma of Amigara Fault but with Sherman, the dog, yelling "TH-THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!" edited into the picture.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

holy shit i flew over it as it happened!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

The teams have stopped play and have joined each other on the field to sing Christmas carols

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 1d

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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david tveite @tveite.bsky.social · 1d

baseball is designed to make its fans feel like shit and that is what's good about it

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Glad that NYT went to some of the smartest, most clued in experts, @whitneyphillips.bsky.social who is the bomb when it comes to abusive internetting, and @shannimcg.bsky.social an expert in media and social media in politics.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with ones native to the internet while also controlling the political narrative.

Trump’s Aides and Officials Take Political Battles Online

President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with online ones.

nyti.ms

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Our greatest crusader against cancel culture, Bari Weiss, will surely address this outrage with the full force of CBS News

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

The preferences, they have been revealed

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

"I'll read all of them carefully and hold them in the strictest of confidence" = I will run them through chatGPT and ask the AI to pick 20% of the staff to lay off

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 1d

We got leaked audio from Peter Thiel’s off the record antichrist lectures: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 1d

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Mike Johnson Confesses that Protests Are Getting to Him, Lying About Protestors No Longer Enough

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "