Jeff Crowe
@jeffcrowe.com
Father, husband, property manager. "Love one another" atheist. Interested in Law/Econ/Politics, which is probably why I followed you. Well informed non-expert. Culturally left, small "l" libertarian. Bigotry *is* irrational and repugnant. Non-hater.
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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Ezra Klein’s most recent column gives the game away: he talks about how horrified he was by Kirk’s assassination because he identifies with Kirk. Kirk, like Klein, talked for a living. So even if they had different policy positions, to some degree, Klein sees himself in Kirk.
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September 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ezra Klein’s most recent column gives the game away: he talks about how horrified he was by Kirk’s assassination because he identifies with Kirk. Kirk, like Klein, talked for a living. So even if they had different policy positions, to some degree, Klein sees himself in Kirk.
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this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
September 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
Anna Bower is doing it right.
I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.
I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
September 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Anna Bower is doing it right.
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The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:uvia34usrnxja3i55zafiyeg/post/3lxnewmsyvk26.
Page by Dan Nexon | @dhnexon.bsky.social - skywriter.blue
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists....
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August 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:uvia34usrnxja3i55zafiyeg/post/3lxnewmsyvk26.
Somebody should ask JD Vance if he's going to follow the existing childhood vaccination schedule or follow whatever RFK Jr.'s hand-picked panel of ignorant buffoons comes up with. He'll probably pearl-clutch and feign offense on the pretense that even asking him the question is a HIPAA violation.
August 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Somebody should ask JD Vance if he's going to follow the existing childhood vaccination schedule or follow whatever RFK Jr.'s hand-picked panel of ignorant buffoons comes up with. He'll probably pearl-clutch and feign offense on the pretense that even asking him the question is a HIPAA violation.
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[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
“Lacking legitimacy”: Sen. Bill Cassidy breaks with RFK Jr. after CDC leadership exodus www.notus.org/health-scien...
‘Lacking Legitimacy’: Sen. Bill Cassidy Breaks With RFK Jr. After CDC Leadership Exodus
He called on a key government vaccine panel to postpone its upcoming meeting.
www.notus.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
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A “tariff rebate check” is like setting your kitchen on fire and then mailing yourself a bucket of water. There's an easier way to avoid the burn.
August 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A “tariff rebate check” is like setting your kitchen on fire and then mailing yourself a bucket of water. There's an easier way to avoid the burn.
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On virtually every issue where, a decade ago, I would have been sympathetic to “the Republican position,” they’ve chucked it out the window in favor of Trump worship.
August 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
On virtually every issue where, a decade ago, I would have been sympathetic to “the Republican position,” they’ve chucked it out the window in favor of Trump worship.
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One of the more depressing features of the past decade has been seeing how quickly and easily the right abandoned the genuinely good principles it once pretended to care about. Free trade; federalism; free speech. They jettissoned everything they had a point about & kept all the loathesome bits.
Trump and his MAGA movement have mastered the art of projection, accusing the left of doing what they themselves have done. But now, Trump has taken that to a new level, becoming the manifestation of an oppressive state that the right has always warned against. So why aren't more sounding the alarm?
Trump Is The Bogeyman The Right Always Warned Us About
Where is the outrage now that Trump has manifested the right's deepest darkest fears about an oppressive state?
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the more depressing features of the past decade has been seeing how quickly and easily the right abandoned the genuinely good principles it once pretended to care about. Free trade; federalism; free speech. They jettissoned everything they had a point about & kept all the loathesome bits.
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I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.
Is that what he is doing? Fighting crime? Phew. I thought he was using federal power to assert power over the country’s capital
August 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.
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They sent approximately the same number of people to re-arrest the sandwich guy as were sent to kill Osama bin Laden.
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
They sent approximately the same number of people to re-arrest the sandwich guy as were sent to kill Osama bin Laden.
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I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand.
This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
"pro-vaccine groups"
NYT editors are the fucking enemy
NYT editors are the fucking enemy
June 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand.
This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
Please welcome my friend Scott who is new. Throw him a follow and/or recommend lists for him. He's an expat, a critical thinker, a slightly libertarian leaning but kind of traditional liberal, a writer and photographer, and always interesting. bsky.app/profile/digi...
bsky.app
February 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Please welcome my friend Scott who is new. Throw him a follow and/or recommend lists for him. He's an expat, a critical thinker, a slightly libertarian leaning but kind of traditional liberal, a writer and photographer, and always interesting. bsky.app/profile/digi...
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This is exactly the point. Keeping your job in this hollowed-out corrupt DoJ, basically Donald Trump’s personal grievance firm, is useless. It’s like saying “if I refuse to strangle this puppy I might lose my job in the puppy-strangling factory!”
February 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is exactly the point. Keeping your job in this hollowed-out corrupt DoJ, basically Donald Trump’s personal grievance firm, is useless. It’s like saying “if I refuse to strangle this puppy I might lose my job in the puppy-strangling factory!”
Use your body for fun. Go outside. Be physical. Pick an activity or sport or pastime that keeps you moving, and (unless you happen to be asexual) have a lot of sex. Other health advice you'll get can enhance/support this, but do the best you can regardless of your fitness level. Also, meditate.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Use your body for fun. Go outside. Be physical. Pick an activity or sport or pastime that keeps you moving, and (unless you happen to be asexual) have a lot of sex. Other health advice you'll get can enhance/support this, but do the best you can regardless of your fitness level. Also, meditate.
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
@normeisen.bsky.social I'll subscribe anyway...because it's you...but I find the term "contrarian" is perceived by most people to mean someone who takes a contrary view regardless of the merits, just to be contrary, and I don't think that's what you're after.
January 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
@normeisen.bsky.social I'll subscribe anyway...because it's you...but I find the term "contrarian" is perceived by most people to mean someone who takes a contrary view regardless of the merits, just to be contrary, and I don't think that's what you're after.
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Sir: I do not care about fashion *at all*, but you are a national treasure.
January 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Sir: I do not care about fashion *at all*, but you are a national treasure.
This platform may be at a tipping point of sorts. Allow me to explore. For me, Bluesky has been a Twitter replacement. As such, I don't post a lot. Mostly I just read. The best of Twitter was (and the best of here is) learning things by reading posts by people who know things about shit. /1
January 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This platform may be at a tipping point of sorts. Allow me to explore. For me, Bluesky has been a Twitter replacement. As such, I don't post a lot. Mostly I just read. The best of Twitter was (and the best of here is) learning things by reading posts by people who know things about shit. /1
"The essence of fascism is to simplify complex problems and feed people who don't have time to read some bullshit."
I will never disrespect a soap opera actor again.
I will never disrespect a soap opera actor again.
Braedon: I come from a nation that believed in fascist ideology for a while. And we don’t want to go to that again. We are close to it because people want to simplify complex problems. The essence of fascism is to simplify complex problems and feed people who don't have time to read some bullshit.
January 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"The essence of fascism is to simplify complex problems and feed people who don't have time to read some bullshit."
I will never disrespect a soap opera actor again.
I will never disrespect a soap opera actor again.