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Blair Hodges @blairhodges.bsky.social · 1d

If I could get all the egghead Democrat politico pundit advisory class to understand one thing, it would be this thing.

James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

Right, and @anatosaurus.bsky.social, whom everyone should follow, has a great essay recently that covers that topic.

Democratic Party strategists treat public opinion as if it is calcified, whereas Republican Party strategists understand that it is SHAPED.

www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

www.weekendreading.net

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h

Your diagnosis from all this seems to be, "progs should stop annoying people like me." Seems to me a better diagnosis is, "people like me should try harder to get a little analytical distance & not let our hurt feelings & galaxy-sized egos dictate the shape & tone of our political commentary."

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 9h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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✨🦋𝓢𝓗𝓔𝓘𝓛𝓐 🦋✨ @sheilaharris.bsky.social · 1d

#ChicagoProtests

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3h

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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ReboundsMummy. Keep Future Away from the Vatican! @reboundsmom.bsky.social · 11h

I grew up in New Hampshire and when I visited last year, a childhood friend visibly blanched when I told her about riding the subway. This woman is a nurse, a cancer survivor and a mountain climber. She'd absolutely be able to handle herself! But she was sure every train had a thug onboard.

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Elizabeth Engel @ewengel.bsky.social · 23h

NE DC resident here. Not exactly what you're looking for, but on J6, as we were debating whether to evacuate before the curfew came down (we dithered too long, so stayed), my mom (who hadn't even bothered to check if we were OK) insisted that it was all antifa. We didn't speak again for 6 months.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking about writing about the experience of being gaslit by rural and suburban family/friends who tell you that their paranoid fantasies of your city trump your lived experience.

Long way of saying share your stories in comments! I may quote them.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 1d

It’s genuinely mind-numbing that people thought they shamed Leo into being quiet about this. He’s the Pope and Tradition is on his side when it comes to the humane treatment of migrants

CatholicSat
Asked about President Trump's decision to send 400 National Guard troops to Chicago, Pope Leo XIV says: "I prefer not to comment about political choices [made] within the United States. Thank you very much."

@emzanotti
HE LEARNED QUICK

Kevin Tierney @CatholicSmark
Man learned his lesson lol

@thestinkeye
Every leader I've ever met learns this lesson the hard way. We do not get to say the things we got away with saying as underlings when we assume the responsibility of command and leadership.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

Texas bishop had brought Pope Leo a packet of letters from terrorized immigrant families

apnews.com/article/vati...

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

apnews.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

Ooof!

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

She is a Zionist, anti-transgender, and self-described anti-woke.

Everything else is just details.

www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

www.npr.org

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

How many Americans know that Taylor Swift put out a new album

vs.

know that the president just told the military that he was going to unleash it on "the enemy within" shortly after his SecDef told it that it was going to become more brutal & lethal, with fewer restraints?

What's the ratio? 10/1?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

Corporate media takes to a fainting couch any time any Democrat - or even any plausibly left-leaning poster on social media - says anything untoward about Republicans' character, but this kind of genocidal language toward Dems has been bog standard on right-wing media for decades now.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yes, I talk about this ALL THE TIME on my pages.

The all-too-common liberal habit of fact-checking and hypocrisy-dunking is a sign that the person doing those things doesn't understand fascists at all, and, if you don't understand them, you can't defeat them.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

yes

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · Aug 27

The linking of vaccines and autism is a case of one plus one equaling far more than two for eugenicists, because it's an anti-autistic and anti-"weakness" sentiment rolled into one.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

I guess so; I just don't think that most of these antics from Newsom accomplish that.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 28d

The pull of Pickmeism is very, very, very strong, it naturally gravitates toward conservatism, and it takes plenty of self-awareness to realize that one is being pulled thus.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 1d

Well, you employed a disgusting, harmful, and dishonest fascist trope ostensibly in a criticism of fascists.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 26d

Right, and, though what I am about to say isn't the only thing that was wrong with what Kirk and his defenders passed off as "debate", something cannot be debate when one of the debaters is also the referee, as was the case in the overwhelming majority of Kirk's "debates".

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Not Dead yet @rainbowbody.bsky.social · 19d

It is continual adolescent behavior.
No one wants to be the last one picked in dodgeball gym class as they are the first targeted.

When I retired from therapy I went back to coaching, youth and adult. The behavior of adults is worse than kids.

The ill feelings of being excluded trips old wires

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 16d

From the Tax-To-Spend mythology and moral-and-political framework comes "taxpayer" identity and thinking, which has a racist history in the United States.

"Taxpayer" is a fascist trope.

It is, by its nature, a term of exclusion.

jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...

Why 'Taxpayer' Identity And Thinking Is Morally Bankrupt In Every Context

'Taxpayer' identity and thinking is not appropriate even when discussing measures at the state and local levels.

jamesarobichaux.substack.com

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