Dan Freeman
@othersideofhard.bsky.social
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No one likes tariffs (except non-college educated white men [but barely])
Notable: There's a clear racial divide among working class voters on tariffs in latest Marquette poll. Noncollege white men like tariffs (yet it's only 44-40!) but *huge* majorities of noncollege *nonwhites* are skeptical of them.
Look at this chart:
newrepublic.com/article/1937...
Look at this chart:
newrepublic.com/article/1937...
April 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
No one likes tariffs (except non-college educated white men [but barely])
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Why are securely tenured Yale full professors fleeing the US now? This is not the time. We need their voices. @ericowens.bsky.social @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Be a Patriot
Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.
www.theatlantic.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Why are securely tenured Yale full professors fleeing the US now? This is not the time. We need their voices. @ericowens.bsky.social @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
April 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
Johnny Venus went crazy on So Beautiful
April 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Johnny Venus went crazy on So Beautiful
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Democrats have a plan to keep civilization from collapsing. But how will they pay for it?
April 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Democrats have a plan to keep civilization from collapsing. But how will they pay for it?
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👇🎯 Help Democrats not make American politics overly complicated challenge 🤷♂️🤦♂️
“You don't have to beat people over the head with the fact that Donald Trump is incompetent and erratic and largely brings chaos to every situation he's in”
YES YOU DO
YES YOU DO
The exchange
April 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
👇🎯 Help Democrats not make American politics overly complicated challenge 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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Opinion | Donald Trump is one of the worst presidents in American history. The only way to beat him is to adopt his policies and become more like him.
by Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer
by Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer
April 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Opinion | Donald Trump is one of the worst presidents in American history. The only way to beat him is to adopt his policies and become more like him.
by Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer
by Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer
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cc @mcopelov.bsky.social for "Today in c̶o̶m̶p̶e̶t̶i̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ authoritarianism"
In functioning democracies, incumbent governments do not withhold natural disaster aid as a way to coerce a change in institutions that would apportion more seats to them.
In functioning democracies, incumbent governments do not withhold natural disaster aid as a way to coerce a change in institutions that would apportion more seats to them.
REPORTER: Will you insist on voter ID as a condition for disaster aid for California?
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been lamenting the lack of voter security there for some time. We were deeply concerned in this last election cycle and we saw 3 of our seats frankly slip away from us in California.
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been lamenting the lack of voter security there for some time. We were deeply concerned in this last election cycle and we saw 3 of our seats frankly slip away from us in California.
January 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
cc @mcopelov.bsky.social for "Today in c̶o̶m̶p̶e̶t̶i̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ authoritarianism"
In functioning democracies, incumbent governments do not withhold natural disaster aid as a way to coerce a change in institutions that would apportion more seats to them.
In functioning democracies, incumbent governments do not withhold natural disaster aid as a way to coerce a change in institutions that would apportion more seats to them.
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i am constantly hearing that the left is elitist but if it is elitism to stand up for basic values of citizenship and decency against a bunch of cruel dumbasses who have no greater ambition than to tell bad jokes and hear the braying laughter of their dumbass friends, then i am an elitist
these people make me into a social conservative but for social democratic values
January 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
i am constantly hearing that the left is elitist but if it is elitism to stand up for basic values of citizenship and decency against a bunch of cruel dumbasses who have no greater ambition than to tell bad jokes and hear the braying laughter of their dumbass friends, then i am an elitist
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Never.
Since when is it the mission of the DOJ to “implement the President’s agenda?”
January 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Never.
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This is it, this is their theory of governing
January 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is it, this is their theory of governing
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The faster everyone gets up to speed on the fact none of this shit is legal because he’s a criminal. The better.
i stopped asking ‘is this legal?’ the night he was elected president for a 2nd time
January 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The faster everyone gets up to speed on the fact none of this shit is legal because he’s a criminal. The better.
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Perhaps tonight is a good night to remind ourselves that the federal government is 20% of GDP & 2% of overall non-farm employment, & dismantling this - as we appear to carelessly & without any pushback appear to be doing - is going to not only be a political, but also an economic disaster.
January 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Perhaps tonight is a good night to remind ourselves that the federal government is 20% of GDP & 2% of overall non-farm employment, & dismantling this - as we appear to carelessly & without any pushback appear to be doing - is going to not only be a political, but also an economic disaster.
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The future they want is a broken administration unable to manage a modern society
January 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The future they want is a broken administration unable to manage a modern society
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Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
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Immigrant round-ups as entertainment is Verhoeven levels of dystopia
ICE says it is conducting "enhanced" immigration operations in Chicago today.
"Border czar" Tom Homan, a top DOJ official and................................. Dr. Phil.... are here to participate.
(this is 100% serious unfortunately)
"Border czar" Tom Homan, a top DOJ official and................................. Dr. Phil.... are here to participate.
(this is 100% serious unfortunately)
January 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Immigrant round-ups as entertainment is Verhoeven levels of dystopia
I can’t keep seeing the Chiefs win smh
January 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I can’t keep seeing the Chiefs win smh
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"The median price of a home in California is $869,000. In Texas it is $349,000."
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
I really really have found myself enjoying the work in Liberal Currents of late.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
I really really have found myself enjoying the work in Liberal Currents of late.
The Crisis of Democratic Governance
State Democrats have failed to deliver what the American people want.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"The median price of a home in California is $869,000. In Texas it is $349,000."
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
I really really have found myself enjoying the work in Liberal Currents of late.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
I really really have found myself enjoying the work in Liberal Currents of late.
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like I keep saying: all of this is going to end badly, just a question of how badly and how long.
doing a pump and dump on his own dipshit followers before he even takes office. sheeesh
So Trump launched a meme coin on Friday night, just days before becoming President, and entities he controls retain 80% of the coin. And the coin passed a $9 billion market cap in just hours.
I just can't...
I just can't...
January 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
like I keep saying: all of this is going to end badly, just a question of how badly and how long.
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The people who voted for Trump on the assumption that he didn't really mean all the awful things he was promising are about to get a rude awakening.
Sadly, a lot of innocent people are going to suffer for those voters' willful blindness.
Sadly, a lot of innocent people are going to suffer for those voters' willful blindness.
Miller's strategy is to basically overwhelm America with cruelty so that people just shrug and say "it can't be helped."
January 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The people who voted for Trump on the assumption that he didn't really mean all the awful things he was promising are about to get a rude awakening.
Sadly, a lot of innocent people are going to suffer for those voters' willful blindness.
Sadly, a lot of innocent people are going to suffer for those voters' willful blindness.
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megawealth is a curse! you become acutely aware of the needs you have that cannot be satisfied through material means AND you are socially ill-positioned to be in a place where you can experience authentic human connection because everyone around you has every incentive to lie to you!
it is *wild* how a primary effect of unspendable wealth can be making someone incomprehensibly thin-skinned
January 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
megawealth is a curse! you become acutely aware of the needs you have that cannot be satisfied through material means AND you are socially ill-positioned to be in a place where you can experience authentic human connection because everyone around you has every incentive to lie to you!
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The decline in trust in the government and institutions is reflected in the fact that freaking Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell (among other Rs) *agree* with the Biden admin that TikTok threatens our national security but ppl are big mad that they won’t be able to post stupid music videos
January 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The decline in trust in the government and institutions is reflected in the fact that freaking Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell (among other Rs) *agree* with the Biden admin that TikTok threatens our national security but ppl are big mad that they won’t be able to post stupid music videos
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seriously. one republican nominee for president got the dukakis treatment and republicans decided democracy was too much and had to go
underrated how of the modern conservative movement was borne out of elite indignation at the media, which liberals control(?), for being too mean to mitt romney who they had a parasocial identity with as a fellow weird rich guy™️
I… um…
Nope, I got nuthin’ here. This didn’t happen. Andreessen’s brain is cooked.
Nope, I got nuthin’ here. This didn’t happen. Andreessen’s brain is cooked.
January 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
seriously. one republican nominee for president got the dukakis treatment and republicans decided democracy was too much and had to go
Ja Rule real quick
One Artists And All Their Music Has To Go, Which One Are You Picking? #BlackSky #BlackSkyOver30 #BlackSkyOver40
January 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Ja Rule real quick
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The worst person you know just made some great points
December 30, 2024 at 4:46 PM
The worst person you know just made some great points