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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
got my kids watching darkwing duck and i had forgotten that this show had a straight up new jack swing theme song
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
and many-worlds metaphysics and modal moral realism are both key to their beliefs about how any sufficient solution would work. this is more or less completely insane, because it means that the "let's make God with statistics" people don't believe in either statistics or morally different outcomes
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DEI Fridays @mirthcrisis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I live in San Jose and I do not believe this is true
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22/09/2026
over on musk-X they're trying to cancel us for telling the truth: democrats wouldn't piss on donald trump if he was on fire
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 22/09/2026
Calling an ADAS lane assist feature “autopilot” is a clear case of consumer fraud and I’d love to see Tesla prosecuted for it.
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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
There’s a historian named Richard White who’s written about the Gilded Age and the idea that we generally skip past it because it doesn’t fit into a narrative of America marching towards a victory. But the parallels are compelling. Heard him talking about it once—think crypto and AI for railroads.
What happens when a country really has to struggle with the whole image they have of the country becoming very, very different during their lifetime?
What happens when people have a vision of the country that they want to achieve and they fail at that vision? And those are compelling themes.
And that got me deeply interested in the Gilded Age.What I mean by corruption is the ability to take public monies and public purposes and twist them into private profit. So that one of the things that happens in the Gilded Age is that much of the government goes out on contract.
It becomes what historians call fee-based governance, that you paid for services.
And what this allowed private entities to do is to gain subsidies, to take on what are government powers and use them for private purposes, to funnel away public monies that were supposed to go for the public good and turn them into private profits. And this became not a few people, but it became pervasive. It became pervasive at virtually every level of government.Question: That's one of the things that you point to repeatedly is how, A, unprofitable they were, kind of at a basic level, but B, poorly run, C, poorly designed, and dependent on continuous infusions of cash and what, in a lot of cases, amounted to basically a Ponzi scheme.

Answer: I mean, these railroads are capital intensive. They have to be able to borrow money constantly, and the money's constantly being funneled out by insiders into their own pockets. So any time that the financial markets tighten up and you can't get loans, they go bankrupt.
And when they go bankrupt, because they've become so powerful in the economy, the economy collapses. And so that's why this whole period is a place of constant, what they call in the 19th century, panics or busts, which we just call depressions and recessions.
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 20/09/2026
He’s done it, folks. He has invented CPI.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
will stancil's mentions are if summer classes in a community college were also Combat
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Look, Homer!
There's that bird you like to argue with.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
man you are taking a more positive view of mao than the literal fucking chinese communist party
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MalcolmSpellman @malcolmspellman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I hate to say this but the best breakfast sandwich in America is McDonald’s sausage and egg McMuffin. It’s just true and I’m tired of lying to myself and the American people.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore
The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The '86 47' was painted over around June 14. Three months later, it looks like the feds have ripped up all the sod over towards the Washington Monument. Meanwhile, the Reflecting Pool is again empty
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
out of curiousity, I wonder what the 2008 Green Party presidential nominee is up to these days oh. okay then.
@cynthiamckinney
x.com
WHO IS BEHIND THE RISE IN TRANSGENDERISM?
4000% Explosion in Kids
Identifying as Transgender, Docs Perform Double Mastectomies on Healthy
Number of Children Sent to Gender Clinics Quadruples, Forced to Unlearn Boy-Girl Differences, - TCP
Teen Girls.
National Center for
TRANSGENDER EQUALITY
GLSEN
MARA KIESLING (FOUNDER)
TSER
Trans Student Educational Resources
Magnus Hirschfeld a JEWISH 'sexologist in Weimar Germany is considered the pioneer of transgenderism. He created the Institute of Sexual Research where he performed the first ever sex change surgery. Since then transgenderism has exploded in popularity. Heres who is Leading the push.
SYLVIA RIVERA
LAW PROJECT
ELIZA BYARD (IRECTOR
TLDEF
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund
ELI ERLICK (FOUNDER)
The Talmud, a book of Jewish Laws, recognizes
EIGHT genders.
JILLIAN WEISS/MICHAEL SILVERMAN
(FOUNDERS)
Jewish communities welcome 7-year-dd transgender kids
DEAN SPADE (FOUNDER)
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The entire CA-11 race makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills. there is literally not a single issue where Connie Chan is to the left of Scott Wiener. the only real difference is that Connie Chan is an incompetent car-loving NIMBY. it’s insane that so many progressives are supporting her
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
you can just look at the donations -- this is not the case! anthropic employees' political donations are 99% to Democrats, and disproportionately to politicians who want to regulate their employer. anthropic employees' support for a Alaska politician promising a moratorium was a microscandal!
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just so people understand, here are the 2024 election results for the area in the photo above
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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 09/09/2026
PS: if your thinking about future scenarios involves some variation of "class struggle does not exist anymore, and in fact I cannot even understand how it existed once," I think you might be confusing being depressed with good analysis. It often happens to me, too, but it's not the same thing.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 08/09/2026
After 40 years of rent control, unfunded affordability requirements, and restrictive zoning, West Hollywood's average rent is $2,554/month, which means that anyone who wants to move in has to make more than $100,000 a year to afford housing. Is this what successful affordability policy looks like?
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I hate LA so much

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
if Nardwuar had been assigned to the Mueller Report Trump would have died in prison in 2019
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026
i think right now he is genuinely fixated on adding new american territory as the brass ring, the thing they'll never be able to take away from his memory i also think he can't make it happen so as 2029 approaches we are going to more and more see a family annihilator presidency
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As a part of this generation, I assure you that, as they age, the dumbasses who wear backwards fitted will find the most spectacular and stupid ways to die to date of anyone ever placed on this earth
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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 06/09/2026
I’m trying to be sympathetic but at a certain point it feels like people finding out their beer comes in steel kegs and then demanding we bring back coopering There are things to get properly mad about, but this is a weird way to go about it
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
TIL that Rancho Cucamonga has Temu Zohran running for mayor except instead of building more housing his entire housing platform is pure NIMBY
Hey Rancho Cucamonga,
sondhforranchocucamonga
FollowSTOP
Overdevelopment
老
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 04/09/2026
The California Environmental Quality Act is bad for the environment because it gives litigious busybodies the power to delay and block environmentally friendly projects like bike lanes on the grounds that the government has not sufficiently analyzed the bike lanes’ “environmental impacts.”
sfchronicle.com
A Berkeley bike lane would eliminate 145 parking spaces. Residents are suing to stop it.
Plaintiffs argue that Berkeley City Council approved the Hopkins Street bike lane project without conducing necessary environmental reviews.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 04/09/2026
😭😭😭
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
90% of legislative jobs in California are either “the Flower Power Children’s Coalition for the managed decline of California” Or “the Joseph Goebbells Institute for Killing Homeless People”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The reason the left needs to embrace this thought is that the only way to pay for Nordic-style social democracy in America is to raise broad-based taxes across the board, and we'll never be able to do that if we operate under an ideological principle that almost everyone in America is poor.
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 02/09/2026
you can't spell leftism without intellectual property maximalism wait no that's disney
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The thing with bowing to this dumb assholes absurd demands is that he takes it as permission to make more and more ridiculous ones. Google and Apple opened the door for this twice now and Trump correctly understands that that means theres no limit to his ability to make them do humiliating things
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This claim about the boat strikes saving lives is completely unsubstantiated—fentanyl isn't on the boats and the strikes haven't reduced availability of cocaine. And by this logic, the US military should be doing drone strikes on McDonalds franchises to fight cardiovascular disease.
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imp (aoife) @imphormones.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
thats all it takes right? simply Hire A Human Dev? you can just commission low level software architecture devs on like ko-fi or something, right? how much could it possibly cost? a couple hundred bucks?
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Reed Strong @notreedstrong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My neck, my back
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
From top to bottom, modern conservatism is a movement to resolve the emergence of a meaningfully democratic & pluralist United States by demolishing the United States. Perhaps what's most interesting is witnessing conservative slowly internalize that this was the endgame all along.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i love it when conservatives make death threats in law professor voice. oh if you respond to the extraconstitutional removal of the Reconstruction Amendments from the Constitution with hardball, we will act extraconstitutionally again there's a constitutional remedy for insurrection: a gun
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“The Shanghai Ravioli Corporation” is William Gibson’s wildest concept yet.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
my body is a mech and my brain is the traumatized teenager
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In which @jamellebouie.net reveals the Secret Sauce of his punditry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This piece is pure stenography Almost no effort to independently confirm the claims of a man who has been lying relentlessly about this war for six months 1/ www.axios.com/2026/08/28/t...
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"That sucker is open": U.S. gains the upper hand in the battle for Hormuz
The U.S. has eroded Iran's main source of leverage.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
literally all this administration knows how to do is lose wars, raise prices, protect pedophiles, cause measles outbreaks, and larp
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
it’s genuinely impressive how Connie Chan has been able to assemble the worst coalition of all time with: -right wing anti-transit fanatics in the sunset -left-NIMBYs who oppose all housing -establishment Dems who want to preserve the status quo at all costs
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
US Transportation Secretary Duffy is out there bragging that they'll soon be letting SUVs and trucks be loud again, so as to more effectively draw attention to the fragility of the driver's masculinity. So it's time to remind people of this: carbuzz.com/study-links-...
carbuzz.com
Psychopaths And Sadists Like Loud Exhausts, Says Study
A new study from a Canadian university reveals that those who like loud combustion noises may have
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We lived like that - brutal, slavery-and-genocide beggar-thy-neighbor competition for resources in which suspicion and violence towards outsiders was a key survival skill - for many tens of thousands of years before we even developed farming. We created culture for it. We *evolved* for it.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Democrats are obviously not the primary villain in American politics but they really, really need to take care to not find themselves in the position of being the person who downplays the offenses of the abusive maniac they share a home with.
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