Kierkegaarden Cop
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Kierkegaarden Cop
@joshsteich.bsky.social
· Mar 13
People having a lot of trouble understanding how Dems behave as a party don’t understand the Democratic Party.
It’s not a party united by ideology—like the GOP mostly is—it’s a bunch of constituencies in a basic (democratic) bargain: votes for government programs that benefit them.
It’s not a party united by ideology—like the GOP mostly is—it’s a bunch of constituencies in a basic (democratic) bargain: votes for government programs that benefit them.
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average rural american: you will take my F-150 keys from my cold dead hands
also average rural american: I feared for my life at the Times Square M&Ms store
also average rural american: I feared for my life at the Times Square M&Ms store
December 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
average rural american: you will take my F-150 keys from my cold dead hands
also average rural american: I feared for my life at the Times Square M&Ms store
also average rural american: I feared for my life at the Times Square M&Ms store
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Also confirming podcast debate as the preferred medium for charlatans
The most telling Bari Weiss incident came when "The Free Press" excused George Floyd's murder, @radleybalko.bsky.social highlighted factual errors, and Weiss's reaction was not to make corrections, but to invite Balko on a podcast.
There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content.
There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content.
Every part of this is embarrassingly lame.
December 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Also confirming podcast debate as the preferred medium for charlatans
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There's a ghost of a point here: I think Republicans legitimately struggled with how to to campaign against Obama without looking explicitly racist. Only later did they realize all their voters were onboard for explicit racism.
December 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There's a ghost of a point here: I think Republicans legitimately struggled with how to to campaign against Obama without looking explicitly racist. Only later did they realize all their voters were onboard for explicit racism.
#LosAngeles #DogRescue #EastLos hey animal control isn’t answering the phone & there’s a nursing dog with 4-6 pups in the bushes at the highway at Grand Vista & Atlantic @lataco.bsky.social @theeastsiderla.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#LosAngeles #DogRescue #EastLos hey animal control isn’t answering the phone & there’s a nursing dog with 4-6 pups in the bushes at the highway at Grand Vista & Atlantic @lataco.bsky.social @theeastsiderla.bsky.social
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Trump allowed the richest man in the world to condemn potentially millions of people to death. In a just world, this moral atrocity would follow all involved — Musk, DOGErs, Vought, Marco Rubio and Trump — like a trail of blood for the rest of their days.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of USAID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Trump allowed the richest man in the world to condemn potentially millions of people to death. In a just world, this moral atrocity would follow all involved — Musk, DOGErs, Vought, Marco Rubio and Trump — like a trail of blood for the rest of their days.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
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If it is going to survive at all, it will have to move on from what those of us who are in it today are doing. The fact that he can't accept that is a personal failing. And his turn to reactionary politics is terrible to watch. But it's also doing tremendous damage to the field he supposedly loves.
December 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If it is going to survive at all, it will have to move on from what those of us who are in it today are doing. The fact that he can't accept that is a personal failing. And his turn to reactionary politics is terrible to watch. But it's also doing tremendous damage to the field he supposedly loves.
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good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
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For those of us who pay quarterly taxes or any other payment by December 31, this unheralded change in postal policy can bite you in the butt. This could have other unforeseen consequences (e.g., mail-in balloting), but for now, this is more timely.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
For those of us who pay quarterly taxes or any other payment by December 31, this unheralded change in postal policy can bite you in the butt. This could have other unforeseen consequences (e.g., mail-in balloting), but for now, this is more timely.
I really feel like this is another example of habitual fandom/kayfabe norms of online discourse turning pathological through parasocial identification
She’s not doing a heel-face turn, & to the extent she dismantles the MAGA infrastructure she helped build, she’s moving toward neutral, not Byrd.
She’s not doing a heel-face turn, & to the extent she dismantles the MAGA infrastructure she helped build, she’s moving toward neutral, not Byrd.
I see a lot of arguing on here and I just want to help out a bit: It’s possible to enjoy Marjorie Taylor Greene burning bridges with conservatives without also concluding that she is now a reformed progressive icon
December 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I really feel like this is another example of habitual fandom/kayfabe norms of online discourse turning pathological through parasocial identification
She’s not doing a heel-face turn, & to the extent she dismantles the MAGA infrastructure she helped build, she’s moving toward neutral, not Byrd.
She’s not doing a heel-face turn, & to the extent she dismantles the MAGA infrastructure she helped build, she’s moving toward neutral, not Byrd.
Cars have also, aside from the Trump admin, been more & more heavily regulated to get there
It’s funny to say this about cars, a product that has gotten noticeably more reliable and better in my life time and which China is quickly innovating on.
The profit motive is at the heart of every single stupid, unnecessary change to the things you use. Capitalists can't increase their profits by making something that works well and keeping it the same, so they endlessly "innovate" to Make The Line Go Up
December 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Cars have also, aside from the Trump admin, been more & more heavily regulated to get there
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The Rams are 0-2 since Puka went on Adin Ross
December 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The Rams are 0-2 since Puka went on Adin Ross
I haven’t seen the episode yet, but was in high school theater in the ‘90s, & what has been described would have been, like, the skit acted out by GSA peer educators, not a reasonable expectation
I don’t know how to feel about a coming out scene set in the 80s where an entire room of people is supportive. Is it sweet? Yes. Does it make sense mostly with a group that’s been through a lot together? Yes. Does it…sorta whitewash what people coming out faced in that time? 😬
December 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I haven’t seen the episode yet, but was in high school theater in the ‘90s, & what has been described would have been, like, the skit acted out by GSA peer educators, not a reasonable expectation
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Huh, turns out if you check the top grossing movies of 1991, #1 is a movie about traveling back in time to prevent AI from existing and taking over the world...
December 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Huh, turns out if you check the top grossing movies of 1991, #1 is a movie about traveling back in time to prevent AI from existing and taking over the world...
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I'm equally angry that I never got the robot sister "Small Wonder" promised me.
Another thing the woke left took from us.
Another thing the woke left took from us.
December 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I'm equally angry that I never got the robot sister "Small Wonder" promised me.
Another thing the woke left took from us.
Another thing the woke left took from us.
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They took testing ammo by shooting dogs in the head from you.
December 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
They took testing ammo by shooting dogs in the head from you.
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Chuds watching Teletubbies: "This is the future the left stole from us!"
December 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Chuds watching Teletubbies: "This is the future the left stole from us!"
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I certainly look to the 1991 movie about a St Bernard for a fully comprehensive understanding of American culture at the time. If the Beethoven movies can't be considered an accurate snapshot of the zeitgeist, what can?
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I certainly look to the 1991 movie about a St Bernard for a fully comprehensive understanding of American culture at the time. If the Beethoven movies can't be considered an accurate snapshot of the zeitgeist, what can?
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One thing that doesn’t get enough attention is how the myth of “liberal-dominated media” affects the behavior of mainstream news outlets. The right’s constant complaining – working the refs – has made news execs think they must platform patently false Republican narratives. 8/10 🧵
December 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
One thing that doesn’t get enough attention is how the myth of “liberal-dominated media” affects the behavior of mainstream news outlets. The right’s constant complaining – working the refs – has made news execs think they must platform patently false Republican narratives. 8/10 🧵
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A 2022 study found that most journalists (51.7%) were independent. Those identifying as Republican fell from 18% percent in 2002 to 3.4% in 2022. Again, not a leftist plot. My theory: Fact-based people were put off by GOP lies. (If you don't think Republicans lie a lot, I can’t help you.) 5/10 🧵
Key Findings From The 2022 American Journalist Study
Executive Summary
This survey continues the series of major national studies of U.S. journalists begun in 1971 by sociologist John Johnstone and continued in 1982, 1992, 2002, and 2013 by David Weaver...
www.theamericanjournalist.org
December 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A 2022 study found that most journalists (51.7%) were independent. Those identifying as Republican fell from 18% percent in 2002 to 3.4% in 2022. Again, not a leftist plot. My theory: Fact-based people were put off by GOP lies. (If you don't think Republicans lie a lot, I can’t help you.) 5/10 🧵
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I mean, the entire Manhattan project was underpinned by immigrant researchers, and the reason why America got the nukes and Germany didn't is because the Nazis adopted the exact vile, boneheaded blood-and-soil bullshit that Miller is spouting and drove out all their smartest guys.
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I mean, the entire Manhattan project was underpinned by immigrant researchers, and the reason why America got the nukes and Germany didn't is because the Nazis adopted the exact vile, boneheaded blood-and-soil bullshit that Miller is spouting and drove out all their smartest guys.
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Still unreported, should be investigated:
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
Huge win for Richard Noticias LA, TikTok journalist shot by ICE. Criminal charges dismissed with prejudice, meaning can’t be refiled.
ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.
Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.
Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
Federal judge dismisses indictment against TikToker shot by ICE, citing constitutional violations
Days before Carlitos Ricardo Parias was set to to go to trial for assault on a federal officer, a federal judge dismissed the case against him. The judge cited the deprivation of Parias' access to cou...
www.latimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Still unreported, should be investigated:
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
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Here’s an image from the mall cameras of that spot a few mins later, after key portion ICE and LAPD allegedly deleted. Other photos show how perfectly that camera was positioned.
If the full video were out months ago, it probably would have exonerated Richard immediately.
This smacks of a coverup.
If the full video were out months ago, it probably would have exonerated Richard immediately.
This smacks of a coverup.
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Here’s an image from the mall cameras of that spot a few mins later, after key portion ICE and LAPD allegedly deleted. Other photos show how perfectly that camera was positioned.
If the full video were out months ago, it probably would have exonerated Richard immediately.
This smacks of a coverup.
If the full video were out months ago, it probably would have exonerated Richard immediately.
This smacks of a coverup.
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the rich in this film are presented as greedy, venal eugenicists and it is probably a kinder and gentler portrayal then they deserve
December 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
the rich in this film are presented as greedy, venal eugenicists and it is probably a kinder and gentler portrayal then they deserve
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"It's Morbin' time" as the kids say, as surely reshowing Morbius in theaters will work This Time.
December 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"It's Morbin' time" as the kids say, as surely reshowing Morbius in theaters will work This Time.
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will stancil [posts anodyne take no hotter than lukewarm]
extremely devoted group of haters: i took that personally
it’s just weird. he is sometimes wrong, right, tone deaf, on the money, or off topic. but every couple weeks blue sky goes into a stancilpocalypse
extremely devoted group of haters: i took that personally
it’s just weird. he is sometimes wrong, right, tone deaf, on the money, or off topic. but every couple weeks blue sky goes into a stancilpocalypse
December 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
will stancil [posts anodyne take no hotter than lukewarm]
extremely devoted group of haters: i took that personally
it’s just weird. he is sometimes wrong, right, tone deaf, on the money, or off topic. but every couple weeks blue sky goes into a stancilpocalypse
extremely devoted group of haters: i took that personally
it’s just weird. he is sometimes wrong, right, tone deaf, on the money, or off topic. but every couple weeks blue sky goes into a stancilpocalypse