iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Well, that raises one obvious question.

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Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 6h

Stop paying the police to commit crimes

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 5h

Tankie Illustrated with a bananas pro-Russian take? Who could have guessed?

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans have a racism problem.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 9h

Elon's apparent cutting off of Ukraine's Starlink access underscores the dangers of the U.S. contracting with an unstable Nazi. There is no way a deranged civilian (or any civilian) should have that much power over an ostensible American partner.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10h

Let me be specific: Donald Trump is an f-ing traitor. He is in cahoots with Putin and Russia to break our democratic ally, Ukraine, which makes all of us less safe. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

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Ukraine’s Vulnerability Grows as Starlink Is Restricted and Russia Escalates

A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Former “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Over the past decade, some conservatives have invoked principles of academic freedom and free speech in order to subvert both. These conservatives mocked “snowflakes” and “trigger warnings,” and then passed legislation making it illegal to hurt white students’ feelings by discussing historical or contemporary events. They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against “indoctrination,” and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

Democratic Failure to Prevent Conservatives From Lying Raises Ethical Questions About Talarico bsky.app/profile/shoe...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 11h

In a major escalation of its multi-prong attempts to interfere in the midterm elections, the Trump DOJ has given California 48 hours to take steps to prevent an unknown number of alleged noncitizen voters in Los Angeles County from voting — or face legal action.

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Trump DOJ Begins Active Election Interference in LA

What Election Officials Have Long Feared In a major escalation of its...

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13h

Fundamentally, teaching humans is activity that requires high amounts of human labor per student and that is a real problem for people who are annoyed at the concept of paying for human labor.

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 10h

These people don’t understand HDHPs and would rather people die.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 13h

I'm sorry but the key priority for the next US SecDef has to be extracting Elon Musk from every single thing related to US military contracting. No Musk company should receive any government contract of any kind from any Dem executive.

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 10h

Texas voter suppression.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17h

European politicians won't even get off X (neither will ours), but this should prompt an EU-wide attempt to expel Elon from the continent. And we need one here, too. You have to be Walter Isaacson to miss what's going on.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Let me fix that: “I think I gave ICE too much money to hire far too many officers under a president who I knew would insist on deploying them without adequate vetting and training.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At the end of the day there is really only one way to describe Donald Trump: A whiny little bitch, the sorest looser in the history of the world.

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Big “mom says you have to like me” energy with this one.

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Agitator (outside/inside) @danielbd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is what happens when you let dweeb incel shit-posters out of their mom’s basement

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes, these guys are pieces of shit.

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You’re either on the bus or under it.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.

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The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon

It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If and when Dems are able to take back power, I cannot tell you how much any question about the debt or deficit needs to be met with loud mockery and extreme derision. Just an aggressive, ‘Oh NOW you care about the debt? GTFOH.’ Over and over and over again.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

HAHAHAHAHA it's funny because he's suggesting another man is gay, get it? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAsshole

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I say we tally up all the times JD Vance has brought up the subject of transgender kids in public and all the times Talarico has brought it up to see exactly which one's hard drive we need to inspect.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The signal feature of 🇺🇸 politics in my adult lifetime has been the glaring divide b/w competently staffed administrations & Congresses that try to actually govern when Dems are in office, & corrupt/criminal ideological kakistocrats when the GOP is. News coverage simply does not reflect that feature.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's really remarkable how in race after race, Republicans are saddled with the worst candidates imaginable - Paxton, Whatley, Husted, Rogers, Marshall, Moody, M. Collins, Graham... Some of them may win, but my god what a collection of losers, crooks, and dumbasses

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It allows them to be updated/corrected/modified invisibly, right?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Mean Girl Bluffs Her Way Through Book Report

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 13/10/2026

10/10 no notes

@ 3d
blklyonx
What's the difference between:

A: Transwomen
B: Women

Let the "tolerant" crowd explain this one. I'll grab
popcorn.

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Trans is an adjective. It's a descriptor. Like tall or fast
or smart. A trans woman is just a woman who was
assigned male at birth and then transitioned at some
point in her life. Just like a tall woman is a woman
who is taller than the average woman. It's just an
adjective. It's really not that complicated.

For instance you are a stupid, bigoted man. Whereas
I am a cool and nice man. We're both men. I'm just
kind of a better type of man.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He truly believes that because Putin and Xi put on a show for him that they are his allies. He's childlike and gullible even as he is unspeakably brutal and corrupt. What a horrifying combination. And such a mark for powerful leaders who are smarter than him. Which would be all of them.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Right-wing online influencers: We can't prove Talarico *didn't* go to a rehab in Ohio NYT: We can, we saw video proof WSJ: Speaking of, we saw video of Paxton partying at the Burj Khalifa with his girlfriend and two men under federal indictment for fraud, one of whom donated to Paxton's campaign

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sharing this because NYers who are unenthusiastic about casting a vote for Kathy Hochul need to know that the alternative, Bruce Blakeman, is a genuinely evil piece of shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/n...

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Blakeman Launches Graphic Attack on Mamdani in Meeting With Hasidic Jews (Gift Article)

While seeking support from Hasidic leaders, the Republican candidate for governor, Bruce Blakeman, said Mayor Zohran Mamdani would not act if riots hit their community.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Paxton was partying in Dubai with a donor who was fleeing the US on health care fraud (like the real kind of fraud, involving millions embezzled from a hospital, not the stuff JD Vance says he is investigating).

As fireworks exploded over the Burj Khalifa skyscraper to welcome 2025, Paxton and his girlfriend Tracy Duhon watched from a luxury high-rise balcony full of people, according to a video of the gathering reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, details of which were contained in court filings and confirmed by people familiar with the matter.

Among those at the event with Texas’ top law-enforcement official were two Americans who had been indicted months before on federal healthcare-fraud charges but failed to return to the U.S., Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, according to the court records and people familiar with the matter. Ahmed, a healthcare executive, had donated $190,000 to Paxton, campaign finance records show, including $25,000 days after he was indicted.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If you support this, you are an evil person. No tie of blood, friendship, history, or money will make me respect you. You have chosen to make yourself a moral outlaw.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Starting Monday morning every candidate who Elon Musk is spending against should hold an event where they tell everyone Elon Musk has their Social Security number & he’s funding their opponents’ campaign so he doesn’t have to give it back.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just the president cheering on his crowd as they physically assault a woman

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Chet Ramey @chetramey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah but these are Republicans.

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