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Dan Tilem
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Generally interested in conversations, not gotchas. Let’s learn from each other instead of scoring points.
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Dan Tilem @capdan.bsky.social · Oct 26
The Plutocratic Billionaire Oligarchs of the West have begun their march to line up under Trump.

Press restrained is not Free Press.

They aren't even waiting for him to win. They've decided to MAKE Trump "their leader" and end the American experiment.

Musk, Soon-Shiong, Bezos.
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rokhanna.bsky.social
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
capdan.bsky.social
I’ve seen what I need to.

Damn.

Well, it was a well run 106 day campaign, but it’s over.

PA at 95% and Trump up around 200k votes.

This sure will be an uncomfortable next 4 years.
November 6, 2024 at 6:57 AM
capdan.bsky.social
This evening has shown me that the blue wall has a large number of over-performing Trump counties.

I'm not willing to call it yet, but it ISN'T looking good in the way I was hoping.
November 6, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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"I want everyone in Philadelphia to see that clip."
"Or in Reading."
"If you live in Reading, Pennsylvania, look at that trash. What is trash is people actually thinking about other human beings that way."
AOC & Gov. Walz React to "Puerto Rico is an island of garbage" | Twitch Livestream
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October 28, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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So Trump decided to hold a rally in NY, a state he’ll never win, and because of that rally and the vile rhetoric that emerged from it, he’s secured endorsements *for Kamala* from Bad Bunny, J Lo, Ricky Martin, Luis Fonsi, and Marc Anthony to their hundreds of millions of followers.
October 28, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
capdan.bsky.social
The Plutocratic Billionaire Oligarchs of the West have begun their march to line up under Trump.

Press restrained is not Free Press.

They aren't even waiting for him to win. They've decided to MAKE Trump "their leader" and end the American experiment.

Musk, Soon-Shiong, Bezos.
October 26, 2024 at 2:24 AM
capdan.bsky.social
Hey @vampjuice.bsky.social It sounds like you're having a rough go at things right now.

I just wanted you to know that someone read what you wrote and felt compelled to check in on you.

Life is definitely not the fairy tale we were shown on TV, but I hope you take a chance and try something new.
October 16, 2024 at 6:08 AM
capdan.bsky.social
Hey @albertsonb2.bsky.social I see that your bio states that you look at Political Psychology.

Does that include questions like "when did hyper-partisanship begin/is it worse than ever?"

Are there any papers/books you'd recommend?

Any people you know thinking about ways to bring back compromise?
October 16, 2024 at 5:48 AM
capdan.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #935,446!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #935,446, Dan Tilem ‪@capdan.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 9, 2023"
October 7, 2024 at 9:20 PM