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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃
@smotus.bsky.social
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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 13h
So I'd find it... by the sour cream? By the specialty cheeses? By the dips?

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 15h
Crème fraîche needs to figure out whether it’s cheese or not right fucking now

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 18h
Oh

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 20h
It begins

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
I love how the judge’s main argument is “I dunno guys this seems like a pain”

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
The President of the United States personally called and pressured Georgia election officials to declare him the winner of an election he'd lost. This is permissible.
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
www.nytimes.com

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1d
Bay Leaves Matter, and if you bring that “Allspice Matters” bs you’re getting blocked.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
Our chief weapon is a fanatical devotion to critical thinking skills

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
Bay leaves are bullshit. This is known.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
I am well trained

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
BRB am becoming Catholic
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · 1d
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d
the decline and fall of the american republic in two headlines
judge dismisses georgia election interference case against trump bolsonaro ordered to begin serving 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d
My brain at 2AM: Does baking soda actually deodorize refrigerators or did Arm & Hammer just convince us of this in the 50s so non-bakers would buy it?

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Vulture @vulture.com · 1d
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d
A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
I mean I'd prefer we had enough air traffic controllers to fly all our planes safely, but hey, shaming people in open-toed shoes on airplanes isn't terrible I guess

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
Being considerate is not just a character flaw but something one should seek redress from the government for

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3d
“Wicked for Good” (2025)

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 4d
New one: Why alarmists are good for the republic right now, although doomers are not. And links! @carolyneholmes.bsky.social @smotus.bsky.social @dcinbox.bsky.social @rickhasen.bsky.social @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social and more. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/for-a-litt...
For a Little Alarmism
I'm not an alarmist, but I'm glad we have some. Plus the links.
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 4d
Zohran needed back in DC

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 5d
Trump endorsed Zohran Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did!

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
I thought Mamdani was running in Georgia’s CD14

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
Putting in a request for zero news today so we can catch up

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6d
Giving MTG a 21 space laser salute
a red light beam is coming out of a black object in the dark .
ALT: a red light beam is coming out of a black object in the dark .
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6d
We might look for a lot of different motives, but MTG is following a very long line of Republicans who had some small power over Trump but choose to surrender that power rather than face a Trump-backed primary candidate (and whatever violent threats came along with that).

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6d
Last week, Trump called MTG a traitor
Yesterday, he said that traitors in Congress should be hanged
Anyway...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d
They line up perfectly.
An Oval Office photo of Trump looking adoringly at Mamdani, while a portrait of Reagan looks on. Above the man-ignoring-his-girlfriend meme.

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6d
Mamdani : Jedi :: Trump : Stormtrooper

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6d
If RFK issued a rule forbidding surgeons from using antiseptic instrument cleaners... well yeah I guess that would be "challenging orthodoxy." Another phrase is "killing people."
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms