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“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Once again, I ask why the New York Times & every other media outlet immediately & instinctively reports on the 🇩🇪 AfD as a “far right” or “extremist” party but does not regularly cover the 🇺🇸 Republican Party as such: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Adorable 🥰 Gorilla 🦍 Family

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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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adutton.bsky.social @adutton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This of course would make white Europeans the most egregious sinners, if there was any coherence or consistency in this ideology.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

30. It's tempting to say that Eric Schmitt looked so bad that he made Jack Smith look good – that Smith's authority as a lawman was evident in comparison to Schmitt's beclownmanship. But the truth doesn't speak for itself. It has to be spoken for.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

23. But the story does not end with Schmitt, because his story is part of a larger story – a conspiracy, you might say – to stop the public from fully understanding what the president did in the wake of his defeat to Joe Biden, which is to say that he's guilty of treason.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A young woman bravely reported that she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven men at their fraternity. But instead of protecting her, Cornell University protected her abusers, letting them off with a slap on the wrist.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/10/2026

Argh. I get it, truly. But don't do it. Pay in *something*, anything

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway I don't want to be accused of starting drama. I don't want to be assaulted, and I don't want to be a problem! So I leave and the men assume I'm tired or dull or maybe they don't care bc without me, they don't have to confront the creeps, they can claim ignorance and buy the bar another round.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 30/09/2026

Elon Musk's America PAC just reported exercising another $1.9 million of free speech on Sept. 29 regarding elections in 10 different states (only one of which contains his legal residence). docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

the thing that's helped Trump deal with a lot of his other scandals is that they are self-inflicted and he can make them disappear from the headlines by stopping whatever stupid bullshit he's pulling but he can't do that here, there's no "oops let's return to status quo" that ship has (not) sailed

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One Amahira, MA @oneamahira.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are a lot of things to hate about billionaires, but I don't think billionaires get enough attention and hate for also being involved in this:

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Eric Schmitt @erschm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

8 Navy sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group attempted suicide during its more than 300 days at sea www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

nytimes.com

8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says

The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

New in PN: The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood "Republicans — even some who not long ago donned red MAGA hats — have decided their survival calculation has been flipped upside-down, and now the riskiest move isn’t to break from Trump; it's to stick with him unequivocally."

publicnotice.co

The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood

The risk of bucking him is now outweighed by the risk of NOT opposing him.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/09/2026

"activists are SUPPOSED to be annoying" was one of my great "no shit, dummy" belated revelations

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/09/2026

city/state auditors should require an audit of these logs on a scheduled regular basis and filing criminal charges for abuses should be the norm

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RiffTrax @rifftrax.com · 23/09/2026

There's lots of cool things about our streaming service, but something EXTRA cool about it is we didn't secretly change our user agreement to inject ads into your stream no matter how much you pay. Plus ours has more Joe Estevez than any other streamer! www.rifftrax.com/friends

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You really need to read this whole thing, because there's a *lot* here: unsigned warrants, wrong address, false arrest of the homeowner, creating a fake social media page to harass the woman he arrested, and on and on it goes Cops are great www.wsbtv.com/news/local/d...

wsbtv.com

Deputy on leave after allegations he created Facebook page to harass woman he arrested

Natasha Lopez told Channel 2 Action News she spent months trying to uncover who was behind a series of posts on an anonymous Facebook page that she says repeatedly targeted her.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 23/09/2026

This should be illegal. There’s no fucking way that “they have to let you internet gamble with credit under the constitution” is a thing, that’s dumber than Trump v US

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every Republican last minute pitch right now is basically pleading with the President not to be a moron or to fix the things he has broken because he's a moron.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 21/09/2026

Texas voters say the economy, immigration, education, healthcare, and democracy. Nobody is standing at a gas pump in Amarillo whispering, “I’d vote blue if only some woman in Dallas couldn’t update her driver’s license.”

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 21/09/2026

Show us the voter. Not the imaginary rancher living in a consultant’s head. Not a seven state message test that never surveyed Texas. Show us the rural Texan whose decisive concern was trans rights

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Nerdy Pursuit @nerdypursuit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tonight, Pete Buttigieg rallied for Johnny Garcia and Katy Padilla Stout in San Antonio TX 🙌⬇️ The GOP gerrymandered the Texas map to make sure they win these seats. But the Democratic candidates there are so strong, and their GOP opponents are terrible. So Dems have a real chance to win 👏👏👏

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026

The pro-AI coalition only looks unified because everyone is shooting at the same anti AI barricade from wildly incompatible metaphysical positions.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

Speak at Your Own Risk

Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

no bill press solidarity is only for when the plebes come after reporters on social media. if the president arbitrarily bans some outlets the other ones HAVE to show up & suck his dick

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cantstandthefeed.bsky.social @cantstandthefeed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We're too dumb to work is a bold midterm strategy.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

look we are too corrupt and ignorant to regulate so it's up to a collection of foppish, pasty sociopaths in overpriced sneakers to hold themselves accountable for killing everyone with monopolized cloud computing

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/09/2026

"You'll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn't real, the Tooth Fairy is imaginary, and there's no such thing as the 'invisible hand of the market.'" buff.ly/KM3opmg

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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”

“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator

Sticker on a cooler at a convenience store advertising Arizona iced tea cans at $1.50 each.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

right, the problem is not the CNC stuff. it's, uh, that the first C is in question and the second C isn't.

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