Lemon
@lemongrenades.bsky.social
E-commerce professional, but it probably won't come up a lot.
"The moderation that popularists recommend dampens enthusiasm, demobilizes or even alienates the base, and cedes the affective terrain to opponents who are happy to rile people up."
Consider the reactionary centrists who now ignore the actual data as lost, and move forward without them.
Consider the reactionary centrists who now ignore the actual data as lost, and move forward without them.
This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it.
Spread this one far and wide.
Spread this one far and wide.
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
www.bostonreview.net
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
"The moderation that popularists recommend dampens enthusiasm, demobilizes or even alienates the base, and cedes the affective terrain to opponents who are happy to rile people up."
Consider the reactionary centrists who now ignore the actual data as lost, and move forward without them.
Consider the reactionary centrists who now ignore the actual data as lost, and move forward without them.
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
Could it really have happened while I was at The Bone Temple? I cannot be so lucky that I get to say that forever.
January 21, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Could it really have happened while I was at The Bone Temple? I cannot be so lucky that I get to say that forever.
People are stuck on the threat in the title, but TBH my brain went to the metaphorical wide and narrow gates.
It's like they know they're leading people on a completely separate path to a separate destination and don't care.
It's like they know they're leading people on a completely separate path to a separate destination and don't care.
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
People are stuck on the threat in the title, but TBH my brain went to the metaphorical wide and narrow gates.
It's like they know they're leading people on a completely separate path to a separate destination and don't care.
It's like they know they're leading people on a completely separate path to a separate destination and don't care.
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Predictably, when all of the media is filled with the message, "hey, shittiness is just part of being a Real American," the result is that Americans get shittier and shittier and public life becomes unbearable.
January 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Predictably, when all of the media is filled with the message, "hey, shittiness is just part of being a Real American," the result is that Americans get shittier and shittier and public life becomes unbearable.
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hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
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The consensus picks for top 3 presidents in US history include Lincoln and FDR because they followed all the rules to a T and did everything in a bipartisan way
January 13, 2026 at 9:11 PM
The consensus picks for top 3 presidents in US history include Lincoln and FDR because they followed all the rules to a T and did everything in a bipartisan way
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leftists judge films like evangelical christians and it's making me sick
January 12, 2026 at 4:23 PM
leftists judge films like evangelical christians and it's making me sick
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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
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The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.
January 9, 2026 at 12:12 AM
American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.
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The phone is for making posts like "the ass is the father of the legs" whereas the computer is for posts that include words like "inexorably"
January 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The phone is for making posts like "the ass is the father of the legs" whereas the computer is for posts that include words like "inexorably"
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The dollar has been slumping against other currencies, and in 2025 had its biggest decline since 2017 (the first year of Trump’s prior term). Every major currency appreciated against the U.S. dollar in 2025.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
The dollar has been slumping against other currencies, and in 2025 had its biggest decline since 2017 (the first year of Trump’s prior term). Every major currency appreciated against the U.S. dollar in 2025.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
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well, well, well, if it isn’t the deadline of the very simple thing I had 3 months to complete
December 21, 2024 at 5:02 PM
well, well, well, if it isn’t the deadline of the very simple thing I had 3 months to complete
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Sending a carefully written email and then immediately going to the Sent folder to read it "from their perspective"
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Sending a carefully written email and then immediately going to the Sent folder to read it "from their perspective"
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i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
December 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
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What if the social media experience some seek is not post-truth rhetorical combat with the deck stacked against them? What if they prefer conversations and good faith engagement? Why wouldn’t that be okay?
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
What if the social media experience some seek is not post-truth rhetorical combat with the deck stacked against them? What if they prefer conversations and good faith engagement? Why wouldn’t that be okay?
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May I HAVE SOME of your MILKSHAKE
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
May I HAVE SOME of your MILKSHAKE
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the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last