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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's called the locomotive. And we're gonna drive it right through your god damn bedroom.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

republicans wrote us off long ago. you dont see republicans trying to win over clinton/obama/biden/kerry voters. and its more of an uphill climb for them. if dems spent 1/3 as much time cultivating their base as they do kissing the feet of republicans hoping theyll change, the party wouldnt lose

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i've never been a cultural relativist so this is easy for me: the culture of the American Right fucking sucks. they worship malice and mediocrity. they venerate nothing of value.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Virtue Polarization is a hell of a thing

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I say again it’s sort of amazing the libs are getting both Great Books and the Protestant Work Ethic in the national divorce

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

lmao

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

The far right power grab is global and entirely organized, moneyed & interconnected. No matter where it happens, every pillar of free society that falls has been and will continue to be everyone’s problem. It’s a domino effect.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Banning religious studies, just as Jesus intended.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Onion Sports handles are back! Stay tuned!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i asked them about your posts and the reviews are in

Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service Bad.

Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired Amoral.

Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail Disgusting.

Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources Two words: morally corrupt.

Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work Disgusting.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/09/2026

every time i see tom cotton i think about the fact that he just buys grocery store birthday cakes to eat as a snack. for most people this would be charming. not for this dude.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

“the english are a mongrel people (laudatory)”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

this is a genuinely crazy story

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2026, the election cycle where republicans hide that theyre republicans while democrats promise to govern like republicans

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The coverage of Piker made so much more sense once I realized they see him as a business competitor.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Killing research on maternal mortality to monitor the troops’ morning wood

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

msnow is currently doing a segment about hasan piker being a problem for dems

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

beyond bad faith part of what is happening here is that people who think this are basically incapable of thinking historically and see the political world as simply a set of actions and reactions.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a little savvy political advice for all you democrats running for office out there: you want voters to think you believe different things than the people they hate and blame for everything

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

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The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders

Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here

the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.

I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 24/08/2024

My brother is in a touring hardcore band and just arrived at his venue for today

[photo of a punk venue with Statler and Waldorf puppets in their own little nook]
TEXT: I cannot mess up any songs tonight

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026

"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"I think Black people should be able to use the same drinking fountain that white people do as long as it's safe and fair."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026

remember, this is the most friendly audience imaginable and this is about as charismatic as vance can possibly get. now see if this guy can successfully convince anyone in 2028 that he should get credit for being "against" the Iran War?

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