Sociologist researching religion, the far right, democracy, and public health. Husband, father, metalhead, coffee snob, gym rat, Mexican American.
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Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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🚨 US "is providing military advisers and intelligence including targeting information to support Saudi air operations in Yemen"
🇸🇦 Saudis "planning an offensive [in Yemen] in the coming weeks"
🛑Congress did NOT authorize participation in Saudi regime hostilities in Yemen!
Good that Dems & Trump seem aligned against violating US-Yemen May 2025 ceasefire (hits 17 months next week)
Key Q for Dems: will they call for Saudi-Yemen diplomacy to end the war?
Or will Dems support Trump sending bombs & advisers to help Saudi regime resume its Yemen war?
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And right now they are more in the public eye than before. We aren’t obligated to give them any cookies given the harms they have and continue to cause. And Moskovitz has zero self awareness from the way in which he was responding o my posts on bluesky.
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If the election were held tomorrow, Talarico wins. That’s the only statewide office that goes blue. It’s a fluke due to GOP infighting, but the polls aren’t wrong.
Cruz and Abbott never polled as badly as Paxton. Robert Francis O’Rourke had more per voter enthusiasm, but never
For the thousandth time, NO. Texas is not flipping blue. Democrats would be better off focusing on places like Iowa, Ohio, and Missouri
How many times must they lose Texas to understand this? Go ahead bookmark
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But Nicole Hannah-Jones and a bunch of NPR brunch libs told me that Latinos are all hopelessly conservative, misogynistic, and desperate to be white. The KHive called me slurs and insisted we had ICE coming
Surely the polls are wrong, and you’re all still so much better than us
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Excuse me @ZohranKMamdani, this game is still putting me through tutorial missions more than two hours in, and I need someone to patch an update.
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chinese propaganda will be like "we just opened our first starbucks full of ethnic minority characteristics" and some dumbass racist western "leftist" will eat it up and hail china as an egalitarian paradise
The West says China did cultural erasing in Xinjiang.
Meanwhile, in fact, Xinjiang just opened its first Starbucks full of ethnic minority characteristics.
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Sarah has a reason to pretend data doesn't exist on this question (it does). She appeared on stage with Harris & Cheney at a 2024 event in Pennsylvania, where @DataForProgress polling data showed the Harris-Cheney alliance was a net-negative for Harris among independent voters.
Sarah Longwell: My problem with the DSA types who are after us is not their political ideology or their opinions.
Their analysis doesn't make any sense. There's not a single piece of empirical data that the Liz Cheney stuff mattered.
I know people want to be mad and I think it is very strange 5 weeks out from an election for people to be focused on me.
But I guess people have decided I'm a big enough deal that they want to come after me and that's their prerogative. I think I'm a weird target. But have at it, I guess.
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Scoop: Unusual Rest Breaks for Xi Jinping Sucked Hours Out of Summit With Trump wsj.com/world/china/unusual-… via @WSJ
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Matthew Soerens of World Relief on the Bible verses many churches never taught, from our conversation about the Trump administration's ban on persecuted Christians.
Listen to all of it:
austinkocher.substack.com/p/…
@MatthewSoerens @WorldRelief
ALT Quote card. Matthew Soerens, World Relief: “I memorized a lot of Bible verses, but never the ones about how to treat immigrants. Like, those were just not the verses that we learned.” From the conversation President Trump Bans Christians Fleeing Persecution, austinkocher.substack.com
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