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Armand Vella

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"If you look at the population of — well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities [...] a pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country."
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
and in turn making it a normal systems safety problem also means that existing law and regulatory frameworks are applied, and the entire alchemical-occultic frame and the political economy it is aligned with is dropped in favor of treating the industry as other countries across the world have
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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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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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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading his Globe byline, the average reader would have no idea that Hanania is a white supremacist and misogynist
Richard Hanania is president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which funds policy research. He is the author of the new book “Kakistocracy,” from which this essay is adapted.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Periodic reminder that the @bostonglobe.com opinion section regularly features pieces from Richard Hanania
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
my theory about Broken Windows was always that the problem was correct (the windows are broken) but the *solution* was wrong (beat up the guys who broke them). bsky.app/profile/oluf...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
no amnesty
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s not great. The ADL has more or less decided that antisemitism is fine as long as it’s not antizionism and antizionism is always antisemitism and it’s just depressing as fuck.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/09/2026
an absolute plague of psychotic drivers out there
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
oh we should regulate the supplement industry out of existence. we’d knock out half of right wing podcasts in the process. bsky.app/profile/hamm...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"It has nothing to do with skin color. We're just saying, uh, that people watching college football is not consistent with the Texan way of life"
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
it's possible we were never meant to know this much about each other's thoughts; especially people who are as online as Stancil and Parker - we're all awash in each other's inconsistencies and hypocrisies and blind spots.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.
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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Someone could write an awesome book on the evolution of American politics over the past two decades centered around the divergence of Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla
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Max Read @maxread.info · 07/09/2026
"reduced licensing fees by 85 percent by migrating from vmware to HPE," you'll never sing that
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VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent
Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A bit more than a decade ago, Florida passed a bipartisan law, sponsored by a woman who'd go on to be DeSantis' Lieutenant Governor, which offered in-state tuition to Dreamers and other undocumented youth. It's depressing how quickly the pendulum swung towards total exclusion.
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Danny Page @danny.page · 02/09/2026
can pablo torre get the Manchester City investigation paperwork now
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Appalling to see US Treasury secretaries going from “it’s our dollar, your problem” to “it’s our guns, your problem” in less than two generations.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I guess we have the answer to the “who could possibly say anything bad about Dolly” question and it’s exactly who you’d think
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/08/2026
no you see because this is somewhat similar to an antisemitic trope, you're not allowed to point out that she did that
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/08/2026
Having a sense of the traffic figures Harry and Meghan stories get, I am reverting to my usual explanation of the public when asked about their media habits, which is that they are all stinkin' liars.
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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
people are really getting into a row about spreadsheets. my column:
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Personally, my read is that while the data center backlash is a manifestation of anti-AI sentiment, it's more of "this raises my power bills in exchange for the promise that it will take my job" pocketbook politics than it is symbolic anti-billionaire politics
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/08/2026
"Whether x . com still matters in 2026, or will matter at all in 2030, he did solve the problem I identified in 2018. He destroyed a part of the public sphere where his enemies used to thrive. Along the way, he made racist and reactionary positions feel more normal to journalists."
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The 'vibe shift' was a leveraged buyout
Media ownership matters
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🎶 Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you King 🎶
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The DOJ just arrested a prominent enemy of white nationalist group on grounds that, by trying to infiltrate these groups, she was actually supporting them. Roughly equivalent to arresting an undercover CIA agent for being part of ISIS. www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/p...
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Exclusive: Former Southern Poverty Law Center CFO arrested on fraud charges | CNN Politics
A former chief financial officer at the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California and for her alleged role in overseeing secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist gro...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Polymarket, which bills its self as a “truth machine,” has been using X to promote brazen misinformation in an effort to drum up engagement. This week, for example, it claimed that babies in the US are required to get 72 shots, which is false.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tangential, but part of the reasons elections drive people insane is that all empirical data has irregularities.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 12/08/2026
"FT has found evidence of controlled detonations and demolitions by Israeli forces and civilian contractors in dozens of border communities." Most of the destruction happened *after* the April ceasefire when territory was already under Israeli control (dark red dots). www.ft.com/content/25bc...
FT Visual investigation
How Israel is making southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah
Patterns of destruction before and after the first ceasefire
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Similar thing they did with that guy they illegally sent to El Salvador and then kept trying to deport. Initial action exposed as corrupt and baseless; forced to walk it back; then double down to save face. Heinous!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/08/2026
it's maddening. and not only this, renewables are now the cheapest form of electricity AND fossil fuels have suffered repeated severe price shocks AND EVs are now price competitive with gas cars
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/08/2026
definitely a hefty dose of Islamophobia here but I also think reporters & writers have internalized the right-wing idea that Real Men are emotionally repressed brutes, and these three are plainly big ole sweeties
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Woke Bill Kristol is correct
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
amplifying this and adding-- there are a lot of jobs that basically only exist in the federal government. You can come in with some relevant experience of course, but the exact work only happens in the government and experience/advancement only through on the job training and internal promotion
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Richard Cohen @richardcohen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Sophie Cunningham's -28 in today's game is the worst single-game +/- in a win in WNBA history. #WNBA
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The incentives of the attention economy are related to but fundamentally different from *and often in tension with* building successful political movements and campaigns.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
i'm a big fan of Reba McEntire i'm a big fan of Reba McEntire I always have Ben and I always will no matter what I know that Reba Mclntyre say that we reba McIntyre's fans love me because I say nice things
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