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joero.bsky.social
Part time political scientist, part time political theorist, full time democracy enthusiast, and lover of music. What music you say? A typical day might start with Szell conducting Beethoven, followed by Lee Morgan, then Wilco and close with Sinatra.
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Love to say you’re running government like a business and then immediately gut the accounts receivable team

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

This is an important essay.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Did Trump really appoint himself head of the Kennedy Center!? Ok…not the biggest problem we face but really a great example of the farcical nature of his second administration.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Putin and Xi are having a great great week.

submitted 32 days ago • 89 comments

My family came here in 1664 to the Massachusetts colony. Everyone born in this country is my fellow citizen. Anyone who says otherwise can go to hell.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

For all the real threats that Trump represents, he did relatively little permanent damage in his first term. He weakened norms, but no structural destruction. My worry is that he will move beyond norm destruction in his 2nd term.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Okay, not the worst thing that will happen over the next four years -- but, we have to deal with idiot journalists saying, at various moments, "this is when Trump really grew into the presidency". Or, some variation of that. Pretty much every SOTU, I bet.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

For the first time in a while overdose deaths are declining - seven straight months of declines. The cause is complicated but appears to be the culmination of a number of different Biden admin policy initiatives coming to fruition. And yet it meant absolutely nothing politically.

submitted 101 days ago • 287 comments

Absolute classic

submitted 101 days ago • 15 comments

"He is not awful," George Szell raved. cc @musicologyman.bsky.social

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social says what needs to be said. My God the argument of letting Trump off is risible.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

So I am depressed about our world. The logical thing to do is watch Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy. Would you agree @tamsinshaw.bsky.social?

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

My mom had to go to the hospital last night. I am stressed.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

My mom had to go to the hospital last night. I am stressed.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

I have not blocked anyone on here yet. But knowing I can is a significant comfort to me.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

In April 1933, Bonhoeffer raised the first voice for church resistance to Hitler's persecution of Jews, declaring that the church must not simply "bandage the victims under the wheel, but jam a spoke in the wheel itself."

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Blue Sky this week as a bunch of new people join.

submitted 113 days ago • 9 comments

@tamsinshaw.bsky.social, @musicologyman.bsky.social so, in case I am secretly held hostage the signal for help is me posting, "Don't get the Szell version, I think he is an overrated conductor."

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Remember people -- Hegseth is unacceptable. Gaetz, Gabbard and RFK might be more ostentatiously awful -- but PH is just as awful and in a more powerful position (Gaetz as AG being possibly equally powerful).

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

I saw someone say the goal of Trump's appointments is to shock. I don't see many Democrats or those on the left in a state of shock. No, if there is any shock it is to Republicans and those on the right.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing". Speaking on Fox and Friends, Hegseth said the infectious micro-organisms did not exist because they could not be seen with the naked eye. "I inoculate myself,"

submitted 116 days ago • 736 comments

Some thoughts about Trump's "honeymoon". On one hand part of it will be based on the economy. Whatever Trump believes or says, the US economy is a good shape and will continue to be so for the near term.

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

In April 1933, Bonhoeffer raised the first voice for church resistance to Hitler's persecution of Jews, declaring that the church must not simply "bandage the victims under the wheel, but jam a spoke in the wheel itself."

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Rubio is a terribly weak, sad choice for State. And, yes, he is the best choice of the ones rumored.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment