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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20h

So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways.

econbrowser.com/archives/202...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20h

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 5d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 28d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Sep 22

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Sep 18

The only way forward is to inflict as much financial AND publicity damage on Disney as possible as swiftly as possible. Cancel streaming subscriptions, boycott products, picket, encourage politicians and entertainment figures to shout about this from the housetops. Demonstrate the cost of cowardice.

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free link @aisucks.antifa.meme · Jul 14

aI iS cOmInG fOr YoUr JoBs

a screenshot from a food ordering app showing a picture of chicken nuggets and the text:

"Chicken Pops

Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood."

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · Jun 24

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.

CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one

PELOSI: Take the shot

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Jun 5

ELMER FUDD: *inside the criterion closet* miwwahs cwossing... twahmendous, just a twahmendous film ah ha ha ha .. here we go.... muwurhvern cawwahl

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · May 23

open chart, keep scrolling down

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · May 16

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters.

I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · May 16

Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters

All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)

By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)

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The Onion @theonion.com · Apr 17

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Apr 16

American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere

Geoff @geoffdeburca.bsky.social · Apr 16

Here's the odds over time in Australia

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · Apr 2

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today.

Some very brief highlights:

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Mar 25

Some astonishing numbers in here:
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value

Bubble Trouble

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

prospect.org

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · Mar 24

my god

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · Mar 14

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]

CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · Mar 12

GAVIN NEWSOM: So, again, you were talking about the importance of-

EDGAR THE BUG WEARING HUMAN SKIN FROM MEN IN BLACK: SUGAR WATER

GAVIN NEWSOM: Yes, sugar water. And my party hasn't acknowledged how much people love sugar and water. My son was shouting SUGAR WATER at me the other day on xbox.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Feb 12

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants

An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · Feb 12

The CHAMPIONS and ONLY TRUE DEFENDERS of women’s sports did WHAT?

Amanda Christovich @achristovich.bsky.social · Feb 12

NEWS: Trump's Department of Education has rescinded the guidance saying Title IX, the statute governing gender equity in sports, applies to House v. NCAA revenue-sharing payments.

It's one of the expected but drastic shifts in Trump's Title IX application. frontofficesports.com/trump-biden-...

Trump Education Dept. Pulls Biden’s NIL Pay Equity Rule

It’s one of several Biden-era policies related to Title IX that the Trump administration has almost immediately reversed.

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David J Heller @djheller.bsky.social · Feb 12

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... This discussion explains why everything is on fire; why the public is being gaslit into thinking they’re idiots; and where all this is going and why.

It’s also with my better half @greenwell.bsky.social.

How Elon Musk and his DOGE goons are following the private equity playbook

A q&a with journalist Megan Greenwell.

www.motherjones.com

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