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ike, son of mike

@i-bresnick.bsky.social

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dad, husband, jew, trekkie, zionist, executive, lawyer in roughly that order

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · Dec 19

On the occasion of adding another person to my list, please let me stress that if you make a point of berating someone for simply BEING a zionist, as a general matter you are hostile to any conversation with Jews.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 7m

I'm glad it's not my job.

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Saralegal @saralegal.bsky.social · 4d

From my perspective as a anti-occupation, anti-genocide Jew, "the problem" about antisemitism is that Jewish people are being attacked, harassed, or murdered. And rather than thinking that's a problem, non-Jews' priority is to complain that the word antisemitism has been used to hurt their feelings.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 35m

The neat thing about being the majority, I guess, is that you don't need to have any self-reflection or -awareness. You can just blunder on being stupid.

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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2h

So many of you insist you’re not antisemitic while also making it extremely clear that you are only comfortable with Jews as a (barely) tolerated minority population who lives at the majority culture’s pleasure and it’s a lot to deal with

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 2h

if i never hear anyone bitch about girlboss generals or whatever again it would still be too soon

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

i know leftists have all their memes about rainbow-painted b-52s but i think resegregating the military is bad actually

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 47m

The most annoying habit of this site remains people getting annoyed at Democrats for not doing the things they have been doing all along, with coverage more or less sounding like this. This is not the "fault" of Democrats.

They do not have the power to change the media.

House Democrats break little new ground with Trump emoluments report, experts say
Lawmakers have said the former president ran afoul of the Constitution by allowing foreign countries to spend millions at his Washington hotel and other properties.
BENJAMIN S. WEISS / January 4, 2024

ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 53m

Yeah, my fear lately is that they're going to convict based not on the actual evidence, but on avoiding the political fallout of acquitting.

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 1h

shit like this and putting your hand over your heart during the national anthem is much more of an informal and arbitrary standard of sanctionable cultural practice than any college speech code bullshit the Harper’s letter people made up in their heads

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 3h

Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are freaking out after photos emerged of Super Bowl singer Bad Bunny sitting during “God Bless America” at a New York Yankees playoff game.

MAGA Melts Down as Bad Bunny Sits for ‘God Bless America’

The singer is causing anger among Republicans for his actions during a baseball game.

trib.al

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 1h

you know democrats are winning the political battle of this shutdown beacuse the "actually its savvier for them to have caved on healthcare" takes are starting to bubble up

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1h

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 8h

...Bibi getting a Hendel-led satellite party to take votes from the opposition bloc. Hendel is not a reliable anti-Bibi vote (he was the opposite of that in 2020), so with him Bibi has 53-54 seats, the best he's had since the war started.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 1d

I will add: this is not a reason for nihilism. Trump is unpopular and weak. But we can literally see where he is unpopular and weak: it’s above all on issues like the economy, inflation, and healthcare. This is the territory Dems should fight on because it’s the territory they are going to *win* on

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 12h

The great irony of blueskys political hobbyists demanding that Ds talk about nothing but this issue now is that Harris actually made "Trumps an existential threat to our democracy" a pretty central campaign focus. Voters shrugged! The online left said she had to be more than just "anti-Trump"!

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry but if there is one single US political proposition that we have tested to destruction in recent years, it’s the idea that a critical mass of swing voters see democracy vs authoritarianism as a crucial and salient issue in judging Trump. They simply do not! I don’t like it either

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 8h

Like if we want to post hoc this shit let's fucking go.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 8h

If it comes together and it holds, that will be excellent. But it will be no more because of Trump, because of the White House WANTING it than it will be because Bibi starved Gaza for four months.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 8h

Folks want to say that this ceasefire happened because the White House wanted it to, and maybe. This deal is an amalgamation of a variety of efforts that have been working independently of each other for years. Blair, the Saudis.

Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 15h

It's clear that when the US wants a ceasefire deal, one miraculously occurs. Makes the "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" stuff from last year even more disgusting.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 8h

I'm not seeing your marker, there.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 8h

It is definitely different when the Court is telling a despot that he can do despotic things. When a court loses legitimacy by seizing power, you can just say no. When they lose legitimacy by abdication, it's tougher.

ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 10h

Of course, but that's what you do. To the extent that all that is stopping you from doing what you want to do is that the Supreme Court said you can't… you just do it anyway.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10h

I mean I think technically we have a legitimate acting president of the United States except he’s not acting as president and nobody recognizes him as such.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11h

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 10h

John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!
-Andrew Jackson

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 11h

This is correct. Also, the Supreme Court is illegitimate.

(It's a big problem!)

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 10h

Its formal opinions have more sway but eventually you get enough "The President is literally above the law" and "but the Fed is different" and "well I mean if the President says John Roberts is dead, we have to defer to executive fact finding" and you start seeing district courts openly defying.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 10h

So, I'm not sure. Maybe the court has some practical legitimacy. Maybe it's still hanging by a thread. But we've already seen district courts defy them to the extent that they're ruling through unexplained shadow docket nonsense. And we've seen the Court get pissy about it.

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah. Feels like the kind of thing people need to be honest with themselves about and put a marker down.

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