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Yeah, as I hit post I realized that making this dude a martyr would have some downside
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What an improvement!
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Flood the zone with sense
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Especially if they coordinated their statements in some way
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
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There are like five conservative social media apps, including one run by the president of the United States, and it’s weird how we never get a Washington Post editorial about how divisive and unwelcoming they are.
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Great QT and 🧵
Seems like a VC model--growth above everything--actual businesses target market segments.
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Not unimportant, though
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Lefse, though, can delight
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Right, they didn't provoke an invasion by Venezuela
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No
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There have been no reports of “looters” in L.A. despite what Trump says here.
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Very insightful! I have suspected that for most people the immigration was not a material issue, but I had not thought as incisively as
"An alternative way of thinking about why immigration made its way onto the national agenda and stayed there is that it’s a very easy issue to manipulate."
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One Rep + some Senators not casting protest votes does not make a pattern of "most of the party." I agree on the nominations and have expressed the same to my Dem Senators, but it's not even most Senators.
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"Elected Democrats"???
The article describes one elected Democrat, a person without a leadership position, pushing a terrible idea against much several Democrats with more clout: Sanders, AOC, Warren, and the most recent VP Nominee who said "“How great is it that that dipshit Elon Musk is out?”
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Gabriele and Perry linked to a @merleeisenberg.bsky.social and David Addison @jacobinmag.bsky.social piece that provides a succinct explanation of three divergent uses of "feudalism", a term that Medievalists have questioned for my nearly my entire life.
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jacobin.com/2025/05/capi...
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@profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about the abuses of "Medieval", making some useful points about Medieval Europe along the way.
https://buttondown.com/ModernMedieval/archive/medieval-as-a-moral-argument/
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