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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 7h

Ok, I’m gonna be straight: The Goldfinch is the worst thing I’ve read, and I read 75 pages of it, and I’ve read and Ayn Rand novel

Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 7h

Novels about how upper-middle class people should behave have been boring the entire history of the novel

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve been making the connection on First Branch Forecast that this is transparently why Vought is trying to destroy Congress’ constitutional position. It’s where that pluralism lives and tries to self-govern. Unfortunately, Johnson shares many of the same societal antipathies, is fine being a Duma

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Vought’s ideology of “radical constitutionalism” captures the defining sensibility on the Trumpist Right: “The Left,” he believes, has command of America, there is nothing left to conserve, nothing short of a radical “counter-revolution” can now save the nation.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to figure out the women charting pitches behind the plate

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 3d

Fell asleep on the couch in the 8th inning what’s up?

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 3d

Alexander Hauge

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 3d

Fox broadcasting sports in 720p for like 30 years

Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 3d

There are lounges in Japan where one pays someone just to hug you and chat

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 4d

He can play first base for the Mets

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely brutal way for the Phillies to lose, Dodgers win the series

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 5d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 4d

He’s written about these views publicly. They take 2 seconds to find. C’mon, folks.

Maybe it’s a historian thing, but it would be nice for journalists to take what people write down literally and seriously

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism.

If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

Russell Vought embodies the radicalization of the conservative movement; his example captures how far removed from democratic politics the Trumpist Right is. Vought is convinced to be fighting a noble war against a vast leftist conspiracy that has supposedly taken over the country.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 6d

That ball is foul in every park where the pole isn’t 318’ away

Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 6d

You cannot be serious

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 6d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 6d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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