Jay Welch 🗽
@welchjay.bsky.social
Yelling about Nixon since 1978. Parent, Registered Domestic Partner, Lapsed Methodist, comedian, and father (in that order).
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Jay Welch 🗽
@welchjay.bsky.social
· Feb 6
violent resistance to tyranny --> crackdowns and consolidation
non-violent resistance to tyranny --> the Civil Rights Act of 1964
non-violent resistance to tyranny --> the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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I actually think a more important version of this would be to cut it off at like 2014 or early 2015, before Trump was a frontrunner. He’s still the most commonly mentioned person during the period when nobody can say there was any political reason to mention him
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I actually think a more important version of this would be to cut it off at like 2014 or early 2015, before Trump was a frontrunner. He’s still the most commonly mentioned person during the period when nobody can say there was any political reason to mention him
Among other things, because of sloppy comma placement, Trump's most recent Epstein post accuses this man of being a Democrat.
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Among other things, because of sloppy comma placement, Trump's most recent Epstein post accuses this man of being a Democrat.
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Getting suspended for death threats, even if they're jokes, is good actually
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Getting suspended for death threats, even if they're jokes, is good actually
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Weird not to lead with the item most people will immediately glom onto: they let her have a pet puppy.
Apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell is living it up in prison with unlimited toilet paper. Here’s what we know about her alleged special privileges at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
Ghislaine Maxwell Is Living It Up With Unlimited Toilet Paper
What we know about the special privileges Epstein’s accomplice is reportedly receiving at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
nymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Weird not to lead with the item most people will immediately glom onto: they let her have a pet puppy.
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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A really important point. You can't "solve"misinformation without understanding the ways beliefs function as identity markers more than attempts to represent reality accurately gone awry.
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A really important point. You can't "solve"misinformation without understanding the ways beliefs function as identity markers more than attempts to represent reality accurately gone awry.
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It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
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(worth pointing out that the Nazis committed many of their worst atrocities when it became clear they weren't going to be in power forever.)
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
(worth pointing out that the Nazis committed many of their worst atrocities when it became clear they weren't going to be in power forever.)
2024: Sleepy Joe
2025: Sleepy Pedo
2025: Sleepy Pedo
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
2024: Sleepy Joe
2025: Sleepy Pedo
2025: Sleepy Pedo
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having a hard time affording a home huh well that's because joe biden let all these refugees from guatemala and el salvador financialize the housing market
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
having a hard time affording a home huh well that's because joe biden let all these refugees from guatemala and el salvador financialize the housing market
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One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!
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HUNT: Do you think President Trump is a lame duck?
SEN. KENNEDY: Well, he can't run again. Yes.
SEN. KENNEDY: Well, he can't run again. Yes.
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
HUNT: Do you think President Trump is a lame duck?
SEN. KENNEDY: Well, he can't run again. Yes.
SEN. KENNEDY: Well, he can't run again. Yes.
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Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
Grindr profile or official State Department policy?
*RUBIO SUGGESTS OBESITY AS REASON TO DENY VISAS: POLITICO
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Grindr profile or official State Department policy?
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Someone named Daniel Siad tells Epstein in an email that the owner of Noah Models used to "scout for Trump."
Noah Models was featured in this 2011 PBS documentary, about 12, 13 year old girls being scouted in Siberia for international modeling, and the predatory results.
Noah Models was featured in this 2011 PBS documentary, about 12, 13 year old girls being scouted in Siberia for international modeling, and the predatory results.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Someone named Daniel Siad tells Epstein in an email that the owner of Noah Models used to "scout for Trump."
Noah Models was featured in this 2011 PBS documentary, about 12, 13 year old girls being scouted in Siberia for international modeling, and the predatory results.
Noah Models was featured in this 2011 PBS documentary, about 12, 13 year old girls being scouted in Siberia for international modeling, and the predatory results.
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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Chat is it a good idea to physically invade the pope's hometown
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Chat is it a good idea to physically invade the pope's hometown
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If you’re just checking in the president of the United States had some horrible pedophile billionaire version of the climax of Mean Girls happen to him
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
If you’re just checking in the president of the United States had some horrible pedophile billionaire version of the climax of Mean Girls happen to him
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Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
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If recent events have caused you to lose trust in The New York Times, might I suggest a subscription to @us.theguardian.com.
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
If recent events have caused you to lose trust in The New York Times, might I suggest a subscription to @us.theguardian.com.
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
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I wish Charlie Kirk were alive to have to defend this
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I wish Charlie Kirk were alive to have to defend this
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One of the coolest things about #TeslaTakedown is that it's not just about "sending a message." It's about attaching a stigma to driving a certain make of car, which is the one source of profit for a financial bubble that props up the most powerful racist alive.
It's protest as direct action.
It's protest as direct action.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
One of the coolest things about #TeslaTakedown is that it's not just about "sending a message." It's about attaching a stigma to driving a certain make of car, which is the one source of profit for a financial bubble that props up the most powerful racist alive.
It's protest as direct action.
It's protest as direct action.