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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 6h

like this is just (((AIPAC))) not AIPAC

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

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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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 8h

Real big ups to Jared Polis, world's biggest fucking idiot, for freeing this fucking clown and giving her a bigger platform to try and topple democracy than shed ever have if you let her *sit in fucking prison like she'd been sentenced*

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11h

sorry forgot to attach the qt bsky.app/profile/jten...

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A couple sections that stood out from that article:

The first project up for debate was a 200-unit proposal in Sherman Oaks, Raman’s district. She argued that the city should follow the state’s guidance and the development should get to move forward. Her colleagues voted with her.

Less than three weeks later, a second project, 360 units in Winnekta, came before the council. Blumenfield, who represents the area, contended that Bass’ order never meant to allow apartments on single-family-home sites so it should be rejected. His colleagues voted with him. Two subsequent projects, another in Blumenfield’s district in Reseda and one in Councilmember Imelda Padilla’s in Sun Valley, were similarly turned down. The remaining half-dozen proposals, including the one in Woodland Hills, were discarded.

“I feel like Los Angeles is a city where politicians are encouraged to run to stop things from happening, where stopping projects and stopping growth is prized as a political asset here,” said City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who chairs the council’s housing and homelessness committee. “I think we need to change that culture. We have to move to being a city that says yes to housing to preserve the city’s future.”

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Take that, "No Show Nithya" camp!!

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like, for example, these people are all eugenicists

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, given the people involved in this debate, it’s easy to see debates about emotions and consciousness and “what makes someone“ human taking on some problematic contours eventually

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

just talkin rape with the boys, you know how it is

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WANDAVISION is set in New Jersey. This demonstrates that Wanda has gone insane and is becoming evil

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

really kinda sucks that, across the globe, we don’t have majorities of voters who think far right authoritarianism is bad If I had to sum it up it seems like 40% of voters are anti authoritarian 40% of voters are pro authoritarian 20% of voters just want cheap burgers

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Let’s fucking goooo also get Obama’s ass to Maine ASAP

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the thing to remember about the global far-right is that it is fundamentally a movement of unhappy freaks who scapegoat immigrants for their own inadequacies

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 03/10/2026

A LOT of pop art right now seems driven by this anxiety of handing down to the next generation a worse world. i think this might be a key element of a non-joke idea of “woke 2”

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Christopher Nolan is not okay

With "The Odyssey," Nolan has made his third film in a row about the end of the world and intergenerational guilt

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In case I need to clarify, I do not mean Democrats shouldn’t fight tech power or prosecute Trump WH violations. They absolutely should. But it is not a panacea

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are structural reasons for Brazilian politics being how they are, some of them are experienced everywhere right now like broad nihilism towards corruption, unpopular incumbents, and inflation, but it’s not clear that all the methods of getting around those things are more than band aids

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something to keep in mind is Lula actually did do some of the things people on here are very confident in like prosecuting Jair Bolsonaro and restricting social media to try and staunch the far-right propaganda. It appears to have mattered little

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, modern secular democracy leaves a moral void in people's lives. They go to politics for shit that they should go to a priest for...and I say that as about the most atheist person you will ever meet.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026

For the Cornell report to give even a shred of credibility to right-wing propaganda that defames, undermines, and attacks the humanities and humanistic social sciences - indeed, which invalidate the very idea of peer review - is a sign that this report, much like the Vanderbilt report, is unserious.

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

my hot take is people should stop doing this dumb discourse that treats a piece of software as a living being you’re not god. it’s just a chatbot. you can turn it off and it’s not the holocaust

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think this is actually a key difference between Thomas and Alito in that yes they’re both misogynists, but one is actually a lunatic radical with a real project to reorganize society around cruelty, and the other is a dipshit who doesn’t think about anything at all beyond his myopia

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Main problem with the CA prop system is it lets legislators off the hook from doing their actual jobs and offloads the responsibility to voters who often have conflicting proposals in front of them with little real info about how to asses the tradeoffs. Y’know, the job of a legislator

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If liberals/progressives/leftists cannot address significant social disorder humanely and with respect to individual rights, the public will elect fascists who will address it through brutality

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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I quantified some of the repaving issues I've been observing, and it's even worse than I expected. I don't understand why this is not a scandal for equity-minded central and south L.A. councilmembers... or even all councilmembers.

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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YEAHHHHHHHHHHH

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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think we as a society need to ban fraternities I got SAed in one when I was a freshman my younger brother joined one and left cause someone dropped the n word with the hard r in a serious way ban that shit

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Survivors of sexual assault deserve to be heard and believed. LGBTQ+ students deserve to learn without fear or discrimination. Trump’s Department of Education is rolling back Title IX protections that help keep young people safe. And Susan Collins voted to put Linda McMahon in charge.

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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To be totally clear, here's the full quote, which indicates he may also be saying that Iran would nuke CA without his war against the country:

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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wild scenes as the president of the united states insinuates that the islamic republic of iran should nuke los angeles

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 06/10/2026

at some point there should probably be some discourse among our betters about how major cities are talked about in national politics vs inland exurbs

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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

impeachable offense 👇👇👇

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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Torn between two poles on broader anti-democratic turn On the one hand, I think about how much of Latin America or even Europe was authoritarian within living memory On the other, given many existential crises are super urgent, bleak that this will make coordination harder

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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sometimes authoritarian turns can be 'touch the stove' moments where a population has to relearn why populist dictators promising the moon are indeed worse than a negotiated pluralistic political system, especially in the long run, but a lot of things need action *now*

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i read the piece & went "lifelong democrat lol yeah sure buddy". yes the atlantic should have included that information in the piece, but i think the idea that it's sympathetic is uhhhh off. i think you should probably read more closely if you came away feeling like it was a diner interview piece.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

someone posted a comparison of Dubya's polls from 2006 vs Trump's from this year and Trump is 10% more unpopular than W was in October 2006....so....I mean the next month there was a really bad midterm for GOP...so subtract 10% from that I guess.....

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YES! The Hastert Rule is THE SOLE REASON the House did not pass immigration reform in 2013-2014 when Boehner had every opportunity to pass immigration reform. Even factoring out the pedophilia (which you shouldn't), he did just as much damage as Gingrich did.

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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