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Jared Yates Sexton
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Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Political Adviser: The Change Campaign

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Jared Yates Sexton is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. .. more

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Dec 17
The wealthy have intentionally destroyed class consciousness so that they can exploit the vast majority of people.

If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.

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A Thoroughly Confused Country: An Introduction to Class Politics and a Way Forward
Americans suffer from a lack of class consciousness, which makes them easy prey for manipulation
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5h
The only people claiming academia is a leftist haven are people who haven’t stepped foot on a college campus in thirty plus years. It is the most corporatized space imaginable. And Democrats scapegoating groups because they want to be Republicans is some of the most shameful shit going.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5h
As a former academic, I always love the idea that the Democrats and politics are being pushed toward "Marxism and the extreme left" by a group of workers who are so exploited and live so precariously they're taught how to get on food assistance and are terrified to give low grades.
parsnip.bsky.social geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 8h
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.” While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 8h
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.” While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10h
One of the prevailing worries for years was that with misinformation or deepfakes or AI videos people wouldn’t be able to tell what was real and what was altered.

But what got missed was the larger problem: that people wanted and needed to believe the lies being fed to them.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d
I know everything is so fucked up and weird right now but I just want to remind everyone THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NEWS.
famousceleb.co cameron @famousceleb.co · 2d
this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen

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cameron @famousceleb.co · 2d
this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d
Trump is a dying husk shambling through his presidency.

But he makes an ideal puppet for the wealthy because of his susceptibility to flattery and bribery, his instinct to crush innocent people, his laziness, and lack of loyalty to anything or anyone.

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A Dying Puppet: Trump as an Oligarchical Figurehead
We're living in the Mad King era
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 8d
There it is.

Radicalization among Middle and Wealth Class MAGA is partially driven by an unbearable and deep-seated unhappiness that they don’t understand, couldn’t name, and is being released through violent fantasies that will turn into actual violence.
rufus-hickok.bsky.social Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 8d
Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8d
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 8d
Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8d
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
"I look forward to the day when liberals and conservatives go to civil war." "You liberals are not going to stand a chance against us." "Try to take us on and see what happens." That is going to be the ULTIMATE FAFO!!

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9d
Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must.

Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9d
On behalf of the people who bribe and flatter Trump, he is more than willing to give in to his most base and disturbing impulses, which are cruel, fascistic, and abusive, meaning he will hurt anyone anywhere and use the full force of state power to serve the interests of those manipulating him.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9d
That broken man, who hates himself and by proxy the world, is the perfect conduit for the corruption of the government by a group of wealthy, unscrupulous people who recognize his vulnerabilities and are desperate to further enrich and empower themselves and are taking every advantage.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9d
If you need to understand what's happening, this farce is a perfect place to begin.

A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
this shit is just beyond parody, man

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9d
It was very strange when I figured it out and told people and they were like, oh, we know.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
this shit is just beyond parody, man

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9d
Oh, most definitely.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9d
Figuring out I was autistic was the craziest and most transformative thing.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9d
That’s a moment, isn’t it?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d
On top of so many other offenses and crimes and cruelties, we have to make a decision to never again let people like this anywhere near power.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10d
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
Pete Hegseth * G @PeteHegseth X.com Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat. Andrew Kolvet • @AndrewKolvet • 3h Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean. x.com/SenSchumer/sta...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d
These motherfucking murderers deserve to spend the rest of their natural lives in prison.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10d
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
Pete Hegseth * G @PeteHegseth X.com Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat. Andrew Kolvet • @AndrewKolvet • 3h Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean. x.com/SenSchumer/sta...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10d
41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
For a little under an hour — 41 minutes, according to a separate US official — Bradley and the rest of the US military command center discussed what to do as they watched the men struggle to overturn what was left of their boat, the sources said. Ultimately, Bradley told lawmakers, he ordered a second strike to destroy the remains of the vessel, killing the two survivors, on the grounds that it appeared that part of the vessel remained afloat because it still held cocaine, according to one of the sources. The survivors could hypothetically have floated to safety, been rescued, and carried on with trafficking the drugs, the logic went.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d
There is also this.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d
A decomposing president who is easily fooled and is only running on his cruel and self-serving instincts is the ideal puppet of the wealth and oligarchical classes interested in dismantling government and requiring widespread oppression to continue hoarding resources.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d
*Looks at Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office*

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d
The pipe bomb suspect getting arrested by this dumbshit iteration of the FBI after 5 years just proves even more that the people in power over the last few years cared so little about getting to the bottom of the attempted coup of January 6th and just wanted to move on and hope things worked out.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d
One of the great untold and most massively important stories of this moment is that the Right Wing authoritarian movement is predicated on abused people fighting like hell to make sure that abuse and trauma continue forward and even accelerates.

It's about hurting kids and ruining their lives.
andykarlson.bsky.social Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 10d
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.

My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
proptermalone.bsky.social post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10d
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right

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Andy Karlson @andykarlson.bsky.social · 10d
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.

My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
proptermalone.bsky.social post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10d
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11d
The normalization of this madness is so quick that we’re debating whether a second illegal strike was wrong after an initial illegal strike with no proof of any crime and we’ve already seen just random murders of fishermen normalized with the excuse they’re running drugs, which isn’t legal either.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11d
Just a note to everyone else who has moments of doubt about what they're doing, whether they're capable or talented, just remember that some of the dumbest and privileged fucking people in the world are walking around with all the money and never once consider how unbelievably stupid they are.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11d
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."