Jane
@janee.bsky.social
Wife of @momma-rose.bsky.social
Fan of Warhammer 40k, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy 14, and politics. Trans woman, lesbian
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Fan of Warhammer 40k, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy 14, and politics. Trans woman, lesbian
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat
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The China Hawks are all frauds, you just wanted an excuse to do Yellow Peril shit
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The China Hawks are all frauds, you just wanted an excuse to do Yellow Peril shit
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Not only this but the Daily Wire continues to put people like Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles in front of a massive audience where it allows them to routinely advocate extreme right-wing views.
Ben’s political project has been a massive cause of all of this.
Ben’s political project has been a massive cause of all of this.
Candace was dabbling in this stuff at THE DAILY WIRE, she literally built her audience there under the tutelage of Ben, he’s as responsible for the rise of antisemitism in the GOP as anyone
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Not only this but the Daily Wire continues to put people like Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles in front of a massive audience where it allows them to routinely advocate extreme right-wing views.
Ben’s political project has been a massive cause of all of this.
Ben’s political project has been a massive cause of all of this.
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longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.
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see also: the personal connection who works at the company someone's applying to just didn't feel like it was worth calling in a favor in order to help get them hired going "i'd LOVE to help you but just between us they have to give this job to a woman/minority so no point"
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
see also: the personal connection who works at the company someone's applying to just didn't feel like it was worth calling in a favor in order to help get them hired going "i'd LOVE to help you but just between us they have to give this job to a woman/minority so no point"
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The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
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Another sensible take. And as Palmer says in his followup skeet, one of the many things that are true here is that this woman didn't deserve the full weight of the internet coming down on her.
Like, yes, maybe that was a little disproportionate.
Like, yes, maybe that was a little disproportionate.
thoughts
a) it's fine for the NYT to cover this extremely well-known event. it's the kind of thing readers like and are interested in, like that or not.
b) whole-heartedly adopting the framing of the crisis PR firm she's using is not a good idea (especially in photo and headline)
a) it's fine for the NYT to cover this extremely well-known event. it's the kind of thing readers like and are interested in, like that or not.
b) whole-heartedly adopting the framing of the crisis PR firm she's using is not a good idea (especially in photo and headline)
At a Coldplay concert in July, Kristin Cabot appeared on the Jumbotron in the arms of her boss. Cabot retreated, trying to make things right with the people who mattered most. Now, for first time since that viral moment, Cabot is sharing her side of the story. trib.al/I8tWdU4
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Another sensible take. And as Palmer says in his followup skeet, one of the many things that are true here is that this woman didn't deserve the full weight of the internet coming down on her.
Like, yes, maybe that was a little disproportionate.
Like, yes, maybe that was a little disproportionate.
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Speaking of The Nation:
Edwin Lawrence Godkin, its editor, had been a stalwart abolitionist. As editor, he became a rabid anti-labor guy who sniped at his own former abolitionist allies over the labor question, in defense of the Gilded Age industrial magnates!
Edwin Lawrence Godkin, its editor, had been a stalwart abolitionist. As editor, he became a rabid anti-labor guy who sniped at his own former abolitionist allies over the labor question, in defense of the Gilded Age industrial magnates!
Also, Garrison stopped publishing The Liberator at the end of the War because he thought his project was done simply with emancipation. His son disagreed and started The Nation to report on Reconstruction and the plight of the freed people.
December 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Speaking of The Nation:
Edwin Lawrence Godkin, its editor, had been a stalwart abolitionist. As editor, he became a rabid anti-labor guy who sniped at his own former abolitionist allies over the labor question, in defense of the Gilded Age industrial magnates!
Edwin Lawrence Godkin, its editor, had been a stalwart abolitionist. As editor, he became a rabid anti-labor guy who sniped at his own former abolitionist allies over the labor question, in defense of the Gilded Age industrial magnates!
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i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end
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And I dunno, I also think cynicism and pessimism about the US and its values makes it easier, not harder, for monsters like Trump to bully us into abandoning those values. There’s really no upside other than savvy in-group signaling to fellow cynics
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
And I dunno, I also think cynicism and pessimism about the US and its values makes it easier, not harder, for monsters like Trump to bully us into abandoning those values. There’s really no upside other than savvy in-group signaling to fellow cynics
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In fairness the problem is more that like 60% of the general US adult population cannot read in a way that results in comprehending what the author's intent was
BlueSky is never beating the “userbase cannot read or do math” allegations
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In fairness the problem is more that like 60% of the general US adult population cannot read in a way that results in comprehending what the author's intent was
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Trump’s engagement with Epstein is far greater than almost anyone else’s, but he has managed to reduce it in a lot of popular discourse to a secondary fact about his life, seemingly because the implications of taking it seriously are simply too destabilizing for our institutions to grapple with.
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Trump’s engagement with Epstein is far greater than almost anyone else’s, but he has managed to reduce it in a lot of popular discourse to a secondary fact about his life, seemingly because the implications of taking it seriously are simply too destabilizing for our institutions to grapple with.
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The archetypal "self-censoring fact"
Trump’s engagement with Epstein is far greater than almost anyone else’s, but he has managed to reduce it in a lot of popular discourse to a secondary fact about his life, seemingly because the implications of taking it seriously are simply too destabilizing for our institutions to grapple with.
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The archetypal "self-censoring fact"
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the thing about giving a press conference about how trans people are a delusional disease and then announcing that because of how cool the President is that the Kennedy Center is being renamed for him is that you kind of tie the first thing's credibility to the second thing
December 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
the thing about giving a press conference about how trans people are a delusional disease and then announcing that because of how cool the President is that the Kennedy Center is being renamed for him is that you kind of tie the first thing's credibility to the second thing
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hbomberguy is more influential in his format than he would be via tweets. His talent exists for a particular medium, after all. But that's a distinct question from whether text-based social media collectively has a lot of influence via who it influences, which it obviously does.
December 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
hbomberguy is more influential in his format than he would be via tweets. His talent exists for a particular medium, after all. But that's a distinct question from whether text-based social media collectively has a lot of influence via who it influences, which it obviously does.
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my wife is from a former soviet bloc country with a family who has lived through soviet era communism and oppression, and sometimes i will read bluesky opinions on the soviet union to her. which makes her do a mix of uncontrollable peals of laughter or stunned silence
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
my wife is from a former soviet bloc country with a family who has lived through soviet era communism and oppression, and sometimes i will read bluesky opinions on the soviet union to her. which makes her do a mix of uncontrollable peals of laughter or stunned silence
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To be reversed. Immediately upon inauguration of next president.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
To be reversed. Immediately upon inauguration of next president.
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I don’t really believe this, but it’s a closer call than user numbers would suggest. The other thing is, persuasion and influence happens when people INTERACT, and Twitter now is largely like TikTok: a streaming of algorithmic posts designed to make you smash the like button. Zero discourse.
this is also why I think bsky is more influential than twitter at this point (which I know is a bit of a controversial position) - there's a lot of influential people spending time here!
This is why the angst over the decline of text-based media is a little overstated imo. Influential people read.
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I don’t really believe this, but it’s a closer call than user numbers would suggest. The other thing is, persuasion and influence happens when people INTERACT, and Twitter now is largely like TikTok: a streaming of algorithmic posts designed to make you smash the like button. Zero discourse.
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Here's an example of the kind of thing I write. I strive to find the cracks in enemy lines that allow us to find a way forward and keep the faith in dark times.
In the wake of today's vote in Congress, the arguments I provide here are useful for bludgeoning wobbly Dems with.
In the wake of today's vote in Congress, the arguments I provide here are useful for bludgeoning wobbly Dems with.
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Here's an example of the kind of thing I write. I strive to find the cracks in enemy lines that allow us to find a way forward and keep the faith in dark times.
In the wake of today's vote in Congress, the arguments I provide here are useful for bludgeoning wobbly Dems with.
In the wake of today's vote in Congress, the arguments I provide here are useful for bludgeoning wobbly Dems with.
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Yeah the comparisons to European flavors of right wing governance really fall flat.
Trump is by far the most Latin American leader the US has ever had. Not only does he govern like a textbook caudillo, he’s the most cartoonish yanqui villain ever.
He’s like a character from a 1960s novel, by the most stereotypical bearded intellectual— a member of the Communist Party, naturally.
He’s like a character from a 1960s novel, by the most stereotypical bearded intellectual— a member of the Communist Party, naturally.
It sounds like the most deranged Latin American caricature of yankee imperialism come to life. It would be comical if it weren’t serious.
December 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Yeah the comparisons to European flavors of right wing governance really fall flat.
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THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE THING RIGHT HERE THAT IS BREAKING SOCIETY.
The internet lets you pick your own truth, by selecting your way into a community where you are allowed to believe whatever feels right to you. People have come to expect that. A society of totally permissive belief.
The internet lets you pick your own truth, by selecting your way into a community where you are allowed to believe whatever feels right to you. People have come to expect that. A society of totally permissive belief.
December 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE THING RIGHT HERE THAT IS BREAKING SOCIETY.
The internet lets you pick your own truth, by selecting your way into a community where you are allowed to believe whatever feels right to you. People have come to expect that. A society of totally permissive belief.
The internet lets you pick your own truth, by selecting your way into a community where you are allowed to believe whatever feels right to you. People have come to expect that. A society of totally permissive belief.
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the key to understanding this is the SV technocapitalists all went insane during COVID
It’s so fucking insane they didn’t go in with the overly tech friendly Dems who love cheap green power basically for culture war reasons
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
the key to understanding this is the SV technocapitalists all went insane during COVID
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I voted today to stop Trump’s unauthorized strikes in the Caribbean & prevent ongoing military action in Venezuela.
If the president believes military action is necessary, he needs to make his case to Congress & the American people.
If the president believes military action is necessary, he needs to make his case to Congress & the American people.
December 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I voted today to stop Trump’s unauthorized strikes in the Caribbean & prevent ongoing military action in Venezuela.
If the president believes military action is necessary, he needs to make his case to Congress & the American people.
If the president believes military action is necessary, he needs to make his case to Congress & the American people.
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more importantly - safer with basically the same code requirements as dual egress/double loaded corridor
i've literally been saying this for years
i've literally been saying this for years
A new bombshell modeling report by the State of Minnesota has found that small single-stair buildings with smoke-separated stairwells are likely to be SIGNIFICANTLY SAFER than typical double-loaded apartment buildings
December 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
more importantly - safer with basically the same code requirements as dual egress/double loaded corridor
i've literally been saying this for years
i've literally been saying this for years
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The system rewarded Ross Douthat with a fucking column!
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The system rewarded Ross Douthat with a fucking column!