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Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · May 29

@diplomatofnight.com format he Schumer book event. Protestor just kicked out. Now he is talking about how October 7 changed America

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Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 1h

One for you @althistorian.bsky.social- a maritime ming successor state in 17th century Taiwan.

“After ten years of letting the multitudes grow, and ten years of educating and nourishing them…in thirty years, [Taiwan] can truly compete for first and second with the Central Plain.”

Between Trade and Legitimacy, Maritime and Continent: The Zheng Organization in Seventeenth-Century East Asia

Author(s): Hang, Xing | Advisor(s): Yeh, Wen-hsin; Pomeranz, Kenneth L. | Abstract: This study examines the Zheng organization, which flourished from 1625 to 1683, during a time when the Ming-Qing tra...

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Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 1h

Oh a law professor being clever about Trump doing something bad, daring today aren’t we.

Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 1h

It doesn’t seem to? bsky.app/profile/adam...

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 3h

The NYT piece is skeptical of academic data, asking for measures tied directly to voter perceptions.

This chart includes exactly that—the survey-based "Voter Perceptions" score (from the CES). It shows moving to the center has no effect on vote share, while the benefit of incumbency is clear.

A two-panel horizontal bar chart titled “Electoral Effects of Ideological Moderation vs. Incumbency.” The top panel, labeled “Effect of Being the Incumbent,” shows large positive estimated vote share effects (between roughly +2% and +4%) across seven different measures of ideology. All bars are to the right of zero, indicating a strong and statistically significant advantage for incumbents.

The bottom panel, labeled “Effect of Moving to the Center,” shows estimated vote effects when candidates shift ideologically toward the center. Across the same seven ideology measures, the horizontal bars cluster around zero, with confidence intervals that cross zero—indicating no statistically significant electoral benefit from moving to the center.

The chart visually contrasts the strong, consistent incumbency advantage against the negligible and statistically insignificant effect of ideological moderation. The note clarifies that moderation refers to shifting a candidate’s ideology toward the 95th percentile of centrist positioning.

Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 1h

I would love to know why Kfile isn’t getting these leaks

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry this would slap

Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 2h

Aztec?

Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone is assuming she’s an idiot but consider this may be how most “journalists” would have covered jr.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone thinks she’s stupid and not giving an insight into modem journalism

Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 2h

I bet it worked at the times

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Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 2h

Quisling was not 1000 years ago. If you’re going to downplay norways dark history i am concerned

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 2h

Do you condemn the Old Testament Mr kamfkord

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Faeelin @faeelin.bsky.social · 3h

You’ll have to forgive him. He comes from a culture that one ritually disembowled minorities, killed gay people, and then collaborated with Hitler (so famously they gave rise to the term Quislings). He speaks very good English given their background.