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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lighting money on fire to raise his national profile rather than spending it on the actual race he's running on. Absolute cuck move.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can someone smarter than me let me know why Ken Paxton's camapign is running ads on a national broadcast? Wouldn't that money be better spent on local ads in sympathetic parts of Texas? Seems like he's lighting money on fire.

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Beverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure anybody involved in this broadcast has ever watched a football game before

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

General reminder that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is the Democrat we should all be avoiding. He's basically a Republican who has a good social media team.

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I swear, if Hegseth goes any deeper into the closet he'll stumble into fucking Narnia

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The bigger issue to me is that these are the same assholes who scream about parental rights. What about my right as a parent to respect my kid's identity? Why does that never come into play?

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another reminder that the Roberts Court has less legitimacy than the Reinquist Court that did an *actual* suspension of the Constitution.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder, because I'm just old enough to remember going to a full-service gas station with my parents, if this resistance to self-checkout is how consumers felt about pumping their own gas. Or if there would have been the kind of Big Loud Resistance if social media had been a thing 35 years ago.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You'd at least have a constituency. Who besides Democratic Party consultants has either a) a positive view of Rahm, or b) any idea who he is? I get the cases for AOC, Ossoff, Pete, JB, etc. What argument can Emanuel possibly make that vaults him above them + Harris and maybe Newsom?

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I swear to God I think this is an industry psyop. I am middle-aged, too, but I have a reasonable knowledge of new music and an 11yo who knows the pop landscape better than me. I've never heard this song, and she has never even heard *of* it.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems like a *really* good way to improve your standing in the world and win allies to your cause there, Beebs.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is commonplace now, but it should be no less shocking. You'd have a better hit rate if you completely guessed on every question on a multiple choice test. Zero hits? None? Not one? You have to be just the dumbest of the dumbest to be THIS bad at your job.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Amazing. The clowns at @nytimes.com think a man who rapes children could make an A-OK president, and that enabling his delusions makes for good politics, but a woman representative having aides feed her pet is A BRIDGE TOO FAR. We are not a serious country.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This guy is determined to try to push me personally to go back to church. I won't, but it's not for lack of effort from Leo and his predecessor.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I firmly believe if these people had the competence of, say, the staff around Bill Clinton (last time any of this worked), we would have fallen completely to an autocratic ruler. The thing keeping these fragile institutions alive is the fact that all these people are so, so goddamned stupid.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is my thing: for all the desire for autocracy and personality cult, Trump remains an almost unconscionably stupid man who surrounds himself with other stupid people who will glaze him.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sam Alito should never have been on the court to begin with. If y'all will remember, he was the second nominee after Harriet Miers withdrew due to not being conservative enough for W's base. Bush was a pussy who was afraid of his base.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

tl;dr let the AI bubble burst before you regulate it, or the biggest corporations are the only winners.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They want regulation so their competitors have to disarm, because these companies have been lighting cash on fire for a decade. The well is drying up, but none of them wants to be the first to stop. That's why they're begging for regulation. Please, please be smarter than your peers on this.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sean, this is o/t, but I am hoping you won't support AI regulations. AI *absolutely* should be regulated. But if Congress does what the AI Big Three want right now, it's basically a bailout.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I do not know and cannot verify that. But it certainly is possible. Either way, Gayle King sold out generations of Black South Africans who lived under apartheid for clicks from people who hate her because of the color of her skin. She's utterly unserious.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And now Gayle is laundering the reputation of Elon Musk's apartheid-loving mother. Absolutely shameful, especially given Gayle's racial background. That woman does NOT see the woman who interviewed her as an equal.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yet another reason to keep Newsom as far away from power as we want MAGA to be. He is a chatlatan techbro wannabe with absolutely no national political instincts. He hired a good social media director. That's it.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Honest to God, it feels like all Republicans (and way too many Democrats) have *never* set foot in a store.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Melania is totally boinking someone who's not this decrepitly stupid.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@sanders.senate.gov has absolutely lost me for good. I caucused for him in WY; my spouse was one of his DNC delegates. This is beyond the pale. You don't partner with fascists on anything, Senator. You do not "have to hand it to them." Way to show you're just as big a fraud as the centrist Democrats

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was 16 when it premiered and for its first season was a passionate defender of Rory, which was not exactly popular at my all-boys Catholic school. Then the rest of series happened. Jess was too good for her is a hill I will die on.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As a suicide survivor, it really makes me angry when people universalize the idea that suicide is always a tragedy. Would we feel bad if Epstein or Manson had shot themselves in the head in a parking lot? There are bad people in the world, and we should not for one minute lament their deaths.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a tragedy for those left behind. But I am not gonna feel bad for a guy who willingly signed up for the Gestapo and then was too incompetent even for them. Don't forget: Hitler died by suicide, too. Should we consider *that* sad, too? Not every death is sad, even those killed by suicide.

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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...

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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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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In this case, they want the government to save them from themselves. But they still want government to step in because they feel they *can't*. The government is more likely to act on fantastic (and wrong) "end of the world" stories than "the bubble will burst" stories. They want a bailout.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The bubble-bursting moment is coming. We should let each and every one of these companies go down -- not because AI can't be useful for some things, not because we don't care about the job losses, but because they are run by evil men who are looking to the government for yet another bailout.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I honestly think that regulation is good! But regulation, in this case, will be a catastrophe. These companies have been setting mountains of money on fire for the last decade, and it has ramped up dramatically in the last 3-4 years. They are going broke.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Michael is absolutely right that AI is not going to kill us in ten years. It's too stupid, and the people running the companies programming it are also too stupid. But that won't stop these companies from pushing it into everything, even where it makes no sense whatsoever.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Want to be extraordinarily clear: AI sucks, but we have to be clear about *why* it sucks. It doesn't suck because it's going to end the world; it sucks because it's going to make the world shitty and unlivable for all but the broiest techbros. Elon will be fine; Michael will not.

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Pat Shaughnessy @pbshaughnessy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

IMO it’s pretty obvious that Anthropic and OpenAI are burning cash at unsustainable rates so they want to collude under the guise of safety regulations, cut down on research costs, prevent new more efficient competitors from entering the market, and split LLM demand between them.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reminder that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is completely and utterly compromised by AI and techbros and absolutely cannot be allowed to win the Democratic nomination for president. I don't even care if we have to go with a centrist like Pete or Ossoff. We cannot allow Gavin Newsom to become president.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He is also a smug piece of shit who has been wrong almost as much as Ross Douthat, and yet keeps getting work because God forbid the media rid itself of a White Man With An Opinion.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There's a reason Josh isn't on BlueSky: he's a coward who sympathizes more with the Nazis on X than the mainly liberal (not even *that* progressive) crowd on BlueSky.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You can have a democracy or you can have a racial caste system but you can't have both.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Worth noting: in the 5 years before Caleb Williams arrived, the Bears only scored 63 points *total*. And that included a game where they scored the most points in the post-Lovie era. Today was absolutely wild.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You're absolutely welcome to take this down for being wrong. Not only have there been protests, but the media has actually reported on it! There is no excuse for being this ill-informed and then blaming leftists for the incorrect info you believed. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/2...

cbsnews.com

2 arrested as protesters march near RNC midterm convention

It began as a gathering in a park with protest songs and speeches from opponents of President Trump and turned into a march down the streets of Dallas, with riot police and mounted patrols blocking pr...

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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.

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Keith @keithdotexe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Scoring 59 points used to take the Bears a month and a half.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wanted her to win because I genuinely thought she had good ideas. But maaaaaan her post-election nonsense has been as disappointing as Talarico's strength has been heartening. I'm thankful she lost at this point. I generally tend to trust Black women over white men on politics, but in this case...

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am floored. I have never seen this from a Bears team. Never. This is... incredible.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is the best news. Even better than Caleb being maybe awesome.

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Brendan @bpdiamond.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was just telling my brother, I have *never* had such excitement around a QB. Closest was the day Cutler was traded to the Bears. This is something else entirely.

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