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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Enter a new core of cadets. To meet this critical need we are partnering with a new crop of premier higher ed institutions, including LSU, Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University, and Hillsdale College."
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
hollywoodreporter.com
Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My apologies to Hanson, I did not understand that an mmmbop was a unit of time www.cbsnews.com/news/what-do...
cbsnews.com
Hanson on the meaning of "MMMBop," and their new album
The brothers from Tulsa, Oklahoma, became a worldwide sensation with their 1997 #1 hit, harmonizing about holding on to those who care; today, with a new album and tour, they're still living by those ...
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This sounds so fun!
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
War criminal and perpetrator of genocide Netanyahu mentioned Hasan Piker in his UN speech, and insodoing made this a clip that exists
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Christina Samuels @casamuels.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a single Black "privileged" Mom with a Black kid, this was a pretty chilling and heartbreaking read:
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
genuinely giving a shit about the nuts and bolts of governance - really, seriously, trying to make it work properly - is the real mamdani superpower the charisma is of course a cheat code but it wouldn't be enough if he wasn't actually following through
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reading Emerson: Mind on Fire and the author summarizes the Chartist assembly and march to Westminster of April 10, 1848 It makes me imagine a protest that sets up desks on the National Mall and passes bills under general order It would take a gang of real sickos
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026
way to go, you fucking morons. I hope you're happy with how things are going
Going beyond the necessary cost cutting, tech’s newly radicalized billionaires used this moment to wage class war and enforce discipline on what they saw as an unruly workforce. Gone were the days of coddling tech workers and viewing them as the industry’s most valuable assets. Instead, the progressivism and idealism that had come, in part, from the techno-utopianism of the 2000s and 2010s was now seen by Silicon Valley’s executives and investors as an explicit threat. And so, these billionaires set their sights on winning the culture war and dismantling the left-liberal foundations they believed had turned their own workers against them. To do so, and to avoid another bout of Biden-esque regulation, they threw in their support with Trump, laying the foundations of what would soon be known as the tech oligarchy—a power bloc uniting capital and politics under a shared project of restoring control.
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Irontuna @irontuna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re going to have a million Chinese peacekeepers trying to stop us from killing each other in civil war 2
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great thread
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NPR @npr.org · 14/09/2026
They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 — and wield considerable political power. n.pr/46VSXQN
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The powerful millionaires hiding in plain sight
They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 — and wield considerable political power.
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gregorian rants @gregorianrants.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Racism, therefore, is not merely a moral failure. It strikes at the foundation of Christian doctrine.” www.commonwealmagazine.org/gods-nation-...
commonwealmagazine.org
The Gods of Nation & Blood
The work of the twentieth-century Jesuit theologian provides a theological critique of ethno-nationalism, and serves as a model for resisting racism today
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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Chinese will enslave us with an unceasing tide of high-quality AI girlfriends and boyfriends
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Last year, my team and I decided to run an experiment. We convened a couple of focus groups with Democrats who wanted the party to be more moderate, then a couple with Democrats who wanted the party to be more progressive. If I didn’t tell you which group was which, you would not be able to hear the difference by listening to them.

Here’s a sampling from the more moderate group. Brandon from Georgia lamented that Democrats don’t “fight fire with fire,” saying, “Republicans will take an issue even if it’s completely fake news, and they’ll just beat it down the hatches.” Karen from Pennsylvania said that Jeffries is a “great guy” but that he is “too weak,” and “I think he’s just got to be more forceful, and maybe even nasty.”

Now here are some of the Democrats who want the party to be more progressive. Jeffrey from Georgia: “I mean, the party just seems to me like it’s like a turtle that’s been turned on its back, you know. It’s just kind of flailing around hoping that it could, you know, somehow right itself.” Mary from Michigan said: “Them actually showing a spine would be a delightful change of pace. I have been calling my congresspeople every damn day telling them to not go along with the Cabinet approvals, to not rubber-stamp things just because you’re in the minority. They have not done a single thing.”

These voters didn’t speak in terms of wanting the party to be more to the left or more to the center. They all just wanted Democrats to be more aggressive.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026
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justfara @justfara.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump will TACO. He’ll never allow this to continue. He knows he will lose. Question is, why does it take the BBC to call Trump out ? Everyone in the U.S. knew exactly what Trump was doing, but nobody did anything. Pathetic…
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's worth reading the entire letter. The correct link is here. cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They should bring these back en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inns_of...
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Inns of Chancery - Wikipedia
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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The legislature also increased oversight for “medical exemptions” after it was noted parents were trying to find shady doctors to sign off But result of the initial legislation was clear! More kids got vaccinated
Graph showing 92.3% vaccination rates in 2013 vs 97.3% in 2016 after the law passed
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
i think the "flyover country deserves representation" is a low-key strong talking point. "we don't want a court dominated by harvard and yale."
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Roger we need to maintain the cultural memory of this about face There needs to be a ratchet on how expensive it is each time power players want credit for racial and or gender justice
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh, and for more about the Woody Guthrie song, and incredible journalism on the lives and struggles of contemporary migrants, please do check out this podcast episode by our friend @jamesstout.bsky.social . Be prepared to get weepy and also hopefully mobilized. bsky.app/profile/cool...
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Lastly, Dolly chose to cover Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) by Woody Guthrie, a heartbreaking song about the deaths of 28 migrant farm workers when the plane deporting them to Mexico crashed in 1948. youtu.be/CEPUxpR64YE
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
trying to sum up Trump 2 is impossible, it has too many bits. "Remember Trump's second term where he lost a war with Iran and everyone got diarrhea" "when he kept blowing up fishing boats and demolished half the WH" "when he made the reflecting pool green and built concentration camps" etc
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I love my wife.
Man standing up defiantly free speech meme
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
She is, but fwiw I’m from Bay Ridge. You may know this but Saturday Night Fever was based on this New York Magazine article. nymag.com/nightlife/fe...
nymag.com
Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
The new generation takes few risks; it graduates, looks for a job, endures. And once a week, on Saturday night, it explodes.
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That wasn't the same as the "presence" other people seemed to experience. He wondered if he could fake it somehow. That might give people the experience of himself he longed to experience back through them.
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Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
US auto exports are going to go to zero in the next few years
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
His sleep story on Calm has been really special to share with my son
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

H. L. Mencken
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The remake of in the loop for the Cuba invasion is going to be epic
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/08/2026
Via the Cincinnati Enquirer: ICE detains Haitian pastor 'beloved' by Springfield community —> www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
cincinnati.com
ICE detains Haitian pastor 'beloved' by Springfield community
An advocate group says "the community is really deeply saddened" after a Haitian pastor was detained by ICE in Springfield.
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Your typcal demand letter is agressively dismissive, but I'd describe this one more as "serenely implacable." It's a fascinating rhetorical study. flaccb.org/documents/20... (Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, to Florida AG Uthmeyer, re: Catholic-school vaccination requirements.)
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Glaxton T. 49ersWolf @8stringandsushi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Sure he was a dictator and his kids were animals and it was corrupt beyond all measure and it royally sucked for the majority of the country but he kept the population in check and that’s what you need sometimes.” Yeah we’re 1993-2002 Iraq lol.
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Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think Texas should pass a law requiring the Nicene Creed be posted in every private Baptist segregation academy classroom
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@baskerville.bsky.social I listened to the beginning of the Gorgias today on a drive (David Rintoul is wonderfu) I feel like Socrates would be really disappointed in today's frontier AI models They certainly offer their users all kinds of discourse, but they don't even claim to be very persuasive
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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Per the DOJ, it’s legally suspect to take applicant SES into account bc SES correlates with race. This theory has been floating around conservative advocacy groups. But it’s wild to see it emerge as USG policy.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yerida 150,000 Israelis, many of them high earners, have left the country over the past three years.
irishtimes.com
‘Not optimistic any more’: Exodus from Isreal fuelled by war and political polarisation
A wave of 150,000 Israelis, many of them high earners, have left the country over the past three years amid political tumult and war
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Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
youtu.be/pql3R8tjaBE?...
youtu.be
Julia Jacklin covers Sugar Ray’s ‘Every Morning' for Like A Version
YouTube video by triple j
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socalurker.bsky.social @socalurker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Pointing out real cases of “woke 1 run amok” does not negate my argument that it was mostly a few isolated cases. The backlash to the Peak Woke era is cutting funds, changing curricula and explicitly politicizing science — actions that affect millions.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow depended upon the exact type of elite consensus that non-white folks had gone too far in calling for equality, that we are living through. It does not bode well for the future, even if the GOP is routed in the next couple of elections.
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Daryl Sng @darylsng.com · 11/08/2026
One of my favourite comments I've seen from Reddit - about how in online debates, if it's a familiar debate, people often slot your comments into the most common agreed-upon side that they think you slot into
Reddit comment from MothChasingFlame saying:
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There's another side to this coin: people argue with the general discourse rather than you specifically. If the comment slots into a more common discussion, you become the avatar of an entire side of the discourse and all it's "agreed upon" traits/beliefs. And now they're arguing with that instead of anything you just said.

The even funnier part is when your own take inevitably has unique nuance, people just get mad that's there and try to kick dirt over it to smooth it into something they recognize.

And I say "they" but I've seen this from basically everyone (myself included) except actual subject matter experts/professionals who really couch their points in their own experience/knowledge.
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Scromitin' Jay Hawkins 🇺🇦 @silkscreenfiend.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This. "Cops" for corporate malfeasance.
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