Allen Woke 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌐
@captainmeap.bsky.social
Pro-abundance, new liberal shill, foreign policy enjoyer, American pragmatism believer, Catholic (but not in a weird way).
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"Cynicism is the death of wisdom."
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"Cynicism is the death of wisdom."
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A key reason why I (usually) align with the new liberal/neoliberal wing is that it presents a fundamentally positive-sum view of the world where even difficult issues are ultimately solvable with patience, pragmatism, and good policy
This is, I think, simultaneously both optimistic *and true*
This is, I think, simultaneously both optimistic *and true*
"Do not stupidly and callously overreach when you are given power and opportunity" is a lesson that I think might actually be unlearnable
i don't think anybody is prepared for the tantrums that are going to be thrown after the right blew through their entire cultural pendulum swing in one year
February 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
"Do not stupidly and callously overreach when you are given power and opportunity" is a lesson that I think might actually be unlearnable
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If Dems are smart they will pull on the Lutnick thread.
Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."
February 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
If Dems are smart they will pull on the Lutnick thread.
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For a lot of folks, it’s not that protesting is something revolutionary and dangerous that requires intense secrecy, it’s that they practice intense secrecy to convince themselves that protesting is something revolutionary and dangerous
I do always find it hilarious all these op sec guys talking about covering up, when you have all these moms out there putting themselves at risk out in the open.
February 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM
For a lot of folks, it’s not that protesting is something revolutionary and dangerous that requires intense secrecy, it’s that they practice intense secrecy to convince themselves that protesting is something revolutionary and dangerous
I do wonder at what point the administration starts getting the moniker "embattled" regularly applied to it
NYT gets around to reporting what has been on the front pages of papers around the world for the last week, but still is nowhere to be seen in major US broadcasts: Howard Lutnick, Trump's billionaire commerce secretary, interacted with Jeffrey Epstein regularly over at least 13 yrs while they lived
Files Detail Epstein’s Dealings With Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I do wonder at what point the administration starts getting the moniker "embattled" regularly applied to it
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The user base of this site is a small group of the most mentally unwell and out of touch leftists on Earth. If you’re not routinely getting ratioed here you’re doing something wrong
February 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
The user base of this site is a small group of the most mentally unwell and out of touch leftists on Earth. If you’re not routinely getting ratioed here you’re doing something wrong
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Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
February 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
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Crank convergence is such a waste of the infinite potential of the human spirit; Naomi Wolf shouldn't be running third-tier Stop the Steal derivatives, she should be chronicling how the Catholic Church suppressed the memory of the Primordial Feminine Goddess and trying to translate Linear A.
Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
February 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Crank convergence is such a waste of the infinite potential of the human spirit; Naomi Wolf shouldn't be running third-tier Stop the Steal derivatives, she should be chronicling how the Catholic Church suppressed the memory of the Primordial Feminine Goddess and trying to translate Linear A.
Judging by this site's reaction, worried we're setting ourselves up for incredibly overhyped expectations and backfiring overreach on top of that
Still, a good result, hope we can keep up the overperformances and make the right choices in some vital primaries
Still, a good result, hope we can keep up the overperformances and make the right choices in some vital primaries
If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby
“.. This is a 37 point shift left.”
February 8, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Judging by this site's reaction, worried we're setting ourselves up for incredibly overhyped expectations and backfiring overreach on top of that
Still, a good result, hope we can keep up the overperformances and make the right choices in some vital primaries
Still, a good result, hope we can keep up the overperformances and make the right choices in some vital primaries
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I have sort of vaguely reactionary cultural preferences in that I don’t really care for the more twee kind of tumblr-inflected turn that a lot of sci-fi/fantasy lit has taken of late, but this is entirely the market rationally responding to who buys books. Dudes need to be more literate.
February 8, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I have sort of vaguely reactionary cultural preferences in that I don’t really care for the more twee kind of tumblr-inflected turn that a lot of sci-fi/fantasy lit has taken of late, but this is entirely the market rationally responding to who buys books. Dudes need to be more literate.
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"I'd rather feel good vibes than accomplish anything"
Also driving a hard bargain on including policy restrictions in an approps bill is what "fighting" looks like in the minority, but the userbase here does not want to acknowledge that
Also driving a hard bargain on including policy restrictions in an approps bill is what "fighting" looks like in the minority, but the userbase here does not want to acknowledge that
I don’t expect them to win. I do expect them to fight.
February 8, 2026 at 1:25 AM
"I'd rather feel good vibes than accomplish anything"
Also driving a hard bargain on including policy restrictions in an approps bill is what "fighting" looks like in the minority, but the userbase here does not want to acknowledge that
Also driving a hard bargain on including policy restrictions in an approps bill is what "fighting" looks like in the minority, but the userbase here does not want to acknowledge that
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Correct, but it goes back to the Snowden Defection. Far too many liberals in good standing treated it like an accountability mechanism.
Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Correct, but it goes back to the Snowden Defection. Far too many liberals in good standing treated it like an accountability mechanism.
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I’m really proud of you guys. You ALMOST had to admit that maybe some liberals were on your side, that we’re willing to stick up for our neighbors and our principles, but you’ve successfully created a permission structure to hate us exactly as much as you did before. Well done!
Can't believe most of bsky was treating this guy like a modern John Brown as recently as last month. This dweeb would lose his MIND if he saw what Indigenous people in Brazil do with blockades.
I didn't even see this when I posted the first skeet lol
February 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I’m really proud of you guys. You ALMOST had to admit that maybe some liberals were on your side, that we’re willing to stick up for our neighbors and our principles, but you’ve successfully created a permission structure to hate us exactly as much as you did before. Well done!
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They're literally being worse than McConnell basically ever was. People just have this strange shibboleth in their mind because he kept the Scalia seat open, but the GOP literally had a majority in the senate wtf were you expecting
February 7, 2026 at 9:21 PM
They're literally being worse than McConnell basically ever was. People just have this strange shibboleth in their mind because he kept the Scalia seat open, but the GOP literally had a majority in the senate wtf were you expecting
Good time to mention he remains rather high on my personal '28 list
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Good time to mention he remains rather high on my personal '28 list
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I’m hearing it for the first time
February 7, 2026 at 3:04 AM
I’m hearing it for the first time
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"You can't just tell people to be strategic on social media at scale"
Italians:
Italians:
February 6, 2026 at 9:17 PM
"You can't just tell people to be strategic on social media at scale"
Italians:
Italians:
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>I open twitter
>American ambassador to Poland is arguing with random Polish college students
>he's threatening to withdraw all American forces
>American ambassador to Poland is arguing with random Polish college students
>he's threatening to withdraw all American forces
February 6, 2026 at 9:23 PM
>I open twitter
>American ambassador to Poland is arguing with random Polish college students
>he's threatening to withdraw all American forces
>American ambassador to Poland is arguing with random Polish college students
>he's threatening to withdraw all American forces
I think it's more likely she takes the (all but guaranteed) Senate seat and shoots for 32 or 36
(And personally, I don't think she's likely to win in 28, at least not currently)
(And personally, I don't think she's likely to win in 28, at least not currently)
my 2028 primary take here is that if AOC makes a serious run it's hers to lose because I think she will be able to most credibly channel the rage of the primary voters
You know a politician is thinking about running for president when they start making moves on foreign policy: AOC will be headed to the Munich Security Conference and will speak in Berlin with a member of Germany's Social Democratic Party.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
February 6, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I think it's more likely she takes the (all but guaranteed) Senate seat and shoots for 32 or 36
(And personally, I don't think she's likely to win in 28, at least not currently)
(And personally, I don't think she's likely to win in 28, at least not currently)
She ran a great campaign given the circumstances and turned what looked set to be a catastrophic loss into a relatively mild one
That said, I don't think she should run again (let alone "deserves" to) and don't think that circumstances absolve us of reforming the party image to better win elections
That said, I don't think she should run again (let alone "deserves" to) and don't think that circumstances absolve us of reforming the party image to better win elections
Ill be honest, I dont really have it in me to hate Kamala Harris. Lady got stuck in an impossible situation, tried, failed, wasnt even really her fault, I just can't bring myself to be mad at her about it. Too much else going on to be worth it.
February 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
She ran a great campaign given the circumstances and turned what looked set to be a catastrophic loss into a relatively mild one
That said, I don't think she should run again (let alone "deserves" to) and don't think that circumstances absolve us of reforming the party image to better win elections
That said, I don't think she should run again (let alone "deserves" to) and don't think that circumstances absolve us of reforming the party image to better win elections
That not being what the article actually says aside, it turns out guys in the Philippines are much better drivers than your average human
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM
That not being what the article actually says aside, it turns out guys in the Philippines are much better drivers than your average human
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the usual suspects attempting their usual dunks should have this graph tattooed to the insides of their eyelids
![Every governing party facing election in a developed country [in 2024] lost vote share, the first time this has ever happened. (The Democratic Party did far better than most.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4nrp2z6lbvuifby6erdpy3su/bafkreibm3rw4l7kcjhws2couw7gbdvccxqtrnvcdcib7777lcpuxsocz4i@jpeg)
February 6, 2026 at 12:58 AM
the usual suspects attempting their usual dunks should have this graph tattooed to the insides of their eyelids
I was saying this the other day: being a prog opposed to Talarico is crazy! He's a quite progressive guy who is able to win more conservative voters! I - a mealymouthed centrist moderate - think he has a shot and support him! Just take the W!
this really captures the perversity of the Crockett campaign
-Talarico is not particularly moderate
-the zero-to-100 application of racial and gender politics to buttress a dubious claim
-accidentally sneaking in the message that Talarico is more electable to your attack
x.com/cbouzy/statu...
-Talarico is not particularly moderate
-the zero-to-100 application of racial and gender politics to buttress a dubious claim
-accidentally sneaking in the message that Talarico is more electable to your attack
x.com/cbouzy/statu...
February 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM
I was saying this the other day: being a prog opposed to Talarico is crazy! He's a quite progressive guy who is able to win more conservative voters! I - a mealymouthed centrist moderate - think he has a shot and support him! Just take the W!
The great dividing line between Mamdani and the great mass of online leftists continues to be that he is actually smart and they are not
I think Zohran understands, unlike a lot of his very online supporters, that actually running a functional NYC administration is going to be a lot more effective victory for "the Left" than anything else he can do, and that doing that is in no way, shape, or form something you can take for granted.
it is, to me, insane that people mad at Zohran for endorsing Hochul without explicit promises in her *primary* are also just pretending that other *primaries* aren't happening and he's stuck with this state leg. No, he's not! this is to help ensure Hochul doesn't block anything
February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The great dividing line between Mamdani and the great mass of online leftists continues to be that he is actually smart and they are not