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Avid Racoon Of Content Consumption | Fantasy Enjoyer | Brain rot for Politics

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12h
This is my colleague and she is a wonderful, smart person who also happens to be a preeminent expert on freedom of expression.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Me: "Do you regret [hosting Netanyahu]?" Neera Tanden: "I wish we did not host him" Mehdi: "Because at the time you emailed John Podesta saying Jonathan Lavine at Bain Capital 'is joining our board. So Netanyahu was worth it.' Smiley emoji." Neera: "I don't remember that."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“What’s worse - one joke 15 years ago? Or killing millions of brown people for no reason? F*cking idiots.” Stavros appropriately clowns everyone who is trying to make @hasandpiker’s old comments into the biggest issue of the current election
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's keep arguing about e-bikes, everybody.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New: My conversation with Hasan Piker. We talked about his upcoming UT event, campus free speech, James Talarico, and whether or not there's a lane for a true socialist movement in Texas: www.chron.com/texas/articl...
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Why Hasan Piker is still coming to Texas, despite calls to cancel his events
"They find us and this movement that we're building to be a thorn in their side."
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
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Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
imagine an orphan crushing machine. i hate the machine and i hope we can dismantle it. but if the man who helped build the orphan crushing machine falls into it? buddy i’m gonna crack a smile.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
WATCH: CNN’s @kasie.bsky.social aggressively goes after @angieforfl.bsky.social and repeatedly cuts her off — acting almost like a defense attorney for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & @schumer.senate.gov over their failure to back #MedicareforAll Is this @cnn.com or Newsmax? 🤔
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🇺🇸DOCS: "In 13 days I saw 13 kids shot in the head & chest... deliberate killing of children... 🇮🇱's 'final solution' for Palestinans boils down to 'I want their land + I'm willing to kill children to get it' - part of the genocide." Docs tell Hasan & CNN what they saw.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/07/2026
Now serving: a new era for small business.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
People : oh wow they ordained those illegal bishops i wonder what the pope might d- Pope : EXCOMMUNICATE DAY WOO People : u didnt let me fin- Pope : I DIDNT STUTTER JIMMY
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Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops
The Vatican responded Thursday to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope's consent, declaring the Society of St. Pius X in schism and excommunicating its bishops and priest...
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 25/06/2026
Until this response it never crossed my mind in 40+ years of voting that supporting progressive policies that overlap with DSA policies would be “blowing up” the Dems But if this is the stance I’d say blow it up.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
funny how that works
@omgsidewalks
Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 19/06/2026
spanberger *just* vetoed collective-bargaining reform she had promised to support, which would have helped address virginia’s long and shameful history of racist anti-labor laws by empowering black municipal employees to unionize
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Spanberger: Juneteenth is about keeping promises
For a Virginia governor who, while in Congress, voted to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, the day that marked what historians say was the real end of slavery has special meaning.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The process is the punishment.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Chat is it a good sign for your case when you omit entire pages from the grand jury transcript you give to the judge
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 17/06/2026
Hey folks. One of the reasons the US Attorneys' office in Chicago is getting raked over the coals and possibly sanctioned for misconduct is that the Broadview defendants like @katmabu.bsky.social have AMAZING lawyers and community support. We can do the same in Minnesota by donating.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15/06/2026
💢Iranian officials are portraying Israel’s Sun. escalation in Lebanon as the trigger that led Washington to accept several of Tehran’s key conditions for a US-Iran memorandum of understanding, claiming that the threat of a wider regional war & a direct Iranian response shifted the negotiations in...
the negotiations in Iran’s favor.

🔸Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said some of Tehran’s proposed revisions to the text were accepted after developments in Lebanon, and warnings from Iran’s armed forces “helped move the negotiations forward,” saying the military pressure “helped finalize the text” and resolve outstanding issues. He also said Iran refused to approve the memorandum until “all of our final points and demands” had been incorporated.

🔸 Vice President JD Vance said that U.S. officials aggressively intervened to stop a major Iranian missile retaliation against Israel today. Speaking to Fox News, Vance said that after the Israeli military launched airstrikes in Beirut, intelligence indicated Iran was heavily preparing a massive missile strike against Israeli targets. Through intense, last-minute diplomatic communications during the finalization of the U.S.-Iran MOU, American negotiators successfully secured explicit assurances from Tehran that they would hold back their military response. 

🔸Separately, the New York Times, citing three Iranian officials, reported that Tehran had prepared but ultimately called off a planned retaliatory strike on Israel after President Trump, through intermediaries, urged restraint, with Iranian officials believing an escalation could derail a peace agreement that was close to completion.
🔸The claims have been echoed across multiple Iranian news sources. Fars news agency reported that after the Israeli strike on Beirut’s Dahiyeh, Iran prepared a retaliatory attack on Israel, but returned to the talks after receiving last-minute concessions from President Trump through mediators, including commitments related to preserving Lebanon’s territorial integrity, an Israeli withdrawal from the Lebanese border area, and the immediate lifting of the naval blockade. 

🔸Entekhab, citing an informed source, separately reported that following warnings from Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Tehran’s insistence on its “red lines,” the U.S. agreed to lift the blockade immediately rather than phasing it out over 30 days.

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Trey Yingst
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"After the Israelis struck Beirut we were very worried, and we saw a lot of evidence that the Iranians were going to launch a large number of missiles at the Israelis," Vice President Vance told Fox News.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2026
WHITESIDES: The truth is the cheapest form of energy on a per unit basis is daytime solar. Is that not true? CHRIS WRIGHT: It depends-- WHITESIDES: No it doesn't depend! It's true. You are amazingly misleading the American public. WRIGHT: It depends-- WHITESIDES: No!
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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
You knew what you were doing you just didn't expect the users to like the pornographers more than you.
Marcille and Toshiro from Dungeon Meshi side eyeing you.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
"Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. "She loves '60 Minutes.'"

"She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley countered. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she's doing exactly that."

This story is based on audio of the meeting obtained by Status. A CBS News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, but Pelley's stunning series of remarks left staffers on the newsmagazine wondering if he will resign.

In the meeting, Pelley pointed out that Weiss has "no qualifications for her job" and told Bilton "you have slender qualifications for this job." Pelley, the former anchor of "CBS Evening News," noted that the changes Weiss has made to that program "have been catastrophic."

"So why should we expect any of this is going to be any better?" Pelley asked Bilton.

Bilton tried to move the meeting along, but Pelley pressed on, challenging the new executive producer’s references in interviews to “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt’s vision for the program as he outlined his plans.

"I have another question," the veteran journalist said. "Did you at any point work with Don Hewitt, telling everybody about what Don Hewitt thought, and what his inspiration was? I worked for Don Hewitt from 1999 to 2004 and Lesley Stahl probably worked with him for 30 years. Just wondering how you have such deep insight?"

Bilton replied that he was simply quoting Hewitt’s own words from past interviews and asked Pelley whether he had any other questions. Pelley said that he did.

"I have many questions," Pelley responded. "What was wrong with Sharyn Alfonsi?"As Bilton started to say he would "defer," Pelley interrupted: "This is not the crowd to dodge."

Bilton insisted he was not dodging.

"Nobody talked to you about that?" Pelley continued, pressing him on the firing. "They're taking one of your correspondents away and nobody mentioned to you what was wrong with Sharyn?"

Bilton acknowledged that he "had conversations with people."

"And what came out of those conversations?" Pelley asked. "They are private conversations?"

Bilton reiterated that he "did not fire" Alfonsi or Vega. Pelley pointed out that Bilton had nonetheless discussed the matter with others. Charles Forelle, a top Weiss deputy and managing editor of CBS News, interjected, telling Pelley that he was being "rude."

"This is not actually productive," Forelle said. "This is not an interview."

"It's working for me," Pelley replied.

"Anybody came into our house—this is '60 Minutes,'" Pelley added. "I guess you wandered in expecting to read a statement off?"

Pelley then asked Bilton "what was wrong with" Draggan Mihailovich, the executive editor of "60 Minutes" who was fired on Thursday.

Bilton again said that he did not fire Mihailovich. Forelle one more told Pelley that he was being "rude."

Pelley did not let up, however. The veteran newsman told Bilton and Forelle that the way management handled the firings was "cruel." Forelle—yet again—responded by calling Pelley "rude."

"I'm not being rude," Pelley shot back. "I have some pretty—you know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock. Sending Draggan Mihailovich to HR to get fired, because nobody could look him in the eye. Not talking about Tanya's contract. Not talking about Sharyn Alfonsi's contract. Not talking about Cecilia Vega's contract. Just calling them up and telling they were fired. That's rude. This is a conversation. That is rude, and you were part of that."
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/06/2026
why does anyone even bother trying to be serious when this is how you become a trillionaire in our society?
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I left Twitter because my threads documenting the history of fascism in the US started doing numbers w/ contemporary US fascists who thought their predecessors were cool, & who would call me a dirty Jew and send death threats when I pushed back. Sorry to Corey that I want to avoid such “engagement.”
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
i'd usually be like "actually it is harris's fault for not appealing to more voters" but that isn't even true here, this one was a supreme court decision wasn't it? so it is hillary clinton's fault for not appealing to more voters lol
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
thank you, spider man
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Abughazaleh: One of the most egregious aspects of this is Hegseth saying that this conflict that we started is ordained by God. Is bombing a school full of schoolgirls ordained by God?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Wow Scott Jennings blows up at Adam Mockler: “Get your fucking hand out of my face” Mockler: We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country that starts with letters Ira that we are currently failing that is going to put us trillions of dollars more in debt.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.
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Jasper @captainthumbs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Molly, why are you even recording how quickly you read your scripts???? You're reminding me of a friend of mine in a book discord that had a spreadsheet so complex we all joked it was sentient.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers. The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits." My story:
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Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits"
Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/04/2026
"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought
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Explicitly Anti-Vaxx @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 16/04/2026
When we have an explosion in neurological disorders in the next decade or so I will take absolutely no pleasure in and "I told you so". i just want people to protect each other.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
the momentum is there. people hate these things. politicians need to pull it together and enact the political will of their constituents. those big tech checks will clear today but will it be enough to buy your next election?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/04/2026
Yup. That is what happens. A bunch of people have been sitting on this and once the lid is off, it’s all bets off.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is propaganda.
headline: gen z doesn't want your full-time job. They want several part-time roles, and it's reshaping the entire workforce.
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Jasper @captainthumbs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
No. You will lose. You still haven't said a word about Gaza, Palestinians or even condemned the war cimes this administration is doing to Iran. You. Will. Lose.
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🎃👻BOO Li Jaw-bone👻🦴 @juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The reason why Democrats are unpopular despite the opposing party doing insane shit is stuff like this. People see them as the party of the status quo and that was unsustainable and failing a lot of people even before this term. Dump these party leaders, they are holding any possible progress back.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
80% of democrats don't like Israel. It's not even an age thing like it is for republicans. the case for any kind of pragmatic pro Israel centrism is just totally buried
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10/04/2026
Lina Khan helped Joe Biden set this up, but he never pushed it hard to take credit for it. Now, with Khan working for Mamdani, he's doing it for NYC residents. And actually telling them he's doing it. Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/04/2026
The students protesting the war in Iran are asking "Why is the media not covering our campus protests?" and I think I figured it out — the media is too busy writing thinkpieces on "Where are the campus protests?" to actually cover the campus protests.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships
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Trekkie Bill 🔜 Trek to Philadelphia @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I can't believe someone who handed fully loaded magazines to a mass shooter is being called an accessory to murder.
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