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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

it's a bit concerning that instead of responding to obvious political incentives and moderating on some of their worst and most unpopular policies, the Trump administration is getting more and more extreme

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Aaron Kashtan @aaronkashtan.bsky.social · 13h

How could I know what my preferences are, if I've never encountered anything I don't like?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16h

fwiw, I don't think brooks is really confused. I think he's committed to white supremacy and dislikes it being criticized bluntly.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

People keep repeating this number as though it represents a poll of Michigan Jews. It does not. There has been no poll of Michigan Jews. It’s literally just a number one member of one synagogue board pulled out of their head. (www.thefp.com/p/they-were-...)

Tweet from Eyal Yakoby: “BREAKING: Jewish Leaders currently estimate that 70% of their Congregants will vote against Abdul El-Sayed.

130,000 Jews live in Michigan.”

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

So the whole thing has led to the days of a whisper campaign on the right being debunked; & conservatives turning on one another. Meanwhile, Talarico is recovered from the flu and back on the campaign trail.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

Elon Musk amplified the conspiracy theory, leading to a lot of right-wing frenzy. The Ohio facility, a small institution no doubt suddenly inundated by calls and harassment, finally said tonight that this is all false.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

Good for you if you missed this but if you want to be in the know: MAGA right has been pushing a conspiracy theory all day on X that Talarico checked into a mental health facility in Ohio. A MAGA activist appears to have lied to the facility about being a relative to get info & posted a recording.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

The right is lying. Again. And saying Talarico was in a mental facility for two weeks. That the hospital confirmed it. But that would be a HIPAA violation. False flag, but sadly some will believe it. Talarico had the flu.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19h

Kan you explayne thys gap yn thy resume? Yn the last year of the twilighte age, Urgaleth of the Grey Elves led a warlyke host through the plains of my resume. Thei were met yn battle by the Dukes of Fyre. So Urgaleth split the fielde wyth hys great spear, creatinge thys mightye gap yn my resume.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20h

Ynterviewer: Kan you explayne thys gap yn your resume? Dante Alighieri: Yn the middle of thys journeye of lyfe Ich founde myselfe yn a shadowye woode, for...

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Aaron Kashtan @aaronkashtan.bsky.social · 20h

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Scott McCloud: It's up to you to imagine what happened there.

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 22h

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Gandalf: Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22h

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? John Cage:

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

School boards are way under the radar in a big year like this, but the same battles you've heard about (book bans, Moms for Liberty, trans kids) are happening this year too. I identified 19 school boards where there battles like this — and what's up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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Spooookbender! @sporkbender.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Professional Hand-Wringer Forced To Also Furrow Brow

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

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Dave Krantz @weskrantz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

living with a cat is mostly just having random cardboard boxes everywhere that you can’t throw out

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They’ve just announced the programming for Tom King con. There‘s nine panels.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The orange goddess has appeared

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm looking at this speech now, and that is absolutely not the fucking hero of Greek myth. The hero of Greek myth is almost always a dramatically tragic figure who is undone by their own character flaws. In fact, that's basically every single Greek hero. What the fuck are you talking about man.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Cheeres to my catte. What a lovelye litel guy. The sweeteste dude.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Breakfast time

The tails of my kitties eggsy, benne and jimmi pickles as they eat breakfast next to each other

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RedFade @redfade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No that same person posted this it’s somehow even sadder than you think

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

oh wait this is so they won't have to see women and Black people in video games isn't it

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

fuck these guys. put them all in prison.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

Some lynchings were done with color of law. We wouldn’t understand them today to be done with due process, but that absolutely happened.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

Until the Supreme Court stepped in, lynchings included instances where a Black man was accused, a jury was convened, the trial was held, and the prisoner executed in public within a few hours.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.

Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology.
Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Punching my ticket to Kalamazoo

Graphic labelled "Types of Medievalist Paper" based on xkcd.com/2456/. 12 pictures of 'papers' appear with overlaid titles:

You Won't Believe What Nuns Were Up To
HEY, I FOUND A TROVE OF OLD RECORDS! THEY DON'T TURN OUT TO BE PARTICULARLY USEFUL, BUT STILL, COOL!
The Silk Road Is Not Just A Website for Buying LSD
Niche Tax Documents in Provence, 1370-1373
Everything That Happened in Asia, 622-1914
Ships Might Be Very Important
Introducing "Spatula' The New Journal for Medieval Studies
Globalizing the Middle Ages: An Examination of England *and* France
How l Got the University to Pay for My Trip to Venice
Did You Know? Arabs Had Science and Culture Too
We Remembered Spain And It's Right Where We Left It
More Viking Shit Found in Unexpected Place

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This debate performance is really going to help Ossoff stand out in the 2028 pack specifically because "does not eat shit in a debate" is going to be a top qualification for so many Democratic voters

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Funny how Marco Rubio tries to differentiate himself from all the other children of recent immigrants who are now getting removed from the country by the master he now serves. Rubio, you see, is a descendent of *the West*

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Many people are suggesting he wrote the post as rage bait, satire, or a joke. He followed up with a reply to an alarmed respondent that he does want to spend time with his baby but wants to “automate the things I don't need to be around for.”

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I do want to spend time with my baby.
There's even a chance I'll choose to retire early and spend all my time with my kids!
I'd just rather spend that time cuddling, feeding, and playing, and automate the things I don't need to be around for.
9:13 PM • 10/6/26 • 550K Views

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

16/ That’s Hungary’s warning, and its lesson. Elections can remove the ppl directing propaganda. They can’t instantly undo years of fear, captured institutions, or damaged professional judgment. Defending democracy means protecting independent journalism now & rebuilding what political control broke

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

12/ Even journalists who welcomed liberation struggled with responsibility. Under the old system, managers decided what could run. Now reporters had to make their own calls and stand behind them. Some still feared publishing perfectly legitimate stories. Political control had become a habit of mind.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

9/ Those pages matter because propaganda isn’t always a politician barking orders on camera. It can be an editor quietly killing a story, a manager removing a name, or a reporter learning which facts are too dangerous to print. Eventually, people stop waiting for orders. They censor themselves.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

3/ Three days later, the tension exploded. At a staff meeting, reporters asked whether censorship and political instructions would finally stop. Their news director, Zsolt Németh, insisted the old system was merely “editorial freedom.” Then a pro-Orbán reporter confronted a colleague in the café.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

2/ On election night, executives at Hungary’s state television headquarters simply vanished after Orbán conceded defeat. They didn’t even stay until the broadcast ended. A lower-ranking editor was left to thank the staff. After 16 years of political control, nobody seemed to know who was in charge.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1/ When Viktor Orbán lost power in Hungary, something extraordinary happened inside his propaganda machine. Some journalists cried.Others celebrated. And suddenly, people who’d spent years following orders were expected to tell the truth & they struggled #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New: The Trump admin is rolling out a nationwide tour to combat hate and antisemitism — meanwhile, a rabbi arrested for protesting Israel now says that ICE agents told him they "don't care" about his religious needs, like the ability to pray away from a prison toilet during the Jewish holy days.

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ICE Jailed a Rabbi For Protesting Israel. Now He Can’t Observe His Faith

Officers told an anti-Zionist Orthodox Jew they ‘don't care’ about his need to pray away from a prison toilet. Plus: Trump gets angry over two advisers leaving the country for a major payday.

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