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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 4h

We have lots of evidence that behaving cruelly - even to "things" - is corrupting and bad and leads to cruel behavior towards people. We shouldn't normalize it! Yes, that earthworm isn't a dog isn't a child, but that doesn't mean that gratuitously inflicting pain on it is mentally healthy.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 9h

Directing an interview with council candidate Jaime West (D-IN).

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 9h

A friend's sibling's child is non-binary, and the friend wished English had a good word for them. OH, says I. But we DO! That's your NIBLING. It's a mash-up of niece/nephew + sibling, and it's gender-neutral, linguistically efficient, and CUTE. Sharing this for anybody who doesn't know the word.

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 8h

Which also matches the treatment in the comics (which in this case are downstream of the MCU, not upstream). Captain Carter is consistently treated as a different patriotically themed British hero, not as a version of Captain Britain (which has its whole separate mythology, of course).

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 10h

Paladin is an impressively weird deep cut. Really? THAT’S the character you’re bringing to TV. Okay…

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One of the tragic lessons of 2024: voters care way too much about inflation relative to other economic concerns, let alone non-economic issues. Also, voters think they want deflation after periods of high inflation.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

High gas prices increase the likelihood that constitutional democracy can be more or less salvaged in the US but [whispers] the glonzo problem is real if 2.6% core inflation is a level that can constantly bring down governments.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”

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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”

Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thing about arguments regarding eg court packing and reciprocity is that for those arguments to be convincing the proposed failure state - packing back and forth - would have to be worse than the current state of affairs, and it is just isn’t anymore

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also, not for nothing, a way in which Trump is re-enacting Nixonian abuses but more blatantly. That sort of shenanigans was a key motivation for the post-Watergate 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act--Nixon engaged in aiding donors and harming non-donors in just that way.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 09/10/2026

We're back. 💫

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Idk they're making some compelling points here

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Democratic candidates forthrightly opposing tariffs. Straight into my veins.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Studio X is proud to make Magic. It's that pride that has inspired us to unionize. Learn more about our mission here and sign our petition for Wizards to recognize our union. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/studiox-letter

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, there’s probably both a margin in which litigation is realistic and a wider margin in which clearly illegal shenanigans are realistic. As the victory margin grows, it becomes more obviously a coup/autogolpe and less likely to succeed.

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That and the possibility of having the support of both the President and the Supreme Court. Again, legally irrelevant, but if the Supreme Court tacitly accepts the validity of a fake Congress (e.g. by refusing to support the real Congress and making some “judges of its own elections” bs statement)…

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you actually have two competing bodies claiming to be Congress and asserting different memberships, the legal answer can inform and affect the social acceptance of claims and the resolution of the conflict, but it can’t directly resolve it—it can only act through persuading people.

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The problem is that a lot of this stuff is ultimately dependent on social acceptance. There’s a correct legal answer, but there was also a correct legal answer as to whether Trump’s participation in insurrection rendered him ineligible (yes).

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's a particular thread context to this but it also works by itself as a summary of one of the most important facts about the last two decades of global history.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

there is no plausible construction of these words that is not racist

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Founders, repeatedly: so just to reiterate, and I cannot stress this enough, the president is absolutely not a king and can be removed, charged, or even executed if they start to do king things (250 years later) Alito: getting a lot of king vibes from this document

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When one member of the party is attacked, we all roll initiative.

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hanlon’s razor (“Never attribute to malice…”) needs to have a caveat for people like Alito where bad faith has so much evidence for it. He’s either acting in bad faith, knowingly using “originalism” to falsely justify terrible preferences, or so self-deluding that he thinks he isn’t but still is.

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also, you can't defame the dead. You can simply report the unambiguous truth--though he was never convicted of a sex crime, going to prison for financial crimes involved in the cover-up instead, Hastert molested children, broke the law to cover it up, and admitted the abuse at sentencing. [2/2]

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

CNN headline: "Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison after molestation allegations, dies at age 84" <insert preferred profanity here>, you don't have to use the word "allegations" to describe the criminal conduct of someone who admitted the conduct in court. [1/2]

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Surely, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy is an "inferior Officer" in the meaning of Art. II, sec. 2, and therefore impeachable? I would think that the impeachment power would extend to any non-military employee of the United States executive branch at a minimum.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just resigned from the @greenparty.org.uk . A pity, they could have been a force to make a serious challenge on Labour’s left. As it is, they’ve actually made it harder to defeat Israeli ethnonationalism. ime, of course. Don’t @ me

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The anti-El Sayed ads running in Michigan are all “he wants to defund the police and free prisoners,” so that’s mostly a state level issue, too… (Lots of federal money of course, but it’s still attacking him for being “bad” on mostly state issues.)

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Snort my Mellowcreme Pumpkin @snrtmahtnt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“average person knows 3 chords" is just statistical error. The average person knows 0 chords. Guitar Georg, who doesn’t want to make it cry or sing, knows all the chords and is an outlier and shouldn’t be counted.

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Only semi-joking: if Alito does in fact do a partisan lame duck retirement, that should be understood as a high crime and misdemeanor for which he should be impeached.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Literal No Kings. Either Article I means something or it doesn't.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is as close as anything to the molten core of modern democracy: can legislators and laws bind executives? That question has been the motive force of a lot of revolutions, democratic collapses, and democratization

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm inclined to always capitalize it when referring to POTUS--following the same stylistic rule as always capitalizing "Court" when referring to the Supreme Court. I don't like the aggrandizement, but I think it's still the best style rule.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And where you’re told “your personal special genius is what keeps the lights on.”

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Any chance there will be a hard-copy version for those of us who really like reading on paper? I'd take a small print-run special edition or "bound in with a special reprinting of one of the novels" or omnibus volume or lead novella in a short-story Time of Iron collection or... ;)

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(Note: I'm not at all knocking @johnrogers.bsky.social's understanding. His perspective is super useful, and he provides great insights into the creative AND business experience of TV. Just that it helps me understand why some of his fellow showrunners make really dumb corporate struggle errors.)

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True and accurate and useful perspective as far as it goes. But very, very different from how a public corporation or start-up or law firm/medical practice or pretty much any other imaginable business organization works--each of which have their own different wrinkles. (Closest to a start-up, but.)

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The lightbulb came from @johnrogers.bsky.social talking about how being a showrunner is also being a CEO, and how getting your show cancelled also means telling all your employees (many of whom are dear friends and long-time colleagues/collaborators) that they're now unemployed.

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Doesn't make any sense at all how it's handled... except that it pretty much exactly matches what happens to a TV series as a business when the network (etc.) cancels it. (Everyone loses their jobs, the enterprise is shuttered, that's that... unless another network picks it up and rescues.) [2/2]

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was part of what annoyed me about the Keeley/VC/Jack storyline in S. 3. VC pulls her funding, and KJPR is instantly closed (until she finds an angel). But they have clients, and actual business and revenue! The question should be about profitability, runway to break-even, bridge loans... [1/2]

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The funny thing is that the struggles over control would really matter for the characters without the "and now you're poor." Tony Stark loses control of *Stark* Industries? That's plenty to send him on an alcoholic bender. You don't need "and now Danny Rand has to live like a normal person."

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Add in "we can't let legal details that no one cares about interfere with the needs of the fiction which are about characters" and stupidity ensues. Even though there are a gazillion lawyers (including some writers!) who would be happy to help them make sense. [4/4]

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Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So a lot of them have the idea that they understand something about business organizations from their own experiences, but their business organizations are really really weird compared to normal corporations. [3/4]

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