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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 9m

Actually King Ferdinand, her husband, was worse but….

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 9m

And Queen Isabella was the most bloodthirsty monarch of the era!

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 10m

Christopher Columbus was too bloodthirstily racist for Queen Isabella to stomach, for Christ's sake.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 18m

It’s really not but okay man.

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 22m

another issue where the public sees republicans as the chad rolling their sleeves and getting stuff done and democrats as the virgin nerd stammering and whining about the rulebook

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 24m

Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1h

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 24m

Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1h

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 22m

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 34m

We learned that *mocking* fascists doesn’t work. But I do think that *publicly humiliating* them does. The problem is the former doesn’t do the latter. But *video* of ICE backing away from a frog is far more humiliating than a comedian on a late night show making a bad joke

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 38m

As the country careens into a succession of crises brought about by the hand of Trump, it’s semi-shocking to see Democrats resort to humor as a primary form of pushback. How far can it take them?

The latest edition of The Opposition from @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/can-democr...

Can Democrats Mock Trump Into Defeat?

As the president embraces strongman politics, Democrats are increasingly trying to make him seem little.

www.thebulwark.com

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 53m

i was surprised that nobody on the chat seemed to know his stuff!

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t get it, you’re all 35+ but none of you listen to WTF?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1h

Heritage president Kevin Roberts, in a truly revealing passage of his Foreword to the Project 2025 policy agenda, states that the project of “dismantling the administrative state” is not about the actual size of government at all:

The goal is to cut “the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 1h

Lavrov tier statement, horrendous.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 7h

The return of the Israeli hostages is a moment of pure joy for those families.

And a moment of relief for the entire world.

It means that a page can be turned. A new chapter can begin.

Europe fully supports the peace plan brokered by the United States, Qatar, Egypt, and Türkiye.

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 1h

There's no world where Netanyahu ends the war for Biden before the election because he wanted Biden to lose.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 1h

Oh my god. The last one. And look who the guest is. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

Podcast Episode · WTF with Marc Maron Podcast · 10/13/2025 · 1h 7m

podcasts.apple.com

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abenomic🎃n @abenomicon.bsky.social · 14h

90% of spouses were summons before 1995. this is the plot of genesis, neon genesis evangelion, john hughes' weird science (1985), and debatably tarzan. grandma + I didn't have apps, she spat in a pentagram and I was pulled here from a utopia to which I will one day return

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 11h

Spinoza is sooooo awesome lock in do it

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 18h

It’s so funny to have 30M and keep *all* of it in crypto

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 23h

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 19h

I guess I kinda go for “what is so implausible about the requisite hundreds of thousands or even millions of people having inaccurate information that leads to bad decisions?” I don’t think there’s anything remotely implausible about it.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not trying to go after this guy specifically because lots of smart people fall into this trap for some reason, but “they’re just wrong, because they were misinformed” is literally the simplest possible explanation for bewildering voter behavior.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not trying to go after this guy specifically because lots of smart people fall into this trap for some reason, but “they’re just wrong, because they were misinformed” is literally the simplest possible explanation for bewildering voter behavior.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 19h

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 21h

Fun fact: that episode was how I got into the smiths

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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 28d

Many of our land use / building codes are rooted in exclusion + prejudice, even if they are facially anodyne and widely accepted as common sense today

Case in point: early 1900 fire safety reforms were primarily designed to ⬆️ the cost of tenements / MF apts (old and new) to reduce immigration

From Stuck: "If we require multiple dwellings to be fireproof, and thus increase the cost of construction; if we require stairs to be fireproofed, even when there are only three families; if we require fire-escapes and a host of other things," then, he continued, each of the rules could stand up in court, "and at the same time we have made it difficult to build apartment homes."

From Stuck: But although some champions of tenement reform were earnest in their efforts, no one who had paid the slightest attention to the movement could have any doubt as to the actual aims of many reformers. The influx of immigrants to New York City was the problem; eliminating affordable housing was the solution.

From Stuck: Veiller, instead, did everything in his power to make housing more expensive. Immigrants continued to pour into the city in the years immediately after the passage of the Tenement Act, but newly constructed tenements became increasingly unaffordable. The cost of making the improvements to old-law tenements mandated by the law, and increasing competition for the remaining affordable units, combined to drive up prices, setting off rent strikes in 1904 and 1907. "The fact is that the new-law tenements ... are beyond the reach of unskilled wage earners," one reformer complained in 1919.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 22h

next he's gong to be telling people to watch Andor but to pirate it so that they aren't giving money to Disney.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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