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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13h

The problem has never really been that conservative voters are reluctant to criticize Trump. The problem is a relentless right-wing media apparatus that tells them Democrats are worse.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 15h

if the former, rents on other apartments are expected to rise and availability of other apartments expected to fall. that is, using rent control to preserve existing community members ability to remain works as advertised, but @jburnmurdoch.ft.com blithely tallies that as two losses.

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eek @eke.bsky.social · 13h

we do actually have a bit of a model, in a sense, for accountability after massive abuses: after Willowbrook the federal government permanently funded independent disability rights investigators in every state with unique authority to enter anywhere and mandates to report on abuse publicly

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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 14h

But you can definitely cancel (& where legally appropriate, actually prosecute) leaders while offering a path for GOP voters to rejoin decent society.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

You’re not going to learn anything by sitting down to lunch with Kevin Hassett or Peter Navarro, other than they have gone all in on lying & fascism. So again, you need to take a step back & make clear that there are prior assumptions & table stakes antes about who one should sit down to lunch with.

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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 14h

I think we have geriatric Constitution problem, a legacy of white supremacy problem, & a plutocracy & their capitalist media problem. We do not have a people-are-inherently-evil problem. This is what conversations with deluded, privileged, and unreflective GOP voters clarifies.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 15h

Like I truly don’t understand how you could have been anywhere in the vicinity of Springfield Ohio even before the election and thought that he’d only go after “criminals.” Trump, Vance, and CO werent subtle in the slightest. I can only really conclude this was a lie the median voter told themselves

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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 14h

This is what “truth & reconciliation” can be good for . Humiliation and shame as the sanitizing acts responsible for re-inclusion into decent society

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 15h

I’m more sympathetic to the median voter (derogatory) than most people on here but it seems like the only way you can instill some sense of civic virtue is to shove the consequences directly into their face after the fact

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 15h

Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 17h

Doesn’t mean rent controls never have any place in housing policy at all, but they have many proven downsides and unless they’re accompanied by big increases in supply they risk making the overall housing situation worse.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23h

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/10/2026

There is a certain subset of elite law professors for which no amount of evidence will convince them that Supreme Court justices are not deep thinkers consistently applying some constitutional philosophy. Because there’s been quite a lot of evidence!

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/10/2026

4 of these justices don’t believe birthright citizenship is constitutionally required! This is not an originalist court!

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/10/2026

The thesis of Feldman’s article is exactly backward. The primary problem with the Court majority is blind adherence to partisanship, picking and choosing whatever interpretive method gets the desired outcome. If they strictly followed any judicial philosophy our situation would be better.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Der Fisher @blackholefun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unpopular opinion: LLMs are generally deradicalizing people whose beliefs are based on pure propaganda. I've been watching this happen slowly with some people I care about. ChatGPT is one of the reasons they finally accept that the NRA, OAN, and NewsMax are lying to them.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump's lawlessness is more pressing, but let's not forget: the GWBush admin was also overflowing with incompetent, corrupt Republicans who were pathologically hostile to the rule of law. None of this was necessary or helpful, but it made them feel manly and it was good money for gov't contractors.

“A detainee who is shackled, transported to a former C.I.A. black site, and intentionally kept ignorant of both his right to remain silent and the inadmissibility of his prior coerced confessions, cannot be said to be making an ‘essentially free and unconstrained choice,’” he wrote.

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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my flight anxiety is weird? My last bout was initially ~2hrs of feeling like I just. wanted. it. to. end. and then after that I guess my brain went “ok this is all normal I guess” and poof I was calmly watching Charlie XCX play herself in The Moment

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is always wild to watch how cynicism makes people dumber

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me, to the Bishop of Rome: I would like you to baptize my toaster

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Basically: assimilation is not something immigrants do or don’t do; it’s something US citizens do or don’t do with respect to them. It’s an acknowledgment we can always withhold. It’s power over immigrants that lasts forever.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026

the greatest green degrowth ecofeminist president of our lifetimes

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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

re: the worst thing you can do yet this is something of an (elitist/capitalist) American ethos? From athlete sex criminals to entertainment to politicians: if you’re popular, you can’t really be Bad.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

-Recent advances in renewables truly are revolutionary and will decouple economic growth from climate change -We are going to end the housing crisis and leave our cities better and more vibrant than ever. -Trump fumbled trying to build a dictatorship and is headed for a massive electoral rebuke.

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New York City has recorded the fewest murders through September since before 1960, Baltimore since 1962, Philadelphia and Detroit since 1964, Oakland since 1967, and New Orleans since 1969.

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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the weirder things going on w leftist discourse right now is “Donald Trump is destroying the economy: immigration! tariffs! war!” I kinda want it to be true but imho we should grapple with the world as it is.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If a person votes Republican, it doesn't simply mean they disagree with me on the issues. It means they want to murder Iranian schoolgirls, Caribbean boat passengers and American protesters. It means they want my grandkids to grow up in a dictatorship. This isn't politics. It's basic human decency.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every country has these people, in roughly the same proportion. The problem is our deeply broken, wildly anti-majoritarian electoral, legislative, & judicial institutions: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah my takeaway from MAGA isn’t that we’ve entered bizarre new realms of post-material politics. Rather, I see with fresh eyes how dumb and cruel hierarchs have always been. All of our liberal democratic institutions were a reaction to dumb & cruel hierarchs. And it’s still barely enough.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the thing about stuff like this is that five biggest changes in american politics have all been partisan projects The Constitution, the Jacksonian Revolution, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Civil Rights were all explicitly partisan projects.

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Erik Istre @eistre91.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most difficult part about attempting to seek truth is that we're more interested in narratives than reality. We'd rather LARP the story we want to be in rather than the story we're actually in. In this particular way, LLMs and humans are more alike than most people want to admit.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm sure it wasn't the first time it happened, but this was the first time I noticed the pattern where conspiracy theorists declare complete vindication on the basis of LEAKED SECRET DOCUMENTS that even more strongly prove that they are wrong.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 30/09/2026

"pete hegseth's idea of a smart guy" is such a brutal own

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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People say the darndest things

Tom cruise isn't a movie star
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EquallyConfused @b9n10nt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The more insulting but I think equally accurate metaphor is “feral” You’re trying to make this cat’s life better but they’re just to scared and ignorant to understand that democracy, civil rights, and a pro-growth welfare state are within reach and good for all of us.

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