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@maybeitsonlyus.bsky.social
Democracy, national security, IR, photography
Trossard you beauty!
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Trossard you beauty!
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ah, america
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
ah, america
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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anyways i dunno this civic malaise sucks man. why can't you assholes just recognize the inherent virtues of the (liberal) american civic religion
July 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
anyways i dunno this civic malaise sucks man. why can't you assholes just recognize the inherent virtues of the (liberal) american civic religion
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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
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forget the myths the media’s created about the media. the truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
how the white house press corps hasn't lit up karoline leavitt is beyond me. they're going to replace you with brett swastika of the keto-rahowa podcast at the drop of a hat anyway, you might as well earn it instead of taking it like little worms, writhing in the most prestigious career filth
“no hes not”
- the reply every single journalist should give immediately and to the face of lying republicans in reply to the false “human trafficker” and “ms-13” accusations levied at kilmer garcia
- the reply every single journalist should give immediately and to the face of lying republicans in reply to the false “human trafficker” and “ms-13” accusations levied at kilmer garcia
April 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
forget the myths the media’s created about the media. the truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jamelle Bouie for senate
March 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Jamelle Bouie for senate
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
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Disordered discourse doesn’t just distort conversatio, it distorts governance.
And when institutions internalise unreality, authoritarianism doesn’t need a coup, it walks in through the front door. And in America's case, sells you Tesla's from the White House lawn.
And when institutions internalise unreality, authoritarianism doesn’t need a coup, it walks in through the front door. And in America's case, sells you Tesla's from the White House lawn.
March 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Disordered discourse doesn’t just distort conversatio, it distorts governance.
And when institutions internalise unreality, authoritarianism doesn’t need a coup, it walks in through the front door. And in America's case, sells you Tesla's from the White House lawn.
And when institutions internalise unreality, authoritarianism doesn’t need a coup, it walks in through the front door. And in America's case, sells you Tesla's from the White House lawn.
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my latest: whether or not this is a constitutional crisis, there ought to be no question that our constitutional order is rotting from the inside out
Opinion | Where Are Trump and Musk Taking Us? (Gift Article)
A typology of constitutional crises and constitutional rot.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
my latest: whether or not this is a constitutional crisis, there ought to be no question that our constitutional order is rotting from the inside out
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finally wrote the thing. there's been a lot of doom on here lately--a lot of confusion as to why we haven't simply kicked the bums out. that's not going to happen tomorrow. but it will happen eventually. this is how:
www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...
www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...
Roadmap to American Reconstruction
A roadmap for retaking power and laying the foundations for American Reconstruction.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
finally wrote the thing. there's been a lot of doom on here lately--a lot of confusion as to why we haven't simply kicked the bums out. that's not going to happen tomorrow. but it will happen eventually. this is how:
www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...
www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...
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The boars have been very unfair to us. Very unfair.
But we will have meat. We will have more meat than you have ever seen.
*points at Chris Christie*
Chris, come up here.
You see how fat he is ? But we are not gonna eat him. Or maybe we will. We'll see.
But we will have meat. We will have more meat than you have ever seen.
*points at Chris Christie*
Chris, come up here.
You see how fat he is ? But we are not gonna eat him. Or maybe we will. We'll see.
March 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The boars have been very unfair to us. Very unfair.
But we will have meat. We will have more meat than you have ever seen.
*points at Chris Christie*
Chris, come up here.
You see how fat he is ? But we are not gonna eat him. Or maybe we will. We'll see.
But we will have meat. We will have more meat than you have ever seen.
*points at Chris Christie*
Chris, come up here.
You see how fat he is ? But we are not gonna eat him. Or maybe we will. We'll see.
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"Please sir, may I have some authority?"
March 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"Please sir, may I have some authority?"
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social at @liberalcurrents.com , on Niebuhr. Doesn't get more self-recommending than that.
www.liberalcurrents.com/if-reinhold-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/if-reinhold-...
If Reinhold Niebuhr Could Speak to Us Today, What Would He Say?
Democratic values must be actively cultivated and defended, or they will be captured and deformed.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social at @liberalcurrents.com , on Niebuhr. Doesn't get more self-recommending than that.
www.liberalcurrents.com/if-reinhold-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/if-reinhold-...
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Let’s look at government spending by year and as a percent of GDP.
February 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Let’s look at government spending by year and as a percent of GDP.
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
Incredible…humans are amazing. Hopefully he can break the 2hr marathon mark
The half marathon world record now begins with a 56.
Half marathon world record shattered: Jacob Kiplimo becomes first man to break 57 minutes
Kiplimo's overall pace Sunday came out to 4 minutes 19.5 seconds per mile.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Incredible…humans are amazing. Hopefully he can break the 2hr marathon mark
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Some context for what that kind of drop looks like. That's the lowest US score since the Civil War + a 1-year drop of that size puts us in the same company as events like Belarus's 1995 coup (though not as bad as Gambia in 1994 or Thailand in 2006)
#rstats code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...
#rstats code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...
February 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some context for what that kind of drop looks like. That's the lowest US score since the Civil War + a 1-year drop of that size puts us in the same company as events like Belarus's 1995 coup (though not as bad as Gambia in 1994 or Thailand in 2006)
#rstats code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...
#rstats code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...
This article by @dacemoglumit.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com is a really good and sobering read.
on.ft.com/3Qg6fz7
on.ft.com/3Qg6fz7
The real threat to American prosperity
Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on trade wars, tech industry hubris — and how loss of faith in US institutions could spiral
on.ft.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This article by @dacemoglumit.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com is a really good and sobering read.
on.ft.com/3Qg6fz7
on.ft.com/3Qg6fz7