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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is really remarkable that in a time of historic impasse in Congress, with both houses have been reduced to complete standstills despite a mounting number of political, economic, and ethical crises, both parties have spent months working to pass a bill limiting the pay of college athletes
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
from job listing:

As the Director of Anti-Extremism, a typical day might include…

Assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements and a repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions to make available to allies and partners;
Leading public opinion research to identify and test the contrasts that move base voters away from these extreme candidates;
Overseeing the development of memos, talking points, rapid response materials, and other products that make the case against these extreme forces in American politics;
Promoting and marketing our research and materials to ensure they reach decisionmakers quickly, repeatedly, and at scale through a coordinated distribution infrastructure;
Recruiting and arming a group of young, diverse spokespeople to fight the DSA from a center-left perspective and assembling a broad coalition of organizational partners to make the case against extremism;
Running an earned media program to create a drumbeat of our message in op-eds, television appearances, podcasts, and traditional and digital media engagement.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins
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Regular Guy @regularguyskol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90’s
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/07/2026
One of the most frustrating parts of Donald Trump is his ability to take any moment, anywhere and make it about Donald Trump. I’m sick of thinking about this fucking guy.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
There is nothing more patriotic than wanting better lives for your neighbors.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wrote about the college kids booing AI, and how, in a moment rife with economic precarity, affordability crises, and collapsing job prospects, AI has become a new avatar of American capitalism
bloodinthemachine.com
AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
Why
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
When you only eat dinner at strip clubs and Hooters:
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We’re in the worst energy crisis since the 70s. Jet fuel prices are spiking. Flights are getting cut. Here’s a modest proposal: Emergency luxury fuel surcharge $1,000/gal for private jets. Buy fuel abroad? Pay by the mile to land. You want to burn through an energy crisis in style, pay for it.🧵
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"Theodore Roosevelt created the national forests to protect them from exactly the kind of industrial plunder this administration is enabling. Gifford Pinchot built the Forest Service from scratch...to ensure that America’s forests would be managed by trained professionals in the public interest."
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George @hannahtempler.com · 06/03/2026
move slow and repair things
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
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Defector @defector.com · 20/03/2026
High Point is a deeply weird school: defector.com/high-point-i...
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High Point Is A Deeply Weird School | Defector
A 12 seed upsetting a 5 seed is not the most unexpected NCAA tournament result, and yet it can still offer a chance to partake in one of March’s most pleasurable traditions: learning about a school…
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
wrote about this very thing a little while back defector.com/ok-but-what-...
Elon Musk's net worth, as of this writing, is estimated at over $400 billion.

What matters isn't so much how a person amasses that level of wealth—sure, there are ways more or less vile to do it, and on balance LeBron James's way is overall less appalling than S. Robson Walton's—though in looking for an index of a society's moral rot, you could do worse than to take a survey of how its richest guys got their wealth, by which measure ours should be purged from the earth. What's infinitely more important is the sheer injustice and perversity of allowing a fortune of that size to concentrate itself in an individual. It is incompatible with, and anathema to, things like democracy and free speech. It is hostile to the best interests of humanity.

In the form of money, Jeff Bezos can pump more of his will into society—into its politics, its information ecosystem, its decision-making and shape-taking—than all of the people who actually need society to function put together, doubled, and then squared. Peter Thiel, who by most reports is not nearly as rich as Bezos or Musk, not only killed a thriving independent media company, but meaningfully changed, for the worse, how this country's supposedly free press will or can cover society's most powerful individuals—over a fit of personal pique. This is not tenable! The knowledge that this type of arrangement is not tenable is older than the modern English language!
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Sarah Grace Taylor @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I promise we wouldn’t ask you to read 8,000 words if it wasn’t important. Every article we write and conversation we have about detention facilities or immigration policies in Nashville need to be informed by what already happened here:
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The fact that these are the numbers the company will put on the record … www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
wired.com
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
if you think this violates the law (and it very clearly does imo), you don't seek an injunction, you seek an indictment, given that the law makes it a class 1 felony. cowardice from the AG, cowardice from the courts, nobody wants the responsibility of actually enforcing the law. cowards all around
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/03/2025
part of what makes the current moment so infuriating is that these people had about 99% of everything they could have ever wanted and found the rules preventing them from acquiring that last 1% so onerous that they’re risking the entire system that created their wealth
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/03/2025
literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I hate these fascist motherfuckers with every cell in my body and with nearly equal timbre I hate the cowardice of the only people in a position to oppose them who treat it like they were playing crazy 8s over cocktails and watercress sandwiches
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/03/2025
Just out from @propublica.org and the @texastribune.org: www.propublica.org/article/vale...
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This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the c...
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/02/2025
i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I mean, we're in the Cool Zone already in a lot of ways, which is to say that we're going to need to start relying on powers that are almost certainly legal by law and precedent but have not been used in so long that many people may not view them as legitimate.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
may be beside the point/extremely obvious but i feel like you can only ignore extreme wealth inequality for so long before it metastasizes into something that fundamentally remakes and destabilizes the world by giving people access to so much money that they are fully above consequence
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2025
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
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Quin Evans Segall @quinevanssegall.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Antioch High School went into lockdown this morning after shots were fired. 2 people + the shooter have been reported dead. MNPD is asking people to please stay away from AHS. A reunification site has been set up at 3754 Murfreesboro Pike. This didn’t have to happen 🤬😢 More details to follow. 🦞
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/01/2025
tired of these people who think we’re too stupid to understand what’s in front of us www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | The missing context from the Elon Musk salute
We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/01/2025
yeah you saw what you saw youtube.com/shorts/EGqyq...
youtube.com
you saw what you saw
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/01/2025
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
52 years ago today, School House Rock made its debut on ABC. Have you ever wondered who the voice was behind your favorite School House Rock songs? Meet Jack Sheldon performing a live rendition of Conjunction Junction.
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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Mister Rogers never misses
You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful 

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodThan any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodYou’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodHuman beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
we simply do not have to live in such a way that allows individuals the power to conduct mass slaughter on a whim. bollards can curtail where vehicular murders happen, and every gun used to fire into a crowd is downstream from a series of political choices arguing its too hard to take the gun away.
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ceej @ceej.online · 13/12/2024
MENSWEAR GUY: Furthermore, you’ve neglected to even cut the vents of the shockingly poor-fitting sport coat you’ve, for some reason, chosen to wear to breakfast MAN WHO STILL WEARS A THREADLESS TEE FROM 2003 WITH TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC HOUSES HUGGING UNDER THE TEXT “HOMIES”: haha get his ass derek
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/12/2024
get every single one of these people out of leadership and put them on a farm somewhere i don’t give a shit www.msnbc.com/jonathan-cap...
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Clyburn urges Biden to pardon Trump 'so we can clean the slate'
After convincing President Biden to pardon his son Hunter, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn is now calling for clemency for Donald Trump. "If we keep digging at things in the past, I'm not too sure the...
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 06/12/2024
He wasn't "someone." Separating the ills of the health insurance industry (which absolutely kills a lot of people in this country every year) from the very people who run it is a big part of the problem. It creates an abstraction that favors the industry, makes no one accountable.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/12/2024
Last year, my health insurance company stopped paying for my Humira. Humira is a type of immunosuppressive drug called a biologic, and I take a pretty high dose of it to control my severe Crohn's Disease. Without it, I will have a bowel obstruction, and then I will die. (Cont)
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 22/10/2024
"For I was sick, and you asked my immigration status."
Church sign: "Free Healthcare For Illegals Is On The Ballot"
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andyrue @ayjayf.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,926,762! (I’m usually late to the party.)
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