Ted Westervelt

Ted Westervelt

@tmwestervelt.bsky.social

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

an actually good movie about the empty venality of the american media is of course NETWORK. an actually good movie about blithe indifference to a looming threat is JAWS.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

today's pet peeve: there is a kind of self-righteous revisionist historiography that i find immensely frustrating. yes, they're reacting to triumphalist imperialist narratives that aimed to present the past as a dark age of horror that only Enlightened Europe had escaped--

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William B. Fuckley
@opinionhaver.bsky.social

see this is the kind of shit you need among your elites. you need a sense of national pride that can be channeled into a productive sense of national humiliation.

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social

in 1967, senators rfk and joseph clark took a tour of the mississippi delta. they were horrified by the sheer scale of poverty, malnutrition, and neglect. their report caused a national scandal. the scenes haunted kennedy; he considered it the worst thing he'd seen in his life.

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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social

"I’m especially flummoxed that Bernie Sanders is playing along with this charade; after a career warning against billionaire capture of the government, he is publicly supporting a corrupt billionaire’s bid to rewrite the budget of his own biggest client." resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

resnikoff.beehiiv.comYou Don't Have to Hand it to DOGEWe already know what this thing is.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society ... we can't go around the world saying, 'in Russia Putin has an oligarchy.' Well we got an oligarchy here too."

Ted Westervelt
@tmwestervelt.bsky.social

I see couples out in workout clothes, always women in leggings, men in running pants. I think it is a shame men give up on the more comfortable clothing item because they worry people are going to look at them

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

This sort of democratic backsliding, where Republicans seek to overturn the effect of an election by reallocating powers away from positions they have lost, has become almost routine now. But it should remain shocking.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Heads up: North Carolina Republicans just voted to strip the state's incoming Democratic governor and attorney general of key powers — passing a sweeping bill before the GOP most likely loses its veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature next year. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

nbcnews.comNorth Carolina GOP lawmakers vote to strip incoming Democratic leaders' powersRepublicans passed a sprawling bill after they lost races for governor and attorney general — and most likely their veto-proof legislative majority — in this month's election.

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