@cjrobichaud.bsky.social @CJRobichaud

So long and thanks for all the fish. Joined March 2009

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Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

10 months ago

The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.

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Matt McManus @MattPolProf

10 months ago

Wendy Brown was right: one of the most significant elisions in Nietzsche's work is failing to recognize how much resentiment and a desire for revenge can be the basis of reactionary politics.

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11

10 months ago

Wendy Brown was right: one of the most significant elisions in Nietzsche's work is failing to recognize how much resentiment and a desire for revenge can be the basis of reactionary politics.

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@cjrobichaud.bsky.social @CJRobichaud

10 months ago

What a shock! Who, except everyone, could've seen this coming?

Robert Costa @costareports

10 months ago

What a shock! Who, except everyone, could've seen this coming?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan

10 months ago

The party that is obsessed with child sex offenders, & is close to a cult that claims child sex offenders run the government, just nominated a guy once investigated for allegedly sex-trafficking a 17 year old girl to be in charge of the country’s legal system. Beyond parody.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

10 months ago

Nobody should have any illusions now

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Bill Kristol @BillKristol

10 months ago

THIS IS WHY WE WERE FROM THE START NEVER TRUMP.

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Seth Andrews @SethAndrewsTTA

10 months ago

This gives me no pleasure, but given Elon Musk's history, claims, and behaviors, I can't let Richard's "welfare of the world at heart" line pass without comment. While watching Elon's rise to greater power (and the fawning of his fans), I started keeping notes. Thread (1)

Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins

11 months ago

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Matt McManus @MattPolProf

10 months ago

It amazes me how some people's solution to electoral loss and accusations of being the party of stagnation is "we need to make our liberalism less inspiring, more compromised, more cautious, more conciliatory to the right, less ambitious."

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Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew

11 months ago

When you’ve made a career out of not believing in god and wind up believing something even more fanciful:

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Dave Keating @DaveKeating

11 months ago

I hear Democrats say Trump voters will regret once Trump's tariffs devastate 🇺🇸economy & raise consumer prices. But take it from Brits, people don't acknowledge they erred in a vote even after economic consequences. They'll always find others to blame than themselves. 🇬🇧#Brexit

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar

11 months ago

I think one of the most difficult reckonings of this election is that the incentives we thought inspired voting choices -- a better life for your family and future for your community -- may not be as decisive as the desire to dominate and inflict cruelty on outgroups.…

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Brian Gaar @briangaar

11 months ago

"Fuck your feelings" but also please come to thanksgiving, we miss you and our vote had nothing to do with you, honey.

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@cjrobichaud.bsky.social @CJRobichaud

11 months ago

My favorite pundits are the ones insisting that 1) Trump won because of economic factors and non-incumbency, forces that are near impossible to overcome, and yet also 2) if you--yes, you specifically--aren't kind to Trump voters, it will have significant electoral effects

Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza

11 months ago

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Eddie S. Glaude Jr. @esglaude

11 months ago

“…we often congratulate ourselves more on getting rid of a problem than solving it. Such an attitude is dangerous. …The riddle of the Sphinx may be postponed, it may be evasively answered now; sometime it must be fully answered.” -W.E.B. DuBois

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@cjrobichaud.bsky.social @CJRobichaud

11 months ago

Rubio is a descent, respectable choice for Secretary of State, which suggests to me he'll last about a year.

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Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens

11 months ago

I've been involved in winning presidential races and races that lost. One common thread is that everyone seems to have a reason why you won or lost which usually reflects a personal perspective or agenda. So here's mine: I think VP Harris ran a very good campaign that operated…

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Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates

11 months ago

H.P. Lovecraft is one of those rare writers--a fantasist, in this case--whose language is so particular to his vision, unique & inimitable, it always seems to mean something beyond itself; a glimmering of another, inaccessible world; not the world of Lovecraft's monsters but an…

Stefan Dziemianowicz @StefanDz11

11 months ago

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@cjrobichaud.bsky.social @CJRobichaud

11 months ago

I’m no Trump-Whisperer, but my sense is that the more we refer to his upcoming second term as the Musk Presidency and focus on the overblown role Musk has on influencing Trump, the sooner Musk is kicked right out the door. So, you know what to do.