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bakerdphd.bsky.social
I never understand why people who tout their moderate and centrist credentials aren't directly asked about this.
Screenshot of the letter which reads: I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
When the racist meme becomes national policy
Family Guy - officer holds up color palette to determine American or foreignness Minneapolis: facial recognition app being used to detect brown skinned man
January 17, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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ryanlcooper.com
I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
When heavy military equipment is taken from its original context and placed in the hands of a domestic law-enforcement agency with little training in wartime scenarios, it becomes nothing more than an instrument of intimidation. It simply has no other purpose. Wearing jungle camouflage in an urban setting, pointing guns at civilians, driving around pointlessly in an armored personnel carrier — all of these egregiously violate military best practices. This is playing soldier dress-up to scare the pants off the locals — except the guns are real. Notice also how many of these riot cops have their faces completely covered by gas masks and insect goggles. That is almost never seen in recent wars, because covering the face makes a soldier look less human, which is directly at odds with modern counterinsurgency thinking. But covering the face to dehumanize the enemy is a common feature in first-person shooter games (like Half Life 2 and the Killzone series), where the player often has to slaughter them by the score. Doing it to oneself is, I think, a deliberate effort to broaden the emotional distance between law enforcement and the people who are being forced into submission. It turns out that when you put normal cops into soldier gear, you don't get soldiers. You get paramilitary goons.
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
January 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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russbengtson.bsky.social
*dejected* team america, world police, fuck
January 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.
January 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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sarahspain.com
So… a foreign country could just kidnap our president and charge him with crimes?
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January 3, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Nativist italian americans are so funny. Wym your whole personality is being italian and then talking about immigration the way people used to talk about your ancestors
December 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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haredurer.bsky.social
Sure, conservatives are in the middle of a gleeful orgy of corruption, kidnapping, rape, and murder, but the real problem is when liberals say it's bad.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Nov 18
Imagine looking around America in 2025 and thinking, "What we need less of is morality."
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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pressle54.bsky.social
what about- *EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER* what about- *EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER* what about- *EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER* what about- *EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER* what about- *EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER* what about- *EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER*
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
“I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said over the weekend at the R.J.C. event. “Here’s what I do know: You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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stevekenson.com
"Democrats Deeply Worried About the Repercussions of Victory" could be the defining statement of our generation.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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seangrandepbp.bsky.social
There have been 445 games in NBA history in which a team took 50 or more 3's.

The Celtics 21.6% Monday (11-51) was the worst shooting percentage of any of those 445.

Career 3-point shooting
White 36.9%
Brown 36.1%
Pritchard 40.0%
Hauser 42.0%
Simons 38.1%

Boston now 29th in the NBA (31.2%)
November 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM