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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18h

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Originalism reminds me of Conservative Christians who invoke draconian Old Testament scriptures when they don't like something Jesus taught. Cherry picking something a Founder said once is like leaning on a single law in Leviticus while ignoring all the inconvenient OT scripture that Jesus quoted.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Apparently, my orchid is happy.

An orchid with a new stem and then some.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is NOT about the $$$ !!! Shit. Haven't we figured out yet that it's about the *power*? If someone can control software that can easily destroy a continent + the rest of the world as collateral damage but still thinks "cool, let's do it cuz 🤪", then $$$ isn't really the problem.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Immediately deleting lame posts is so underrated.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This. Send this absurd pretty boy to Ukraine to help build Russia-busting drones alongside a dozen bombed-out-of-their-homes grandmothers for 2 days straight to see what modern warfare really is. What a useless piece of pathetic puke.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The wild part about stories like this -- which happen repeatedly, every year, all over the US -- is the angry pushback I get from "comply or die!" Rs when I ask them what they'll do when a cop demands a blow job

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If this was just being a thoughtful genius with my eyes closed, I would have had a PhD by the time I turned 18. Must be nice to live in an alternate universe.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ugh. This is actually serious. The thing is, AI can only do the kind of mass destruction AI weirdos like Dario Amodei are warning about if someone tells it to. Apparently, our Sec of Defense wants to do exactly that. AI is not a threat. The psychotic idiots who control it are the existential threat.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026

Very unclear what this is, because the U.S. military…already has a robust chaplaincy corps? This has been true literally since the U.S. military was created 251 years ago — technically, before the U.S. even declared independence?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The insecurities of Trumpists come with receipts. Fun charts from @pbump.com and @goodauth.bsky.social

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Wendy Willow Wark @wwilloww.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I LOVE this teacher! What a wonderful experience for these children! #TeachersAreSuperHeros 🇨🇦

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...

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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY

School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just unfollowed @hellgatenyc.com . Too bad - they were looking really good for a while but seem to be slipping into Daily News wannabe territory (bc Mamdani? hard to tell). Maybe tone down the muckraking vibe. @thecityreporter.nyc is still my goto for NYC investigative reporting. Real pros.

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Wendy Willow Wark @wwilloww.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The myth that all women lift up other women is dangerous. The women, who are often survivors of abuse, who go on to abuse other women, in multiple ways, is a painful reality for many of us. This regime has perfected the destruction of words actually meaning what they mean. Stay safe. 🙏 #FactsMatter

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Facts Not unprecedented though.. The French monarchy was trash forever, but it was high bread prices that finally got 'em.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First thing I thought of when I saw this is that as a mech eng who spent 15 yrs working in potentially dangerous R&D labs, jewelry was absolutely forbidden in those environments. As for the ethics, it's top-down. Tough to be ethically pure when your boss is telling you not to be.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Excellent synopsis of Trump's lying since 2016 from his most dogged fact checker, @ddale8.bsky.social who has been collecting the receipts for 10 years. Yeah, I know, we all know Trump is a pathological liar, but this summary crystalized it perfectly. Read it. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...

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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I met this TV Trumpist in person, I could explain to him why I haven't used my medical insurance in 5 years and he could explain to me why he is a brain-dead asshole.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Should the taxpayer-funded FBI be dispatching multiple counterterrorism agents to investigate threatening phone calls that Stephen Miller’s wife Katie claims to have received? We asked two tradwife influencers at a Christian crypto conference in Orlando.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

definitely worth reading. I think maybe the broadcast pointing tv cameras into the crowd deserves some opprobrium as well.

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Wendy Willow Wark @wwilloww.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#StolenNeighborsQuilt = 11,000 people! 😞🤬

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

story 🧵 Gizzard of Oz: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It kinda just keeps coming down to "the grown ass adults who run the world decided being an adult is too hard."

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

call myself a single issue voter but keep changing the single issue for each question they ask

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Craig Wiesner @craigwiesner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In my Monday column I said that "at least two troops on the USS Lincoln" had attempted suicide. I guess the readers who take issue with my writing were right. I didn't get the correct number. (Link to my column in the first comment) www.ms.now/news/navy-di...

screen shot from my Monday column with this text: In August we learned that at least two troops on the USS Lincoln, who had faced the longest intense combat deployment in recent history, had attempted suicide. One sailor’s wife, Annabelle Loma, told The Guardian newspaper that her husband, who has served for 13 years, had tried to jump overboard. “He’s scared. He thinks he’ll get a dishonorable discharge.” Another spouse told the Guardian that her husband had saved the life of a fellow sailor who was about to jump overboard. At least one sailor who attempted suicide is facing discipline under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) Articles 83 (malingering) and 86 (absence without leave). The Navy refused to disclose how many personnel attempted suicide.

The Lincoln, badly rusted and in desperate need of repairs, just left the region. Many toilets didn’t work. There was often no hot water for showers. Drinking water was tainted. Food was severely rationed. Much of the ship was moldy. One spouse told officials that her husband had texted her saying that he “hopes he doesn’t wake up tomorrow.” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claimed this was all “fake news” but senior officers later acknowledged that they were, in fact, having extreme difficulties getting any supplies to that ship. NSA Bahrain, it turns out, was a single point of failure for the entire region, with no backup plan.

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Alan Wexelblat (he/him) @awexelblat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a really important point in here: the term 'deportation' has become Newspeak. The correct term is "human trafficking" because what this regime is doing fits that description much more than the genteel ideas we hold about 'deportation.'

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Friends, if you're just arriving, welcome to the "Fuck Gavin Newsom" train. We have t-shirts.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here's our story on Rob Bonta's disappointing settlement of the Paramount-Warner Bros merger. Just an awful decision. prospect.org/2026/09/21/b...

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Bonta Gives Up on the Paramount Case - The American Prospect

Why would California AG Rob Bonta settle the Paramount–Warner Bros. lawsuit when he’s winning?

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your daily reminder that enshittification is increasingly difficult to avoid.

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R.S.Knight @rsgreen30.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So much of the normie American left and media has no idea how in love Evangelicals are with the end of the world. How much they want it to happen

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Wendy Willow Wark @wwilloww.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Desperate lies for desperate times. #ComplicitCorporateMedia

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm seeing a lot of "Oh nooooo Taylor Farms bribed Trump & now they'll be excused 🥺" Frankly? We need more of a spine than that, people. Let's talk about what really happened with Taylor Farms, the FDA false positive, & why we gotta stop handing wins to billionaires before we even start to fight.

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Taylor Farms Conspiracy Theory DEBUNKED

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For Trump and his Republican supporters, America is a toy. If they can't play with it, then they'll break it so nobody else can play with it. They are a bunch of evil lying brats.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the way.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Friends of Trump can't make $$$ off of taxpayers with Direct File, so they simply stole that free service. Every single one of these greedy assholes is corrupt to the core.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Wendy Willow Wark @wwilloww.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Please stop with the hysteria. @sanders.senate.gov spoke @ the same event as the criminal, fascist, traitor Bannon. Both spoke of the dangers of AI. Bernie did NOT partner with, meet with, share DNA with, or even mention Bannon. I, too, am very concerned about AI abuses. www.cnn.com/2026/09/15/p...

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Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon put aside differences to sound AI alarm | CNN Politics

Fears about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence have bent the American political spectrum to the point that Sen. Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist from Vermont, appeared on the sam...

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Craig Wiesner @craigwiesner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"These aren't 'squirters' getting through." Said one servicemember about the devastating destruction Iran causes across the region, destruction the administration hoped to hide from the American people. www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...

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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks

The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 15/09/2026

#OTD in 1963, a dynamite blast set by the Ku Klux Klan killed four young girls: #DeniseMcNair, age 11, and #CaroleRobertson, #CynthiaWesley and #AddieMaeCollins, all 14 years old. Over 20 other people were injured. No one was arrested for the bombing for 14 years. #TheMarchContinues

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Wendy Willow Wark @wwilloww.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Go, CUNY! CCNY Alum, here.

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Chris Wark @chris-mas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Somebody posted the video clip in the comments. It's pretty disturbing. It's the kind of thing 12 yo boys will giggle at until an adult shows up. I guess one good thing about this AI shit is that it exposes how much of our country is run by 12 yo boys who desperately need to have an adult show up.

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