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David Shumway
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Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon. Film, popular music, literature. All opinions are my own.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 11h
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 13h
Time for change in some high places in the Democratic Party if we are to meet the greater challenges of the moment in this country. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-these-vi...
Why These Vichy Dems and Their Spineless Boss Need to Go Now
We need courage and clarity from our leaders. Schumer and these eight in the Senate have shown they have failed that test. Time to turn the page.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 3d
Democrats trounce GOP, but it’s Schumer who concedes.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 6d
Despite your best efforts.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6d
Eagerly awaiting tomorrow's New York Times headlines explaining why this wave of victories is actually bad for the Democrats

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 6d
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6d
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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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6d
Important to compare and contrast the behavior of a Schumer with that of a Raskin— another Jewish Democrat who is obviously quite pro Israel but who has, interestingly, not made his support of other members of the party contingent upon them internalizing his particular preferences.
Mamdani brings Rooseveltian vision, youthful energy and pragmatic hope to the Big Apple. Wishing our Democratic nominee great success today.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 7d
Map is misleading. There are elections in many states.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 7d
Both things could be true.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 8d
The Democrats moved right, not left.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10d
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition

www.vox.com/politics/466...
The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
www.vox.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11d
"Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think. Cognitive degradation threatens democratic processes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12d
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14d
lol
Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? Anatomy of a credibility crisis by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 15d
People do not understand.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 17d
“Tackiness and tyranny go hand in hand.” Paul Krugman, today.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 17d
Social media stopped being fun years ago.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17d
chop from the top

www.chronicle.com/article/your...
Your College President Makes Six Times as Much as You
Meanwhile, faculty pay hasn’t kept pace with inflation.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18d
What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 18d
I’m thinking of Marshall Berman’s brilliant work on urbicide—the purposeful destruction of the city’s built environment after WWII—and how Trump’s minions are trying to finish the job by disappearing Black and Brown people. That’s why Mamdani’s coalition is so frightful to them

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20d
I’ve been writing about politics in some capacity for over 25 years now and it’s still stunning how the mainstream media refuses to tell the public basic truth

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22d
Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23
Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic. Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 22d
The New York Trump Times lies about size of the No Kings protests.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 23d
CNN is Fox News light.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 23d
No Kings Huntington Station, NY

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23d
More than 2,600 protests against the Trump administration are scheduled to take place across the U.S. on Saturday in a demonstration known as No Kings Day. Here’s what we know about the protests. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
A large crowd of protesters, some with mouths open as if shouting. A sign reads, "NOT KINGS." A headline reads: "What We Know About the Latest ‘No Kings’ Protests." Photo by Jordan Gale for The New York Times.