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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18m

Caldwell has migrated towards the rabidly Trumpist Claremont Institute orbit – but is widely seen as one of the most respectable/least unserious intellectual representatives of the Right. And he is! Which only hammers home how much of a radically anti-pluralistic consensus there is on the Right.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19m

Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 19m

I actually like Friedman's Middle East commentary, more or less. But man can he be corny.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 19m

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

"This war, two years later, still has no name. I have a name for it. It’s the Worst War."

The best to ever do it, folks.

Opinion | Thomas Friedman on the Only Way to Solve the Israel-Hamas War

www.nytimes.com

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 32m

He has a sociopath’s view of politics, and twitch streaming is borderline sociopathic anyways, so…

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 33m

He’s a sociopath? That’s the first I’m hearing of this…

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 11h

It’s so clearly a shock collar I wanna commit ********

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 11h

Wake up another reason to hate this mf just dropped

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 59m

Hot on the heels of bribing Trump with $24.5 million, YouTube has ramped up shoveling right-wing gateway slop into recommendations. YouTube has no reason to believe I'm interested but even more of this is now nestled between videos actually relevant to my viewing history.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 54m

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 11h

Pete is out here playing Operator. We do not have a SECDEF.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe UFC or WWE

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 3d

Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

Would be pretty cool to reestablish norms where national politicians don’t feel comfortable using words like “cleansing.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 1d

Dude continues to demonstrate his willful ignorance of American history and the Constitution he swore an oath to. Americans have birthright. THAT is what makes one different from a subject or a serf. FFS

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 18h

The people who want to get you to see the current evils of the Israeli government as some pure expression of the innate character of Israel are gutter bigots, exactly the same sort as those who memed "spiritually Israeli" into existence, and vulgar ethnonationalists in left clothing.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 17h

Without immigrants, the US population just straightforwardly implodes and the US undergoes Japanification. No one should want to live in a dying country populated by geriatric racists.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19h

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 19h

Somehow Joe Flacco returned

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 19h

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 20h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 19h

I think there can be legitimate critiques of Taylor Swift, her business practices and even her art and lyrics. I'd like to hear them'

But thats not what's been happening the past few days.

The algorithm knows people love to hate women, and it rewards the most inflammatory takes about them.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 20h

True

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 20h

Why showcase an unranked, 2-3 program that just got waxed by another unranked team?

UNC sports excels at virtually everything else, men's and women's. Showcase that.

Inside Carolina @insidecarolina.bsky.social · 21h

UNC, Hulu Not Moving Forward With Season Documentary

North Carolina announced in August that it would do a season-long documentary to showcase the team.

dlvr.it

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 20h

deranged old man

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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