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@oldmanweldon.bsky.social The Nation magazine just published an excellent article by Luca Goldmansour titled "Democrats Have a Problem with Bill Maher," which calls out the double standard of condemning Hasan Piker while agreeing to appear on that clout chasing, bigoted, 70-year-old pervert’s show.

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”

@oldmanweldon.bsky.social I hope you do a critique of Dave Rubin on Real Time and/or Club Random, because did you know that Dave Rubin has a weekly segment about Bill Maher called "Maher Monday," where he basically just heaps praise on him every week? He’s basically your Wario! 😂

The war on ignorance is so important. Thank you librarians.

Lindsay Graham is dead. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow.

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I hate the line that the Constitution is "colorblind." The reconstruction amendments gave the Constitution eyes with which to see discrimination, ears with which to hear the cries of the oppressed, and a mouth with which to speak the law against it. The Court made it a blind deaf mute for a century.

I was just listening to @profmmurray.bsky.social on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com and she described the Articles of Confederation as a government based on friendship bracelets. I’m totally stealing that description (with appropriate credit given of course).

i do think it's a legitimate issue that the democratic party is in an abusive relationship with the national press

*watches Frankenstein* Me to @realgdt.bsky.social

It is wild to me that “pro-Israel” figures and the government in that country will just never grapple with the obvious reality that the scale of collapsing popular support for them in the US is solely their fault

The undeniable truth that so many indoctrinated Americans refuse to accept... 😒

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

It is crucial to understand that you will never outlast the fuckery. Once the fuckery starts, it’s all fuckery from then on. The only thing that outlasts the fuckery is the new fuckery.

"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right." Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Baby listen... getting older is mandatory, but becoming wiser is optional.

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

It’s Duck, Duck, Fuck ICE now

People are not talking enough about the antiblack and anti-African reason for the ICE sending thousands of its agents to Minneapolis in the first place It's always about fucking white people, wven when white people are the reason we're all in this situation in the first fucking place

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

My man looks like Robert Redford was battered and deep-fried

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

@samlitzinger.bsky.social hi, I’m a huge of yours. Do you still have that New York Times gift article about falling in love with jazz guitar in five minutes?

you show me some guy who emanates hitler particles, i’ll show you the biggest can’t get no bitches loser on the planet

And just as a reminder, the Obama-era IRS "scandal" the right was so enraged about here was the agency simply questioning whether explicitly partisan Tea Party organizations were eligible for a specific tax-exempt status that, by law, forbade the recipients from engaging in partisan politics.

@oldmanweldon.bsky.social love the podcast. Will you plan on having @timheidecker.bsky.social or @andylevy.net on the pod anytime soon?

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

In my opinion? Absolutely. Taney brought us the disastrous Dred Scott, but Roberts has delivered horrible rulings on a wide variety of issues — Citizens United, Heller, Shelby County, Brnovich, Dobbs, and of course Trump v US.

I don’t let white people tell me to be humble, thanks.