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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 6h

Dave Sims just said, "This is one of the worst defensive performances in the postseason I've seen, maybe ever." Remember the Yankees are such a badly coached team that they made John Sterling - as good-natured as they come - say late in his life, "The Yankees run the bases like a bunch of drunks."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6h

I find myself concerned that the widening midterm map may create a set of expectations where we end up getting a D+7/D+8 year with some strong candidate effects but it gets read as a disappointing performance because the Dems didn't pick off Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa or Texas etc.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 9h

If liberals/progressives/leftists cannot address significant social disorder humanely and with respect to individual rights, the public will elect fascists who will address it through brutality

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10h

“The Protestant work ethic is contrary to American culture” I say as I eat from my bowl of paint chips

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 11h

Main problem with the CA prop system is it lets legislators off the hook from doing their actual jobs and offloads the responsibility to voters who often have conflicting proposals in front of them with little real info about how to asses the tradeoffs. Y’know, the job of a legislator

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 12h

You have to admire the Californian ability to not only never acknowledge potential solutions to their problems, but to never acknowledge the problem even exists!

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 14h

Who do we think is getting the Nobel in Literature this week? Every year it’s predicted Can Xue, and yet it never happens. I don’t think it’ll be American nor male, to be honest so perennial faves Murakami and Pynchon probably out

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 15h

Have a feeling this will become a trend among high-profile women

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 16h

I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 17h

You wouldn’t buy a fucking toaster from these people

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 17h

We’ve been having discourse on here about Brazil, but this is the most South American coded thing to happen yet

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Luis A. Mendez @mendezmovierpt.bsky.social · 18h

Amazing how much has changed in the last 2 years. GOP was throwing parties and declaring a new era of cultural and political dominance over a 1.5 pt race where they way underperformed the fundamentals. Maybe the media and the corporations should stop bowing down to them? Washed.

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 19h

I think this is actually a key difference between Thomas and Alito in that yes they’re both misogynists, but one is actually a lunatic radical with a real project to reorganize society around cruelty, and the other is a dipshit who doesn’t think about anything at all beyond his myopia

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 19h

my hot take is people should stop doing this dumb discourse that treats a piece of software as a living being you’re not god. it’s just a chatbot. you can turn it off and it’s not the holocaust

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

An uncanny ability to be wrong in every possible domain.

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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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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

biden and lula both entered office without majorities sufficient to actually pass any real agenda; this is the root reason why both failed (well, lula might pull it out, but it'll clearly be phyrric). this should be motivation to lock in for midterms so the next dem president can actually govern

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 22h

it is difficult to fully express to someone who wasnt there just how widespread sympathy for assad was on the late-2010s online left. they all just immediately stopped talking about it the moment he lost but it was very ugly and tastemakers who didnt share it largely just pretended not to see it

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026

The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become.

Compare, for example, the Progressive Policy Institute’s report on The Distortion of American Studies
with a similar study of American political science from the Goldwater Institute: Richard D. Kahlenberg
and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading Journal Has Embraced a
Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January 22, 2026,
https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies; Timothy K. Minella, “Peer Review
Gone Wild: Flagship Political Science Journal Shows How Academic Gatekeepers Promote Ideology Over
Scholarship,” Goldwater Institute, December 2, 2025, https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-
report/peer-review-gone-wild/.

12 Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey, “Five Reasons Viewpoint Diversity Makes Academic Sense,”
American Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2026, https://cfau.aei.org/five-reasons-viewpoint-diversity-
makes-academic-sense.
13 Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading
Journal Has Embraced a Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January
22, 2026, https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of my hotter takes is that the dominance of bourgeois values and all the attendant tastes, aesthetics, etc., how one navigates the world, was load-bearing for liberal democracies, and social media eliminating that as something aspirational or desirable has been broadly a disaster

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

jaw dropped when I read this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

But for many Brazilians, the most pressing issue as they prepare to vote on Sunday is a crisis much closer to home: crushing personal debt.
More than 80 percent of Brazilian families are in debt, a historic high for the country, according to the National Confederation of Commerce, a retail group.
Brazil also has the highest benchmark interest rate among 40 major economies, and families spend nearly 30 percent of their income on debt payments, according to Brazil’s central bank. In the United States, that figure is about 11 percent.
Unlike in the United States, where most household debt is driven by mortgages, in Brazil debt is fueled by credit cards, payroll loans and retail store installment plans carrying among the highest interest rates in the world.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist who is locked in a tight race against a right-wing opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, has seized on this concern in the closing days of the campaign. On Friday, Mr. Lula signed an order banning online gambling, which was legalized in 2018 and has supercharged the household debt crisis.
Brazil is the first country, experts say, to ban online gambling after introducing and regulating the industry.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, modern secular democracy leaves a moral void in people's lives. They go to politics for shit that they should go to a priest for...and I say that as about the most atheist person you will ever meet.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A note of optimism to be found is all of these governments are inheriting very real problems and powder kegs set to implode on them and they are uniquely unequipped at doing anything but making them worse

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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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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You could group in Brazil, btw, with the same story you’ve seen in Europe and the GOP here: the broad collapse of traditional conservative and center-right coalitions and politics

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Even though Trump may be losing support in the US, the election of Flávio would mean, in practice, Trump’s total domination of South America; it would also reduce Brazil’s sovereignty to dust... Brazilians would be represented in a new constellation of extreme-right global leaders"

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How to watch Brazil this month

Four illustrious guides to a crucial cycle

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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Brazil knowers I follow on the other site seem to agree that Bolsonaro is the favorite in round 2 and even if he, by some miracle, loses the presidency that the legislative branch has shifted significantly more to the right, crippling a Lula miracle win presidency

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something to keep in mind is Lula actually did do some of the things people on here are very confident in like prosecuting Jair Bolsonaro and restricting social media to try and staunch the far-right propaganda. It appears to have mattered little

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s a decent chance, standing where we are right now in 2026, that January 2029 we have a Democratic president. And that person is going to have to navigate a world where nearly every other major power and ally has a far-right govt in charge. Whole new world they’re walking into

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The ref having not the best time trying to keep control over this USMNT/MEX game

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's going to be a huge influx of users in November, heavily skewed towards elites and journalists as they realize that they need to have their finger on the pulse of the Dem base. My advice: Be nice to the normal people. Treat the journalists like the vermin they are.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 03/10/2026

A LOT of pop art right now seems driven by this anxiety of handing down to the next generation a worse world. i think this might be a key element of a non-joke idea of “woke 2”

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Christopher Nolan is not okay

With "The Odyssey," Nolan has made his third film in a row about the end of the world and intergenerational guilt

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Glad to see the decade of Democratic neuroticism over placating traditional blue-collar labor orgs was worth it

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 03/10/2026

Big weekend for Iñárritu dislikers

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Untapped well of political anger is how most people who went to college have a horrible story about their respective school’s administration and hate them. From mundane things like bureaucratic fails that cost you more money or delayed you graduation, to the extremes covering up serious crimes

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of our greatest contemporary filmmakers

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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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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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At this point, if you’re a cinema lover, all you can do is sit back and watch this whole thing collapse in spectacular fashion. The Brothers Warner will collect another victim

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, given the people involved in this debate, it’s easy to see debates about emotions and consciousness and “what makes someone“ human taking on some problematic contours eventually

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are reasons other than net take-home pay that generations of American parents steered their kids toward college. I don't see how "go into construction!" is helpful unless paired with more robust worker protections and a true safety net, especially in right to work states.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If blue collar work was inherently upwardly mobile, everyone would do it. But the world doesn’t work that way. Capitalism doesn’t work that way. And people who romanticize blue collar work as having a quiet dignity are being patronizing, even if they don’t intend to

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