thedoubler.bsky.social
@thedoubler.bsky.social
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If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you.
January 7, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.

If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
January 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now
January 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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This is the wild part about the whole Trump experience, even when he says politically disastrous things, reporters rush in to fill in the blanks and steelman his arguments. As soon as they cut away from him saying “we’ll run it,” they cut to someone saying “obviously he didn't mean that.”
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Do not underestimate how fucking stupid and gullible centrists are they will gladly fall for this shit instead of spending a second trying to win over the left or irregular voters.
"The only thing that can stop this authoritarian project is Republican voters choosing to abandon it." Enter...Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4phLF0z
December 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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No one is reading long form.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.
December 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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gotta say this set aged pretty well

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy2b...
Jena Friedman: Treat Nazis Like You Treat Women | CONAN on TBS
YouTube video by Team Coco
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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What Latarsha Sanders did to her two little boys inside their Brockton home was horrific, writes Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham. So was what came after.

But her story poses a question: What does justice look like when a mentally ill person takes a life?
A mentally ill mother did something horrific. The prosecutor insisted she was ‘playing the crazy card.’ - The Boston Globe
Latarsha Sanders had the kind of psychotic break that speaks for itself. Or at least it should.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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If you think there's going to be a response to this other than Little Reichstag Fires Everywhere until midterms, you are sadly mistaken. The good news is, people seem to be sick of it.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25

President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Hegseth needs to be in jail for the rest of his life, and that’s the moderate option.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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My actual serious answer to this is Sly & the Family Stone's "Everyday People", which is a legitimately great song on its own, would sound great with thousands of people singing along to it before a sporting event, and has lyrics that actually reflect the ideals that America supposedly aspires to.
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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This offer obviously does not apply to people on the left who think Democrats have betrayed them or to non-voters who feel like it doesn't matter either way. Just the one move: win over and welcome conservatives who hate your guts.
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Huffing their own farts so much thinking they can reshape reality if they write enough stories. Voters said fuck you, we're not dumb. They went all in and burned down decades of hard work done by their predecessors for nothing.
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM