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Richard Yeselson

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Richard Yeselson

@yeselson

Editorial Board @dissentmag. Think I started trend of labeling modern US Right as “revanchist.” Charming in person, but we’re not there. Also NBA/Warriors.

Joined March 2012

Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Jul 22, 2025
Very goofy to say that Mamdani "hates ambition and success." Dude: Mamdani is a 33 year old, no name ID socialist who beat *Andrew Cuomo* in a primary and is the odds on favorite to be the next mayor of the largest city in the US. What Portnoy really means is that his large
Dave Portnoy
@stoolpresidente
Jul 22, 2025
Weird then to turn and say I should stop acting like I care about NYC. If anybody is doing acting it ain’t me
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Oct 6, 2023
“I got it because keeping myself safe, my family safe, the people in this building,” Kelce said. “I stand by it 1,000%. Fully comfortable with him calling me Mr. Pfizer.” Travis Kelcie isn’t Jonas Salk, but this is what a responsible public figure does.
Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce laughs off Aaron Rodgers’ ‘Mr. Pfizer’ quip | CNN
From cnn.com
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Sep 10, 2023
Rodgers is a classic American type: the iconoclastic conformist. He thinks he’s “fighting the power” by invoking MLK while supporting crackpot anti-vax theories and bar stool demagogues like Joe Rogan. But he’s a just rich dude who rejects civic obligation—we mass produce those.
Dov Kleiman
@NFL_DovKleiman
Sep 10, 2023
From FOX: Aaron Rodgers talked about his reputation and said to people who were against him: "Didn't work, couldn't keep me down." Great interview with @ErinAndrews
Jack (not a burner)
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Jack (not a burner)
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Sep 2, 2019
Thank god the Electoral College ensures that presidential campaigns pay attention to small states and rural populations.
Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
May 4, 2020
So we’re just doing de facto hard core herd immunity? With the risk tilted toward working class people and, within the working class, people of color? No national plan, no sense of moral or logistical urgency, just death for those who can’t afford to work behind a computer. Cool.
Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Jul 22, 2025
Replying to @yeselson
ambition and success is in the service of other human beings, not merely ZM's own power, wealth and cruel fantasies. "He's subversively, maniacially dangerous to American life—but he's also a lazy, hippy slacker" is a primo argument, good stuff yeah.
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Aug 6, 2024
Dude: the senate majority leader is Jewish; the Secretary of State is Jewish; the Attorney General is Jewish; the leader of the leftist faction is Jewish; the *husband of the nominee* is Jewish. I’m Jewish/you’re Jewish so I ask you because Jews disagree: wtf are u talking about?
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Apr 6, 2025
Dude, you’re a *Dr.* and you had the key vote; you could have blocked this dangerous, demented charlatan. Now he’s busy destroying public health care and biomedical research. The tweet is a day late and a dollar short. Your shame will last forever.
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D.
@SenBillCassidy
Apr 6, 2025
Not publicly known if the child was vaccinated, but almost certainly not. Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no treatment for measles. No benefit to getting measles. Top health officials should say so unequivocally b/4 another child dies. foxnews.com/health/second-…
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Oct 16, 2019
Quit immediately. Spend your millions on voting rights. Pay the poll tax of the ex felons in Florida being screwed out of their franchise by the state GOP. Think about a cause larger than your own ambitions.
Tom Steyer
@TomSteyer
Oct 16, 2019
Last night, I left the debate stage even more determined to talk to Americans and push harder for a larger, more specific conversation on the climate crisis. We cannot continue to plan our future without concrete plans to deal with our global reality. Climate change cannot wait.
Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Mar 1, 2021
Holy shit! He did it! Just to be clear: FDR never said this about any particular labor struggle, nor did he say workers generally should join a union (as the CIO cleverly attributed to him). So...this is, um, better than expected. And yes—the Bernie/Warren/AOC faction *matters.*
President Biden Archived
@POTUS46Archive
Mar 1, 2021
Workers in Alabama – and all across America – are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. It’s a vitally important choice – one that should be made without intimidation or threats by employers. Every worker should have a free and fair choice to join a union.
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Oct 12, 2024
If Harris is elected and she has a Republican controlled senate—a likely outcome that this idea weirdly renders benign —she will have her “bipartisan council of advisers.” And it will advise her that she pass no legislation and confirm no judges or executive branch nominees.
Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris
Oct 11, 2024
Today, I am announcing that as president, I will create a bipartisan council of advisors to give feedback on policy and inform my administration. Our democracy needs a healthy two-party system.
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Oct 29, 2020
This has to be the most righteous 72 seconds of Jon Ossoff’s life. Perdue looks like he’s in a lineup.
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
Oct 29, 2020
🔥BLISTERING SPEECH. @ossoff completely destroys Perdue in Georgia senate debate—for Perdue dismissing #COVID19 pandemic as nothing but the flu, for ignoring health warnings, & voting 4 times to deny protections for pre-existing conditions. #GASenateDebate
Jon Ossoff
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Nov 11, 2022
Fetterman margin now 4.3%. No landslide, but not that close at all, solid win, bigger than Toomey—Larger than R’s winning margin in NC senate. Debate didn’t matter or maybe even helped Fetterman because Oz is so smarmy, made the abortion gaffe.
Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Oct 13, 2023
Replying to @brianros1
A 24 hour warning for over a million people who have nowhere to go doesn’t really seem in good faith. How are is this suooosed to be logistically managed. Hamas committed premeditated mass murder. A 24 hour notice isn’t really a serious proposal though, is it?
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