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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃
@smotus.bsky.social
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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 11h
It's sort of ironic how Rosa Parks boycotted the Montgomery Alabama bus service.
Montgomery wasn't exactly famous for its public transportation system.
Maybe she should have brought attention to injustice and discrimination instead.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 11h
Family like Moon

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 14h
The Hate-Watcher-in-Chief

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 15h
Total Ted Nugent erasure

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
I do kind of love that he does a full unhinged racist tirade and then caps it with a fairly reasonable critique of NFL kickoff rules

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
Trump in January: I am in charge of Venezuela
Trump in February: What is this weird moon man language they speak in Puerto Rico
adamkinzinger.substack.com Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d
Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH.

Good god what a child

Reposted by William A. Allen, Seth Masket

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d
Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH.

Good god what a child

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
Wait *now* it’s a game?!?

Reposted by David R. Miller

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
Watching this Super Bowl is like watching WWI trench warfare

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d
Matt Yglesias thinks the half-time show should have been about grocery prices.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
Wow David Silver is singing the Star Spangled Banner

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
Johansson

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
New at Tusk: The NYT’s flattering profile of Katie Britt’s influence shows that it doesn’t amount to much
A strange puff piece
The NYT's glowing Britt interview reveals the extent of her influence. It isn't much.
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
There will be so many “good Americans” who “didn’t know” this was going on right nearby when this is all over

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
Huh where’d he immigrate from

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
Eh Winter Olympics is kinda boring wait Muad’Dib on Ice?!?

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
Always athletics, the future is

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
“The Super Bowl halftime show featuring one of the biggest recording artists in the world isn’t white enough so I want to organize a counter-show” is something a drunk racist Florida grandpa would mutter between Cheetos a decade ago and forget two seconds later

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
Doe!

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
If I had gone out of this world by being trampled by Colorado deer that would have gone from tragic to funny in about 5 minutes

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
It was just like the scene in "Dinosaur" (2000) where the plant-eaters discover collective action
youtu.be/CLba6l1dHcY?...
DINOSAUR (2000) Scene: "Stand together!"
YouTube video by John Maverick
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Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
It turns out if you follow too many deer too closely they will actually get pissed and try to scare you away. I never learned how to scare off deer because usually *it isn't fucking necessary*.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
Need 1st & 2nd dimension NOMINATE scores for members of Congress who appear in the Epstein files

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
No disrespect to @booker.senate.gov, but have any members of Congress gone to Minneapolis to function as observers and put their bodies on the line?

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
Every day
Trump: [says something absolutely horrible]
Media: Why did the president say that
WH: Obviously the president didn't say that
Trump: Yes I did
WH: Ah well nevertheless
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
NEW STORY: Trump admits he was the one who found the video and asked that it be posted from his Truth Social account. Refuses to apologize.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
NEW STORY: Trump admits he was the one who found the video and asked that it be posted from his Truth Social account. Refuses to apologize.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 3d
Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.
Finneas and Billie

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
Technically a Signal chat is military grade since it’s how the Secretary of Defense shares war plans

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
I don’t like to romanticize the past but I think society was better when we shunned child molesters rather than make them president

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
New at Tusk: Thinking about Vance’s chances should he become the 2028 GOP nominee. He’s no Trump. That could both help and hurt.
Of course Vance could win
Vance is no Trump. That's both a minus and a plus.
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