Joe Ickowski

Joe Ickowski

@joeick.bsky.social

A weird little medievalist trying to find his way in the world. He/Him

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The thing I keep thinking about is that Trump's plan is clearly to reescalate the Iran War after the midterms. We might be heading for some all time presidential unpopularity

This is obviously insane but I also kinda think this is bad strategy? It's not going to work in court and this seems like the sort of shit more independent minded Alaskans would hate.

The Once-ler@maledicta.bsky.social

The prayer for relief is insane. They want the court to preemptively announce that it will block the state from certifying the election result, but only if the incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.

Even in the circumstances where they win, a Dem majority Senate is just going to tell the courts they have no power here and seat Peltola

Treating government officialsthis way was the sort of thing that used to get punitive expeditions sent their way. The idea that a representative of the United States engaged in lawful protective action needs to bow his head to an occupying power because might makes right is pathetic

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The US allies with a number of reprehensible states, which is bad on its own. But even if you want to live in the world of pure realpolitik, we don't accept this kind of naked bullying and tail-wagging-the-dog from anyone else. National pride demands we end this alliance even if conscience didn't

Fuck it, I'm writing in Ross Perot

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National President Oct 2 - 4, 2026 Hunter Biden (D) 37% (+1.0%) Donald Trump Jr. (R) 36% Someone else 10% Would not vote 9% Don't know 8% University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Public Opinion/YouGov 1000 LV View Poll

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Struggling to engage with the concept of “father and son Republican operatives Timmy and Tommy Teepell.” Come on man can even one thing be like 5% less stupid

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the Internet Archive thing is an example of the fascinating trend recently where people consuming products they’re not paying for seem to believe they also have the right to dictate how much human labor is spent producing them.

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youtubers, streamers, podcasters, etc are always on this beat bc they don't know how anything works & know that if they say something like this, their audiences will lap it up now & also 3 years later when they point to total gay commie revolution not happening and go "see? i was right!"

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Replying to @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social

And media - who loves to ride the drama of a pollercoaster - needs to take a hard look at what's legitimate and what's not. If this teaches us anything - DON'T GET COMPLACENT AND DON'T TRUST THE POLLS. LOCK IN. SIGN UP FOR A CANVASSING SHIFT. LEAVE NOTHING TO CHANCE OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

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saw someone compare mamdani to goku and el-sayed to vegeta and that seems right to me

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Replying to @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social

In an ideal world the F-22 now has multiple A2A victories from enforcing a no-fly zone over Ukraine, the Rapid Reaction Force gets deployed to eastern Ukraine wishing a mother fucker would, and the First Marine Expeditionary Force gets deployed to the Black Sea to retake Crimea.

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the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Yeah what this tells me is your staff don't have any concept of how the economy works

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social

If I was Anthropic I would not be releasing these figures, they seem optimistic/delusional. www.anthropic.com/research/ai-...

It cannot be overstated how unbelievably disgusting the national consensus in the UK has become towards Trans people. We absolutely cannot let right wing freaks do the same in America.

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Replying to @lastpositivist.bsky.social

Whatever clout you think you get for always asserting the maximally cynical "it's always been bad and I've always known as much" perspective is worthless and actually making you much stupider as a person and more useless as a political agent.

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The posture of Knowingness which is quick to assert that actually there is no sense things are getting worse when the state livestreams an execution because it's analogous to cop killings of the past is very stupid. You can and should notice changes.

This has been true for a while, and between Kier's hard right turn and the slow drift left of the Dem party since 2016 I think we've gotten to the point where the Democratic party is more progressive than Labour, period.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social

I regret to inform you that, yes, Democrats today are more progressive than Labour on trans rights and on migrant issues. I realize this is hard to accept.

The full powers of lib-bashing wreckers on display here with this ferocious defense of the thing they made up to be mad at libs about.

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The bullshit thing about this is even if you grant the stupid premise that there's a religious liberty interest in no one getting married that you disprove of, it would still be stepping on the religious liberty of others! Why should an evangelical get to tell the Episcopal church who we can marry?

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...

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If you're a woman who plays EA Sports CFB or Madden, I wanna talk to you! And if you're a woman who loves football and don't play those games, I also wanna hear from you! Working on a piece on football, the sports video games, and well, US! RESHARES APPRECIATED