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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

This really throws the reasons why they love Al so much into sharp relief. Not that it wasn't obvious already, but this is a pretty explicit acknowledgment that they hate reality.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did not think I would -- or my children would -- ever hear an American leader go to the United Nations and muse aloud on whether or not to annihiliate another country. But then, I didn't think I would hear and see so many things over the last decade. We will never remove the stain.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Just go to therapy, bro.

DAVID JIANG, COFOUNDER and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid.

His 10-year-old son played tennis. During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his son’s mistakes as he played. He wanted to apply pressure to make him succeed—it was the way he’d been taught to raise kids, after all. It made sense.

But then, unprompted, his smart glasses sent him a message. The AI assistant in his company’s newest wearable had picked up on what he was doing, recognized that his behavior wasn’t helpful, and messaged him about what he should do differently. Stop shouting. Stop criticizing. Just be there, be present, and show that you support your son. That worked, Jiang says, and being called out like that has supposedly made him a better father and improved the relationship with his kid, all thanks to his yet-to-be-released Vonder AI glasses.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

While America engaged in an actual war which is going badly this guy doing a sweaty photo-op for a pretend military with a t-shirt that reads "This is War."

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/09/2026

This is... to me... a denial that trans people exist. The reference to genetic anomalies is common anti-trans language referring to intersex people.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The response to these questions about trans kids playing sports is very simple: “Stop bullying literal children, you freaks.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.

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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
* Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
* Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It ain’t about trans people. It’s about middle aged men’s egos.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

At the base of nearly all of this “antiwoke” agenda is a desire remove each and every Black person from a position aligned with academic achievement. They believe every Black person in such a position is an Uppity Negro who doesn’t belong there. The other option— destroy the entire institution.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"In this moment, the obsession with wokeness that seems to monopolize the thoughts of America’s commentary class is utter decadence, a prime example of the total lack of moral seriousness among many of the people who presume to explain the world to ordinary Americans.” 👇

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

They were too stupid to understand the source of American hegemony and memed each other into thinking they lived in a failed state because there wasn't enough bravado in our imperialism. Took less than a year to wreck the whole edifice. Incredible

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It’s so telling and pathetic that center right pundits can’t just admit that Biden was a normal president and Trump is profoundly abnormal. Your political party sucks dude! If you were serious about democracy you’d be telling people to vote for Dems, not drawing false equivalencies.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/07/2026

Beira's Place was founded specifically to be trans exclusionary because the Edinburgh center was run by a trans woman. It had nothing to do with supporting women and everything to do with ensuring trans people are pushed out of society while hijacking a sensitive issue to do so.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.

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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 12/07/2026

The CDC stopped monitoring the parasite now linked to widespread outbreaks of severe diarrhea across the country about a year ago. Surveillance of Cyclospora, Campylobacter, Listeria, Shigella, Vibrio, and Yersinia was also discontinued.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

He spent 16 years in prison, wrongfully convicted of raping author Alice Sebold. What his exoneration reveals is a system more fixated on easy answers and closing cases than it is on justice for the accused or the victim, both of whom have been left broken. New, by Joaquin Sapien @propublica.org

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The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored

Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for y...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

“This Court sees race when it wants to, and blinds itself to racism in most other cases,” Melissa Murray, a law professor at NYU, told me. “It’s hard to imagine how egregious the statement would have to be to be considered ‘overtly racial’.”

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lunacy. Here's Emmer 10 years ago.

A decade ago, Emmer created a Congressional Somalia Caucus with then-U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison. When people in St. Cloud called for a moratorium on Somali immigrants, he pushed back, calling the proposed ban “un-American.”

“If you’re asking me how I feel about immigrant populations who are in this country legally, and who are actually trying to find a better way for themselves and their families, I support it wholeheartedly,” he said at a town hall in 2015.

Minnesota has the largest population of Somali-Americans in the U.S.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A beautiful day for Zionists to project their blistering, bottomless self-hatred onto Jews who refuse to assimilate into fascist norms:

Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP'S FORMER FIX... & G
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Tikun Olam Jews ... and a daily reminder of the decades-long
failure of Jewish communal institutions to foster a strong
sense of Jewish identity (though in an environment virtually
free of open anti-Semitism, it was always going to be a
herculean effort) x.com/JewishWonk/sta..
€. Alex hull (a lIuTa @Jewishwonk -2h
This is a difficult thing for outsiders to grasp, but the Jews
involved in this leftist faction are mostly secular, assimilated,
and actively hostile to Jewish communal life.
Like socialist movements of the past, they are accepted while ..
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How do people who say stuff like this process the fact that the Mamdani sweep was often spearheaded by young Jewish staffers — and supported by many young Jews at the rank-and-file level?
Bethany S. Mandel
@bethanyshondark
Kapos.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I say this almost every day but The MOST democratic and Democratic thing any of us can do is hold our own “team” accountable. And when we don’t, we end up in administrations like this. I like my leaders to question authority and invite criticism. If you can’t, you should step down.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Even tangential support of today’s GOP is some nazi shit. Like Democratic senators smiling & posing with Republican senators the other day in seersucker suits is unforgivable monster shit.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 08/06/2026

Receipts btw: sex-matters.org/wp-content/u... They're quite explicit about curtailing rights in order to "no longer make transition a desirable goal" and thus eliminate trans people from public life.

This means that the entire premise of treatment with puberty blockers for gender dysphoria has
fallen away. The drugs are intended to block gender-distressed children’s natural puberty so that if
they persist in cross-sex identification and progress to cross-sex hormones and perhaps surgery,
they will “pass” better as the opposite sex. But passing as the opposite sex ceases to be a
desirable goal to present to children when they will never be permitted to use spaces or services
for the opposite sex, and may in future be restricted in employment in roles such as police officer
or nurse which can involve intimate contact with others in situations where sex matters for those
others’ human rights. Instead it becomes a major, permanent social problem for those young
people, since their future lives and freedoms will be seriously curtailed by being legally barred from
using the other sex’s spaces while appearing anomalous in those for their own sex.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If you wanted proper context for Good, for example, you could show how federal cops repeatedly, illegally pulled ICE watchers from their cars and beat them. That might explain why Good tried to flee. Or discuss CBP’s history of putting themselves in front of cars to justify firing into them.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"RFK Jr. is a bad-faith, anti-science gremlin but I want him to aggressively regulate the food supply" please listen to yourselves.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I would say that Elon Musk lies all the time, and blaming his political involvement on his daughter is part of his ongoing abuse of his daughter. "you made me do it" is intended as punishment and threat.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/05/2026

Trump’s Truth Social posting over the last hour or so is completely batshit insane. Get a load of this nonstop nuttery.

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