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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 6h
The anti-anti-Trump movement has been as damaging to he country as the pro-Trump movement. The basic idea of the anti-anti-Trump faction is that they themselves criticize Trump sometimes, but any political or legal figure who tries to stop Trump is always going too far or not doing it the right way.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Kashmiri politicians are right to say that Modi and Shah first killed Indian democracy in Kashmir and are now killing it nationwide. "Kashmir model has been exported to Delhi. Welcome to the New Delhi, modelled on New Jammu & Kashmir." - Omar Abdullah x.com/OmarAbdullah...
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It is impossible not to notice the rise in casual antisemitism online and in person. If you don’t see it, you’re lying to yourself.
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I guess they settled for ‘weirdly outsized influence over presidential nominations’ and I’m sad to say they should also not have that
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If it’s not invading Cuba or nuking Iran, and that’s not Russ’ purview, then it’s probably handing out giant illicit checks
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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 05/10/2026
If the main thing you want to do right now is to read a long, rambling, angry response by a non-Zionist Jewish now ex-Green Party Of England And Wales member to the not-so-hilarious antics of yesterday, then have I got the post for you: wayne.conniptions.org/2026/10/05/w... (It may not be, tbf)
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Why I Am No Longer A Green
I joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2014.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The problem has never really been that conservative voters are reluctant to criticize Trump. The problem is a relentless right-wing media apparatus that tells them Democrats are worse.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
The Orange Order, and the police, have got this all so badly wrong and every person in the country could have told then that before it had to happen
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
John Roberts learns the reputational consequences of buying high on Trump www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/john...
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John Roberts learns the reputational consequences of buying high on Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money
For many years, John Roberts’s life at his Maine retreat was a trip to the Planet Cornball [gift link]: John, who has spent over 20 summers on Hupper Island, a refuge about 90 miles northeast of Portl...
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 01/10/2026
A bad day for this person
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Hey remember the winter fuel allowance cut? Imagine that, but worse"
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine unilaterally tearing up a peace treaty and starting a surprise war, then signing another peace deal, then violating it, and now just whining that the enemy is not helping you end your war
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The whole internet hates Dilkshake Muck, a loathesome bigot who loves misogyny. *5 seconds later* we regret to inform you Dilkshake Muck is assistant general counsel of the General Services Administration"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"Against this backdrop, the widespread assumption of the field that polarization is inherently detrimental warrants re-examination. ... In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable."
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Notable common thread of refusing to believe people when they say what their own inner lives are like and then imagining they can understand others better
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s much much harder now to be an anti racist than it is to be a racist. That’s one of the things I learned from talking to Rachel Marsh, who has been doxxed and abused for standing up to the far right. www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...
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‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm
Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/09/2026
That 2025 stint when every institution scrambled to bow before the eternally beloved god emperor's million-year reich was weird at the time and only looks weirder and weirder in hindsight. Way way way weirder than any of the alleged excesses of Woke 1
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
starting to feel like history has rendered a definitive judgement on the eternal this guy sucks vs haters gonna hate debate
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes! Every historian writing on Cleon of Athens says ‘well, our only 2 sources say he sucked harder than any man alive but they were prejudiced because he was deeply malicious towards them’ without taking seriously the idea that he was as bad or worse than they said
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They make a compelling case for the the nationalisation of the industry, the seizure of its managements’ assets and precautionary imprisonment just to be safe. Perhaps we should heed their warnings
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think the military occupation of the West Bank since 1967 may constitute a form of coercive control
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CNN @cnn.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources say. cnn.it/4y9MBJO
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yeah, sometimes I report the n word and pro-Holocaust memes just to see if Facebook does anything at all. They don’t
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We should be quiet about the fried cheese we don’t want to attract their attention
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Independence Day: Alien Attack Over NYC
Alt: Independence Day: Alien Attack Over NYC, when the aliens heard about the fried cheese and resorted to violence
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a slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 @drunk.moe · 19/09/2026
This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019)
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026
When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Bit fucked then aren't we
Screenshot of a recent article in the FT by Ashley Armstrong titled: "UK faces £258bn infrastructure spending gap, warned report"

Underneath: "Government must increase investment by two-thirds to deliver planned reservoirs, prisons and schools"
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember the Sun condemning Islamist homophobia in the early 2000s and realised how fast they could go from doing the bigotry over one group to holding up the defeat of their own bigotry as proof of their superiority over another group
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
who was it on here who was saying it must kill toyota's marketing dept that they can't tout one of the most widespread and successful things their pickup trucks are used for
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The way this guy constantly commits very obvious crimes incompetently against powerful people with so few real consequences obsesses me
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
'trump betrays everyone' has been a more reliable model to work from than 99 percent of punditry.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 14/09/2026
After Belfast burned: What happened to immigrant families whose homes were attacked?
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After Belfast burned: What happened to immigrant families whose homes were attacked?
At least 88 families made homeless in June’s race riots – most have not returned home
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s obviously powerful and powerfully destructive technology with huge unintended consequences and we’re seeing them play out. The models are OBVIOUSLY getting much better. At a minimum you’re building something that will be the most potent cyber security threat that has ever existed.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
personally I think we should just take the ai doomers at their word and shut it down if they’re telling the truth, well, good thing we shut it down. If they’re exaggerating, well, they shouldn’t have done that
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
Grim: "the fastest-spreading Ebola epidemic ever recorded"
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Over 6,000 Ebola cases confirmed in DRC as death toll nears 3,000
Outbreak in the DRC 'the fastest-spreading Ebola epidemic ever recorded,' as country struggles to contain infections.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Less high-profile, but Clinton also failed to follow-up Reagan/Bush crimes, most notably Iran/Contra, which the GOP special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh wrote a damning book about, titled tellingly "Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up."
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Looks like I’m going to have to tap the “no, there is no legal reason whatsoever that your internal investigation means you can’t answer questions” sign. For such a long sign, I get a surprising amount of use out of it these days.
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The Economist @economist.com · 05/09/2026
Last year teenage homicides in England’s capital fell to their joint lowest level (similar to 2012) in almost 30 years. Thank London’s mayor
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London’s approach to knife crime is working
Sadiq Khan has mainstreamed a public-health approach that was previously fringe
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026
almost word for word
Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"
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2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social @2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Alas, team Depp was extremely successful among global public opinion including among younger people I was kinda hoping would not repeat the misogyny of the 2000s after MeToo and FreeBritney etc
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