A. Bean

A. Bean

@abeanchi.bsky.social

One-time applicant for Chicago Alderman. Love books, history, movies, & architecture. Sometimes Too Online, but working to never be Terminally Online.

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a principled anti-authoritarian left-liberal internationalism that doesnt apologize for repressive communist/socialist states is very good actually tankies and campists fuck off

Angie Nixon@angieforfl.bsky.social

I say it plainly: I do not celebrate Castro. I call Cuba what it is, an authoritarian regime, and I will fight for the Cuban families who fled it. Meanwhile, Ashley Moody backs deporting Cuban families back to the regime they escaped. #AngieforFlorida

A Democratic Congress covering for Trump's failures and getting stuff done is arguably the one of the most important factors in why she lost!

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Kamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…

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Here was my take on this a couple of weeks ago: ryandenos.substack.com/p/trump-has-...

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Kamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…

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"The votes aren't there" is cowardice masked as savviness. There has to be accountability for their crimes. The House has a duty to make the case here and if some GOP senators want to weasel out, make them own that vote. Don't let pundits and "strategists" talk you out of doing your damn job.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Kamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…

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The central questions of the Republican primary in 2028 will be (1) Do you want to make Marco Rubio Caudillo of the Western Hemisphere vs (2) Do you want Tucker Carlson’s Nazism in One Country?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department says it will give US visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.

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Seriously, enough with all these motherfuckers

Alex Shultz@alexshultz.bsky.social

RFK Jr says Sam Altman told him it's "malpractice for a doctor to make a diagnosis or to make a prescription w/o at least checking AI.” RFK Jr says AI “can give you a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country." I asked OpenAI+Anthropic if they agree; never heard back

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Small menus create hard men Hard men create big menus Big menus create weak men Weak men create small menus

Jason Wilson@jasonaw.bsky.social

It’s so amazing that there is a political coalition that, for now, includes Evola quote bio guys and Cheesecake Factory defenders

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If there is one thing we can learn from Brazil is don't let their threats scare or demoralize you.

Tom Hunter@onelifestand87.bsky.social

It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours

26 months til the extradition request is approved, guys.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department says it will give US visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.

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Do certain pundits still think US voters shouldn’t pay attention to elections overseas?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department says it will give US visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.

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Among Israel's Jewish voters, the opposition have a very thin majority. Nearly 50% of Jewish Israelis support the government despite its failures and crimes. It is thanks to Israel's Palestinian citizens who voted in unprecedented numbers, that Netanyahu has no chance to form a government.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

One week to go, five new changes on the Crystal Ball rankings: FLSen: Safe R -> Likely R NCSen: Leans D -> Likely D SCSen: Likely R -> Leans R AZGov: Leans D -> Likely D VTGov: Likely R -> Leans R

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl halftime show at SoFi Stadium in Southern California.

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The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

Waldo@waldo42.bsky.social

Something happened in the 70's that crystallized politics (and many other topics) into a new set of assumptions and priors. It gave rise to Reaganism and completely crushed New Deal Socialism; Dems that eventually reemerged were and still are centrists scared of their own shadows.

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Replying to @mtsw.bsky.social

Hey def a choice to write up "The President is credibly accused of a new rape" as "Dems call for special counsel to scrutinize ties" bsky.app/profile/ryan...

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>we have a radical new system to replace capitalism >is it a new system or is it feudalism? >it’s a good system sir *looks inside* >it’s feudalism

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

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"We’ll be working closely with our Appropriations Committee partners to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to cut off money used for political persecution," Jamie Raskin tells me. “Everybody involved from top to bottom will be subject to legislative investigation."

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Here Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin talk to me about working with Dem Appropriators to target Trump's corrupt prosecutions of Ilhan Omar and others with various defunding tactics. “We will actively and aggressively investigate this case,” Jayapal says. newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Matty has no takes other than "you're wrong to care about things." An empty and immoral existence.

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

Yes well it does require things like “empathy” and possessing a basic understanding that all of our lives are interconnected

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

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Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

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Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

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And we've come full circle from Obama wasn't even born here to it doesn't matter if Obama was born here.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

Bill Radjewski@collegefootballdata.com

Michigan's defense has held all 7 opponents to 20 points or fewer. Since 2014, FBS teams that do that win 87% of the time. Michigan is 4-3. Jason Beck has to go. Now. Here's the data. 🧵