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RevanBRZero

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A somewhat-function adult. Opinions my own. He/Him.

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Sharon

@sharonk.bsky.social

IN 1976 A DELEGATION OF HISTORIANS FROM THE SOVIET UNION visited the United States to participate in commemorations of the bicentennial of the American Revolution. Upon their arrival, a local host asked them which sites they would like to visit first. He as- sumed that they would want to see Independence Hall, or perhaps Lexington and Concord, or Williamsburg and Yorktown. But the answer was none of the above. They wished to go first to Gettysburg. The host—a historian of the Revolution and the early republic—was dumfounded. Why Gettysburg? he asked. Because, they replied, it is the American Stalingrad—the battlefield in America's Great Patri- otic War where so many gave the last full measure of devotion that the United States might not perish from the earth.

July 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Edward Luce

@edwardluce.bsky.social

This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.

March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM

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Julia Azari

@juliaazari.bsky.social

how does this keep getting worse

February 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty

@irhottakes.bsky.social

We're going to have to build another one of these things.

Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II

"Here we admit a wrong."

February 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

i am constantly hearing that the left is elitist but if it is elitism to stand up for basic values of citizenship and decency against a bunch of cruel dumbasses who have no greater ambition than to tell bad jokes and hear the braying laughter of their dumbass friends, then i am an elitist

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 27

these people make me into a social conservative but for social democratic values

Wexler thinks her account can get young women to “come out” of their MAGA closets because, ideally, in her they see themselves. “We all serve different purposes. I really believe culture is upstream of politics,” Wexler told me. “It’s okay to have your values. A lot of people feel this way; they’re just too shy to say anything.”
All weekend, everyone in this set kept referring to themselves as “normal.” In their eyes, they are representative of the rest of the country — if not how they look, exactly, then how they talk. After all, the mainstream media had nearly declared a Harris victory after a comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally made racist jokes about Puerto Ricans, only for Trump to set a GOP record with Latino voters. Raquel Debono, when trying to explain why she likes to tell fat jokes, told me, “I’m normal, okay? Probably the most fucking normal person here.” Even her “lib” friends, she says, enjoy a not-so-PC joke every now and then, but only behind closed doors. “I want to be skinny! You said the same thing last night, bitch! You had bulimia ten years ago!” Another example of the kind of thing she believes everyone else is thinking, too, but may be too shy to say: “The DEI bullshit? Who the fuck cares?”
Off-duty from TikTok and their Fox News guest-panelist gigs, the young conservatives did exhibit a certain level of willingness to really get into it in a mostly productive way, which, I’ll admit, is more than I can say about a lot of people back in Brooklyn. Still, it was disconcerting how often a normal conversation with one of these so-called normal people could cannonball from politics and policy into, at the very least, a not-so-PC joke and, at worst, something hateful.
When I first reached out to Wexler, for example, asking to talk about her weekend plans for the inauguration, she wrote back, “Let’s do it. Full transparency, I think ‘pronouns’ are ‘retarded.’” She asked me to tell my readers that. “Tomorrow, we’re going to have images of th…

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty

@irhottakes.bsky.social

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Micah

@rincewind.run

that Korea does this, immediately, in the face of actual soldiers trying to impose martial law - when members of our own congress voted for a coup hours after the J6 mob stormed congress, and the coup instigator won the next election - is about as scathing an indictment of America as I’ve ever seen