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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 3h

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 4h

You can buy a huge media conglomerate with money you don't have using leveraged debt you'll never pay off and then immediately start firing its workers, but people will still say that capitalism is compatible with democracy and is capable of "reform" or "regulation"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Harry Potter and the Generational Culpability

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 15h

📚 Preorder your copy today via the links below. US edition: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804175... UK & international edition: www.penguin.co.uk/books/476377... DE signiertes Buch: shop.autorenwelt.de/products/ant...

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Anti-Fascist Economics by Isabella Weber: 9798217154432 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all....

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 15h

This is the deepest crisis of Western democracy since the Nazi era. Growing up in Nuremberg, I have learned that being anti-fascist is my first civic duty. There can’t be a question which side I’m on, as a human and an economist. As a student of FDR, I say: “I welcome their hatred.”

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Make Some Noise @makesomenoise.dropout.tv · 05/10/2026

🔊 TONIGHT! The season five premiere of Make Some Noise launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Starring host Sam Reich, and your fave Noise Boys: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Zac Oyama, and Josh Ruben!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

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DavidB @badivad.bsky.social · 21h

Absolutely excellent and fun podcast everyone should listen to.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 23h

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026

It's Nobel Prize week! Time for your annual reminder that 72 years after Alfred Nobel died, economists got Swedish bankers to endow an econ prize "in honor of Alfred Nobel," against Nobel's descendants' wishes. Media now pretend the econ prize is as newsworthy as the phys/chem/med/lit/peace prizes.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Nathan Becker @netbacker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the move. 'Tax dollars' imagines a vault we filled. 'Public money' names the truth: our government creates it and spends it in our name. The words we use shape what we think is possible. #ChangeTheNarrative

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Again, journalists, what are you doing?👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 The most mind blowing thing about these people is that they are so out in the open with their eugenics & predatory cults. Epstein wasn't as out in the open (at least from what I see now). Everything is right there for you to expose them once & for all!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

If Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like classical fascism, what Altman is doing here is pushing ordinary economic reasoning to its most extreme place. Surely all these people are worth sacrificing if we define our social project as infinitely good.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's about trying the entire Trump administration agenda in the court of public opinion. The corruption. The cruelty. The incompetence. The flagrant disregard for the law. Vought is the perfect avatar for all of that. Done well, it could be an opportunity to put Unitary Executive Theory on trial.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Always be impeaching. ALWAYS be impeaching.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Republicans eagerly accept money from their largest donor, who generates and distributes nude fakes. He's welcome at the White House and he's welcome to run ads supporting their campaigns

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Magyar government understands if they let up then Fidesz and Orban will regroup like the Brasilian Far Right did and can come right back in. So they have to move with intense endless purpose to cut out the cancer of Orban. Because five years is not much time to reverse it all & clock’s ticking.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

we really should talk about this strategy more, because it does cause real harm and generates real blowback and is not very effective but it does fulfill a gop need for two minutes of hate before an election and a way to arouse evangelicals without having to shout abortion.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We literally fought a whole danged American Revolution for one basic principle: how we spend the government’s money is the province of the most democratic body in our government: Congress.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

DOGE took over the pipes at Treasury and since that point, Russell Thurlow Vought has ignored the democratic instructions of the American People. He has got to go.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated." A point I pushed past on the first read but worth staring at www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...

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Shitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.

Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I could be blacked out drunk, naked, alone in a room- and I wouldn’t be raped unless there was a rapist in a room”

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When politicians who have never had to appeal to non-conservatives in their lives suddenly face a tough general election campaign, it turns out they're very bad at it! Here's @ryanlcooper.com on the candidates who can't candidate: prospect.org/2026/10/02/m...

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Panicked Red-State Republicans Learning Politics on the Fly - The American Prospect

GOP candidates in places like Kansas and Texas are having to really campaign for the first time.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need a federal jobs guarantee. Leaving job creation up to oligarchs is the whole problem.

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