paul johnson
@rhetoricpj.bsky.social
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I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right. go arsenal! I like gin. Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
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Nah too well climate controlled
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J Walter Wearherman stuff
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Yeah, this was in Dallas in the late 90s, but we had 4 armed men come in with real unloaded guns, and take a few of us aside. Said they were here to kill believers, and asked if we were believers. After we all said "Yes", they unmasked themselves as dads from church.
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santelli.bsky.social
Read this story, get Bluesky referral traffic up on Spotlight PA's analytics, and maybe Stephen will post here more.
stephenjcaruso.bsky.social
Harrisburg boiled over into a mess of acrimonious finger pointing as three months of frustration from fruitless closed door talks burst into public view as the budget impasse hit the 100 days mark Wednesday.
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/10...
PA budget impasse hits 100 days as Democrats pass $50.3B plan
PA Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman said Wednesday’s actions took negotiations over the late budget “steps backward.”
www.spotlightpa.org
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More and more people are singing it...
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They used to be amazing at gooskis but like... it's been a while

+1 s&d
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joshtpm.bsky.social
I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Ingots We Trust
Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?
open.substack.com
rhetoricpj.bsky.social
few official documents as rewarding, illuminating, and of course also horrifying to teach and read through closely with students than the Moynihan Report.

its an outrageous document, and to attend to it closely highlights the contemporary investment in militarizing and terrorizing American cities
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Specific anecdotes should be used liberally
rhetoricpj.bsky.social
vertical integration for the attention economy, where the consumer themself is an element to be integrated
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The ol national guard getting activated to fight the other national guard, that will be interesting (bad)
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But what about my dermatitis?
rhetoricpj.bsky.social
"Why didn't it happen earlier at the full national scale" WW2 and then the Cold War basically is the answer
dw-2.bsky.social
An excellent but chilling analysis of deep flaws in human nature, their terrible impact on democracy, and mechanisms to counter those evils. The real question isn't why has the US pandered to Tr*mp. It's why didn't a disaster like Tr*mp happen earlier www.theunpopulist.net/p/why-is-the...
Why Is the American Experiment in Trouble? Simple: A Demagogue Has Ignited the ‘Dark Passions’ of the People
Liberalism’s real failure is that it assumes far too sunny a view of human nature, three recent books suggest
www.theunpopulist.net
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One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness
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Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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Spurs might have second or third best backline in the pl when fit