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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
Excellent take by a genuinely good journalist. Strongly recommend following and reading “The Handbasket.”
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Excellent take by a genuinely good journalist. Strongly recommend following and reading “The Handbasket.”
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Donald Trump is the planted flag of every crook and rapist. He is the lost cause of the south. He is the vice of the slave master, the shadow that clouds his superego at all hours, the sweat on his brow that makes him never end in his gluttony, lust, and greed. He is spiritual excrement incarnate.
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Donald Trump is the planted flag of every crook and rapist. He is the lost cause of the south. He is the vice of the slave master, the shadow that clouds his superego at all hours, the sweat on his brow that makes him never end in his gluttony, lust, and greed. He is spiritual excrement incarnate.
Tom doing to the Lord’s work on a Saturday instead of something more fun (thanks Tom, great 🧵
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Tom doing to the Lord’s work on a Saturday instead of something more fun (thanks Tom, great 🧵
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What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Trump: Making feudalism great again!
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Trump: Making feudalism great again!
Preach.
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Preach.
No one works harder than Tom to remind Bluesky to keep our current political situation in perspective. Always grateful for these reminders.
Look, I know I poke the kids about fascism, but in a fascist state, you don't get charged with a felony about a sandwich and then walk out when a jury - and the nation - laughs at the prosecutors.
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
No one works harder than Tom to remind Bluesky to keep our current political situation in perspective. Always grateful for these reminders.
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This account will be equal parts hopeful and gloating for the rest of the evening. To that end: Pour one out for the pile of NYC billionaire money that was utterly incinerated tonight!
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Excellent article. I’m so tired of being trolled by the US government.
Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Excellent article. I’m so tired of being trolled by the US government.
Great 🧵.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Great 🧵.
I chortled.
Pete Hegseth is the kind of guy you used to send on a Crusade so he’d stop bothering you and die from incompetence
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I chortled.
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70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
Ethelred the Unready paid off the Danes, John Lackland signed the Magna Carta under duress, Richard II threw nobles in prison, Henry VI was catatonic periodically… so yeah, the English decided monarchy wasn’t the hill they wanted to die on.
been reading a lot of medieval English history recently and it's instructive as to why the Anglo political tradition evolved away from monarchy. every 4th king or so would turn out to be a murderous lunatic, people got sick of it
it is kind of interesting how not only do they openly yearn for monarchy, but they also want a system of monarchy more absolute than almost any of the historical reference points where the president can tax, spend, declare war, even suspend habeas corpus at will
October 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Ethelred the Unready paid off the Danes, John Lackland signed the Magna Carta under duress, Richard II threw nobles in prison, Henry VI was catatonic periodically… so yeah, the English decided monarchy wasn’t the hill they wanted to die on.
Because the writing is excellent.
Wednesday is the one month mark since I founded burnsnotice.com and we passed 40,000 views today.
Burns Notice
Trans rights, politics internet culture, gaming, and the occasional sports thing. A newsletter by independent journalist Katelyn Burns.
burnsnotice.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Because the writing is excellent.
The call, as usual, is coming from inside the Reich.
One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The call, as usual, is coming from inside the Reich.
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Today’s peaceful protests were the perfect example of what @radiofreetom.bsky.social has repeated ad nauseum (only to receive ad hominem attacks):
We are not yet living under fascism.
Many of our current leaders are fascists. But they don’t control us yet and we need to make sure they never do.
We are not yet living under fascism.
Many of our current leaders are fascists. But they don’t control us yet and we need to make sure they never do.
October 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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This is absolutely amazing.
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
October 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This is absolutely amazing.
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I love this.
October 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I love this.
Read the whole 🧵. Vital info.
‼️‼️‼️ Got word of a new way the billionaire in charge of SSA is fucking over the American people!!!! TLDR: This will definitely lead to people applying for benefits losing out on money, and probably some hefty lawsuits for attorneys that know what’s up. The long version is gonna be long so let’s go.
October 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Read the whole 🧵. Vital info.
Y’all, JD Vance said Trump was Hitler and still got elected Vice President. Let’s not hold stupid shit against our own candidate, esp because every Progressive has probably joked about being a “Communist” at least once, given how centrist the party machine sways. Trump is pro Gulag, not Platner.
Republicans have a right to power and are valid officials for office at the age of 19 with no experience outside of their popular racist YouTube channel, democrats must be cultivated angels delivered by political machines that grow them in vats and release them for the senate at the age of 79
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Y’all, JD Vance said Trump was Hitler and still got elected Vice President. Let’s not hold stupid shit against our own candidate, esp because every Progressive has probably joked about being a “Communist” at least once, given how centrist the party machine sways. Trump is pro Gulag, not Platner.
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos
“Only by standing together can the senior military officials warn Trump away from leading America into a full-blown civil-military confrontation.”
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“Only by standing together can the senior military officials warn Trump away from leading America into a full-blown civil-military confrontation.”