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[rolling up some funny weed in a print out of the Hatch act, lighting it up and taking a big drag]

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You need to internalize that, while full-scale Balkanization is still very unlikely, the United States not one polity, but fifty different semi-sovereign states operating under an increasingly unstable federal architecture that will, at some point, just…stop giving the feds money

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 11h

You can’t transition out of your statutory mandate to undertake basic research! Man, the appropriation riders need to be doozy in December.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 12h

Well that’s my new laptop background wallpaper sorted

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13h

Leaving the Trump thing aside entirely...what a portrait

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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 13h

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1954)

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 13h

Thinking of spending the rest of my day drinking and re-watching the only season of “The Peripheral”

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GibbertyFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 13h

this whole society is being hollowed out for people who are already rich

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 13h

"The United States descended into soft competitive authoritarianism during Donald Trump’s second presidency. Regime change occurred with striking speed. Immediately upon taking office in January 2025, Trump began to weaponize the state." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 15h

Remind me to stay away from the bullshit discourse on here.

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 16h

i dislike the whole project but his paintings have always overwhelmingly struck me as NAIVE in a way that he doesnt seem to intend-- he's treating the illo as lowbrow and authorless and making a joke of putting it into Fine Art, but all i can see is man this fucker had no grasp of drawing at all lol

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 18h

This is insane.

Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h

all trump does is loot and destroy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 18h

IMHO Tom Petty > Bob Dylan. Or maybe Petty is just my personal Dylan. I mean, I deeply appreciate Dylan, but he comes across as Fitzgerald to Petty's Hemingway to use a utterly stupid analogy

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Before Tom Petty Became a Superstar, “American Girl” Sounded Like This | Live 1978

YouTube video by Wolfgang's Classic Rock

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 18h

Morning jam... Ian Moore - Muddy Jesus (Live in Austin 2016)

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Muddy Jesus

YouTube video by Ian Moore

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 18h

Is it wrong that 1970s dystopian films are like high on my list of cinematic comfort food?

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Republican Senate rationalized their failure to impeach him in 2021 because, they said, he would be accountable to legal prosecution. Then the Republican Supreme Court ruled, no, he's not, the only legal accountability was through impeachment.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20h

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 20h

The aliens land to find the remnants of a long lost civilization on the barren planet circling close to a now red giant star. Not much is left. Buried hulks of stone buildings, a few titanium squares in the geological strata… and a lone plaque that reads “The Rainforest Is Gay”

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What is the point of this stupid country if not that? Pack it up we’ve lost our reason to be

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 21h

Of all the 70s dystopian films, I keep coming back to 1975's 'Rollerball' as the one that most matches the vibes these days

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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember when American universities tear gassed the Free Palestine protesters? And then withheld degrees? And had foreign students deported? And bent the knee to Trump on recruitment b/c of it? But rapists got to write an essay...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a fantastic essay using @milhistlee.bsky.social's book on The Cutting Off Way (of war) in Native North America to think about how warfare is changing today. I think you can actually push the analogy even further though, toward overall strategic aims.

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

“You’re the only son of a bitch in this headquarters who knows what he’s trying to do”

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Lalo Steensland @lalosteensland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someday, our shit press will be orders of magnitude harder on a Dem POTUS for ending this war

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. The ships, jet fighters, Marines and sailors will arrive in the region by the end of November, the officials said. Trump recently told aides that he expects to resume bombing Iran that same month ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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

Hegseth’s gonna have to rub some testosterone on the guy

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The fascists live in a world where everything is about vibes & victory comes exclusively from manliness & will & purity of purpose, and defeat comes from softness & decadence. Questions like "Who has the numbers / the tech / the industrial capacity?" are woke egghead Cultural Marxist distractions.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New physical media of new music acquired

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like I’m not into astrology like that, but, yeah, I can vibe with this

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Elect ratfuckers, get ratfucker shit

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very weird goings on in Bolivia this morning, as local press says the Trump administration is reaching to extreme measures to shut down the criminal probe into Fernando Cerimedo and Brad Parscale and their operation MAGA SUR. No press coverage of any of this in US corporate media, of course.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're all looking for the guy who killed civility in American life.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

just like the Fugitive Slave Act, conservatives demand that they can impose their evil systems upon liberal states, democracy be damned, but if liberal states so much as offer a mild disincentive for evil to make conservative state maybe Suck Less then it's unconstitutional tyrannical overreach

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don’t Let The Assholes Drive The Bus

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What was the moment you realised you had no grasp of the world anymore? This did it for me www.ft.com/content/f109...

Many creators seek to ride more shortlived waves of internet popularity. Shira
Jeczmien, founder of viral marketing agency Screenshot Media, points to a brief trend of people eating whole cucumbers that led to shortages of the vegetable in supermarkets.

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