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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 4m

Who could have foreseen this except any person in the entire world who knew one thing about the Vzla opposition

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 4m

Who could have foreseen this except any person in the entire world who knew one thing about the Vzla opposition

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 6m

Jesus Christ

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 6m

Jesus Christ

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 22m

honestly it would have been extremely funny if they just gave Obama another peace nobel

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 23m

The poverty of liberal categories of analysis is glaring. A substitution of good intentions with the necessity of thinking or even knowing any particulars all the way down. They are not gonna lead us out of this mess

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 30m

Opposing authoritarianism generally does not involve giving laurels to reactionaries

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 27m

The naivete of the people in charge of literally everything jfc

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 30m

Opposing authoritarianism generally does not involve giving laurels to reactionaries

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 33m

Does it trivialize other countries’ politics to use them to score backhanded points at the errant hegemon? Who can say

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Shannon Houston @shannonhouston.bsky.social · 41m

Everyone who isn’t nuts should unite around saying “anti-fascist” in full every single time the term ever needs to be used. Correct anyone who says “antifa.” Force the right to have to start saying “Anti-fascists are terr0rists.” Make the cognitive dissonance hurt.

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 20h

Saying someone is a "member of antifa" is like saying someone is a "member of socialism" or something. it makes zero sense. But they can't use the ideological form of the word because it makes it too clear what the ideology actually is and it would include our grandpas

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 44m

Esse cara está bloqueando geral que menciona esse fato, então deixa eu já colocar o print aqui:

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 47m

Today, like all days, is the perfect day to stop giving your eyeballs to the New York Times

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 49m

There’s no hack for reconciling your racist friends with the objects of their racism. You’re misunderstanding the situation

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 49m

There’s no hack for reconciling your racist friends with the objects of their racism. You’re misunderstanding the situation

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 51m

Humans are simple animals. Sometimes the elaborate psychologizing is redundant. You oppose fascism by opposing it. That’s it

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1h

It’s not “the Labour argument for controlling immigration.”

It’s just a Far Right position adopted by Labour. It’s that simple, and people need to stop being in denial of that fact.

It is not good for “race relations“ for racialised people to be talked about as a problem. It’s racism.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 16d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1h

It’s not “the Labour argument for controlling immigration.”

It’s just a Far Right position adopted by Labour. It’s that simple, and people need to stop being in denial of that fact.

It is not good for “race relations“ for racialised people to be talked about as a problem. It’s racism.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 16d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 1h

Sign me up

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 1h

Anyway if Trump’s hurt ego makes him a little less likely to try to do regime change on Venezuela then I’ll take it

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 2h

Whoa

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 5h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 2h

Maria Corina is certainly an uhhh interesting choice

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 13h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13h

A columnist still at WaPo.

Headline: "Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize."

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 14h

It’s been a pleasure seeing him come into his own

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 17h

My partner is on a roll

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 23h

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