DrDobie
@drdobie.bsky.social
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DrDobie
@drdobie.bsky.social
· Oct 8
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
This describes the situation so well.
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No one has a clearer view of JD Vance, who has called on Republicans to stop the "infighting" with the Hitler lovers who have insulted him and his wife, than Jamelle Bouie.
And the question is: If JD Vance were an open Groyper, would he be acting any differently?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
And the question is: If JD Vance were an open Groyper, would he be acting any differently?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
November 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
No one has a clearer view of JD Vance, who has called on Republicans to stop the "infighting" with the Hitler lovers who have insulted him and his wife, than Jamelle Bouie.
And the question is: If JD Vance were an open Groyper, would he be acting any differently?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
And the question is: If JD Vance were an open Groyper, would he be acting any differently?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
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make them answer for why they care more about checking a child’s underwear than whether you can afford your electric bill!
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
make them answer for why they care more about checking a child’s underwear than whether you can afford your electric bill!
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
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Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
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LOL spending more money then you would've been taxed is next level nuts. I want Mamdani to tax them into another PLANET.
The thing about the billionaires failing to stop Mamdani is what they spent is about the equivalent as a normal person sticking a 20 in a slot machine and shrugging when it doesn't hit. Kind of a problem.
The Billionaires Who Tried—and Failed—to Stop Zohran Mamdani
Over 20 billionaires donated to super PACs supporting Cuomo or in opposition to the next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
time.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
LOL spending more money then you would've been taxed is next level nuts. I want Mamdani to tax them into another PLANET.
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I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
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The blue no matter who people, who spent years telling the left to enjoy the camps for telling them that transphobia and genocide are wildly unpopular election-losing positions, ended up voting for a sexual predator *not* running as a democrat who was endorsed by Trump, Musk, and Miller. Who lost.
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The blue no matter who people, who spent years telling the left to enjoy the camps for telling them that transphobia and genocide are wildly unpopular election-losing positions, ended up voting for a sexual predator *not* running as a democrat who was endorsed by Trump, Musk, and Miller. Who lost.
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just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
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Who is wise? One who learns from all people.
Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world.
(Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)
Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world.
(Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Who is wise? One who learns from all people.
Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world.
(Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)
Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world.
(Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)
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Gifted article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Prosecutors Who Called Jan. 6 Attackers a ‘Mob of Rioters’ Are Punished
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Gifted article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
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Note how the Right does not deny their own agency to make normies care about things. Abortion. Immigration. "Woke." They manufactured public sentiment on all of these things. And they've relied on sophisticated strategies to do it.
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Note how the Right does not deny their own agency to make normies care about things. Abortion. Immigration. "Woke." They manufactured public sentiment on all of these things. And they've relied on sophisticated strategies to do it.
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My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
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SNAP benefits expire in one week.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
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We know.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We know.
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does it have something to do with the literal richest men in the history of the world waging a longterm propaganda campaign on behalf of the Republican Party in exchange for wealth and power beyond human comprehension
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
does it have something to do with the literal richest men in the history of the world waging a longterm propaganda campaign on behalf of the Republican Party in exchange for wealth and power beyond human comprehension
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The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
October 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
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Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.
The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein
YouTube video by The Onion
www.youtube.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.
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We’re doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
We’re doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)
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Here's the CBS Chicago report. Only 3m 24s.
But books will perhaps be written about it..
youtu.be/SRJ4fb_5_t8?...
But books will perhaps be written about it..
youtu.be/SRJ4fb_5_t8?...
Broadview police chief says ICE agents making false 911 calls
YouTube video by CBS Chicago
youtu.be
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Here's the CBS Chicago report. Only 3m 24s.
But books will perhaps be written about it..
youtu.be/SRJ4fb_5_t8?...
But books will perhaps be written about it..
youtu.be/SRJ4fb_5_t8?...
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JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
This describes the situation so well.
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This describes the situation so well.
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It is not possible to guarantee safety for a minority group except through a multicultural society. This is a basic fact of hard reality. Wise up, Steve.
The Manchester synagogue attack is a story of mass immigration and multiculturalism. We must bring an end to both.
My latest for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/immi...
My latest for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/immi...
October 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
It is not possible to guarantee safety for a minority group except through a multicultural society. This is a basic fact of hard reality. Wise up, Steve.
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"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
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NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.
Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.
All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.
All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
religionnews.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.
Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.
All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.
All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...