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Brian Kidwell 🧦 @briankidwell.bsky.social · 9h

In 1945(!), the Wehrmacht's main small arm was a *bolt-action rifle*

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

Unfortunately this has been the basic lesson of my adult life, that those who learn history are doomed to repeat it because they have many motivated reasons not to recognize it as such

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just searching for a “final solution.”Don’t worry David Brooks, all good.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

why, it's almost as if "immigration" is just a slightly dressed up way of talking about racial purity

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 07/10/2026

Wynn's Law remains undefeated.

Contrapoints saying "They don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly 'critique' power."

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Brian Kidwell 🧦 @briankidwell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Folks arguing against the social contract, but leftishly

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Brian Kidwell 🧦 @briankidwell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This whole thing is some real Vonnegut-ian "we must be careful about what we pretend to be". The crowd *cheered* when he said Iran could take out LA and SD!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Brian Kidwell 🧦 @briankidwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think it's a tell that the crowd interpreted it *exactly* the way people on here interpreted it, and that alone is relevant enough to discuss ad nauseum

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

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Michael Senters the Sigillite:ABD (Uma 7th Next Week) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact this crowd will cheer for a foreign enemy killing fellow Americans because they are "libs" is a pretty stark sign of where we are politically and it's not a good place.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not how the crowd heard it, and then he heard the crowd cheer LA being destroyed and leaned into it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 05/10/2026

"a person can receive 340 messages in a week and still feel emotionally like an abandoned lighthouse keeper" — Adam Craig medium.com/only-humana/...

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Why Intelligent People Are Slowly Disconnecting From Internet Culture

Civilizations spent thousands of years trying to solve human loneliness only for modern technology to invent a situation where a person can…

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

History back on track when the heart yearns for incremental improvement

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is frightening to watch white nationalism grow and grow. That such a virulent thing now has multiple billionaire backers, among them the richest man in the world, is not a good sign of things to come

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

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lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Artisan Loaf 🏳️‍🌈 @artisanloaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

pretty sure this will be just because he's not centred and getting more screen real estate, he looks like an equal in this setup.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

in an insane world only the insane are sane

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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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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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 30/09/2026

‘No fatties, no trannies’; Hegseth exposes deep flaws in character and mental stability in horrifying Pentagon speech

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why do so many Trump flunkies look like The Uncle Who Wears A Kimono

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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Remorseful Republicans: I didn't vote for *this* Me:

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Dale "Assman" Earnhardt @thorco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Out of curiosity I cut his body out in a photo editor and put that thing down flipped it and reversed it. He is somehow still the same shape, like some cursed Weeble Wobble

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Monster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He looks like he’s trying to solve a murder in a town where candy grows on trees

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026

one thing i think has gone genuinely missing in all the storms of the last few decades is that liberalism is not just some abstract theory of government, but a *personal ethic* that imposes demands of us even in our most everday lives an eerie balance of courage in oneself AND respect for others

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I cannot emphasize enough how college students were 6 years old when Trump first entered the presidential primary. Our rising adults, our next wave have experienced nothing other than Trumpian Republicanism. That's it. That's the party.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%

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