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David Shumway

@nearleft.bsky.social

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Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon. Film, popular music, literature. All opinions are my own.

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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 6h

As the recent discharge petition showed, they have options.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 21h

Because they observe the first rule.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 5d

She’s only being charged because she’s a Democrat. If she were a Republican, she’d be honored.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 5d

You are an optimist. Most agree with him.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6d

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 9d

🥰♥️♥️♥️♥️

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 10d

Every time you think the Times can’t get any worse, they prove you wrong.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 12d

No, Trump decided.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 13d

Just like his best bud.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 13d

all six D's who voted for this god awful thing including the corrupt give away to senators need to be primaried

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13d

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15d

The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 16d

Time for change in some high places in the Democratic Party if we are to meet the greater challenges of the moment in this country. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-these-vi...

Why These Vichy Dems and Their Spineless Boss Need to Go Now

We need courage and clarity from our leaders. Schumer and these eight in the Senate have shown they have failed that test. Time to turn the page.

www.thedailybeast.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16d

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 18d

Democrats trounce GOP, but it’s Schumer who concedes.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19d

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN

A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

www.cnn.com

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 21d

Despite your best efforts.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21d

Eagerly awaiting tomorrow's New York Times headlines explaining why this wave of victories is actually bad for the Democrats

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 21d

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21d

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 21d

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 21d

Important to compare and contrast the behavior of a Schumer with that of a Raskin— another Jewish Democrat who is obviously quite pro Israel but who has, interestingly, not made his support of other members of the party contingent upon them internalizing his particular preferences.

Mamdani brings Rooseveltian vision, youthful energy and pragmatic hope to the Big Apple. Wishing our Democratic nominee great success
today.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 23d

Map is misleading. There are elections in many states.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 23d

Both things could be true.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 24d

The Democrats moved right, not left.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 26d

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition

www.vox.com/politics/466...

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi

Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.

www.vox.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27d

"Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think. Cognitive degradation threatens democratic processes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...