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Extremely Online medieval archaeologist. Stubborn electoralist, your fave needs a primary. Gerontocracy hater. 🌹DSA for my sins. ADHD. He/Him. #nomoresenators

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · Aug 21

they do not have enough men. destroying USAID didn't end the protests, or switch off the woke. they aren't successfully intimidating their enemies, they are inspiring them. they aren't gerrymandering because they are confident about the midterms, or their ability to prevent them occuring

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 8h

There’s no way to make healthcare affordable while doctors make $400k a year. It is fundamentally a supply problem.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 8h

Doctors pointing to healthcare CEO pay when anyone brings up healthcare costs is kind of like AirBnB owners making six figures pointing at the Hilton CEO’s pay package when you ask why hotels and Airbnbs cost what they do

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Patrick Callahan, smashing pumpkins. @iampatrickc.bsky.social · 10h

This fuckin guy!

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Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social · 8h

Now THAT'S optimism.

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 10h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

heart warming: california to prove it can be governed by an egomaniac woman just as easily as an egomaniac man

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11h

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 4h

if there is an Amerimaidan before Trump's term ends it will start in either November 2026 or January 2027

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 7h

I think this is wrong. But no 2026 midterms, or refusing to seat the new Congress, would be my personal “go home with your shield or on it“ point

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 7h

I think this is wrong. But no 2026 midterms, or refusing to seat the new Congress, would be my personal “go home with your shield or on it“ point

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 7h

HOW DARE YOU DESECRATE BURGERVILLE

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 15h

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963.

It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Trump: U.S. Code. Those provisions authorize the President, when faced with such unlawful obstructions against the authority of the United States as existed in Alabama, to "call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary" (10
U.S.C. § 332) and to use
"the militia or the armed forces,
or both, or
• other means" (10 U.S.C. $ 333). The
militia of the United States includes the national guard, meaning the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the several states. 10 U.S.C. § 311 and $ 101 (9), (10), (12) .
In furtherance of the President's order the Secretary of Defense immediately called into active military service all of the units and members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Alabama to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
This call was transmitted by the Secretary of the Army, acting by direction of, and under delegation of authority from, the Secretary of Defense.
Copies of the Department
of the Army message (No. D.A. 340638, June 11, 1963) were furnished immediately to the Governor of Alabama and to the commanding officers of the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the State of Alabama.
It is apparent that the Alabama National Guard was properly called into federal service pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§5 332-4, and in accordance with the procedure provided in those sections. Since the call to federal service did not invoke the authority of 10 U.S.C. $ 3500, referred to by Mr. Bowen, the procedure prescribed by that section was
not
used.
I trust that the foregoing information will be of
assistance to you.
Sincerely,
¡enera.
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10/7/25,

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 11h

The doctor makes $200k a year because they charge thousands of dollars more for a procedure than they should. The health insurance CEO doesn’t want to pay it and tries to dump it on you. You fight with the health insurance over *who* pays the high cost and not *why* the cost is high.

Coonbaya My Lord @powdercuff.bsky.social · 12h

The doctor making 200k a year is not your enemy. The health insurance CEO making millions per year is. Let’s focus up.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 6h

I believe this is, genuinely, the subject of a famous rabbinic discourse in Kabbalah.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN LOGIC
1. A male is defined by having a penis and testicles
2. God is a male.

Therefore
3. God has balls and a wang.

Ask a fundamentalist how big god’s hog is. No matter how big he says it is, it will be a limit to the infinite size of god and therefore a blasphemy.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

The same day that Frum submitted his pitch to the Atlantic to profile the Israeli ambassador, Frum also was forced to publicly apologize to the New York Times and Reuters for falsely accusing a Palestinian photographer of faking a series of photographs of bereaved Palestinians in Gaza.

7/30/2014

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

It is interesting to me how little attention overall this seat has gotten so far even though it might actually be a quite interesting test-case of where pro-Israel politics may or may not go vis a vis the Democratic Party. Seems like Nadler in part is retiring because of the directionless of it.

Erdogan Gwan Delilah @socialconcarne.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's the clown car,

Clubhouse leader: Assemblymember Micah Lasher (possibly endorsed by Jerry Nadler)

Considering: City Council Members Erik Bottcher, Keith Powers*, and Julie Menin, Assemblymembers Tony Simone and Alex Bores, former Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Lina Khan, Whitney Tilson,

Jeff Coltin @jccoltin.bsky.social · Sep 3

“It’s the most coveted and arguably important congressional seat in New York because of the history of political influence from that seat, and also the fundraising base that comes with it.”

On the upcoming #NY12 primary to succeed Nadler:

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

You'll fare a lot better in terms of coping with this stuff if you just internalize that being pro-Israel has long been considered an elite litmus test and now being pro-Palestine is becoming the litmus test of the forthcoming next generation of elites. Ideological reproduction on the issue flipped.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

I think it's fine to admit that. Just as there's a growing bloc of Democratic hyper-active activists or apparachikti who think Palestine is especially important, so too has there always been and remains the donor set which prioritizes the 'bipartisan consensus' on Israel.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 4h

Hillfort Henge! Hillfort Henge!

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 5h

Castell Bryn-Gwyn: The hillfort is defended by a bank and ditch and accessed by a causeway. #HillfortsWednesday Excavations have revealed that it has a long history dating back to the Neolithic period when it was created as a henge. 📷 Horatio More: http://www.megalithi...

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LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

Speech writer for the Israeli ambassador

🎗️The Ghost of George O @orwellsghost.bsky.social · 7h

On the anniversary of October 7th, let's pick on the Jewish journalist about his help as a speech writer for the Israeli ambassador. Tell me you're an antisemite without saying it out loud. Meanwhile this asshat doesn't open up comments. He can f@k right off!!

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 7h

I think I had a post a while ago that was like “I’ll take Bill Kristol if I must but I’ll be damned if I’ll take Frum”

anyway,

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 4h

god you motherfuckers are dumb as rocks

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Winter @winterpolitics1.bsky.social · 15h

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek just took back control of the national guard.

She is sending the Oregon national Guard back home and is directing the California national guard to leave the State.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 7h

Re: the priest getting shot

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

So I missed the lede of the piece and didn’t realize this was last month.

Which makes this far worse, bc there’s been a month for this to become such bigger news than it had been.

I know there’s a lot going on, but … still.

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Aaron J @its-ya-boi-a-aron.bsky.social · 7h

Wouldn’t say a general strike is something to be organized.

Or at least not something you can organize in anything but a long timeframe and very established civil society.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement—there was NEVER a general strike and they were the best civil rights organizers we’ve had.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Did Air Traffic Controllers just start the general strike?!?? 🤝

“…Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy claimed that many air traffic control workers were calling out sick.”

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

#GeneralStrike #ShutItDown #AirTrafficControllers #50501movement

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, this seems like the Katie Porter who responded to losing a primary by calling it rigged.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11h

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 8h

Aaron Judge has a 1.304 OPS in 26 plate appearances this postseason.

Entering this year, Judge had a career .768 OPS in the playoffs. That OPS has risen to .817 with this postseason performance.