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Teaching Political Science and World History in Abu Dhabi — Skeets mainly about the Seattle Sounders, the state of the world, and my generalized grumpiness https://buttondown.com/natebowling

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · Nov 15

If you're new to Bluesky, I made Starter Pack with past guests on my podcast, Nerd Farmer, that are on here. There's a heap of authors, journalists, academics & educators, and folks from the civic scene in the PNW.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 8h

Every few generations, societies have to rediscover and confront that concentrated wealth is corrosive. This is not a new story, but we didn’t live through the others.

The sooner we reckon with the damage it is causing, the sooner we can begin to repair the harm.

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Oligarchy Degrades Everything - Health Care Edition

Corporations deciding which diseases are “worth” curing, which lives are “worth” saving breeds despair. That, that quiet despair, is the deepest moral cost of oligarchy.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 16h

If you're replying to this from Seattle or Tacoma you should be asleep!

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 17h

As a teacher, I'm obliged to be anti-bullying. But man...

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 23h

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 17h

As a teacher, I'm obliged to be anti-bullying. But man...

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 23h

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 1d

IYKYK

a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech at a podium in front of two microphones

Alt: The gif shows the climax of the movie Trading Places

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 1d

There was a very lively discussion about the ban on the Channel 253 Member Slack this week and the factions on the council pushing it.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 1d

I'm in a similar boat but Sadalge has recently disappointed me with his support of the expanded camping ban. But I also note my stance against these bans is increasingly out of the mainstream.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 1d

As of now, top of the docket: Tacoma Mayor, City Council Pos 4 & 5, and Port Commissioner.

NGL, I need to read up on the Charter Review Board positions.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 1d

Hey #Tacoma peeps, we're going to record a Channel 253 Audio Voters' guide for the upcoming off-year elections. Is there a local race or ballot measure you feel conflicted over or want to hear more about?

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 1d

He's on loan

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 1d

PKs are better than extra innings, just saying

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 3d

The leading experts in authoritarianism are fleeing the country because the fascist project is far further along than anyone seems to comprehend.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 3d

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 3d

If only someone would make a movie about what's happening in the US. Maybe then we'd get it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 4d

Sir, we all know. Instead of skeeting your way through it, make unmasking ICE agents and clarified rules of engagement for agents a part of your demands for reopening the government

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Big Bad Booty Daddy @bamaslymm.blacksky.app · 5d

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 5d

Van Lathan >>>> Van Jones

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 5d

Van Lathan >>>> Van Jones

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 6d

Every Sunday I used to sit with my grandma and watch Murder She Wrote and 60 Minutes.

This country needs an Andy Rooney so damn bad right now.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 6d

I'm a broken record about it at this point. But this book explains so much of our dumb moment.

Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky cover

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 6d

Respectfully, do you have experience being a minority in a democracy that's hostile to you?

Or being monitored by US Army intelligence?

Or living the last six years in an absolute monarchy in the Middle East?

I have experienced all three and that shapes how I view privacy issues.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 6d

I'm always intrigued online when I come across clearly intelligent people who are plainly wrong about various issues.

Free expression without privacy protections is worthless and an encryption backdoor that "only the good guys can use" will inevitably be used and abused by bad actors.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 6d

By this math my newsletter is worth about $50,000. So, if you're interested in buying "Takes & Typos" hit me up.

Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 6d

Also I do not get how 'The Free Press' can be worth $100 million dollars with 1 million subscribers only 10% of those paid subscribers. Is the media biz really that valuable? puck.news/david-elliso...

The Bari Market

With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 7d

Billionaires, their concentrations of wealth, and the way they've captured the state are a weight around the neck of US society.

We get the oligarchal politics of Central Asia but none of the trains and new infrastructure upside.

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The Billionaires are the Problem

There have always been ultra-wealthy people in the US. But the oligarchs of our time wield political influence that the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age could only have dreamed of.

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 7d

Thank God!

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 7d

What a ridiculous way to close out a match, goodness

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 7d

And there's a Portland goal coming