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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 5h

going from the written word, to speedrunning through radio, movies, television, the internet, social media, and the incoming AI media apocalypse… our societies ain’t built for this pace of epistemic shift

POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 14h

to me, this is in the same bucket as “i do not recall” from folks facing congressional hearings

should be disqualifying on its face

POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 14h

i think history will show that the legislative chambers and SCOTUS were effectively overthrown by oligarchs long before this present moment. Trump is merely the figurehead; the capitalists are leading the coup

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 14h

just like Twitter, all you need is a couple Saudi Princes and VC guys to throw in. they can all afford to burn that money

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 15h

which is why almost every power center in NYC, from liberal to right, is going to devote themselves to crushing Mamdani once he’s in office

they understand the narrative here. getting elected is bad enough, but he simply can’t be allowed to be an effective mayor.

POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 15h

yep. and when Trumpism fails, a good portion of his base will blame that failure on Trump not being fascist *enough,* and will drift into Fuentes’ camp

the liberal inability to offer a counter-narrative (due to capture by financial elites) cripples their ability to respond

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 15h

just wait til Trump takes over the Fed and slams the rate back to zero

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 1d

i’ve already lived through like three “the GOP is dead forever after this” cycles in my lifetime, and i ain’t that old

the two-party system basically ensures neither of these structures can ever truly die

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 1d

i believe the reporter asked something like, “have you considered just being nice to your security services *now,* so that they will actually be your friends when shit hits the fan?”

no, dude, they had not considered that

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 1d

jorking it in a respectful manner

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 2d

if you subtract the major AI firms and data center construction, the US is at essentially 0% growth. this horseshit is the only thing propping up the house of cards and they are burning through cash at an ever-accelerating rate

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 2d

when these guys bragged about microdosing every day for years i was very curious to see how that played out for them

guess we’re finding out

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 2d

it’s very funny when SCOTUS gets snippy with lower courts for ruling “against precedent”, when the precedent they’re referring to is an opinionless shadow docket decision

actually rule on the case or shut da fuck up

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 2d

celebrating Kirk as a champion of free speech when one of his major initiatives was maintaining a list of professors to punish for Wrongthink

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 3d

he’s trying to make a robot who can stop him from losing bets

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 3d

all stick, no carrot

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 3d

capital, as always

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

A fun prank would be to wait for two months and then pretend we all want to see the new Tron movie until they bring it back for another theatrical run, and then not go see it again

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 3d

he saw it as “defeatist,” which it plainly isn’t — it’s realistic, and in a certain light, hopeful

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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 3d

TNC was trying to explain that sometimes the good guys lose; not because they’re wrong, but because this is a country with no shortage of evil people. It’s always been like that. You fight on, anyway, for a better future — even one you might not live to see.

Ezra was incapable of understanding this

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 3d

Weird how they say that vaccines are bad and the president is good but the president got two vaccines yesterday, I wonder how long it will take before he is forced to wear high heels or starts collecting model trains or whatever they think vaccines do besides save lives

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