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Dennis Walker 🇺🇦

@denniswalker.bsky.social
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Co-author/photographer of The Butterflies and Skippers of Joshua Tree National Park (book). Progressive. Pro-Ukraine, anti-authoritarian. Ex-vangelical. Art, writing, design, music. Learning French one day at a time.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"You can't say ANYthing anymore." No, edgelord. What you mean is you can't say anything without the potential of a negative reaction anymore. That's been the case for most people always. You not only wanted a reaction, you want to police that reaction. Say what you want. Prepare to be understood.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
After 10 years of cravenly and fraudulently presenting the Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party as one of two sane, understandable choices, major news organizations are not able to report the obvious, which is that U.S. voters seem to be increasingly coming to their senses. Epic, epic fail.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/10/2026
why it's almost as if the affluent brunchlords in charge of a consolidated media actively look for the kind of employees who won't actually speak truth to wealth and power in any meaningful or useful way
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 01/09/2025
the virgin common sense rationalist: erm, everyone knows that the universe is a cold and uncaring structure of blind chaos the chad aperture of the universe witnessing itself: wow, i live here? splendid
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ahem
America's To-Do List
End electoral college
Ratify the ERA
Protect voting rights
Reproductive freedom
End gerrymandering
DC statehood
Immigration reform
Congress term limits
Congress age limits
End Citizens United
Medicare for all
End corporate welfare
Sensible gun laws
Rich pay #FairShare Money out of politics
Religion out of politics
Limits on lobbying
Protect Social Security
Climate sanity
Reform SCOTUS
Ranked choice voting
Fair minimum wage
End Comstock Act
No stock trades for gov't officials
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
sometimes I can't believe all this is real
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/08/2026
Broken swing sets? Missing basketball nets? Have no fear, Renew Crew is here. Neighborhood parks are meant for recreation — not frustration. If it’s broken, this crew will fix it. If it’s run-down, they’ll renew it. Renew Crew: Coming soon to a park near you.
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Dennis Walker 🇺🇦 @denniswalker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The world's richest person is a psychotic racist freak.
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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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Dennis Walker 🇺🇦 @denniswalker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So the root of the problem is actually misogyny in the electorate, which cost Harris a couple of points. So lead by callling out and fighting the misogyny. Our party is run by weasels.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol
From mid-2022 to early 2025, the egg producers communicated with each other to coordinate bidding activity on a widely used pricing service, according to a complaint filed in a federal court in Iowa.
The complaint details instances of executives for the companies calling and texting each other in an effort to push prices higher.
Under the settlement, the state DOJ says the three companies must end their price coordination, adopt compliance measures and cooperate with
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Is sex a binary" is not a philosophical question, much less a political one. It's a scientific one that can be answered in a completely dispassionate manner... the answer is "no" and anyone who disagrees must contend with their refusal of totally uncontroversial medial science.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm not a music industry insider but from what I gather he's understood to be "one of the best guys in the biz"
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.
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Dennis Walker 🇺🇦 @denniswalker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This seems important...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
At a certain point you just have to conclude sinister motives.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/05/2026
John Kenneth Galbraith on conservatism. funny dude wist.info/galbraith-jo...
The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor. The man who has struck it rich in minerals, oil, or other bounties of nature is found explaining the debilitating effect of unearned income from the state. The corporate executive who is a superlative success as an organization man weighs in on the evils of bureaucracy. Federal aid to education is feared by those who live in suburbs that could easily forgo this danger, and by people whose children are in public schools. Socialized medicine is condemned by men emerging from Walter Reed Hospital. Social Security is viewed with alarm by those who have the comfortable cushion of an inherited income. Those who are immediately threatened by public efforts to meet their needs — whether widows, small farmers, hospitalized veterans, or the unemployed — are almost always oblivious to the danger.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13/05/2026
"If a person has freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but they are compelled to work for pennies or starve, they are not free." www.liberalcurrents.com/socialism-an...
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Socialism and Liberalism: A Path Towards Estrangement’s End
Thinkers in both “camps” have not only challenged the underlying idea of the split but created theory that unified both liberal and socialist principles.
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
trump: no one knows why it's called 8mm. the director doesn't even know. but i'm watching it and nicholas cage, he's on top of Machine and i said "don't do it," i said "don't stab Machine," but he does it. melania, our beautiful first lady was watching too weren't you? melania, off mic: he stab hem
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
as far as i can tell the official position of the us supreme court is that the only racism to exist in america is racism against white people? and trying to protect minorities from racism is actually racist against white people?
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Part of what we're seeing is the long-foretold victory of Lee Atwater's covert racism strategy. Forty years later and journalists still have no ability to accurately describe a racist who doesn't use the n-word in public.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In just over a month, the duration of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will match that of the entire World War I. And the entire might of Russia and its totalitarian allies, as well as of the Kremlin's corrupt useful morons in the West, still can't defeat Ukraine.
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Max Berkers @wmaxb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Dutch term is 'volksverheffing' ('the lifting up of the people'). The idea that social progress does not just entail eradicating poverty and expanding workers' rights, but also making education and culture widely accessible to the masses.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...
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Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
Managing those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."
Excerpt from the book How Democracies Die. 

"America's democratic norms, then, were born in a context of exclusion. As long as the political community was restricted largely to whites, Democrats and Republicans had much in common. Neither party was likely to view the other as an existential threat. The process of racial inclusion that began after World War II and culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act would, at long last, fully democratization the United States. But it would also polarized it, posing the greatest challenge to established forms of mutual tolerating and forbearance since Reconstruction."
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Dennis Walker 🇺🇦 @denniswalker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The pettiness is really something.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Bari Weiss finally experiencing the terror she expects the rest of the world to accept. I pictured her cowering in her limo with her phalanx of hunky male model security guys while Nellie Bowles tries to make her laugh with a joke about the Palestinians
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
As little as I already thought of the man I'm in awe of what he's accomplished in 15 short months. Historic run. Basically threw away all his fire extinguishers and told every firefighter in town to eat shit, and then set his house on fire. We need a separate Mount Rushmore for morons
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
There will be <zero> calls now, from Ezra Douthglesias or anyone else, for the GOP/conservatives to go to the places they don't go & to listen & take seriously the opinions of the millions of people now marching across the country. It is the tell of the entire broken approach to covering 🇺🇸 politics.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/03/2026
not only are they not good people, this performative courting of nonexistent integrity is a bizarre waste of everybody's time
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
i mean it depends, shit is not inevitable, but we need to elect people who are NOT trying to bring us back to normal, we need to elect people who are interested in (1) punishing the wrongdoing and (2) building something new and better than the status quo ante
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I only wish Virginia Giuffre could see this. I wish she had gotten justice in her lifetime instead of repeatedly being punished for seeking it.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 12/02/2026
I've wondered if we're living through a different sort of epistemic closure: not one of the right cocooning itself in participatory nonsense, but rather one of billionaires grown confident that closing on—i.e., purchasing—the means of knowledge production will let them dictate what's real or true.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Racism has been central to Trump and his movement since he came down the escalator. He is a racist. His people are racists. His defenders are racists. His supporters are racists. His party is a party of racists. If they want to disprove that, they can. But it's important to know they don't want to.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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tomb of trash boy @screaming.party · 04/02/2026
I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 04/02/2026
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 31/01/2026
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Given it now seems beyond doubt that the cancel culture/wokeness panic was an all-or-nothing elite defence of - variously - important sex offenders, police impunity, official racism, various forms of hate and bigotry, and actual fascism: is anyone planning to apologise for their personal role in it?
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.
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