michaelobryan.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Writing and English at Washington University in St. Louis - I guess this is a chance to wipe the slate clean of my overly earnest political opinions and bad basketball takes, but who are we kidding
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I mean, not to be one of those people who demands only to be entertained by plot, but everyone keeps talking about how suspenseful it is, and I just don’t get that because knowing the ending just evacuates all that suspense.
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Doesn’t help that, except for a few Obama-ite newcomers, the senior leadership of the Party only began changing from when I, a 44 year old man, was in middle school because people started dying in their seats or falling so far into dementia that their staff could no longer pull Weekend at Bernie’s.
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The Democratic Party’s best and brightest wonks learning in 2024 that American voters have short attention spans.
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In retrospect, it’s pretty bonkers that every profile of the rising industry in the early 2010s puzzled over why it was expanding amid the Great Recession without considering the business model only works under aggressive stimulus conditions.
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All other discourse about gerontocracy vs ageism aside, it’s empirically known that it becomes increasingly hard to alter heuristics or absorb novel information as we age, and this infuriating article is proof positive that this reaches a point where you just can’t defend the world from new threats.
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It really is groundbreaking stuff to consider that you get more credit for your policies from voters if you make sure to tell voters they were your policy.
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If only we had realized sooner that you can’t govern like it’s the 1970s!
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Damn it’s really too bad that no one could possibly see until last month that Joe Biden and many senior Democrats like him are stuck in a bygone era of governance.
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Gosh, if only anyone had ever said this in the past 8 years.
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You don’t say.
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If I didn’t know any better I’d say that unscrupulous staff want to use his platform to advance their own interests and for some reason they assume he won’t care or even be aware that they’re misrepresenting him.
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Matt Yglesias, downplaying the significance of incarcerated nonviolent drug offenders while also showing that 15 years later he appears to have still not read The New Jim Crow, because this isn’t really its argument.
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Well this one’s a bit disappointing. But here’s Ro Khanna, groveling for a partnership with DOGE. Ranting about wasteful spending, progressively.
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This is my surprised face that Cenk Uygur 😐 makes this little list of ignominy, but here he is “realizing” that MAGA isn’t and never was his enemy—it was the establishment all along! He’s ready for those “why I left the left” grifter bucks now, Mr. Thiel!
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A week after the election, NPR announced a new series called “Seeking Common Ground: Conversations Across the Divide.” The first divide conversed across? An RFK voter plugging her book about how grateful she is for her fiancée’s patience for the six months she decided to be into QAnon.
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Huh, polled the two elder millennials next to me before posting and they hadn’t either, but, like, there are many kinds of people in the world. Anyway 90%, or it even being an especially common view, is silly.
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What age was your daughter when you read them to her? Asking as I’m between book series with the kid right now and trying to assess age level for being able to process books someone reads to you.
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Brian Williams goes on Seth Myers, says the Democratic Party needs to be “stripped down and rebuilt,” gives litany of examples including a tirade about illegal immigration: “For the working class to see incoming migrants getting welcome bags, debit cards, and motel rooms is probably insulting.”
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Armand Domalewski, high off being retweeted today by AOC after spending a day arguing with Nancy Mace, rues progressive stances on clean energy regulation and then has a chummy exchange with notorious race science advocate Diane Yap about it! Focus on what unites us rather than divides us?
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Okay so Zooey Deschanel was actually She & Him, sue me, how many bands that start with Z have you seen?
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🤔🤔🤔
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Aaron Rupar says “liberals need to grapple with” the fact that not everyone supports various civil rights, implying this may be reason to back off of supporting them.
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Lol you guys are so pathetic