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This is class solidarity.

In case you’re at all confused.
September 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Mindlessly scrolling TikTok and I run into ABC News rebroadcasting their live coverage of 9/11/2001 on TikTok live. Insane choice
September 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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hellgatenyc.com
Thanks to RFK Jr.'s new restrictions, you may have a tougher time getting a COVID vaccine.

Here are some options for getting your booster:
New Yorkers Are Scrambling to Get a COVID Booster This Year: 'It's All These Hoops We Have to Go Through'
Thanks to RFK Jr.'s new restrictions, you may have a tougher time getting a COVID vaccine. Here are your options.
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September 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Heat Wave Doesn’t Bother Local Contrarian
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June 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Shaven, Cologned Grandpa Heads Into Town To Rake In D-Day Pussy
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Shaven, Cologned Grandpa Heads Into Town To Rake In D-Day Pussy
June 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
kjdkjd.bsky.social
People are criticizing John Graeber for coining the phrase bullshit jobs because the right has co-opted the idea — but, the premise of Bullshit Jobs is that critiques of government inefficiency are false and belie the actual waste rampant in the private sector.
June 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
kjdkjd.bsky.social
Took a 4 train last night and witnessed my first showtime since the prepandemic era 🥰
April 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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hellgatenyc.com
The City Raided His Bed-Stuy Weed Shop. He Spent 48 Hours Behind Bars
The City Raided His Bed-Stuy Weed Shop. He Spent 48 Hours Behind Bars
Karis Thompson was a cannabis dealer trying to go legit before he was swept up in "Operation Padlock to Protect."
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March 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Introducing the $20 Dinner Map, an interactive guide to @scoboco.bsky.social's $20 Dinner column. Whether you're planning an eating adventure or just find yourself thinking 'where the hell can I eat around here that's good and doesn't cost $700?,' we've got you.
Behold: Hell Gate's Interactive $20 Dinner Map
$20 Dinner dining critic Scott Lynch introduces our snazzy new interactive map of New York City's best affordable restaurants.
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March 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
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March 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
sending this post from a crosswalk where a car DARED to honk at me to hurry up mid-crossing. he’s honking while i write this lmao he’s so mad. i’m not going to walk away until i’m confident you’ve learned something slugger
February 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
kjdkjd.bsky.social
At first the AI voices all the news apps are using blew me away, but now I’m noticing all these weird mispronunciations (même instead of meme, rhyming Kansas and Arkansas) and they don’t seem as impressive.
January 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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“The way to look at mental health care from an insurance perspective is: I don’t want to attract those people. I am never going to make money on them,” said Ron Howrigon, a consultant who used to manage contracts with providers for major insurers.
Why I Left the Network
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made thei...
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December 21, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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blipstress.bsky.social
i saw a post that was slightly incorrect and part of me wanted to correct it but then i saw all the obnoxious corrections (some of which were themselves incorrect) in the replies and it was like scrooge being visited by the ghost of christmas future.
October 15, 2024 at 2:54 PM
kjdkjd.bsky.social
Lying about when the train leaves so my husband won’t be late ✅

Lying about which train we’re taking so my father won’t be early ✅
August 23, 2024 at 9:51 PM
kjdkjd.bsky.social
Behold, the private sector:
August 8, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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jamellebouie.net
“the white male moderate midwestern governor is too left wing to appeal to swing voters” is such a laughable take. perfect example of how the only real thing these folks believe is that anything that makes lefties happy must be bad.
August 6, 2024 at 3:38 PM
kjdkjd.bsky.social
We talk a lot about kids who cut ties with their racist grandparents——-I would like to hear more from the grandparents who hate their racist kids.
August 2, 2024 at 10:11 PM
kjdkjd.bsky.social
Lotta people on TikTok who can’t say Kamala 👀
July 23, 2024 at 9:49 PM