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kleinman.bsky.social
I like to post and see posts. Director of Research at The States Project, the views expressed here are my own.
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Showing solidarity with LA by having 3 beers and rewatching Repo Man

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LA is America they invented fast food and mass produced video pornography we are nothing as a culture without these things

submitted 1 hour ago • 16 comments

I never thought there'd be a worse freshman-year assignment than me being required to read a Thomas Friedman book for an international relations class but this is it

submitted 59 minutes ago • 4 comments

Richard Jefferson in the booth with Mike Breen and Doris Burke

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

The Department of Homeland Security is asking every NBA Finals home fan if they'd be willing to be part of an occupying force.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Everyone who's mad at consultants is mad at the candidates. Everyone who's mad at the groups is mad at the candidates.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Also, one of the things that Democrats are trusted most on is improving race relations.

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As you can see from this picture, children have 50% of their father’s jeans

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 comments

Other people have said this much more eloquently than me, but your average active-duty US servicemember is a reasonably ambitious young adult who couldn't afford to go to college, not a hardened SpecOps psycho who's been itching for an excuse to gun down the libs.

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.

submitted 3 hours ago • 362 comments

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

submitted 2 hours ago • 108 comments

It's worthwhile to pause for a moment and think about what a military operation to establish control over a major American city - let's say Los Angeles - would actually look like. The city of LA, which excludes most of the metro area, has nearly 4 million inhabitants. LA county has 10 million.

submitted 2 hours ago • 40 comments

Almost verbatim, unbelievable

submitted 8 hours ago • 102 comments

i guess my main question for people with this perspective is if they think something of an ideological bubble is worse than being called a "nigger" whenever you post

submitted 3 hours ago • 107 comments

Same writer

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

the vast silent vacuum of space is louder than the free speech warriors right now

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

Sometimes I think, "Oh, I'd love a real media job. I could use health insurance and a regular paycheck." But there's a lot of grace and freedom in KNOWING you can't rely on institutions. Stress and freedom. This is something that @mike-eagle.bsky.social and I talk about on @pastduepodcast.com!

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

The good news is that barely anyone watches this shit. The bad news is that the people who do run the government and the media.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Result: Gina Ortiz Jones will be the next mayor of San Antonio. The Democrat, and former Biden admin official, just defeated Republican Rolando Pablos in the country’s seventh most populous city. (She’s going to replace a retiring Dem.)

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

A large element of this is indeed spectacle, part of the reality TV program Trump is producing for his cult and for the right-wing media content machine. My sense is that the response will (1) continue to be incompetent overkill and (2) will backfire with the normies.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The easiest way to stop immigration to your country is to make it a worse place to live for everyone

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Mein Führer... the Venice Beach Erewhon... has already fallen.

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folks I've been tear gassed something like 200 times and maced at least fifty or so times. once i was soaked in mace to my underwear. ignore any neat scientific tricks people give you for beating this stuff -Water for tear gas -sudecon wipes for mace -if no sudecon, wash mace with water

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

This is gonna hit different after a week of Miller and Homan playing soldier

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

So now we’ve got people-most of them sore losers, loser athletes or bigots-lining up to tell Simone Biles and Dawn Staley about how to best protect and nurture women’s sports. I know which side to trust on this one.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Returns just in from San Antonio’s election for mayor: 102K ballots just dropped (that’s the early and mail vote), and Dem Gina Ortiz Jones leads 52.2% to 47.8% over her GOP opponent. (In the first round last month, early/mail was roughly two-thirds of the total vote.)

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Watching Duster is a reminder that Sawyer is the coolest guy on the planet, and my friend

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Yesterday I caught up with Ken Casey, the lead singer of the iconic punk band Dropkick Murphys at a rally of veterans and labor unions on the National Mall, to talk punk rock and politics. My latest for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 180 comments

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Lots of people right now are worried about the Trump Regime trying to declare martial law. I'm more concerned about governors and mayors in blue states folding so the regime doesn't need to. Encourage your governors, mayors, etc., to hold the line. www.altrightdelete.news/p/hold-the-l...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Took advantage of a rainy day to read Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen - really hit the nail on the head in terms of what was going to happen to the Jewish community in the Trump era.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Mesopotamia by Serhiy Zhadan is a Hold Steady album as a book. I feel like I've been to killer parties in Kharkiv.

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What Procter & Gamble don't want you to know is that the correct dose of Nyquil is one (1) swig

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments