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Ryan Enos

@ryanenos.bsky.social

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Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1h

In fairness to the libertarians, this is probably true of most ideologies...

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have

'Swas @sbeen.bsky.social · 23h

Ammon Bundy is scared

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have

'Swas @sbeen.bsky.social · 23h

Ammon Bundy is scared

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

But, on the whole, Bundy’s former allies seem to remain solidly in favor of the masked, armed federal agents. Just the other day, Bundy told me, he had a contentious conversation with a militant who had joined him at Malheur. Bundy had always thought that he and his supporters stood for a coherent set of Christian-libertarian principles that had united them against federal power. “We agreed that there’s certain rights that a person has that they’re born with. Everybody has them equally, not just in the United States,” he said. “But on this topic they are willing to completely abandon that principle.”

Bundy finds this ideological betrayal totally baffling. He would start to say something—“I can’t understand how they think …” or “They just can’t, they can’t …”—only to abandon the thought mid-sentence. “It doesn’t make sense to me,” he told me finally. “It’s scary, actually.”

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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 1d

The rise of Newsmax in official congressional e-newsletters is sort of amazing.

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 3d

This is from Georgia Fort’s video.

DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”

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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 7d

When you explain it plainly, it’s hard not to see where we are as a country.

An aging, increasingly unpopular leader with autocratic impulses sends masked agents into opposition areas to provoke unrest.

Those agents shoot an unarmed civilian observer after disarming him, obstruct evidence collection, and the government then lies about it publicly.

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