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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
June 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
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Our whole society is going Nazi, and it's not because Trump has mass popular support - his support has barely changed in years - it's because our elites are unable to tolerate the uncomfortable experience of opposing bigotry, authoritarianism, and conspiracism in their own social circles.
June 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Our whole society is going Nazi, and it's not because Trump has mass popular support - his support has barely changed in years - it's because our elites are unable to tolerate the uncomfortable experience of opposing bigotry, authoritarianism, and conspiracism in their own social circles.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Not sure how to do this. My partner and light of 19 years, @mitzistarkweather.bsky.social has been diagnosed with metastatic (stage 4) breast cancer.
We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.
If you’re able, we could use your help.
gofund.me/99a35bf2
We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.
If you’re able, we could use your help.
gofund.me/99a35bf2
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Not sure how to do this. My partner and light of 19 years, @mitzistarkweather.bsky.social has been diagnosed with metastatic (stage 4) breast cancer.
We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.
If you’re able, we could use your help.
gofund.me/99a35bf2
We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.
If you’re able, we could use your help.
gofund.me/99a35bf2
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So yeah I think as a Democrat we should focus on pocketbook issues to defeat Trump but due process is a pocketbook issue! They're going to ruin the economy by fucking the most important asset for the economy, the rule of law.
April 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So yeah I think as a Democrat we should focus on pocketbook issues to defeat Trump but due process is a pocketbook issue! They're going to ruin the economy by fucking the most important asset for the economy, the rule of law.
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SCOOP: Sen. Brian Schatz is expanding his holds on Trump's nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills.
Scoop: Schatz expands holds to more than 300 Trump nominees
He's intensifying his protest of what he calls the White House's "lawlessness."
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April 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
SCOOP: Sen. Brian Schatz is expanding his holds on Trump's nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills.
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Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."
April 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."
@whstancil.bsky.social I’m in bed with the flu all day and watching House MD, there’s a moment in Season 1 where he cures a black senator running for president and the senator has a line that channels you 20 years in the past:
youtu.be/-JOrkVgOJFg?...
youtu.be/-JOrkVgOJFg?...
"That'll Sound Much Better in Court" | House M.D.
YouTube video by House M.D.
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March 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
@whstancil.bsky.social I’m in bed with the flu all day and watching House MD, there’s a moment in Season 1 where he cures a black senator running for president and the senator has a line that channels you 20 years in the past:
youtu.be/-JOrkVgOJFg?...
youtu.be/-JOrkVgOJFg?...
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There is no power in the Constitution or case law to undo a pardon, and there is no exception to pardons signed by autopen, but President Trump claimed pardons issued by former President Biden were void, in a social media post that embraced a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory. nyti.ms/4i9AsfV
March 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
There is no power in the Constitution or case law to undo a pardon, and there is no exception to pardons signed by autopen, but President Trump claimed pardons issued by former President Biden were void, in a social media post that embraced a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory. nyti.ms/4i9AsfV
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I rarely say this, but if your Senate Democrat isn't doing what Chris Coons is doing, you should be calling them and asking why the hell not. It's not enough to EVENTUALLY oppose this bill - we need Senate Dems out there publicly rallying the troops RIGHT NOW.
March 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I rarely say this, but if your Senate Democrat isn't doing what Chris Coons is doing, you should be calling them and asking why the hell not. It's not enough to EVENTUALLY oppose this bill - we need Senate Dems out there publicly rallying the troops RIGHT NOW.
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This is what this was always about, only for the moment it’s Elon instead of Trump. Austerity for everyone, except friends and toadies.
Heard news earlier of wave of regional offices of big dept, but almost all in blue states. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Heard news earlier of wave of regional offices of big dept, but almost all in blue states. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The big players in the House get results from begging Elon
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is what this was always about, only for the moment it’s Elon instead of Trump. Austerity for everyone, except friends and toadies.
Heard news earlier of wave of regional offices of big dept, but almost all in blue states. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Heard news earlier of wave of regional offices of big dept, but almost all in blue states. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.
March 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.
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The way you actually change public opinion is by getting enough people and sources to repeat an idea that it starts to "seem" correct, even like the consensus, to many listeners, at which point they'll often adopt it.
March 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The way you actually change public opinion is by getting enough people and sources to repeat an idea that it starts to "seem" correct, even like the consensus, to many listeners, at which point they'll often adopt it.
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All Jeffrey Epstein needed to do was start up a right-wing podcast to be a MAGA hero
“Welcome to the States, boys.”
Dana White, President and CEO of UFC and a board member of META, warmly greets Andrew and Tristan Tate.
Dana White, President and CEO of UFC and a board member of META, warmly greets Andrew and Tristan Tate.
March 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
All Jeffrey Epstein needed to do was start up a right-wing podcast to be a MAGA hero
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Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.
March 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.
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REPORTER: Are you considering revoking the TPS status for the more than 20,000 Ukrainians who live here in the US?
TRUMP: What are you saying?
REPORTER: TPS status.
TRUMP: On GPS?
TRUMP: What are you saying?
REPORTER: TPS status.
TRUMP: On GPS?
March 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
REPORTER: Are you considering revoking the TPS status for the more than 20,000 Ukrainians who live here in the US?
TRUMP: What are you saying?
REPORTER: TPS status.
TRUMP: On GPS?
TRUMP: What are you saying?
REPORTER: TPS status.
TRUMP: On GPS?
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SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…
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March 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
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The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.
March 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.
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👇🎯 Again, somehow, inexplicably, the media coverage of all of this is not leading with THIS IS WILDLY ILLEGAL & UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It really doesn’t matter how good the journalism & investigative research is if you normalize the lawless authoritarianism like this.
February 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
👇🎯 Again, somehow, inexplicably, the media coverage of all of this is not leading with THIS IS WILDLY ILLEGAL & UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It really doesn’t matter how good the journalism & investigative research is if you normalize the lawless authoritarianism like this.
@schatz.bsky.social I think it’s time for an AMA so we can convince you that we need a historic champion of democracy and the rule of law right now and that you’re right there to be the one
February 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@schatz.bsky.social I think it’s time for an AMA so we can convince you that we need a historic champion of democracy and the rule of law right now and that you’re right there to be the one
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Throughout the 20th century our vision of fascism was a single TV channel telling you what to think - Big Brother piped into your living room. This was WRONG. Fascism turns out to as easily supported by infinite channels and perspectives, so that nothing is ever true except what you want to be true.
February 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Throughout the 20th century our vision of fascism was a single TV channel telling you what to think - Big Brother piped into your living room. This was WRONG. Fascism turns out to as easily supported by infinite channels and perspectives, so that nothing is ever true except what you want to be true.