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they/them. "Fountain," I have cried to that unbubbling well, "I will not drink of thy water!" Yet I thirst For a mouthful of—not to swallow, only to rinse my mouth in—peace.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2026
abolish ICE is a majority position among INDEPENDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC you have 23% among REPUBLICANS we have at least three more years of this shit what I am saying is: the next Dem president had better be ready to walk into DHS with a chainsaw on Day 1
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
oh my god this photo of ian miles tails cheong hanging out with his fellow paid to live in dubai social influencers i am DYING. smeagol glow up era.
Ian Miles Cheong (second from left) and other paid influencers in Dubai.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2026
when I graduated college with a CS degree and got my first job - and this was with a small company, before I entered big tech - I made more money than either of my parents had ever made in their careers as elementary school teachers I think about that a lot
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2026
once again struck by the extent to which the damage in Trump's first term was - though extensive - limited by significant portions of his administration working extremely hard to contain his worst impulses and how much the second term is the exact polar opposite of that
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/03/2026
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2026
they really might have ridden the anti-woke train all the way to bankruptcy court, an all time brand fuckup that should be taught as a cautionary tale in business school for decades
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The reality of an actual diplomatic process, with extended talks in Geneva or Vienna or Muscat and god forbid a five-page memo from the Iranians, was so daunting to the Trump administration (probably because they have fired or let go every seasoned diplomat) that they started a regional war instead.
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Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
There goes that. It had a good 2 hour run.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."
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Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department
“Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 03/03/2026
Creating a civil war right next to the world's most vulnerable hydrocarbon shipping lane? I foresee no problems with this.
wsj.com
Trump Weighs Backing Militias to Dislodge Iran’s Regime
The president, who hasn’t made a decision, also said “somebody from within” would be the best option to lead the country.
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calinicus.exe @cyberhaldane.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's so funny when people say that you are a fake version of a thing they also think is bad
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
By this logic, the US has been at war with Iran since 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh to ensure that western oil companies, and not the Iranian people, controlled Iranian oil. It’s brutal puppet the Shah tortured & killed for 25 years. That’s why they chanted DEATH TO AMERICA in 1979
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just now: Texas Democratic Party says “hundreds of Dallas County voters are being turned away from the polls” because of new Republican-led requirements that they vote only in their precinct, rather than anywhere in the county #txlege
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is weirdly consistent for The Atlantic! Jesse Singal's 2018 article about kids being rushed into transition starts with an anecdote about someone *not* being rushed into transition. Literally nothing happened! There is no other issue in prestige media that has editorial standards this low.
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I love how that’s the plan now. After the war to topple their government. Which didn’t work.
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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The thing I need you to understand is that New York Media works almost exactly like this exchange between Elizabeth Warren and Larry Summers, and the thing I need New York Media to understand is that it shouldn't operate by *Larry Summers rules*
Tony Aspromourgos, upon hearing about my exchanges with Larry Summers, confirmed my suspicion when he sent me this quotation from Senator Elizabeth Warren, documented in 2014: 

Late in the evening, Larry leaned back in his chair and offered me some advice … He teed it up this way: I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People –powerful people –listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: they don’t criticize other insiders. I had been warned. John Cassidy (2014), ‘Elizabeth Warren’s Moment’, New York Review of Books, Vol. 61 (no. 9), 22/ 5–4/ 6/ 14, pp. 4–8.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/11/2025
It's kind of hard to look away when you understand that everyone involved deserves to be miserable
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/11/2025
Here's the problem
Meme: Heartwarming: The Worst People You Know Are All Fighting (image is of a bald man squinting and smiling a bit)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"average suburban democrat wants half the administration to rot in prison until the end of time" actualy just statistical error. Average dem wants them all to burn in unending fire. Bodhisattva Georg, who is filled with total compassion for all beings, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It's not about her tone. It's about what she DOES. Switching from belligerent to the "nice nasty" of racist evangelicals doesn't change anything for the people she continues to hurt! Folks really think it's not bigotry or cruelty as long as a person stops screaming and takes the hood off.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
One, MTG hasn't truly apologized. Two, unless that woman is a former Parkland student, Jewish, or the lightest ****ing Black person on earth, there's no apology for her to accept because nothing was done TO HER. Three, MTG has not moved away from any part of the current bigoted Republican platform.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/11/2025
I know a couple self-pub authors (not naming you but you know who you are lol) who diligently registered copyright on 50+ books and while I'm jealous of their foresight I can not wait for anthropic to have to cut them a six figure check.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/11/2025
the way I am putting every single author I know in a headlock over the next few months.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
revisiting my 2024 interview with @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about ben smith/nuzzi/journalism ethics, which i think aged quite well: www.thehandbasket.co/p/david-folk...
So I think that it's fun and clever to say that this isn't important, but of course it's important. It affects what you think, it affects what you're doing. My feeling is you can do almost anything as a journalist that you're willing to disclose to your editors, but also to your audiences. And if you're uncomfortable disclosing it to your audiences, maybe that's a sign that it's something you shouldn't be doing. 
And the reason that that information was withheld was that Nuzzi knew it would be compromising, problematic and probably disqualifying. Ben writes at the end of his thing, “before I turn in my badge, I have to say you should tell your editors” about a personal relationship with a source. He’s right. Now what he doesn't say is, “and your editors will probably take that decision out of your hands and say you've gotta change beats, or you've gotta do something else.”
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Right up there with his assertion that Republicans are now the party of upper-class tax increases
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wizardry variants kib @kib.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
blog.kagi.com/slopstop Kagi believes that AI bullshit is bad, unless it's their AI bullshit, then the CEO yells at you personally for calling it bullshit
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
this is all because actually-existing conservatism is utterly discredited and exhausted so that the only options for young conservatives are to assimilate into liberalism ie stop being conservative ie stop being wrong, or rejuvenate through fascism ie embrace being wrong and pursue brute domination
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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Like maybe don’t make jokes about this online that you wouldn’t make in front of the survivors. It’s a big internet and you don’t know who is reading what you write.
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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
news blitzes like this are rough on survivors, be mindful of how you talk about this stuff. and please remember that the victims exist and should be a part of these conversations and at the front of our minds when having them.
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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Chiming in, along with everyone else, to remind you to please talk about survivors as survivors, as people who experienced something horrible when they were very young and are still around to hear you talk about it, rather than as punchlines or points scored.
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
i fear those other methods not working was the point 😔
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
apmreports.org
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
To spell a few things out, in terms of being a trans freelance journalist in 2025 ...
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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Anyway, sexual violence is both a model for how power operates in the larger world and a privilege assumed to belong to those in power. Enjoy your dinner!
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
deranged pitch for a VTM game: a game set in Austin, a city whose new upstart Prince is an ersatz Joe Rogan who has set himself up as the warlord of the regional stand-up comedy scene
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I hope they sue and win a million dollars
wsaw.com
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Honestly, until like the 1970s or 1980s, people have held the attitude that adult men having sex with teenagers is "normal" and "biologically wired." They still believe it, they just learned to stop talking about it openly at some point.
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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Like the entire "post-feminism" wave of the early 90s (Camille Paglia, Katie Roiphe) was just wretched old dudes finding women willing to say, in print, that date rape was no big deal and women were making it up
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Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Living in a dense city that
has vibrant nightlife and
huge amounts of community
but its impossible to live
there without prior extreme
wealth or becoming fiscally
poly (10+ roommates)
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.
nytimes.com
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
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