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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃
@smotus.bsky.social
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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5h
A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
I mean I'd prefer we had enough air traffic controllers to fly all our planes safely, but hey, shaming people in open-toed shoes on airplanes isn't terrible I guess

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
Being considerate is not just a character flaw but something one should seek redress from the government for

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
“Wicked for Good” (2025)

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 2d
New one: Why alarmists are good for the republic right now, although doomers are not. And links! @carolyneholmes.bsky.social @smotus.bsky.social @dcinbox.bsky.social @rickhasen.bsky.social @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social and more. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/for-a-litt...
For a Little Alarmism
I'm not an alarmist, but I'm glad we have some. Plus the links.
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
Zohran needed back in DC

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d
Trump endorsed Zohran Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did!

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
I thought Mamdani was running in Georgia’s CD14

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
Putting in a request for zero news today so we can catch up

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
Giving MTG a 21 space laser salute
a red light beam is coming out of a black object in the dark .
ALT: a red light beam is coming out of a black object in the dark .
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
We might look for a lot of different motives, but MTG is following a very long line of Republicans who had some small power over Trump but choose to surrender that power rather than face a Trump-backed primary candidate (and whatever violent threats came along with that).

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
Last week, Trump called MTG a traitor
Yesterday, he said that traitors in Congress should be hanged
Anyway...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d
They line up perfectly.
An Oval Office photo of Trump looking adoringly at Mamdani, while a portrait of Reagan looks on. Above the man-ignoring-his-girlfriend meme.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
Mamdani : Jedi :: Trump : Stormtrooper

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
If RFK issued a rule forbidding surgeons from using antiseptic instrument cleaners... well yeah I guess that would be "challenging orthodoxy." Another phrase is "killing people."
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 4d
Good to see some backtracking on one of these anyway apnews.com/article/coas...
Coast Guard reverses course on policy to call swastikas and nooses 'potentially divisive'
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as...
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 4d
In case you were wondering if there’d be a penalty for defending pedophilia
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White House has picked very pro-Trump pool reporters for Trump's Oval Office meeting with Mamdani on Friday: TV is Fox and Newsmax; Print is Washington Times and The Telegraph; New Media is Megyn Kelly. Exception is Radio: AURN (whose Black, female correspondent Trump called obnoxious in September)

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 4d
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 4d
White House has picked very pro-Trump pool reporters for Trump's Oval Office meeting with Mamdani on Friday: TV is Fox and Newsmax; Print is Washington Times and The Telegraph; New Media is Megyn Kelly. Exception is Radio: AURN (whose Black, female correspondent Trump called obnoxious in September)

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
The coming dual crash of AI and crypto, other than causing widespread misery and pain and reducing our civilization to a medieval state, will be glorious

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
So he was just being honest by calling someone piggy?

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
My great uncle Herb Bilus was a US Coast Guard officer who transported waves of GIs to Omaha Beach on D-Day, and I'm fairly sure he saw the swastika as a hate symbol

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d
*LEAVITT: TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
Keep in mind that Trump is issuing these death threats in response to Democrats saying that members of the Armed Forces must not follow illegal or unconstitutional orders

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 5d
Now that’s a lede.

Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.

Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
Why do you think Cal was silenced

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
Between a random Portland barista saying he wants to hurt Charlie Kirk and the President of the United States calling for the execution of Democrats, both sides clearly have a violence problem
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
Trump: SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
Average # of followers by quadrant?