Chris
@bostonalias.bsky.social
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We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
September 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
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So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like
September 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like
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counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025
Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers
September 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London
illinois gov. JB pritzker responds to ken paxton's threat to arrest TX democrats who fled the state: "they're here in illinois. we're going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them."
August 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London
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"Abolish" is not a strong enough word for ICE.
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Abolish" is not a strong enough word for ICE.
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The level of fucking delusion you have to have to support trump on the terms that most of his voters support him makes it hard for me to understand how they can function in day to day life
April 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The level of fucking delusion you have to have to support trump on the terms that most of his voters support him makes it hard for me to understand how they can function in day to day life
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the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.
In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
March 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.
It’s so funny that Firefox caters to privacy concerned users, but that also means their users are so skittish that a minor ToS change means everyone wants to leave them.
February 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It’s so funny that Firefox caters to privacy concerned users, but that also means their users are so skittish that a minor ToS change means everyone wants to leave them.
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☑️ From New York.
☑️ Known primarily by three letter initial.
☑️ Populist credentials.
☑️ Also appealing to liberal institutionalists.
☑️ Opposed to domestic fascism.
☑️ Opposed to imperial powers doing wars of conquest in Europe.
🔜 Assumes national power after massive recession.
☑️ Known primarily by three letter initial.
☑️ Populist credentials.
☑️ Also appealing to liberal institutionalists.
☑️ Opposed to domestic fascism.
☑️ Opposed to imperial powers doing wars of conquest in Europe.
🔜 Assumes national power after massive recession.
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
☑️ From New York.
☑️ Known primarily by three letter initial.
☑️ Populist credentials.
☑️ Also appealing to liberal institutionalists.
☑️ Opposed to domestic fascism.
☑️ Opposed to imperial powers doing wars of conquest in Europe.
🔜 Assumes national power after massive recession.
☑️ Known primarily by three letter initial.
☑️ Populist credentials.
☑️ Also appealing to liberal institutionalists.
☑️ Opposed to domestic fascism.
☑️ Opposed to imperial powers doing wars of conquest in Europe.
🔜 Assumes national power after massive recession.
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they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh
January 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh
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The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."
January 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."
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the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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brand new diner serves coke the normal way
October 23, 1927 at 3:27 AM
brand new diner serves coke the normal way
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looks like the cable news anchors are finally asking minor questions like “what does a mass deportation actually look like” and “are you going to deport citizen children?”
November 10, 2024 at 9:52 PM
looks like the cable news anchors are finally asking minor questions like “what does a mass deportation actually look like” and “are you going to deport citizen children?”
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There's a big and basic asymmetry here.
Rs don't have to answer for obnoxious things Trump himself does. He doesn't mean it. I'd take some mean tweets and $2 gas right now! etc
Ds have to answer for the craziest thing said by a rando on Twitter or cable TV and featured on Fox News.
Rs don't have to answer for obnoxious things Trump himself does. He doesn't mean it. I'd take some mean tweets and $2 gas right now! etc
Ds have to answer for the craziest thing said by a rando on Twitter or cable TV and featured on Fox News.
"Democrats should make women on dating sites use different words" what are we doing here
November 7, 2024 at 4:35 PM
There's a big and basic asymmetry here.
Rs don't have to answer for obnoxious things Trump himself does. He doesn't mean it. I'd take some mean tweets and $2 gas right now! etc
Ds have to answer for the craziest thing said by a rando on Twitter or cable TV and featured on Fox News.
Rs don't have to answer for obnoxious things Trump himself does. He doesn't mean it. I'd take some mean tweets and $2 gas right now! etc
Ds have to answer for the craziest thing said by a rando on Twitter or cable TV and featured on Fox News.
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i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.
November 6, 2024 at 1:26 PM
i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.
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i want to post my twitter abortion thread here bc i'm sad to lose it
August 22, 2023 at 2:20 PM
i want to post my twitter abortion thread here bc i'm sad to lose it