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Mister Magic

@mistermagic.bsky.social

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Fuck the populists and defund the police. Anti-Confederate extremist, movie novelization collector

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · Dec 26

Populism punches up in theory and punches down in practice.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 11h

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11h

american labor liberalism just does not really chart onto european politics because its effectively a blended traffic light coalition

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 14h

MAKE IT STOP

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 11h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

has anyone else spoken to david shor, the democrats' premier pollster and noted race science afficionado, on this topic, because this sounds like a particular rationalist Wormtongue

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9h

yeah, ezra basically believes that left-liberalism is doomed and we have to dislodge the current ruling party at whatever cost with whatever coalition we can piece together. its extrapolating way too much from 2024 which was more about the overarching landscape than the policy or messaging

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10d

just my two cents on Ezra Klein: he is generally good on policy and his work on things like housing is helpful

the problem is that his punditry is misguided for two reasons:

1) he is not skeptical enough of right wing bad faith

2) he is acting like the U.S. is Hungary, where the right is popular

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 9h

Our local Moms For Liberty school board member is outraged and offended over the goddam Rocky Horror Show which is probably as old as she is.

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 11h

Jill?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 14h

Latinos need to start voting like Black people

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 18h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 16h

Newsom's method is not equal to Pritzker's, and it's unworthy of a serious commentator to pretend it is.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3d

This take has gone past a hot take all the way to cooked

Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 3d

No.

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 15h

Only acceptable red hat

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 16h

I want to break their spirits; I approve.

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 17h

I like how MAGA people are getting themselves all worked about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl months before it happens so that when they inevitably forget about it, they'll get SO upset about it all over again when it actually happens next year.

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone country (except Zach Bryan now, I guess). They desperately want the genre to matter

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 17h

I think a better question(s) would be "Why did the reporter ask the speaker this question? Why should we care what Congress thinks about this?"

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18h

You cannot buy this kind of publicity, the ruling party thinks your upcoming televised mini concert is sexually demonic liberalism and keeps telling the media about why

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 18h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Johnson, famously concerned with the care of pregnant women

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Fuss @semperfitrex.bsky.social · 19h

Just reupping to point out that Hasan Piker is another nepobaby who got his position through his uncle's influence.

He's left-wing millennial Jonah Goldberg.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 19h

Personally I think it is bad that the man exercising the powers of the presidency is a demented lunatic and his copartisans and the media grade his statements on a normalizing curve taking that into account.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 21h

Every network should be leading with this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 20h

I feel sorry for them, and only them. The rest, let them eat soybeans

Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 20h

Then small business owners need to stop voting for Republicans