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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

Isn’t this guy our Vice President’s favorite public intellectual? I mean, I understand this isn’t Hasan Piker-level antisemitism, but “I openly endorse the views of the guy openly endorsing Hitler” seems like it merits, I dunno, a newspaper story or something

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Dolffica @dolffica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'M DYING #BB28

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nor is this some new-fangled idea - you'll find it back in the 1947 Truman Commission Report on Higher Education (screen-shotted below), produced by those wild-eyed idealists who had just finished ::checks notes:: the Second World War.

"The net result of the situation is that the college student is faced with a bewildering array of intensive courses from which to make up his individual program. To secure a reasonably comprehensive grasp of his major field, he must in some cases spend as much as half or more of his time in that one department. The other half he scatters among courses in other departments which, designed for future specialists in those fields, are so restricted in scope that the student can gain from them only a fragmentary view of the subject. He, therefore, leaves college unacquainted with some of the fundamental areas of human knowledge and without the integrated view of human experience that is essential both for personal balance and for social wisdom.
Today's college graduate may have gained technical or professional training in one field of work or another, but is only incidentally, if at all, made ready for performing his duties as a man, a parent, and a citizen. Too often he is "educated" in that he has acquired competence in some particular occupation, yet falls short of that human wholeness and civic conscience which the cooperative activities of citizenship require.
The failure to provide any core of unity in the essential diversity of higher education is a cause for grave concern. A society whose numbers lack a body of common experience and common knowledge is a society without a fundamental culture; it tends to disintegrate into a mere aggregation of individuals. Some community of values, ideas, and attitudes is essential as a cohesive force in this age of minute division of labor and intense conflict of special interests.
The crucial task of higher education today, therefore, is to provide a unified general education for American youth. Colleges must find the right relationship between specialized training on the one hand, aiming at a thousand different careers, and the transmission of a common cultural heritage toward a common citizenship on the other. "

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Men used to have ROMANCE Men used to be SPONTANEOUS Men used to come home and surprise their wives with COORDINATED OUTFITS and say YOU HAVE TO PLAY THE DRUMS, WE ARE IN A BAND, we are called THE WHITE STIPES, you are now my SISTER

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some people will say we didn’t have “prestige television” until the 2000s but I’m here to tell you they are wrong

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just once I'd like Israel's defenders to talk about the country as it exists, not an idealized version of it

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I try not to do this but just imagining the world if it was quasi public knowledge that Obama was sleeping with a little blonde woman decades his junior. It really really does seem to me that the point of Trump was to prove that the lowest white man could do the job if a black man had done it.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just another day where White House officials say the kind of shit that would've previously kicked off a months-long debate on civility

Steven Cheung: Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he's a miserable person who hates this country. It's because he's a radical, extremist Dumocrat.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/08/2026

your Tesla supports mass child death

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/08/2026

"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

40 years ago, it was so common for men to have a beautiful house with a beautiful wife that he would frequently confuse them for another’s. Sometimes they wouldn’t even know how they had arrived at said location in a large automobile. Now the days have gone by and men struggle to achieve either.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/08/2026

"get me pictures of spider-man!!!" -Joe and Jane Moviegoer this past weekend

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BB Lion 🦁 @bblionotev.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

drew: whats poppin? jcm: your hair #bb28 😭

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just found out Nolan made a version of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" set in ancient Greece?

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

vaxxed?

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Odysseus and his men landing on an island where they have to play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Cecilia Vega describes what life at 60 Minutes was like under Bari Weiss, in the weeks before CBS fired her. Short version: One of the most disastrous debuts in modern journalism history. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...

On a separate piece about Donald
Trump's Irag War, just three weeks into the conflict, Vega said she was told to introduce the story by saying, "Who is winning the war? Iran is totally outgunned by the United States and Israel." Vega called it an "administration talking point" used by the White House as it contended it was winning the war, which continues to rage months later without an end in sight.

Finally, on a third piece about SNAP benefit cuts and poverty shot in the state of West Virginia, Vega and her team opted to tell the story "through the voices of strictly residents." Vega said she deliberately avoided interviewing experts and politicians for the piece. But Vega said she was asked why she had not either interviewed J.D. Vance or spoken to an expert about his "Hillbilly Elegy" book.
The book, Vega noted, had been published a decade before her story and was about his upbringing in Ohio, not West Virginia.

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/07/2026

"i'm from the government and i'm here to help" are not the scariest 9 words in the english language. the scariest 9 words in the english language are "i am a ghost with a big machine gun"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It is very important to state things plainly & directly & repeatedly. Euphemism provides places for your opponents to hide & too much rhetorical architecture for false credulity and/or misunderstanding.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

my cat is the prettiest cat in the whole world and she chooses to be my best friend and she has little mittens and big ol marble eyes and also I love her

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

need you all to see this deeply indescribable cooking video

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

what a fucking asshole

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

There's only one person with experience running a campaign when the defacto nominee flames out horribly with ~100 days to go. Kamala Harris, your nation needs you.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

glad congress isn’t alive to see this

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio seem to be describing Netanyahu using the same tactic 14 years apart. The difference is, it seems, the same tactic worked this time.

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Hillary Clinton says when she was Secretary of State there was "constant" and "relentless" pressure by Prime Minister Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak to secure
U.S. backing for a military strike against Iran.
Clinton recalled hours-long phone calls where Israeli officials used leverage tactics, frequently telling her their "planes are on the tarmac" to imply an imminent, unilateral strike.
Clinton says she would respond to pressure like that with: "Well, good luck."
The New Yorker's David Remnick asks if she felt the U.S. was being manipulated or "played" by a foreign ally that receives an enormous amount of American aid, Clinton agreed and said it happened "all the time" due to Netanyahu's intense focus on the issue.

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Marco Rubio: "We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties."

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The American press looks even worse than normal when you see literally any alternative. The panelists on The View aren’t even good interviewers, but they easily made JD Vance worse than in any other interview since the 2024 campaign. It’s such an indictment on establishment media.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

FINALLY some good news in 2026

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2026

crazy to think that perhaps because trump is not an ideologue and is a little attentive to public sentiment he is less likely to go full tiananman square than miller and vance

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

multiculturalism is pretty great

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2026

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

i believe in all the same policies and values as platner and his defenders *and* i also believe it’s important to actually live those values and that somehow makes me an idiot? no. fuck that. i don’t accept those terms.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“Jeff thinks the beans need to take turns lmao” is a load-bearing tweet. I’m not saying it needs to be taught in schools, but I wouldn’t exactly oppose it

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Their new girlfriend is women

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

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