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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 06/11/2024

This feels like an important thing to reup: We need Teen Vogue but for young men. A platform that’s empathic and politically enlightening, a space for safe community that provides nontoxic self esteem and a path to deradicalization in the face of the all-entwining tentacles of the manosphere.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

To my fellow Canadians, please do not think that our horror show is merely on the horizon. It's already here in many places. Look at what's going on in Alberta.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

We can defeat the fascists! History has demonstrated this time and time again. But history has also shown that progressives are terrible at coalition building, we prioritize purity politics over collectivism & we eat our own. We gotta build solidarity to defeat our common enemy.

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Alex @alexbabaris.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I like taking the bus for this very reason!!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I expected to wake up exhausted, despondent. but I looked up and for the first time in my life I thought, "there's no one left to look to. it's just us." so I am shocked at how I feel: furious, clear-eyed, galvanized. we who saw this from the beginning, for better or worse, it's our time to lead.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 06/11/2024

Y’all, I truly do love you. But “Harris did [insert hobbyhorse here] wrong” is a truly unhinged reaction to what just happened. This country voluntarily elected a fascist.

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

NEW: I ran 80,000 simulations of the election. My wife left me for a guy who doesn’t do that.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

THIS IS SOMETHING YOU GET TO LEARN IN A SKEET, AND NOT, AS I DID, IN A KAYAK ON LOWER SABAO LAKE IN MAINE, AS ONE SURFACED RIGHT THE FUCK NEXT TO ME.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

A conversation among columnists today in the New York Time. David Brooks complains Harris never offered men a plan to get them to vote for her. Tressie McMillan Cottom points out that Harris released and talked about clear plans but that “a lot of men cannot hear a plan from a female leader.”

Brooks: I’d say that gender now overlaps with class. I’m struck by the chasm between college-educated women, who are doing relatively well and are swinging to the Democrats, and men without college degrees, who are doing poorly and swinging to the Republicans. Biden did a great job of shifting resources to men without college degrees — the infrastructure bill, etc. — but got no credit for it. The Harris campaign was, in my view, tone deaf on how to give men a vision of how a Harris administration could benefit them. If you want a glimpse of what such a vision could look like, read this recent piece by Richard Reeves.

Cottom: Harris gave men so many plans and visions that they turned into a choose-your-own-adventure chapter book. Her campaign understood men are looking for something. They gave Black men an entire white paper, white men their own campaign conference call — has any other candidate ever done that so directly? — and frequently put men at the center of fears about reproductive rights. The reality is that a lot of men cannot hear a plan from a female leader, and many more men are more invested in masculinity than they are political transactions. It is no secret that I believe that money moves emotions and emotions move votes. But the promise of money is enough for some men to vote against their immediate interests. That is not about vision. That is still about patriarchy and sexism.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The energy is unlike anything we've seen since 2008. It might even be better than 2008. Watch the game.

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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The exit polls are going to be informative I think this year.

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Fellow GenXers raised on college radio, please enjoy Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff having the best time as Michael Stipe performs “Driver 8” at a Harris rally.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

We can ban Doritos or legalize weed. Your choice, America.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/11/2024

TRUMP: There are no empty seats! CAMERAPERSON: *fact check* (video via @AntiquarianMuse, Twitter) youtu.be/HwUUZ8aDDMY

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Trump: We have no empty seats. Cameraperson: *fact check

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

A reminder as NaNoWriMo begins that the org stated that criticizing AI is “classist and ableist” because… poor and disabled people can’t write? (They got an AI sponsor.) Meanwhile, Miyazaki saw AI, responded with a story about disability and humanity, and gave us the only response to AI we need:

Three screenshots of Hayao Miyazaki reacting to a showing of gen AI. He says, “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I feel strongly that this is an insult to life itself. We humans are losing faith in ourselves.”

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

This is some more incredible work by @propublica.org focusing on the dire consequences of a Trump win. This is the information voters are craving, not the latest poll results. Be sure to read & share. This stuff is important. It's also really good journalism. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 02/11/2024

Aussies don't hold punches

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

strong contender for the funniest sentence of this entire election

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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 01/11/2024

This has been a big year for elections globally, and we’re a few days away from the U.S. Presidential election. Here’s how our team, led by @aaron.bsky.team who previously led election integrity efforts at Twitter, is preparing:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/11/2024

the extent to which there are obviously conflicting signals coming from every source we have for data makes me think that this is exactly what's happening

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

always post and repost without fear about what u are proud of creating here your people here will never shame u for this

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Alex @alexbabaris.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

The simplest way to do this is by scraping the YouTube captions, available as raw text. If you've never read one without the video playing, they're virtually incomprehensible.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

In 1995-96, I clerked for a trial judge in the District of Maryland and got to know the writing & reputation of Judge Michael Luttig. Judge Luttig was THE intellectual superstar of the Federalist Society. It's HUGE deal that he is calling on all Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris. Free link.

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Opinion | Trump Betrayed America.Republicans Must Put Country Above Party.

The time has come for my fellow Republicans to put country above party.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Holy shit this whole editorial is incredible, but especially this section.

Trump has for years maintained a discourse of contempt and misinformation against the island that reveals an obsession and disdain for a people who do not have the power of the vote to defend themselves, since the three million American citizens who live in Puerto Rico cannot vote in the presidential elections. However, the other five million who live in the United States, whom they also labeled as trash, can vote. Let’s not forget the paper towels he threw at us while we suffered without electricity for months and let’s not forget that the funds did not arrive because Trump -through the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development- told them to stop because he considered Puerto Ricans “bums who live begging.”

It is cowardly to insult those who cannot defend themselves. At Sunday’s event they not only insulted Puerto Ricans. They also insulted Latinos, blacks and women. An angry mob shouted prostitute at the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. They also spat in front of a group of her supporters. Many were Latinos, who applauded, not understanding the consequences. One day it will be your turn.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

This is just unbelievably badass. @davejorgenson.bsky.social the Washington Post TikTok Guy, everyone 👏

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Holocaust survivor Irene Weiss: “Man can turn into an animal in no time. All he needs is permission. As soon as permission is given from higher-ups, from the government, it accelerates.”

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 28/10/2024

As a German and a historian I'm usually not fond of these kinds of stunts; they tend to simplify and make light of a horrific, and very specific history. But I have to admit that the translation and 30s style VO in the delivery hits home more than I expected. It is literally the same rhetoric.

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