Joe Stieb

Joe Stieb

@joestieb.bsky.social

Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill. Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels. Political liberal, hoop reactionary. Posting goodreads reviews regularly.

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Replying to @flashgordon.bsky.social

You should have to go to a physical location to bet on sports (or anything else); and that physical location should have to be more than 2,500 feet away from a school, playground, public park, daycare, church, or senior living facility.

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It's a real problem that so many people anywhere left of center in this country think that the path to victory for them lies in electing Republicans until Democrats do exactly what they tell them to.

The Babylon Bee guy is mad that his friend has been arrested by ICE over a technicality. But here’s his normal view on ICE deportations:

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you write 500,000,000 in ARABIC NUMERALS you slack-jawed brain-dead carbon sink of an undead racist, go try and prove germ theory wrong firsthand by huffing e. coli cultures

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it's really, really fucking infuriating to be ruled by public officials so unbelievably, unfathomably, stupidly fucking racist such that you can't really finish your thoughts on the matter out loud because they are in fact public officials

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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Between this and Ramaswamy, I think the GOP has lost touch with reality so much they're just making ads for Dems now.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

I mean they produce a ton of literature Redface just can’t read

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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Replying to @dhnexon.net

Well, you know, there’s “restraint” as in “stop invading places, prioritize, and extricate from the Middle East” and then there’s “restraint” in the “offshore balancing is a panacea” or “you gotta hand it to the America First committee.”

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i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

David Brauer@dbrauer.net

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

This is the obvious subtext when you invite someone like Kent to be a featured speaker. This is, after all, the guy who in his resignation letter blamed Israel for his wife’s death at the hands of the Islamic State.

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Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

Sorry but this is how you treat the JV team not the wnba finals

Alexa Philippou@alexaphilippou.bsky.social

BREAKING: Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be held Thursday at 12:30pm ET at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. It will be a double-header with the Atlanta Hawks’ game, which will be moved to 8pm.

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horrendous decision-making here, surely we can move one (1) random-ass thursday hawks game to make way for a wnba finals game (especially because the wnba finals have been a total banger)

Alexa Philippou@alexaphilippou.bsky.social

BREAKING: Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be held Thursday at 12:30pm ET at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. It will be a double-header with the Atlanta Hawks’ game, which will be moved to 8pm.

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Yes, yes, the renewed accusations that the president is a serial rapist and was an active participant in Epstein's pedophilia and sex trafficking would seem alarming, but it doesn't involve the Cheesecake Factory so ...

Yeah but can he hoop tho?

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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this is only true if you woke up in 2024 and Trump 1 and the entire Republican Party across the last half century and more didn't exist but it's an excerpt from an interior designer and podcaster turned political commentator so this is the level of commentary we deserve I guess

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this makes more sense when you learn the author has moved to NYC to now do her dumb podcast from there and is getting praise from ol hasan

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It's Quincy. If they were responsible, they wouldn't be Russia's favorite think tank.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social

The quincy institute doing multiple events with noted far right lunatic joe kent is wildly irresponsible

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Quincy really leaning into “it’s the Jews’ fault” angle with this one.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social

The quincy institute doing multiple events with noted far right lunatic joe kent is wildly irresponsible

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Quincy’s been wildly irresponsible and/or sloppy since the moment they launched. I put them in the same “if it looks like I agree with them I need to quadruple check my sources and reasoning” category as FDD.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social

The quincy institute doing multiple events with noted far right lunatic joe kent is wildly irresponsible