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Teaching Political Science and World History in Abu Dhabi — Skeets mainly about the Seattle Sounders, the state of the world, and my generalized grumpiness https://buttondown.com/natebowling

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · Nov 15

If you're new to Bluesky, I made Starter Pack with past guests on my podcast, Nerd Farmer, that are on here. There's a heap of authors, journalists, academics & educators, and folks from the civic scene in the PNW.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 23h

Sir, we all know. Instead of skeeting your way through it, make unmasking ICE agents and clarified rules of engagement for agents a part of your demands for reopening the government

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Van Lathan >>>> Van Jones

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 1d

Van Lathan >>>> Van Jones

Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 2d

Every Sunday I used to sit with my grandma and watch Murder She Wrote and 60 Minutes.

This country needs an Andy Rooney so damn bad right now.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 2d

I'm a broken record about it at this point. But this book explains so much of our dumb moment.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 2d

Respectfully, do you have experience being a minority in a democracy that's hostile to you?

Or being monitored by US Army intelligence?

Or living the last six years in an absolute monarchy in the Middle East?

I have experienced all three and that shapes how I view privacy issues.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 2d

I'm always intrigued online when I come across clearly intelligent people who are plainly wrong about various issues.

Free expression without privacy protections is worthless and an encryption backdoor that "only the good guys can use" will inevitably be used and abused by bad actors.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 2d

By this math my newsletter is worth about $50,000. So, if you're interested in buying "Takes & Typos" hit me up.

Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 2d

Also I do not get how 'The Free Press' can be worth $100 million dollars with 1 million subscribers only 10% of those paid subscribers. Is the media biz really that valuable? puck.news/david-elliso...

The Bari Market

With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 3d

Billionaires, their concentrations of wealth, and the way they've captured the state are a weight around the neck of US society.

We get the oligarchal politics of Central Asia but none of the trains and new infrastructure upside.

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The Billionaires are the Problem

There have always been ultra-wealthy people in the US. But the oligarchs of our time wield political influence that the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age could only have dreamed of.

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