@stamanaise.bsky.social
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in these dark times, it’s important to take joy in the simple things. like how a guy who did great harm to me & my friends can’t write about the Epstein Files because last year he co-wrote a book with Noam Chomsky, Epstein’s secret bestie apparently
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
in these dark times, it’s important to take joy in the simple things. like how a guy who did great harm to me & my friends can’t write about the Epstein Files because last year he co-wrote a book with Noam Chomsky, Epstein’s secret bestie apparently
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after welcoming Mick Mulvaney to the network with open arms my sympathy for these people is zero, if they’re mad at anything it’s that Bari took away the plausible deniability for which side they’re on
December 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
after welcoming Mick Mulvaney to the network with open arms my sympathy for these people is zero, if they’re mad at anything it’s that Bari took away the plausible deniability for which side they’re on
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Btw, why the western analytical community and the Pentagon, etc, are all trying to say Ukraine’s big problem is that they have not drafted all their people and sent them to the front, is because they are trying to shift responsibility away from their own terrible failures.
December 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Btw, why the western analytical community and the Pentagon, etc, are all trying to say Ukraine’s big problem is that they have not drafted all their people and sent them to the front, is because they are trying to shift responsibility away from their own terrible failures.
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the conservative view of free speech is their right to say whatever they want with the biggest platform they can manage and your right to shut up and listen
Respect, like freedom of speech, is a thing some people are entitled to (people who agree with me) and some people aren't (people who don't agree with me) bsky.app/profile/ndha...
Bari’s standard for “and do so with respect” appears to be ‘Sharyn Alfonsi should have not emailed her colleagues about me refusing to meet with her after I spiked her story that had already been cleared by the actual editors and standards’
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
the conservative view of free speech is their right to say whatever they want with the biggest platform they can manage and your right to shut up and listen
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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I’m kinda convinced part of the reason Krugman was pushed out was he *wasn’t* willing to kiss the ass of elites and hang out at their dinner parties
December 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I’m kinda convinced part of the reason Krugman was pushed out was he *wasn’t* willing to kiss the ass of elites and hang out at their dinner parties
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like, I don’t think puka and mookie are hardcore antisemites. I think they are mouthbreathing morons who are attracted to the lowest form of media slop, which 30 years ago was like, idk, cartoons, not groyper streamers
December 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
like, I don’t think puka and mookie are hardcore antisemites. I think they are mouthbreathing morons who are attracted to the lowest form of media slop, which 30 years ago was like, idk, cartoons, not groyper streamers
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more broadly, I think the rise of braindead streamers/influencers is a an absolute scourge and we need to bring back gatekeeping in media somehow
December 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
more broadly, I think the rise of braindead streamers/influencers is a an absolute scourge and we need to bring back gatekeeping in media somehow
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incalculable damage to the world because Mister Trump’s rollicking pirate ship of wacky misfits was just too fun to hang out at happy hours with
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
incalculable damage to the world because Mister Trump’s rollicking pirate ship of wacky misfits was just too fun to hang out at happy hours with
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Like this one just seems morally not all that complicated
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Like this one just seems morally not all that complicated
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I think it's hard not to argue for Trump as the absolute worst modern American President at this point but Reagan probably represents the biggest avoidable inflection point that bent the country towards ruin. His admin did so much unnecessary evil bsky.app/profile/brur...
Fuck Reagan 🖕🏼
December 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I think it's hard not to argue for Trump as the absolute worst modern American President at this point but Reagan probably represents the biggest avoidable inflection point that bent the country towards ruin. His admin did so much unnecessary evil bsky.app/profile/brur...
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like his complaint is literally that there are people who believe in things, believe those things are right, and believe in those things regardless of whether they are popular.
December 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
like his complaint is literally that there are people who believe in things, believe those things are right, and believe in those things regardless of whether they are popular.
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so yes. the crisis of the liberal international order is not merely a crisis of messaging. there is no eden to go back to--but rather, a future to forge--a future more genuinely liberal
December 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
so yes. the crisis of the liberal international order is not merely a crisis of messaging. there is no eden to go back to--but rather, a future to forge--a future more genuinely liberal
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But if you spent 2021 and 2022 whining about the prices of burrito taxis instead of celebrating the best ever job market for workers in the 21st century you should know that you were helping the bosses' little scheme. Scheme worked! Trump's back and people are now desperately holding onto their jobs
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
But if you spent 2021 and 2022 whining about the prices of burrito taxis instead of celebrating the best ever job market for workers in the 21st century you should know that you were helping the bosses' little scheme. Scheme worked! Trump's back and people are now desperately holding onto their jobs
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Having $800M in your investment account vs $400M doesn't change your life at all, but having a labor market where your underlings are desperate to cling to jobs vs one where they can walk across the street and get a better offer makes a huge difference in the day to day reality of the very wealthy
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Having $800M in your investment account vs $400M doesn't change your life at all, but having a labor market where your underlings are desperate to cling to jobs vs one where they can walk across the street and get a better offer makes a huge difference in the day to day reality of the very wealthy
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anyways just more evidence for my own bugbear that we're entering a new era of global ideological struggle, with the conflict lines running within nations as much as between them
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
anyways just more evidence for my own bugbear that we're entering a new era of global ideological struggle, with the conflict lines running within nations as much as between them
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I have such contempt for the lickspittles in the WH press corps who sit by passively while he does this to their colleagues.
And for what? The privilege of allowing him to lie to you every day?
And for what? The privilege of allowing him to lie to you every day?
I've reached out to ABC News and parent company Disney for comment about Trump abusing reporter Rachel Scott, a Black woman journalist, calling her "obnoxious" and "a terrible reporter."
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I have such contempt for the lickspittles in the WH press corps who sit by passively while he does this to their colleagues.
And for what? The privilege of allowing him to lie to you every day?
And for what? The privilege of allowing him to lie to you every day?
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If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.
Reporter: “Are you committed to releasing the full video?”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.
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We are now up to three total shitshow senate primaries (Texas, Michigan, and Maine).
Kirsten Gillibrand is the head of the DSCC and her literal job is to prevent this. but instead, she’s been spending her time criticizing Zohran. She needs to go, both as DSCC head and from the senate entirely imo
Kirsten Gillibrand is the head of the DSCC and her literal job is to prevent this. but instead, she’s been spending her time criticizing Zohran. She needs to go, both as DSCC head and from the senate entirely imo
! Colin Allred is ENDING his Senate campaign and instead running for the House in Texas' redrawn 33rd congressional district.
December 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We are now up to three total shitshow senate primaries (Texas, Michigan, and Maine).
Kirsten Gillibrand is the head of the DSCC and her literal job is to prevent this. but instead, she’s been spending her time criticizing Zohran. She needs to go, both as DSCC head and from the senate entirely imo
Kirsten Gillibrand is the head of the DSCC and her literal job is to prevent this. but instead, she’s been spending her time criticizing Zohran. She needs to go, both as DSCC head and from the senate entirely imo
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I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days
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the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
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Journalists know when they bring him on that he will defend any atrocity and so the only reason to bring him on is because you think defending the atrocity is an important point of view
December 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Journalists know when they bring him on that he will defend any atrocity and so the only reason to bring him on is because you think defending the atrocity is an important point of view
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this man thinks he is a Christian.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
this man thinks he is a Christian.