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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 15h

From electric vehicles to “DEI bike lanes,” transportation has become a partisan battleground. But 50 years ago, Washington came together to save transit systems, address deadly car designs, and reduce vehicle pollution. Much has changed—and it’s not just MAGA. My exploration (gift link) 🧵

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Why US Transportation Policy Became a Partisan Battleground

Republicans and Democrats keep clashing over what was once a comparatively nonpartisan issue. When did getting around turn into another thing for Americans to fight about?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You’ve been waiting for a Dolly Parton deep dive in which Baudrillard plays an important role, and here is is courtesy of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Episode 156 -- Dolly Parton

Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · September 29 · 1h 17m

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PragerU, Peterson Academy and University of Austin sitting sadly by a phone that just won’t ring

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A question to my German history bubble: when is it okay to drop the "von" from someone's name in long-form writing? After first mention? Never?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elif Eralp kann sich nicht merken, welches die S41 und welches die S42 ist

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great. But the lane is still WIDE OPEN for Dems who understand queer and trans people aren’t an embarrassing constituency whose rights we reluctantly defend. And that feminist thought, gender studies, art history, etc. are easy to champion. I’ve never seen students so excited for the humanities.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s still very much in the writing process! But I’ve written some posts on my newsletter (still on Subst🤮, unfortunately) based on my reading and viewing for it! adriandaub.substack.com/p/a-long-way...

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"A long way to go and a short time to get there"

Notes on the Trucker Movie Craze

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Much of our sitting government is in office because it ignored rape or committed rape. At times, it seems like a job requirement. Much of our media has learned to ask evidentiary standards of survivors that they’d never hold a powerful man to.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hello [username], your skeet immediately caught my attention because it offers a timely and thought-provoking examination of [noun] and its relationship to [noun, noun, noun and noun]. I represent a large Bluesky club with 9 million members, we select one skeet a month for adoring contemplation. We

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wait, I'm sorry, am I getting fake graduate student queries now? What the fuck could be the possible angle for scammers there?

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Honestly impressed at the level of patience this kid has dealing with these terrible parents.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fuck the latest about whatever peter thiel "thinks." and fuck whatever we're now being to told buy/buy into about what AI "thinks." instead check out our @UnhappinessPod conversation with @adriandaub.bsky.social, author of What Tech Calls Thinking, and its sequel, What Tech Calls Governing

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TIL that Mark Pincus (the guy who got rich off of FarmVille) melted his brain and decided billionaires should declare class war against the rest of us. “Waaah waaah if the Democrats are gonna try to tax me than I’m gonna go full fash.”

against social justice activism.
An especially surprising turn came from Mark Pincus, who was among the early San Francisco Web entrepreneurs who saw the Internet as a means of empowerment and connection that could elevate politics and govern-ment. He was a Democrat by background and disposition, an enthusiastic Burner and counted Reid Hoffman among his closest friends; he didn't buy the view that unfettered techno-capitalism would create something close to utopia all by itself. Still, he'd be voting for Trump.
Pincus was long gone from Zynga, which had faded in relevance and been sold several times, but he was still active in the city. He'd bought the building on Eighteenth Street in the Mission that had been home to his failed startup Tribe back in the early 2000s, and it now housed a few small startups, and his own tinkerings. He was backing his friend Daniel Lurie for mayor, but was also fine with Mark Farrell or even London Breed-like most of the city's elite, his preference was ultimately anyone-but-Peskin. In his case, though, frustrations with the city government were enmeshed with a wholesale rejection of the national Democratic Party.
"They don't like billionaires, and you know what, we don't like them other. So le's not pretend that we're friends anymore? he said shordy before the election. "I do not like the Democratic Party. I don't like Trump.
I dislike the Democrats more than I dislike Trump. I think they're full of

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Die wenigsten kennen diesen Trick

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Paul @unacceptapaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw the post quoted below and was put rather in mind of this

1919 election poster for the Bayerische Volkspartei, with a not exactly subtle message about Bolshevism 😬 Source: Time-Life Great Cities: Munich, p147

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like Arnold was the one guy to truly hold the republican line about what the great goodness of America means in his heart and when they stopped pretending to believe any of it he looked around and was like fuck it I’m Bernie I guess

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

iced coffee is junior level. the real power move is bringing a corn on the cob to your interview

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is 100% accurate and it’s why I’d never go to Bavaria

“Berlin just doesn’t go with Bavaria” accompanied by a photo that makes Berlin look rad as all hell

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look, yes, obviously Nate Silver has A.I. brain poisoning. BUT! He already suffered from gambling addict brain poisoning AND social media brain poisoning AND podcaster brain poisoning. Those are some dangerous preexisting conditions.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Read this: is is from the chair of outside advisors of the Iowa civics center imposed on campus. He thinks he is describing current faculty but he is perfectly describing himself and his fellow travelers

"I think there's a fundamental tension," Lowery told Inside Higher Ed. "We've had a sort of ideological takeover of the universities where you have ideological administrators hiring ideological faculty and they will do everything they can to prevent other ideas from being represented on campus."

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thomas is a vitally insightful and original voice. And he’s doing really important work. Consider supporting him today!

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you were to assemble a right wing science fiction canon (the kinds of books the Sad Puppies would have found congenial), what do you reckon would be part of it?

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Michael Seemann @mspr0.de · 23/09/2026

ok, also das, was in potsdam besprochen wurde und wo die bürgerliche presse vehement abstritt, dass es darum gegangen sei, ist jetzt veröffentlicher policy-vorschlag der afd und natürlich werden dieselben journalist*innen jetzt darüber schweigen, während sie stattdessen die linke angreifen.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The point @joshtpm.bsky.social makes here about why the Beltway press misread the national climate so badly aligns very much with my case for why journalists and politicos should quit Twitter out of self-interest. (Gift link) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...

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We Didn’t Know Until This Day … Twitter Was the Echo Chamber All Along

Daniel Drezner says we are now in the Wile E. Coyote phase...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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SFist @sfist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, you are smelling smoke from a fire yet again, but it's just another prescribed burn on Angel Island. buff.ly/YOynRiy

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Smoke From Another Prescribed Burn on Angel Island Hovers Over SF

Yes, you are smelling smoke from a fire yet again, but it's just another prescribed burn on Angel Island.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day

The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He’s just speedrunning being Tim Draper at this point

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stop giving this guy free publicity

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Idea: this hideous person is actually not an intellectual

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