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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel

@kleinman.bsky.social

I like to post and see posts. Director of Research at The States Project, the views expressed here are my own.
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Dem weirdos dreaming up tournament-style solutions to Joe Biden being the nominee and Catturd-grade reactionary types crying about cheating in the French election have one crucial thing in common, which is that they transparently lack the emotional maturity and patience required to be sports fans.
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Every day on Twitter I’m exposed to a new AI investor who has no idea what art is and I don’t care for it!
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American people had to invent a French parody of the “sickos” meme because France does not have a way to discern sickos from the general population
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We can do this. I truly believe we can.
Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too
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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence
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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.
BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...
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The Kingdom, The Power and The Glory by Tim Alberta was so good. I learned about a world I didn’t really know and exploring what happens when you forsake moral clarity for temporal power has implications for all believers
Eve by Cat Bohannon feels like a necessary accompaniment to Sapiens or The Third Chimpanzee, eye opening stuff
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!
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Amazing how reliably illuminating "strong polarization; weak parties" is to so much about contemporary politics.
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness
As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.
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Eve by Cat Bohannon feels like a necessary accompaniment to Sapiens or The Third Chimpanzee, eye opening stuff
The Skies Belong To Us by Brendan Koerner is an enjoyable read and I want to know what happened to Cathy Kerkow. Also remarkable that airlines were just able to make people put up with skyjacking for a decade because they were cheap and could bully Congress.
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The biggest issue with Biden coverage is that he’s now The Story, which means that most of the press is focused on The Story and not any of the context or consequences. If we were having a serious discussion about qualifications for presidency, age, and the two main candidates, I’d be fine with it.
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Media criticism on a holiday weekend, couldn’t be me
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we’re in danger
NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...
MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association
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I had no idea that Keir Starmer went to school with the most important Englishman of the last 50 years (Fatboy Slim)
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I forget who but someone once said England is like if New York, LA, San Francisco and Washington, DC were all the same city and everywhere else was Fort Wayne
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A lot of you have never dealt with message board drama before and it shows
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kamala takes the stage as the presumptive nominee to the organ riff from “not like us.” the crowd goes wild when she says “our opponent, the certified lover boy? certified pedophile”
Kendrick shouldn’t be president but he should be allowed to determine the Democratic Party nominee
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The Comey Letter was sent because he was worried someone from the NYC FBI Office ("Trumpland") was going to leak the investigation anyway!
don’t these idiots know fbi agents fucking love Trump lol
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Dentist told me I was grinding my teeth a lot I was like yea that was expected and no offense but that’s the least of my concerns right now
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Quick, guess how many seasons of Nurse Jackie there were