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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 6h

Their loss, for sure. Your eyes, ears, and analysis has been some of the keenest of our era. Whichever outlet gets ahold of you next should consider itself extremely lucky.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 9h

The disinformation scares of the 2010s were easy for the elite to dismiss. They were for regular people and propagated through the social media sites they thought they were better for not using. Now the call is coming from inside the house and they’ve got no immunity to it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

cruikshank underrated as one of the worst ever decisions of the court

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 11h

People have never wanted to engage with the level of political and state- sanctioned violence it took to create and maintain segregation, and for that matter, enslavement.

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 14h

What's more expensive - a fully geared up police officer or a teacher? Asking for a few countries I know.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 20h

We need to incept the idea of Trump renaming the GOP to the Trump Party, and by “incept” I mean have a reporter mention it once within his earshot and he’ll become obsessed with it and not let it go

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

a thing that everyone says they hate but revealed preference contradicts is the Grandstanding Thundering Senator who will Make An Example of bad actors, and if tonight’s debates are anything to go by, we have got plenty of actors waiting in the wings ready to eat unprepared executives alive

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 20h

Come 2028, putting the entire Republican party on trial seems like a frame that could put up some crazy numbers. Because in a lot of the US Republicans have never had to justify themselves. They literally don't know how to.

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 20h

And not to get too high-brow about it all, but this framing also provides the necessary exigence for the direct character attacks Ossoff made. It's not just pugilism for pugilism's sake: he's building a case for why his opponent isn't trustworthy, respectable, or fit for the office he seeks.

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 20h

Beyond the virality of any of the individual hits - this is what should resonate: the Republican party is a contemptible, shameful embarrassment and each of its members should be treated accordingly.

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 22h

The quadrennial "migrant caravan" doesn't thrill like it used to, so now they're trying to write bribes, incite pogroms, and live stream executions - just so they can get the same high.

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 22h

Well you can certainly tell that Republicans are believing these polls, given how crazy every one of them - from Trump all the way down to the city dogcatcher is behaving.

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 23h

Want to know what Vantablack tastes like? You can try it, but your tongue will never be able to taste anything ever again.

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thing we need: more "Superman" Democrats Thing we don't need: South Carolina to flip the Senate

A digitally restored vintage public service poster featuring Superman standing with a diverse group of school children. A speech bubble and caption text read: "And remember, boys and girls, your school, like our country, is made up of Americans of many different races, religions and national origins... If you hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin, don't wait: tell him that kind of talk is un-American. Help keep your school all-American!"

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Abusing an AI chatbot doesn't reinforce its lack of humanity. It only reinforces yours.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On here this is a preaching to the choir thing to say, but the turn against Indian immigrants is the sharpest possible example of ‘real debate, fake debate’ wrt heritability of IQ. 90% of the guys Just Following The Science are now waxing rhapsodically about white indigenous ways of knowing.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

nytimes.com

Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions

Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Camerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If instead of envisioning a secular rapture, you just begin with the basic assumption that people are born free and work out all the ways we can be free together from there, you’ll very naturally arrive at stunningly elegant solutions like “trans rights” and “freedom of movement.”

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The entire modern conservative movement is built on anti-black racism. Its architects have long focused their ire on dismantling the wins of the civil rights movement, and in 2016 they opted to go all-in on white nationalism as a reaction to the Obama majority. That's it.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/10/2026

Shaming Talarico for ordering a potato and egg breakfast taco in Texas is a stunningly effective way to prove you don’t know shit about Texas

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are absolutely ways of addressing this, but even if there weren't, I'm substantially less concerned about someone trading their vote for cigs than I am about there being an easy way for the state and political parties to invalidate the voices of giant swaths of their opposition's voters.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i’m not accusing the atlantic reporter of malice, but i do think these posts bring up questions that are pretty foundational to the framing of the story and ones that deserve answers.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FWIW, i dont think things are as bad as people are making out. Lat am, for instance, has had worse issues than this. Europe is looking shaky, but right wing govts there are about to inherit real fucking problems

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

social media will be the death of us all

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026

this is a well-reported piece with an awful lot written between the lines, and one of the things that jumps out at me is just how ill-informed these people are. the trucker, his partner, his mother — they can’t even agree *amongst themselves* on a shared understanding of events

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Why can't you teach your children to write down a list of Xbox controllers in need of repair in a cleanly organized spreadsheet? What are you, a terrible parent?" Man, I work with full grown adults who can't use a spreadsheet. For their job. That they get paid for. Crazy to expect a child to.

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone sign that man up for Cat Facts™

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, post Election Day I think we can expect to see some former Republican congressmen move out of country. I'm not kidding.

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dems could incentivize this by hinting there'll be leniency for flippers vs those who try to "bravely" go down with the ship

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aust.in.calculable @abw56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Honestly, at this rate, I'll be surprised if we make it to Election Day and we don't see some major heel-turns by Republican candidates to try to run *against* Trump in a last-ditch effort to save their seat.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you, uh, Bill Kristol.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ll also add that most of the heat should be directed at USA Today, but the journalists who participated in this breach of ethics also made a choice. Organizations are made up of people. We can’t absolve the people who do harm on the behalf of an organization.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reactionary backlash because the Indian tech support guy can afford a house in the burbs while the white perpetual fuck up who got kicked out of the army for a heroin addiction cannot, the war of the unemployable on the employed continues

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the entire postwar global order was built because whiteness very much does *not* mean “high trust” and “social cohesion”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026

the greatest green degrowth ecofeminist president of our lifetimes

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 02/10/2026

this is a good thread by Ben. I'll boil it all down to one thing: labor demand has been low. It's likely bottomed, but isn't rising quickly...yet. Without stronger labor demand, openings are low, so hires are low, so quits are low, so fewer wages are set at the market rate, so wage growth is slow.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One crazy thing about this new outpouring of racism against South Asians and calls for expulsion or forced assimilation is it was kicked off by some brown skinned students at a Texas game wearing cowboy hats and excitedly celebrating their football team — ie some guys very assimilated to America.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People forget that there was a time when it was theoretically possible to be right wing and just support policies that produced racial inequality, rather than individually being a klan member

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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