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  Have people on here been following the British Columbia political news? Because it has been *wild*. Five weeks ago the BC Conservative Party wasn't just in disarray; it looked like it was utterly disintegrating under a truly disastrous leader.

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  High gas prices increase the likelihood that constitutional democracy can be more or less salvaged in the US but [whispers] the glonzo problem is real if 2.6% core inflation is a level that can constantly bring down governments.

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  It'll be funny if my least-favorite Narnia book turns into my favorite big-screen Narnia adaptation (and maybe even my favorite overall, passing the BBC Tom Baker adaptation of Silver Chair). But, after all, it's Greta Gerwig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDJ-... NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW ...

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  Reposted at @theunpopulist.net@bsky.brid.gy , my panel with @profmsinha.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy UConn’s Manisha Sinha, Boston College’s Devin Pendas, and Adam Bodnar, Poland’s former minister of justice, on accountability after authoritarianism. www.theunpopulist.net/p/how-to-hol... How to Hold Authoritarians Acc...

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  There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mwlx6aeyqw2n

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  So in the last week in MAGA, we got a newfound acceptance for people who have sex with actual animals, and a weird new moral panic about people who dress up as animals to have sex with each other. newrepublic.com/post/215838/... MAGA Senator Goes on Crazed Po...

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  The president compounds his impeachable vote-bribe offer by denying the Article 1 power of the purse to Congress in approving a TRILLION-DOLLAR expenditure. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mv76c5h4yw2d

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  it's not quite the Torment Nexus, but it definitely falls into the category "nothing good ever comes of this in SF." www.cbc.ca/news/science... ANALYSIS | U.S. FCC approves g...

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  I've been thinking about writing something snarky re: the trade-offs between defined benefit pensions & defined contribution retirement funds that generate inheritable wealth, & some slightly funny politics about those trade-offs. The world just tweeted it out. news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-ben... Democratic Socialists Win $5.2...

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  Rewatching the first season of Heroes for the first time ever, and holy damn is it as good as I remember. Among many other things, it's a rare case of a thoroughly serialized full 22-episode season— no X-Files/ Buffy style monsters of the week, no DS9 wacky adventures with Ferengi...

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  I cannot possibly stress enough how much, yes, we do. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mrb76izx2z2m

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  Something I talked about repeatedly in 2024: 20 million people, to say nothing of 30, would be the largest forced population transfer in human history, larger any of the three post-WW2 transfers (partition of India, expulsion of Germans, partition of Palestine) or the post-WW1 Balkan cases. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yobyqjt4hs5icoihvaombhhn/post/3mqyonw7lb22p

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  newrepublic.com/post/213045/... E. Jean Carroll Finally Gets H...

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  so, I went semi-offline for half a day and came back to find four stories any one of which could have been a weeks-long banner headline story in the before times.

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  I don't believe in ordinary individual investors trying to time the market, but if AI is a bubble and stocks end up giving back a lot of gains that could have been cashed out, I'm going to do a lot of "you knew it!" kicking myself.

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  See, the difference from Mamdani's grocery stores is that these are called "Freedom." www.cbsnews.com/news/freedom... The White House announces the ...

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  In addition to being illegal and immoral, this is also how you get increasingly radicalized and disruptive protests. If an entirely legitimate and peaceful protest gets punished anyway, no reason not to go further. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:svawqo4jxobyyuqmixplvcux/post/3mq2jgzsgak24

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  Not that one should make an argument from authority when the authority is that racist bastard Wilson, and not that the Fourteen Points were all correct, but I can’t help be struck by the fact that we’ve now got 1) a secret deal to 2) end free navigation from the admin that 3) loves trade barriers.

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  The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.

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  wtaf even by the standards of 2025-26, wtaf RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bfdiyietterineb3cvu3ddco/post/3mo4ky6pbgk26

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  One lovely thing in the world, at least. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/e... Pope blesses Barcelona’s Gaudi...

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  (Anyone know why he calls his account "based"?) You see, Senator, the thing about Christian nationalism and state establishment is that they unavoidably entangle the state in questions of orthodoxy. Once Hegseth decides the armed forces are Christian crusaders, he's going to decide who's Christian.

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  Nothing says “don’t bother negotiating with the US” quite like the declaration “we will do whatever Trump feels like on any given day.” RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:43fdk46qa5gsokzygzildsaq/post/3mm5nmu3rzv2t

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  The unmitigated perverse gall of deciding that the one kind of gerrymandering that has a clear constitutional pedigree— the VRA being clearly authorized by 15(2)— is the *one kind* that the US Supreme Court thinks the judiciary has the authority to *reject.*

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  www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/neoc... Neoconfederacy in a hurry - La...

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  It's going to be a source of *massive* confusion that Carney is calling his new industrial policy slush fund a sovereign wealth fund, which it almost *exactly* is not.

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  I've been led to understand from decades of US gun violence that there's a variable window of "too soon to politicize this" during which discussions of gun control are verboten. It doesn't seem to apply to advocacy of the illegal demolition of a White House wing to build a party room out of bribes.

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  That's a pretty expensive approach to a war that has no coherent strategic aims. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u... Iran War Has Drained U.S. Supp...

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  The Boys and Daredevil: Born Again are somehow the best pop cultural commentaries on the second Trump administration, which is less a matter of "superhero metaphors allow for sophisticated social commentary" and more a matter of "reality is now full of cartoonish supervillains."

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  The claim "the fact that the incumbent party was successfully defeated in an election shows that there was never anything to worry about and democracy was fine all along" in the Hungarian case— with explicit or implicit analogy to the US— is maddening to begin with, bc it's a well-known fact 1/