elias isquith
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former researcher-producer @ the ezra klein show. philly sports fan. jew-ish. www.eliasisquith.com
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"Do you know why a shark keeps moving?"
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The president is bored
Trump wants to "move on" from his war of choice. Tony Soprano would sympathize.
http://eliasisquith.com/p/the-president-is-bored
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Sam Freedman
about 3 hours ago
New post just out: "Cordon Sanitaires and Purity Spirals" Antisemitism is becoming mainstreamed on both left and right at an alarming rate. What can it teach us about the way radicalisation takes root? And can it be stopped? (Ā£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...
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Cordon Sanitaires and Purity Spirals
What the rise in antisemitism teaches us about radicalisation
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/cordon-sanitaires-and-purity-spirals?r=72szy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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and yes it only has like 30% approval. we are a strange people.
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about 13 hours ago
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Snitty
about 14 hours ago
I think the other thing that has really been troubling and frustrating me about Bluesky lately is that my own angriest posts get the most traction, and I don't love that. Aside from a core group of mutuals I interact with a lot if I post about something fun or good natured, it gets lost.
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Robert Feldacker
about 14 hours ago
I agree, I follow several people with large or medium (or whatever) numbers of followers who limit both replies and QT's and to the degree that it keeps them sane while online I affirm and celebrate their decision, even if it limits how I can interact with them.
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Martyn Wendell Jones
about 14 hours ago
(Sontag, cont'd) "Now one can afford to look on sympathetically and derive nourishment from whatever one can find to admire. Religions are converted into 'religion,' as painting and sculpture of different periods and motives are converted into 'art.'"
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Martyn Wendell Jones
about 14 hours ago
This plus the generic "faith" of the subtitle reminded me of Susan Sontag's essay "Piety Without Content," which is critical of "a religiosity without either faith or observance" that features "nostalgia over the loss of the sense of sacredness and relief that an intolerable burden has been lifted."
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the people who will run the next iteration of the regime also have a vested interest in extracting as much of a W from this as possible in order to use that political capital to solidify their hold over what will be a nation in utter ruin/crisis.
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about 15 hours ago
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rather than stopping doing journalism on bluesky because bad-faith bullies use context collapse to create dogpiles, i think people with large followings should be judicious about turning off QTs. otherwise you're letting the trolls set the standard.
about 15 hours ago
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Niko Bowie
about 21 hours ago
After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happenedā& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.
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Supremacy
From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields., Suprema...
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324092803
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about 15 hours ago
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Ned Resnikoff
about 16 hours ago
Not one for theories of everything (other than the housing theory of everything, duh), but I do think "we undermined the material basis for patriarchy without destroying its grip on the collective imagination, thereby driving many people insane" is a sort of skeleton key to most of what's happening.
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Snowden St.
over 1 year ago
If youāve lived thru mental health struggles or lived with someone who had terrible anxiety, you recognize the āI donāt *care* if my fear is reasonable, I *need* you to engage with me about it!ā response that we see a lot online during campaign season.
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live, laugh, lonni llc
about 15 hours ago
"Since last summer, the Atlantic has not published a trans personās voice or perspective, nor has it run any significant piece defending trans rights."
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Brett Fujioka
about 15 hours ago
I actually do sincerely wonder how many users on BlueSky who struggle with bad faith misinterpretations have diagnosed mental health issues and/or disabilities.
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Adam Keiper
about 16 hours ago
NEW: About those 'Track AIPAC' color-coded cards you might have been seeing... here's a look at how just how rigorous the group's approach is.
www.thebulwark.com/p/track-aipa...
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Track AIPACās Methodology Is Just Vibes
Critics of Israel are lumped together with its strongest allies if āTrack AIPACā doesnāt like them enough.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/track-aipac-methodology-is-just-vibes-israel-lobby-color-cards
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Mark Joseph Stern
about 17 hours ago
FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.
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Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself
about 16 hours ago
Feels longer!
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Alan Zilberman
about 16 hours ago
You feel every minute, too.
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Sky Marchini
about 16 hours ago
Congrats! You have invented Calvinism
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jesus died for every single bad post youāve done or ever will do.
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about 16 hours ago
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James Downie
about 17 hours ago
Now I'm just imagining what "Catholic guilt" would look like in a theology where Jesus only atoned retroactively.
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ryan cooper
about 17 hours ago
dang, that must have taken quite some time
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Sky Marchini
about 17 hours ago
Yep, forward and backwards. He atoned for all sins ever, past present and future
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about 17 hours ago
This works in reverse as well; ironically poptimism and cultural snobbery are both extensions of the eternal Puritan fear that someone, somewhere is having badwrongjoy.
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Martin Concagh
about 17 hours ago
I find a lot of the let-people-enjoy-things discourse around Marvel films insidious, itās not enough that theyāre extremely successful films that are for the most part well liked by the majority of critics and the cinemagoing public, no one is allowed to dislike those movies without backlash
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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder
about 17 hours ago
it's okay to like trash, folks! you don't have to justify your tastes to anyone, and you don't even have to pretend it's not trash. there's plenty of shit i love that i can 100% see why other people would hate it or think it sucks. i think that's cool! diversity of opinions is interesting!
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timothy davis
about 17 hours ago
this sentiment coalesced for me around the deadpool movies. the nihilism of āhey come spend your money on our stupid and meaningless movie, you idiotsā repulsed me, but somehow that made ME the stupid idiot.
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Anonymous Bureaucrat
about 17 hours ago
Yeah, an important balance is pointing out that centralized nature of criticism in the past was genuinely myopic and bad too. But we really did throw out the baby with the bathwater here
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š¦š·ļøšøļøJack Andersonšøļøš·ļøš¦
about 17 hours ago
I am currently attempting to read Ulysses and, when I need a break from that (which is fairly often, that book's hard work), I'm reading some really trashy sci fi. I'm enjoying the latter a lot more but I'm not going to pretend it's better, or even anywhere close to as good.
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Anonymous Bureaucrat
about 17 hours ago
I think they worked way more hand in hand than weād like to admit even if it wasnāt coordinated or conscious. GFC, populism, poptimism, tech golden era of the 10s. Hell, even our āpopularismā debates now around politics
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Lennon
about 17 hours ago
"this is some protestant shit, basically" is a cultural cheat code
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ae
about 17 hours ago
almost every single argument in that piece is totally wrong, the only part that holds up is Sannehās point about the implied racism of older music criticism
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Justin Sherin
about 17 hours ago
That you or I like EastEnders (for example) is our own business. (I watched it for years.) But I never pretended it was equivalent to Lear or Streetcar or The Cherry Orchard. That would not only be stupid, but harmful. It is harmful.
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ae
about 17 hours ago
also digital music. sanneh talks about joy of listening to music out of context on ipod shuffle
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Anonymous Bureaucrat
about 17 hours ago
Poptimism was a mistake, but that it coincided with social media and the decline of media and publications dedicated to cultural analysis and critique, was catastrophic
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honestly, i think it goes way deeper and further back than that. this is some protestant shit, basically.
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about 17 hours ago
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Chris Harvey
about 17 hours ago
This is me with most tentpole movies, lol.
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Michael
about 17 hours ago
some people need to remind themselves of precisely what the "guilty" half of "guilty pleasure" means and embrace the idea that they too indulge in some guilty pleasures
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i dont disagree that people are allowed to enjoy things. but i balk at the idea that i should feel apologetic or guilty about not sharing their enjoyment. i dont begrudge people enjoying mcdonald's. but i don't demand it be recognized as peak cuisine either.
about 17 hours ago
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NY Times Pitchbot
about 19 hours ago
We wanted to understand how the rising price of gas will affect blue-collar Americans in Midwestern swing states. So we talked to three Ivy-educated podcasters with trust funds at a Le Pain Quotidien in Dupont Circle.
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There's a bomb in my car!
about 18 hours ago
Unplugged In New York still rules, BTW:
youtu.be/80B_yiN2FH8?...
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Nirvana - On A Plain (Live On MTV Unplugged, 1993 / Unedited)
YouTube video by NirvanaVEVO
https://youtu.be/80B_yiN2FH8?si=v-Cp-uP3feAx2aKN
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Elon Green
about 22 hours ago
I had fun talking to
@joepompeo.bsky.social
about the work that went into the book.
joepompeo.substack.com/p/elon-green...
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Elon Green on THE MAN NOBODY KILLED
"Sawing off handcuffs is the kind of thing you would remember."
https://joepompeo.substack.com/p/elon-green-on-the-man-nobody-killed
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The Rev. Col. Kirsten
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@maris.bsky.social
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@eliasisquith.blog
1. One of my dogs does this and 2. Both these dogs are so cute I was like āis this real or a stuffed animalā
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Shipwreck
about 18 hours ago
Iran using children in security roles in war, reports and witnesses say
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Iran using children in security roles in war, reports and witnesses say
An 11-year-old is reported to have been killed in an air strike while manning a checkpoint in Tehran.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wqgjn7x89o?xtor=AL-71-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_medium=social&at_link_origin=BBCNews&at_campaign_type=owned&at_format=link&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_id=EB7DB7CE-2D04-11F1-AD72-DB46C1A03DE3&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_campaign=Social_Flow
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Hegseth just held a prayer service asking God for "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy." New essay on what that tells us ā and what it doesn't ā about who he thinks he is.
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Apocalypse again
Colonel Kilgore loved the smell of napalm. Secretary Hegseth loves killing. There's a difference.
https://www.eliasisquith.com/p/apocalypse-again
about 18 hours ago
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November Kelly
about 20 hours ago
FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife
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NTP_Nate
about 19 hours ago
Someone has to provide a counterweight to the millions of Democratic primary voters clamoring for a queer Latina atheist atop the ticket.
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this is a perfectly pointless story. it doesnāt matter at all. primary voters in south carolina and nevada will make this decision. it could not matter less what the people who go to parties in georgetown with axios reporters think.
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about 19 hours ago
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Will Oremus
about 20 hours ago
x is populated by people who failed 11th-grade english, drove three startups into the ground, make mid-six-figures, and own two cybertrucks. bluesky is full of folks who hold two phds, have won prestigious awards in their field, can't quite consolidate their hold on fulltime work, and ride a bicycle
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