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Dad. Teacher. East Bay lifer. History nerd. Minivan still dented. Running for Congress in CA-10 to fight fascism, not play nice (unless you're cool)
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he asked ChatGPT and it couldn't generate a single clue for him
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I donated to Bernie, but ultimately voted for Clinton in the April primary. If you’re still fixated on grudges from nearly a decade ago, that says more about your priorities than mine. Some of us moved on to fight actual threats.
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The wall around NYC isn’t to keep anyone in or out. It’s to shield the rest of us from the radiation leak that is their local politics.
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he what now
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“Don’t get high on your own supply” was meant for drug dealers, and it’s Zuck and Musk who entirely ignored it. They built platforms to sell personas, then got so deep in the cosplay they forgot they were selling a product, not starring in it.
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Most of the Senate Dems signed off on Trump's crypto bill, which was in fact a giant bribe to Trump!
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Every few weeks or so I write a brief post entitled, "White liberals are addicted to genuflecting to power. It is their heroin."
It's incredible how loyal they are to a Party elite that delivers so little so consistently.
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I'm definitely going for something in the 20th century, I want (most of) my listeners to not have participated in the event contemporaneously.
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Sure, but only a certain amount of nuance available in 300 character posts. Right now I'm probably going to analyze the 1968 election, as we can all agree that Kissinger was worse than whatever Humphrey would have done.
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ACAB = All Condiments Are Bastards
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This LAPD?
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The goal is not to caricature internet rhetoric, but to identify a clear instance where an insistence on ideological purity over achievable outcomes weakened broader efforts. Suggestions for moments or movements that illustrate this dynamic are welcome!
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I’m producing a podcast episode on the liberal–left split within the Democratic coalition. While much of the critique focuses on liberal failures, I’d like to include a substantive point about how segments of the Left have sometimes obstructed practical progress by over-obsessing about purity.
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god that's the worst
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is there a specific article that celebrates this? would like to read for anthropological reasons
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Some people think my article focused too much on MAGA, but the truth is, that was the doom loop I was trapped in. It got so bad I quit the Internet entirely in 2019. I’m only back now under strict conditions I’ve set for myself, because I’m not letting it break my brain again.
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Will do! Well in the interim, here's something I'm pretty proud of!
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Launching a podcast this weekend on the history of the DNC from 1945 to now. Episode 2 dives into the Left-Liberal split with a broad critique of liberalism. A test listener asked what my critiques of the left are. I think I’m going to focus in on one very thing as my case study. Thank you!
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Masked, armed, unidentified men are kidnapping people in broad daylight, without due process or identification. If the Second Amendment isn’t meant to stop that, then what exactly was it for?
Oh right—protecting slave patrols and slaughtering Native people. Happy Juneteenth, everyone!
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Masked, armed, unidentified men are kidnapping people in broad daylight, without due process or identification. If the Second Amendment isn’t meant to stop that, then what exactly was it for?
Oh right—protecting slave patrols and slaughtering Native people. Happy Juneteenth, everyone!
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Seriously though I have to copies of PRINCESS WHO SAVED HERSELF, one of the sequel, TUROK for my dinosaur obsessed kid. MAGNETO TESTAMENT is an opus for our times. You rock, bro
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I bought your STORM run on ebay, and the cover to Issue 1 is on the wall of my classroom in Oakland.
So uh... maybe?
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The gold standard for online punditry seems to be “never wrong,” rather than the far more useful and honest “mostly right.” It is vexing.
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I'm a Giants fan who is saying nice things about the Dodgers Org today. They planned this as poorly as they plan everything.
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Padilla gets tackled to the ground but still says "yes daddy" to the guys who bankrolled Trump's second term
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Ready to write a sequel?
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I heavily covered this theme of resegregation here if you have time to read it.
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Tried out my new podcast mic and read it aloud. Let me know how it sounds.
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Centrists will eventually have to face the truth: the only reason we don’t have things like universal health care is because they decided they didn’t want to do the work. Then they slapped the word “impossible” on it and called that pragmatism.
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Nazis building defective rockets for the United States Government is one of our proudest traditions.
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I don't flatter myself to think that I have been any more than a tiny pebble in his shoe to date, but if @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social wants a media event, the silver lining is he could see someone knocking the stuffing out of me, as well as being seen as our Nation's next hero. I'll step aside.