James Bennett
@ubernostrum.bsky.social
The man with the plan and the pocket comb.
Joe Biden was a good President who did good things, and Kamala Harris would’ve been even better.
Here: politics, baseball, Tolkien memes. Sometimes in that order.
@b-list.org for the tech side of me.
he/him
Joe Biden was a good President who did good things, and Kamala Harris would’ve been even better.
Here: politics, baseball, Tolkien memes. Sometimes in that order.
@b-list.org for the tech side of me.
he/him
Pinned
Anyway, I just want to hurl the rebel crew from the land I love the best. I don’t see why that should be controversial.
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there are going to be a lot of credulous people whose knowledge of the law boils down to half-read wikipedia pages and reddit threads stunned when this guy gets convicted
Luigi Mangione's court outburst: 'Double jeopardy by any commonsense definition'
Luigi Mangione spoke out in court Friday against the prospect of back-to-back trials over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
www.scrippsnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
there are going to be a lot of credulous people whose knowledge of the law boils down to half-read wikipedia pages and reddit threads stunned when this guy gets convicted
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“When you bring in
@HillaryClinton
who is mentioned 0 times in the Epstein files and Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times — anyone with a pulse would ask ‘well then why isn’t Donald Trump going to come testify?’ ‘Why isn’t Melania?’…who is also in the files.”
@HillaryClinton
who is mentioned 0 times in the Epstein files and Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times — anyone with a pulse would ask ‘well then why isn’t Donald Trump going to come testify?’ ‘Why isn’t Melania?’…who is also in the files.”
February 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
“When you bring in
@HillaryClinton
who is mentioned 0 times in the Epstein files and Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times — anyone with a pulse would ask ‘well then why isn’t Donald Trump going to come testify?’ ‘Why isn’t Melania?’…who is also in the files.”
@HillaryClinton
who is mentioned 0 times in the Epstein files and Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times — anyone with a pulse would ask ‘well then why isn’t Donald Trump going to come testify?’ ‘Why isn’t Melania?’…who is also in the files.”
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This type of thing where voters think their vote is just a nice little I'm mad button they can press instead of an actual serious responsibility they have infuriates me
Just saw a lady quoted in a local small town paper say she signed the separatist petition even though she doesn’t want to separate but wants to “send a message” and I’m just beside myself
Like this isn’t a fucking joke lady
Like this isn’t a fucking joke lady
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
This type of thing where voters think their vote is just a nice little I'm mad button they can press instead of an actual serious responsibility they have infuriates me
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Just saw a lady quoted in a local small town paper say she signed the separatist petition even though she doesn’t want to separate but wants to “send a message” and I’m just beside myself
Like this isn’t a fucking joke lady
Like this isn’t a fucking joke lady
February 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Just saw a lady quoted in a local small town paper say she signed the separatist petition even though she doesn’t want to separate but wants to “send a message” and I’m just beside myself
Like this isn’t a fucking joke lady
Like this isn’t a fucking joke lady
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Polls of the American electorate always read like:
Do you approve of Trump's immigration policies?
27% yes, 73% no
Do you want to attack Greenland?
3% yes, 97% no
Which party do you trust more on the border?
72% R, 28% D
Which party do you trust more on national security?
87% R, 13% D
Do you approve of Trump's immigration policies?
27% yes, 73% no
Do you want to attack Greenland?
3% yes, 97% no
Which party do you trust more on the border?
72% R, 28% D
Which party do you trust more on national security?
87% R, 13% D
February 6, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Polls of the American electorate always read like:
Do you approve of Trump's immigration policies?
27% yes, 73% no
Do you want to attack Greenland?
3% yes, 97% no
Which party do you trust more on the border?
72% R, 28% D
Which party do you trust more on national security?
87% R, 13% D
Do you approve of Trump's immigration policies?
27% yes, 73% no
Do you want to attack Greenland?
3% yes, 97% no
Which party do you trust more on the border?
72% R, 28% D
Which party do you trust more on national security?
87% R, 13% D
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I am done with collaborationist bullshit
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I am done with collaborationist bullshit
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People on here: “Democrats are terrible at broadcasting their wins and are failing at youth vote outreach!”
Kamala Harris: “OK, I’m turning my campaign-headquarters into a youth-focused media outlet focused on progressive political news and accomplishments.”
People on here: “NOT LIKE THAT!”
Kamala Harris: “OK, I’m turning my campaign-headquarters into a youth-focused media outlet focused on progressive political news and accomplishments.”
People on here: “NOT LIKE THAT!”
February 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
People on here: “Democrats are terrible at broadcasting their wins and are failing at youth vote outreach!”
Kamala Harris: “OK, I’m turning my campaign-headquarters into a youth-focused media outlet focused on progressive political news and accomplishments.”
People on here: “NOT LIKE THAT!”
Kamala Harris: “OK, I’m turning my campaign-headquarters into a youth-focused media outlet focused on progressive political news and accomplishments.”
People on here: “NOT LIKE THAT!”
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The fundamental difference here between people like Evans and myself, I'm realizing, is that they seem to work under the assumption that people who stayed home in 2024 or even voted Trump are theoretically good people who just need the right incentives or messaging. And I just don't!
If all the leftists voted for Democrats, and Democrats still lost, that would logically mean that a coalition of Democrats and leftists is a losing coalition, and Democrats would be better served looking elsewhere.
I don't think people like Robert Evans #2 have really thought through this logic.
I don't think people like Robert Evans #2 have really thought through this logic.
February 6, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The fundamental difference here between people like Evans and myself, I'm realizing, is that they seem to work under the assumption that people who stayed home in 2024 or even voted Trump are theoretically good people who just need the right incentives or messaging. And I just don't!
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I think there are just a lot of people struggling with the reality that the shitlibs and wine moms have been basically hit like .900 for the last decade, and they've been wrong about basically everything, and are now struggling to deal with what that says about them and their politics.
February 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I think there are just a lot of people struggling with the reality that the shitlibs and wine moms have been basically hit like .900 for the last decade, and they've been wrong about basically everything, and are now struggling to deal with what that says about them and their politics.
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Remember when a Washington Post reporter (RIP) won a Pulitzer for calling like hundreds of charities to prove that when Trump says he’s donating to charity, he’s lying?
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/pol...
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/pol...
February 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Remember when a Washington Post reporter (RIP) won a Pulitzer for calling like hundreds of charities to prove that when Trump says he’s donating to charity, he’s lying?
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/pol...
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/pol...
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Because he gave them the racism and misogyny they crave.
He has said this about every election since 2016, has always been heavy-handed in implying he will under no circumstances concede. An aspiring dictator from the beginning, he hardly ever pretended to believe in democracy. I’ll never understand why so many people averted their eyes from the obvious.
February 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Because he gave them the racism and misogyny they crave.
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Trump market tested his campaign with Birtherism and inaugurated his run calling Mexicans “rapists and murderers.” There’s no new information in the latest outrage. But there is further confirmation that commentators who denied racism was Trumpism’s central motivating factor should be shunned.
February 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Trump market tested his campaign with Birtherism and inaugurated his run calling Mexicans “rapists and murderers.” There’s no new information in the latest outrage. But there is further confirmation that commentators who denied racism was Trumpism’s central motivating factor should be shunned.
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Again, the people who were so stupid or Nazi-adjacent that they fell for this shit still have huge platforms.
That’s the point of the meme. These people (and Nick!) are too stupid to have valid opinions.
That’s it.
That’s the point of the meme. These people (and Nick!) are too stupid to have valid opinions.
That’s it.
February 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Again, the people who were so stupid or Nazi-adjacent that they fell for this shit still have huge platforms.
That’s the point of the meme. These people (and Nick!) are too stupid to have valid opinions.
That’s it.
That’s the point of the meme. These people (and Nick!) are too stupid to have valid opinions.
That’s it.
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Democrats are further left on economics than we've been since the 1960s, and further left on social issues than any other major party in the history of humanity. The idea that Dems have moved right is completely bonkers, like believing the Earth is flat.
Yeah when people say the Democrats have "moved right" I know they're not serious. I grew up in Tennessee in the 80s and 90s, most Tennessee Dems of that era were FAR to the right of the right-most Democrat alive today.
February 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Democrats are further left on economics than we've been since the 1960s, and further left on social issues than any other major party in the history of humanity. The idea that Dems have moved right is completely bonkers, like believing the Earth is flat.
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"Girlboss" as an epithet was a load-bearing piece of the new societal consensus that women are inherently bourgeois and don't deserve power or status, and it needs reclamation stat before we truly return to monke on gender issues
We need to rehabilitate the "girlboss" as a concept, seeing how it took approximately 2.5 seconds for us to go from deciding they were cringe to a rapeboss taking over the world.
February 6, 2026 at 4:29 AM
"Girlboss" as an epithet was a load-bearing piece of the new societal consensus that women are inherently bourgeois and don't deserve power or status, and it needs reclamation stat before we truly return to monke on gender issues
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yeah, i think a lot of this is about how/whether it's possible to motivate cis het white people to use their agency and pay attention, instead of assuming everything is going to work out for them no matter what happens politically
they dismissed all the threats, and now here we are
they dismissed all the threats, and now here we are
This whole won over shit is too simple minded and denies that human beings have agency.
If you were not convinced DJT was enough of a threat to vote against whatever stupid feelings you have about Democrats, you were not going to vote properly.
Many people just recoil at Black women leading.
If you were not convinced DJT was enough of a threat to vote against whatever stupid feelings you have about Democrats, you were not going to vote properly.
Many people just recoil at Black women leading.
February 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM
yeah, i think a lot of this is about how/whether it's possible to motivate cis het white people to use their agency and pay attention, instead of assuming everything is going to work out for them no matter what happens politically
they dismissed all the threats, and now here we are
they dismissed all the threats, and now here we are
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If:
-The loss in 2024 wasn't due to leftists abstaining
-There are a huge number of voters who weren't won over
Then:
The people who need to be won over aren't leftists
I don't think they're politically coherent; they want "normal" and believed people in their bubbles saying that Trump is normal
-The loss in 2024 wasn't due to leftists abstaining
-There are a huge number of voters who weren't won over
Then:
The people who need to be won over aren't leftists
I don't think they're politically coherent; they want "normal" and believed people in their bubbles saying that Trump is normal
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
If:
-The loss in 2024 wasn't due to leftists abstaining
-There are a huge number of voters who weren't won over
Then:
The people who need to be won over aren't leftists
I don't think they're politically coherent; they want "normal" and believed people in their bubbles saying that Trump is normal
-The loss in 2024 wasn't due to leftists abstaining
-There are a huge number of voters who weren't won over
Then:
The people who need to be won over aren't leftists
I don't think they're politically coherent; they want "normal" and believed people in their bubbles saying that Trump is normal
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Setting a dumpster full of typical North American household or commercial rubbish on fire makes smoke that is extremely dangerous and, honestly, worse than at least half of the first world war's chemical warfare attacks.
So maybe don't do it.
So maybe don't do it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Setting a dumpster full of typical North American household or commercial rubbish on fire makes smoke that is extremely dangerous and, honestly, worse than at least half of the first world war's chemical warfare attacks.
So maybe don't do it.
So maybe don't do it.
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“Newly presidential trump strikes conciliatory tone”.
February 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“Newly presidential trump strikes conciliatory tone”.
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That’s because she was dumb.
People wonder why I say there was a cultural addiction to shitting on Democrats. She was like the embodiment of people who should have known better but wanted the ego boost instead.
People wonder why I say there was a cultural addiction to shitting on Democrats. She was like the embodiment of people who should have known better but wanted the ego boost instead.
Young progressives are not the base of the Democratic Party.
February 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
That’s because she was dumb.
People wonder why I say there was a cultural addiction to shitting on Democrats. She was like the embodiment of people who should have known better but wanted the ego boost instead.
People wonder why I say there was a cultural addiction to shitting on Democrats. She was like the embodiment of people who should have known better but wanted the ego boost instead.
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what's going on is antisemitism
February 6, 2026 at 4:30 AM
what's going on is antisemitism
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i think there is a shared, cross generational belief that there is a “They” sitting in the background that will step in and prevent things from getting intolerably bad
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 AM
i think there is a shared, cross generational belief that there is a “They” sitting in the background that will step in and prevent things from getting intolerably bad
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It’s worse when you realize Britt is currently the lead negotiator for Republicans in support of more funding for DHS & ICE currently as the admin is now trying to revoke asylum status.
Aside from Rep. Castro’s staff doing petty bs like hiding comments acknowledging Rep. Crockett visiting with him.
Aside from Rep. Castro’s staff doing petty bs like hiding comments acknowledging Rep. Crockett visiting with him.
This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
February 6, 2026 at 7:26 AM
It’s worse when you realize Britt is currently the lead negotiator for Republicans in support of more funding for DHS & ICE currently as the admin is now trying to revoke asylum status.
Aside from Rep. Castro’s staff doing petty bs like hiding comments acknowledging Rep. Crockett visiting with him.
Aside from Rep. Castro’s staff doing petty bs like hiding comments acknowledging Rep. Crockett visiting with him.
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if you want liberalism to to find a backbone, us saying we were right all along is what that looks like
February 2, 2026 at 4:19 PM
if you want liberalism to to find a backbone, us saying we were right all along is what that looks like