Enlightened Despotist in Name Only
@edino.bsky.social
A true DINO. (In reality a progressive incrementalist.) Math and board game fan.
Phila, PA
Tax the rich.
Phila, PA
Tax the rich.
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Someone must stop these low-wage servants from buying all the houses!
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Someone must stop these low-wage servants from buying all the houses!
They’re going to do a lot of lying, at any rate.
JD Vance: "We inherited a disaster. We chipped away at a lot of that problem in 10 months, but that's why you've got 4 year terms. Because we're going to do a lot over the next 3 years."
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
They’re going to do a lot of lying, at any rate.
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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Looks like it’s time to break out Old Reliable again.
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Looks like it’s time to break out Old Reliable again.
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WOW, new signage!
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
WOW, new signage!
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Meanwhile, on X
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Meanwhile, on X
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I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
#wisdomofchopra
(If you don’t know what that is, I suggest that, unlike Mr Chopra himself in the below exchange, you avail yourself of The Google.)
(If you don’t know what that is, I suggest that, unlike Mr Chopra himself in the below exchange, you avail yourself of The Google.)
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
#wisdomofchopra
(If you don’t know what that is, I suggest that, unlike Mr Chopra himself in the below exchange, you avail yourself of The Google.)
(If you don’t know what that is, I suggest that, unlike Mr Chopra himself in the below exchange, you avail yourself of The Google.)
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Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
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FROM: reporter@nytimes.com
TO: epstein@pedophile.com
SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women
hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason
TO: epstein@pedophile.com
SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women
hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
FROM: reporter@nytimes.com
TO: epstein@pedophile.com
SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women
hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason
TO: epstein@pedophile.com
SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women
hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason
Maybe the real pee tape is in the Epstein files we discovered along the way. (But, like, for real.)
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Maybe the real pee tape is in the Epstein files we discovered along the way. (But, like, for real.)
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You see Trump working the phones and realize White Housers are looking at this morning's emails and thinking, who cares abuot those nothingburgers we need to flip boebert so the bad stuff doesn't come out.
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
You see Trump working the phones and realize White Housers are looking at this morning's emails and thinking, who cares abuot those nothingburgers we need to flip boebert so the bad stuff doesn't come out.
The Epstein files should be released, and people should know the truth about Trump, and obviously this could make some difference to how (un)popular he is. But this isn’t going to suddenly bring him down bc republicans already know that he’s raped women, and like 99% of them don’t care.
the president admitted to sexual assault on camera and it didn't matter
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Epstein files should be released, and people should know the truth about Trump, and obviously this could make some difference to how (un)popular he is. But this isn’t going to suddenly bring him down bc republicans already know that he’s raped women, and like 99% of them don’t care.
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If you’re still subscribed to the Washington Post, they’re laughing as they spend your money on bribes for Trump.
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
If you’re still subscribed to the Washington Post, they’re laughing as they spend your money on bribes for Trump.
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Interesting result for the Why Vote It’s Not Like My Vote Changes Anything crowd
Seattle Mayor -- UPDATE:
- ☑️ Katie Wilson - 137,217 (50.25%)
- Bruce Harrell - 135,871 (49.75%)
We project that Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.
- ☑️ Katie Wilson - 137,217 (50.25%)
- Bruce Harrell - 135,871 (49.75%)
We project that Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Interesting result for the Why Vote It’s Not Like My Vote Changes Anything crowd
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These were not the answers I was expecting about needing to pee during a marathon, and I would like to go back and delete them from my brain thank you
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
These were not the answers I was expecting about needing to pee during a marathon, and I would like to go back and delete them from my brain thank you
Listen I’m sorry to be probably the 675 hojillionth person to make this basic snarky observation but:
Bragman had a real chance to advocate for things that could have advanced progressive priorities in America. Instead, he wrote the “liberal case” for voting for Donald fucking Trump.
Bragman had a real chance to advocate for things that could have advanced progressive priorities in America. Instead, he wrote the “liberal case” for voting for Donald fucking Trump.
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Listen I’m sorry to be probably the 675 hojillionth person to make this basic snarky observation but:
Bragman had a real chance to advocate for things that could have advanced progressive priorities in America. Instead, he wrote the “liberal case” for voting for Donald fucking Trump.
Bragman had a real chance to advocate for things that could have advanced progressive priorities in America. Instead, he wrote the “liberal case” for voting for Donald fucking Trump.
“Why are pants different than shirts?” will be a key issue in the 2028 general election.
if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“Why are pants different than shirts?” will be a key issue in the 2028 general election.
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Initially some people questioned the wisdom of making health care the center of the shutdown messaging. Then they changed their tune bc it worked! But then they got mad again bc democrats didn’t actually have the power to bring back the subsidies. The shutdown was actually about showing fight.
The base I think needed to see a demonstration of a fight and they showed that. They didn’t have a way to deliver on the asks if republicans were obstinate, and they were. But I think just deciding not to fight in the first place was worse.
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Initially some people questioned the wisdom of making health care the center of the shutdown messaging. Then they changed their tune bc it worked! But then they got mad again bc democrats didn’t actually have the power to bring back the subsidies. The shutdown was actually about showing fight.
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This is only a contrarian view on a website that has full on lost its mind.
A bit of a contrarian view. Democrats likely won't pay a price for this in the midterms. The American memory is quite short on political machinations. But Republicans are about to learn a central tenet of American politics: You cannot give people a benefit and then take it away.
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is only a contrarian view on a website that has full on lost its mind.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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USAID is still gone, no other country has shown either the will or the ability to fill in the services whose disappearance is going to kill millions of people, and no one in the media or political class cares that we are going to kill more people than the Holocaust before this is over 👍
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
USAID is still gone, no other country has shown either the will or the ability to fill in the services whose disappearance is going to kill millions of people, and no one in the media or political class cares that we are going to kill more people than the Holocaust before this is over 👍
We find out that he has a daughter right? So she starts going by Jane, yada yada yada…
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We find out that he has a daughter right? So she starts going by Jane, yada yada yada…