@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
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"Ridicule is our last, best weapon”… couldn’t agree more, @davekarpf.bsky.social
In case you don’t know Dave, subscribe to his substack. Witty, informed, original stuff.
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13.12.2025 00:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Decided to put a bow on this experience by writing up a few thoughts on the value of reading and insulting terrible books.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
I am deadly serious when I say that any liberal Project 2028 people should be taking names of the civil servants who go way past their authority to do stuff like this.
That is very much not me saying that normal employees following bad orders should be fired. But there’s a line. This crosses it.
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
12.12.2025 18:53 — 👍 2133 🔁 690 💬 66 📌 28She does not.
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tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: “Enter a world beyond belief...” ME: “Yes” GAME TRAILER: “An adventure like never before...” ME: “YES” GAME TRAILER: “Join your friends online” ME: “I’m out”
i stand by this statement every year
12.12.2025 01:27 — 👍 19377 🔁 4026 💬 271 📌 195Recently stumbled upon this Instagram account that's just a guy who lives in a downtown Chicago high rise throwing paper airplanes out his window. Dudes rock, tbh www.instagram.com/reel/DR3CmxB...
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It is so bizarre to see people continue to circle the wagons for Olivia Nuzzi given everything we know now. She hasn't denied anything in Lizza's account and corroborates a good chunk of it in her own book.
www.telos.news/p/part-5-loy...
Self-fatality.
11.12.2025 23:01 — 👍 49 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0Yup. Only the Republican Party can fix the Republican Party.
11.12.2025 22:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
11.12.2025 12:01 — 👍 3016 🔁 534 💬 32 📌 16It's inconvenient for people interested in Dem factional fights, or Obama 2012 veterans trying to get consulting work. But we have known since several days after the election that Trump gained fewer votes from 2020-2024 in swing states that were exposed to campaign messages than in other states. /1
11.12.2025 16:21 — 👍 791 🔁 145 💬 18 📌 18Google ReAIder, a reading app that just makes shit up for you to read that might have been posted by sites you used to read but can't trust anymore.
11.12.2025 22:26 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1We can get the next one. This is perfect for Tarnoff and Slobodian and I am earnestly thrilled to read it.
(But also, hell yeah, let’s get a next one!)
Sure we do! You’re… Tyler. Y’know, the one from the internet.
11.12.2025 21:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Shots fired.
I prefer "Weird needy middle-aged guy," thank you very much.
I am between therapists. One could say Bluesky is my therapist.
(Bluesky is a terrible therapist, and it doesn’t even take my insurance.)
I was planning to turn my Nuzzi review thread into a blog post, but now I think I’m going to write a meta-post on the subject of hatereading itself.
That is so much more obnoxious than I was planning to be today.
BAHAHAHAHA
11.12.2025 17:23 — 👍 65 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
11.12.2025 02:53 — 👍 5203 🔁 1410 💬 43 📌 14The force with which I just smashed the preorder button may have seriously damaged my keyboard.
Tarnoff and Slobodian, writing a booklength guide to Muskism? Yes, pleaseandthankyou.
Men under 30 are far more likely today than in 2022 to view legal sports betting as bad for society % who say the fact that betting on sports is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, among .... Men Women 60% 40 - 46 39 31 48 65+ 47 Ages 18-29 43 50-64 43 30-49 45 C 50 Ages 65+ 42 50-64 36 30-49 35 18-29 36 C 271 25 22 20 - July 2022 July 2025 July 2022 Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted July 8-Aug. 3, 2025. PEW RESEARCH CENTER July 2025
Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership.
What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility
It’s on the Internet. It must be true.
11.12.2025 05:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0<snorts>:
"When asked to clarify if she had written the memo in question, Olivia told me: “I did not write him or anyone on or associated with his campaign a campaign memo.” When asked to clarify if she was the author of the text that Ryan had published, she did not provide an on-the-record answer."
