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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 10h

Get ready for slopigation, coming to a court/school board/regulatory agency near you

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This is a form of retaliation against someone for speaking out. He knew he would be punished, buy that punishment does not include unnecessarily strict confinement (which is barred by military law). www.military.com/air-force-ma...

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Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment

Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.

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Aaron Homer @ahomer.bsky.social · 21h

I hate when people talk about deporting Musk. I get the impulse, but he's a US citizen and should be punished as such.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 21h

This will be broadly unpopular with the electorate but I don’t think involuntary denaturalization should ever occur in a liberal society. Once you take your oath of citizenship you should forever be a citizen.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 12/10/2026

You know, the problem with politically weaponizing the DOJ is that it both allows the GOP to go on the offensive with the power of the state like this AND weaponization serves to cast doubt on the motivations of the department in a way that protects the GOP from coming, legitimate investigations

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

hello fascism our old enemy

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12/10/2026

Particularly enraging edition of Nimby Watch this week.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I seriously doubt Melenchon can beat Le Pen and also he kind of sucks in his own right. worried about all of us but Ukraine comes to mind

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 11/10/2026

Me: *slams buzzer* What is a car dealership? Ken Jennings: Yes! Bizarre little men. You're still in control of the board.

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unseelie court reporter @einsofasectional.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

She is kind, humane, objectively brilliant, and a professional in an area where these are all especially important--a practicing attorney--and she's still being subjected to misogynistic lawfare from a hostile party who knows how to game the system. Please give if you can but observe in any case.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 11/10/2026

Heyyyyyy I’m in Bluesky’s favorite oped section talking about whether Chris Gallant is a sign we’re in a post-shame society (🎁🔗, don’t @ me about pay walls or anything other than engaging with my take)

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Opinion | A Long Island Democrat’s Bondage Photos Leaked. Why Don’t More People Care? (Gift Article)

It’s hard to work up outrage when someone else’s adult exploits wind up in the tabloids.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How long until they cave and put money in his pocket? Or at least hold a black tie dinner in his honor?

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

We’re already helping to fund the Russian war effort and we’ve basically ended all other aid to Ukraine. Why the fuck should the Ukrainians care about our threats anymore.

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Aaron C. Davis @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

George Kollitides, the behind-the scenes Pentagon powerbroker close to deputy defense secretary Steve Feinberg left Alvarez & Marsal Capital last week after ProPublica started looking into the deals. Read my first story for ProPublica! www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official

The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...

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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him

The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is good, but if it takes a blood sacrifice before a street can be made safer then something is fundamentally wrong with city leadership. Boston has dozens upon dozens of dangerous intersections like this. What's the plan to fix them *before* people die?

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Keeping in mind how distinctly American it is to publicly lynch non-white people, to my mind this underscores the degree to which Trump II (and particularly Hegseth) represents an embrace of the premodern as a form of conflict mirroring. (The major distinction being that Hegseth opposes the beards.)

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"All of these people were granted legal protection in the U.S. for fleeing persecution for their LGBTQ status in their countries of origin ... [M]ore than half of them were ineligible for asylum because of a restrictive Biden-era transit ban on asylum seekers."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

climate change concerns running into the brick wall of affordability concerns

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s so cool how the modern conservative movement is antithetically opposed to property rights when it comes to legalizing homebuilding

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/10/2026

You probably think this is a touch of hyperbole. If you do, that just tells me not only are you not paying attention, you are actively ignoring all the trans people this has happened to. This is life in the UK as a trans person in 2026.

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Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 08/10/2026

1) on a pure evidence base the US has repeatedly engaged in information operations. You can even find procurement examples to manipulate youth in Iraq. Obviously with cases like stuxnet - you know there’s milder stuff.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 07/10/2026

Man, you gotta not act like your opponents would claim you would in bad faith. You gotta know how to treat your allies.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Will Thorne @wbthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This graph is a good reason to introduce my new paper: By Generation and by Design: A Review of the Empirical Rent Control Literature. This paints a (somewhat) misleading picture of rent control evidence because it groups all rent control together regardless of design feature.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But on this third anniversary of October 7th, a good start is to try to resist the flattening of empathy, to let ourselves weep for all the lives lost, the children killed, the families torn apart, the homes destroyed.

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It sucks that Palestinians have such shitty allies. But antisemitism is deeply baked into the world, and anyone wading into activism on the conflict needs to educate themselves to see it where it's hiding.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

if they prioritize owning the libs they'll get less of their goals done at the cost of shredding more of the rule of law. if they prioritize doing the thing they'll be less lawless but probably hurt more people.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

does look like they've figured out how to do this effectively unfortunately. not really much you can do legally or practically to stop expanded 287(g) in places where local officials and electorate broadly support it except hope that it fucks the economy enough for money to complain.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026

BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is incredibly telling, to me at least, how Cameron and May were more progressive on trans rights, and yet even those areas of recognition are being rolled back/completely destroyed by Labour, yet trans and non-binary individuals are ignored, talked over, and told to shut up and support Labour.

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is important to remember that these Brazilian far right is dominant on YouTube and other social media, and Lula's win was not by a huge margin. We are all in a rough battle against fascism for the long term.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

yeah that’s the extra depressing part, the thought that if we actually managed to jail Trump for Jan 6, 2024 might have still gone the way it did on the basis of “Biden old and Trump did nothing wrong” deeply unpleasant scenario to consider

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Far Right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round of the Brazilian Presidential election by just two points, like Trump wanted. He’s now heading to a runoff with President Lula. Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party also ended up with the most governors, senators and federal deputies.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People keep analogizing rent control to the minimum wage, suggesting that maybe empirical work will refute the theoretical work. But the empirical work is generally showing what theory would predict.

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 04/10/2026

This is a useful thread. I want to examine "AI tools are power". The UN Scientific Panel report used this framing to promote the concept of a "digital divide", but that presumes that the power is neutral. I argue that it is fundamentally asymmetric, more a tool of empire, oligarchy, and scammers.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a lot of people seem to think this is dangerous or bad and...I guess that's not exactly where I'm coming from. Jewishness is an ethnic identity as well as a religious identity. I'm an atheist! I'm still Jewish! this is not uncommon!

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Doomer VonDoomington 🇺🇦 @doomervon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Puppies for everyone 51% Permanent diarrhea 49% Just like the US right now

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pete (goblin time) @ptmoria.com · 02/10/2026

it is 100% defensible to think "ai bad", but I do wish there weren't so many leading figures in the "ai bad" movement (eg Bender on tech, Zitron on econ) who are wrong all the time

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there are New Jersey cities that achieved the feat of climbing into the middle or upper class within the past decade where mass layoffs and school closures are now either on the table or already happening because the state chose to do tax cuts and inflation-adjusted austerity

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches.

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