Emily Pela
@soundimpressed.bsky.social
a poster's spirit and a lurker's heart
getting on here, trying to be normal
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
PTAs best work uses surrealism, a period setting, and a careful balance of psychological and sociological richness to explore the contradictions of modern life. OBAA plays too much at Political Sophistication and comes out uncanny. I liked it but it won't hold up; it barely holds up now
February 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
PTAs best work uses surrealism, a period setting, and a careful balance of psychological and sociological richness to explore the contradictions of modern life. OBAA plays too much at Political Sophistication and comes out uncanny. I liked it but it won't hold up; it barely holds up now
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Also for those who want to talk about affordability more than anything else, your compromise is that ICE has $85 billion now. All of that money could go to people who need it!
Abolishing ICE is polling well and even polls positively with some Republicans at the moment. It could absolutely be a motivating and winning midterm issue that could flip control. Giving up before things even really start is a sure-fire way to keep people home.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Also for those who want to talk about affordability more than anything else, your compromise is that ICE has $85 billion now. All of that money could go to people who need it!
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Seems like a societal inflection point that the Trump administration absolutely gutted FEMA and gave hundreds of billions of dollars to ICE
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/w...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/w...
Winter storm leaves over a dozen dead, prolonged power outages and brutal cold | CNN
The massive winter storm that dumped snow and ice across the US left behind over a dozen deaths and at its peak knocked out power for over a million electric customers amid bone-chilling cold.
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Seems like a societal inflection point that the Trump administration absolutely gutted FEMA and gave hundreds of billions of dollars to ICE
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/w...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/w...
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Seeing some ‘it doesn’t matter if Bovino is out the real issue is [Miller, Horman, Noem]’ and I think that simultaneously downplays the importance of pushing out any one of them while also underestimating the institutional issues.
January 27, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Seeing some ‘it doesn’t matter if Bovino is out the real issue is [Miller, Horman, Noem]’ and I think that simultaneously downplays the importance of pushing out any one of them while also underestimating the institutional issues.
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"Nothing matters until Miller is gone" is the wrong way to frame things. The right way to frame a people-led victory like this is "Everything matters until Miller is gone."
January 27, 2026 at 2:21 AM
"Nothing matters until Miller is gone" is the wrong way to frame things. The right way to frame a people-led victory like this is "Everything matters until Miller is gone."
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
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2025 and 2026 not disabusing me of my underlying stance that anyone who wants to be an American should be one and that we should defend them
January 8, 2026 at 2:43 AM
2025 and 2026 not disabusing me of my underlying stance that anyone who wants to be an American should be one and that we should defend them
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This is an emergency of the gravest kind. “We can do it again. Nobody can stop us” he said. It is the absolute and solemn duty of Congress to impeach and remove Trump from power immediately.
Watch this. Watch again.
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
January 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
This is an emergency of the gravest kind. “We can do it again. Nobody can stop us” he said. It is the absolute and solemn duty of Congress to impeach and remove Trump from power immediately.
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the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
mynbc15.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
why don't we just let Planter become the Joe Rogen of the Left and then find another candidate under the age of 70, boom fixed it
October 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
why don't we just let Planter become the Joe Rogen of the Left and then find another candidate under the age of 70, boom fixed it
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If you want people to believe something, you should say it clearly, directly, & repeatedly. If you’re saying something else, you are failing to move people in your direction. Even worse, you are moving them in another direction, shifting the Overton window away from where you want to be.
October 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
If you want people to believe something, you should say it clearly, directly, & repeatedly. If you’re saying something else, you are failing to move people in your direction. Even worse, you are moving them in another direction, shifting the Overton window away from where you want to be.
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When you give time and attention to something, you are teaching people that thing is important. That doesn’t mean you should never tackle an opponent’s strengths, but you need to do it thoughtfully, in a way that doesn’t just emphasize how much worse you are.
On a fundamental level this is why "moderate on cultural issues" isn't just insufficient, it's harmful. There's been a lot of dissembling what this moderation looks like in practice (EK trying to dodge with "I'm just using abortion as an example"), but it's going to look something like this:
However, at the Senate and House levels, Dems responded and spent heavily, but with ads that were nearly indistinguishable in message from the right wing ones. After $866 million in attack ads ($729M R, $137M D), the initial public support for mass deportations is unsurprising.
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
When you give time and attention to something, you are teaching people that thing is important. That doesn’t mean you should never tackle an opponent’s strengths, but you need to do it thoughtfully, in a way that doesn’t just emphasize how much worse you are.
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absolutely. it's too about itself. the Main Character has just been "Blue Sky" every day for the past week, same as it was last year
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 AM
absolutely. it's too about itself. the Main Character has just been "Blue Sky" every day for the past week, same as it was last year
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"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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“On Friday, west suburban Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson had a clear message for Russell Hott, director of the ICE Chicago field office: “It has to stop.”
Broadview mayor says ICE is ‘making war on my community’ after latest protests at immigration facility
Federal officers again fired rubber pellets and chemical irritants into a crowd of protesters gathered Friday outside the fenced-off compound.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“On Friday, west suburban Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson had a clear message for Russell Hott, director of the ICE Chicago field office: “It has to stop.”
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I think one of Ezra Klein's big problems is that when he says "doing politics" what he actually means is content creation
September 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I think one of Ezra Klein's big problems is that when he says "doing politics" what he actually means is content creation
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We unlocked each new level of Internet by playing through the game. These kids are getting access to all the bosses and weapons from the start and they don’t have enough XP to handle it
February 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We unlocked each new level of Internet by playing through the game. These kids are getting access to all the bosses and weapons from the start and they don’t have enough XP to handle it
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First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him
September 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him
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It's such a strange, revealing argument. Why should any of us give a shit about protecting people in Epstein's files? Why do they think we do? Since when is the most sacred tenet of society "privacy for relationships of the rich & powerful with the pedophile child trafficker"? Reveal them all.
GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.
September 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It's such a strange, revealing argument. Why should any of us give a shit about protecting people in Epstein's files? Why do they think we do? Since when is the most sacred tenet of society "privacy for relationships of the rich & powerful with the pedophile child trafficker"? Reveal them all.
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people used to read magazines to learn about cool and interesting things from
people they assumed were cooler and more interesting and more informed than
themselves. now the roles are reversed, and why would anyone want to read something reiterating the obvious
people they assumed were cooler and more interesting and more informed than
themselves. now the roles are reversed, and why would anyone want to read something reiterating the obvious
September 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
people used to read magazines to learn about cool and interesting things from
people they assumed were cooler and more interesting and more informed than
themselves. now the roles are reversed, and why would anyone want to read something reiterating the obvious
people they assumed were cooler and more interesting and more informed than
themselves. now the roles are reversed, and why would anyone want to read something reiterating the obvious
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if you are looking for solid on the ground reporting in Chicago, I recommend:
- @unraveledpress.com
- @mulchy.bsky.social
- @pgoyette.bsky.social
please do not amplify people who have no record of posting accurate or timely information about events in Chicago
- @unraveledpress.com
- @mulchy.bsky.social
- @pgoyette.bsky.social
please do not amplify people who have no record of posting accurate or timely information about events in Chicago
September 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
if you are looking for solid on the ground reporting in Chicago, I recommend:
- @unraveledpress.com
- @mulchy.bsky.social
- @pgoyette.bsky.social
please do not amplify people who have no record of posting accurate or timely information about events in Chicago
- @unraveledpress.com
- @mulchy.bsky.social
- @pgoyette.bsky.social
please do not amplify people who have no record of posting accurate or timely information about events in Chicago