Nametag Jack
@apocalypticmailman.bsky.social
here, queer, engineer, wants a beer. some kind of socialist idk. armed. 27.
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I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
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I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for
(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao
March 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for
Very good weekend at the (two) range(s)! First with Boston @pinkpistols.bsky.social and then with the New England @theliberalgunclub.com . Met a lot of cool folks, walked a lot of folks through their first experience with firearms. Love doing this.
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Very good weekend at the (two) range(s)! First with Boston @pinkpistols.bsky.social and then with the New England @theliberalgunclub.com . Met a lot of cool folks, walked a lot of folks through their first experience with firearms. Love doing this.
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Bingo. That's the goal. Turn the US into a fascist kleptocracy where the ultra-rich use their ties to the state to enrich themselves and control any competition.
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Bingo. That's the goal. Turn the US into a fascist kleptocracy where the ultra-rich use their ties to the state to enrich themselves and control any competition.
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The Democrats had almost a year to devise a strategy to counter Proj. 2025 should it be enacted and they completely neglected to do so. That they're now on the back foot against it is a problem of their own making, and it isn't being a bad solider to tell them we expect better from them.
January 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The Democrats had almost a year to devise a strategy to counter Proj. 2025 should it be enacted and they completely neglected to do so. That they're now on the back foot against it is a problem of their own making, and it isn't being a bad solider to tell them we expect better from them.
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Some things you can do. No one can do all these things, but most people can do at least one:
Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are.
Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group.
Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.
Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are.
Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group.
Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.
January 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Some things you can do. No one can do all these things, but most people can do at least one:
Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are.
Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group.
Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.
Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are.
Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group.
Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.
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The main thing elected Dems lack is *they don't actually communicate with their base.* A few exceptions like @aoc.bsky.social and @schatz.bsky.social, but by far most Dems don't actually know how to get the pulse of rank and file resist libs, as many of us on BlueSky are.
January 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The main thing elected Dems lack is *they don't actually communicate with their base.* A few exceptions like @aoc.bsky.social and @schatz.bsky.social, but by far most Dems don't actually know how to get the pulse of rank and file resist libs, as many of us on BlueSky are.
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One key thing is *they aren't afraid to fail.* A lot of these right-wing efforts flop and don't get any traction on Fox News, GOP electeds, or the MSM. There was a full-court press to demonize Jasmine Crockett after she made these comments re: Brad Penny's trial.
January 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
One key thing is *they aren't afraid to fail.* A lot of these right-wing efforts flop and don't get any traction on Fox News, GOP electeds, or the MSM. There was a full-court press to demonize Jasmine Crockett after she made these comments re: Brad Penny's trial.
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For ~a decade, while studying “rumoring during crisis”, I’ve seen how the right takes advantage of newsy moments, throwing out different frames & phrases to find what resonates. They don’t wait for focus groups. They throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, then lean into the winning bits.
January 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
For ~a decade, while studying “rumoring during crisis”, I’ve seen how the right takes advantage of newsy moments, throwing out different frames & phrases to find what resonates. They don’t wait for focus groups. They throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, then lean into the winning bits.
Reminded of how Britain rose to prominence on coal, and how their decline (and the US' rise) coincided with the shift to oil
China appears set to become the world's first clean tech hegemon, their global influence & domestic economy secured through a network of minerals, batteries, EVs, solar, wind & nuclear production & exports. Meanwhile, the US under Trump tries to hang on to its role as 20th century petro-hegemon. 🔌💡
January 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reminded of how Britain rose to prominence on coal, and how their decline (and the US' rise) coincided with the shift to oil
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alright you wanna know how to support trans people?
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
January 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
alright you wanna know how to support trans people?
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
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The way forward is the same as it’s always been - organize your neighborhood, your household, your workplace. Nobody is coming to save us except ourselves. Look out for one another.
January 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The way forward is the same as it’s always been - organize your neighborhood, your household, your workplace. Nobody is coming to save us except ourselves. Look out for one another.
Damn bro if only you'd been president for the last four years, we could've had this already smh
In his farewell address, Biden calls for:
An end to dark money
18 year term limit on Supreme Court Justices and ethics reform
A ban on stock trading in Congress
Amending the Constitution to say no president is immune from crimes committed in office
An end to dark money
18 year term limit on Supreme Court Justices and ethics reform
A ban on stock trading in Congress
Amending the Constitution to say no president is immune from crimes committed in office
January 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Damn bro if only you'd been president for the last four years, we could've had this already smh
Trying to settle a rap beef in court is by far the most Drake thing you could possibly do
The Toronto rapper is suing Universal Music Group for defamation, alleging that the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar's 2024 hit threatened his life and career.
New Drake lawsuit claims his label pushed 'Not Like Us' diss to defame him
The Toronto rapper is suing Universal Music Group for defamation, alleging that the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar's 2024 hit threatened his life and career.
www.npr.org
January 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Trying to settle a rap beef in court is by far the most Drake thing you could possibly do
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none of this shit matters in the slightest. they are not holding Trump or his minions accountable. Hegseth is getting through. You fuckers and your newspaper are half the useless slime that brought us here and I hope you feel the shame in your bones
FYI, folks from Bluesky. Reporters at The NYT, among other news organizations, are now generating a giant wave of accountability stories about the new Trump era. Reading these stories, sharing them, is a form of accountability as well. It is a form of participatory democracy too. Substance matters.
January 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
none of this shit matters in the slightest. they are not holding Trump or his minions accountable. Hegseth is getting through. You fuckers and your newspaper are half the useless slime that brought us here and I hope you feel the shame in your bones
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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
"Journalism...is built on the economics of attention"
Facts are boring. Conspiracy theories are exhilarating. Besides, fact checks are happening in spaces where the lie consumers aren't. No Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, NY Post, WSJ oped consumer is reading Politifact or Kessler. JFK is alive, after all.
Facts are boring. Conspiracy theories are exhilarating. Besides, fact checks are happening in spaces where the lie consumers aren't. No Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, NY Post, WSJ oped consumer is reading Politifact or Kessler. JFK is alive, after all.
I wrote about facts v. belief and belonging as the real crisis here:
medium.com/whither-news...
medium.com/whither-news...
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
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“Gee Crow, why are you depressed lately?”
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“Gee Crow, why are you depressed lately?”
haha funny po - AOC????
Hmm can we workshop the name please? They’re going to be bullied by the skibidi kids
January 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
haha funny po - AOC????
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I have a brilliant plan, all I need is:
- the copyright to everything
- all the money in the world
- the copyright to everything
- all the money in the world
Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
December 28, 2024 at 4:29 PM
I have a brilliant plan, all I need is:
- the copyright to everything
- all the money in the world
- the copyright to everything
- all the money in the world
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this has been my overwhelming finding in talking to normies about this. random public assassinations are not popular, but also everyone gets how an otherwise decent person could be moved to violence by our healthcare system.
What's interesting about this new poll is it captures a nuance that's been absent from the discussion: most people do not support the murder but they also consider the healthcare system culpable
Wow: 69 percent of Americans believe the healthcare system was at least partly responsible for the UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder, per new poll
December 28, 2024 at 12:04 AM
this has been my overwhelming finding in talking to normies about this. random public assassinations are not popular, but also everyone gets how an otherwise decent person could be moved to violence by our healthcare system.