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This is within my lifetime and I watched our Congressional leaders DEBATE it.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

was discussing this at dinner last night: one of the many problems with trying to make policy 'that the American public wants' is that the American public change their minds all the time and are frequently very very stupid.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass.

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes yes the Eric Schmidt / Katie Britt dumbfounded idiot "oh-shit-we-got-caught" meme faces thing is hilarious, but it also bums me out because these incompetent and utter wastes of human life are in charge of our country and are making decisions that affect us all. 🤡🇺🇸🤡

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Behold the true face of the anti-christ. True demon possession. Vile and evil blood bubbling out of its skin. This is one of the handful of men who want to control society, control culture, and control your life.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of the business of the past few years is silicon valley radicalized because for a brief moment there was social pressure that they couldn't be non-stop sexpests.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

there are still people in prison serving multi-decade mandatory minimum sentences for drug possession and the United States has not only legalized digital heroin, they’ve allowed it to place Super Bowl ads and buy your personal data to figure out how to sell your teenager more digital heroin

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We underestimate how much MAGA hostility and policy insanity comes from the fact that Trump people literally do not understand how things work

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Matthew Ingalls. Jonathan Newell. Winston Lee. Gillio Lopes. Diego Sarabia. Scott Norris. Scott Kretzschmar. The 7 men named as defendants in a civil complaint filed on Sept. 14 alleging they drugged and gang raped a Cornell student, identified as Jane Doe, in the Chi Phi house" October 2024."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the main thing AI is showing is that an awful lot of people have nothing to say about the world or themselves.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Millions voted for Trump because he would somehow make them rich but they feel poorer and they're mad about it. Millions of others didn't vote because obviously a Black woman can't be President and they're not sorry but they're mad Trump did what he promised instead of what they imagined he would.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo must be so dumbfounded by all of this that they simply can’t believe there isn’t some elaborate trick behind it -- it just can’t all be this stupid.

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I... I simply don't know how to process this response

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My first choice is "zero billionaires," but if I can't have that I'll take "billionaires with night terrors of guillotines trying to buy off the public."

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The next Democratic president is going to pull the credentials Trump gave to some outlet called Crypto Newz with Da Rape Boyz and people will act like this is exactly like what Trump's doing now

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is why I'll never ever be a Bernie-believer

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/09/2026

You do get the sense that members of congress need more actual work to do

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Operation "Talk up the AI we now rely upon to hide the fact that it targets and blows up little girls oh and also nearly started WWIII" is in full effect and going great

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

World War 3 machine Words spewed out from an AI machine will never be "intelligence." People in positions of responsibility need a deep understanding of the limitations of their tools. Those who are primed only for action and not thoughtfulness shouldn't be making decisions. Slow tf down!

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here we are. AI is a very powerful yet very unreliable tool in many of its current applications. The real danger comes from the ignorant idiots that see AI as the final arbiter of truth. The only authority. There are so many of these types and they infest our government. They are tools themselves.

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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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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Again - everyone who “just had concerns about their tax dollars” does not give a shit that their tax dollars have almost completely been redirected from Ukraine to gulag construction & continues complaining about Ukraine anyway

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean it seems to me that he would have been fine with his own death 🤷🏼‍♀️ "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." —Charlie Kirk

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"meet your new ai agent!" no. fuck you. fuck off. eat bee piss and then the bees. fuck you

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fact that both Democrats and Republicans are racing to the 10 side of a 90-10 issue really tells you a lot about the state of our democracy (it's a corporatocracy), and how both parties view democracy in general (as a nuisance).

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026

for instance my generalization that everyone in the trump administration is a garbage monster who should be jailed seems pretty accurate to me

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This really is it. From the NBA to the NFL to MLB to the fucking Tour de France...no one really gives a shit about fairness and if they really did they'd lose half their players and all of the owners. The ultimate goal of anti-trans sports legislation is to eliminate trans folks. That's it.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026

Genuine question, how did the boomers go from posting "I do NOT give Facebook permission to use my likeness or videos" to just dumping their photos and personal information into ChatGPT

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the narrative around 911 is being written by people who were either children or not born at the time of 9/11. We were not holding hands and singing Kumbaya in the streets. In fact, things got pretty ugly and anyone who didn’t toe the line was called a traitor.

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

He chose watercolors because of the poignancy, obviously. It's not an egg tempera kind of scene.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We could just call you Nazis

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We have seen the future And it sucks

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's no evidence that we can neutralize MAHA with a better health care system. Western Europe has universal access and lower costs — and still has huge anti-vaxx and “medical freedom” movements. MAHA is driven by right-wing misinformation, not legitimate grievances with US healthcare.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We have to figure out ways to manipulate and trick people into doing the right thing. It's the curse of humanity. We are not an advanced species.

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Alan Ritchson should and must play Dungeon Crawler Carl I will hear no further discussion about it

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

The world’s richest man is a transphobic white supremacist federal contractor with a breeding compound and he materially supports one of the two US parties with as much money as he can and their opposition really ought to focus on stopping him for continuing to do that.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 03/09/2026

It cannot be emphasised enough, it cannot be flung in the faces of the likes of Matt Yglesias often enough, this "popularist" nonsense they're advocating for is politically illiterate and a cowardly unwillingness to simply say what you believe.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"but Minneapolis pushed back!" They sure did, and it took them considerably longer than 12 hours to organize effective resistance We will have about 12 hours on election day YOU HAVE TO ORGANIZE IN ADVANCE. YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED, WHICH MEANS ACKNOWLEDGING THE DANGER AND SCHEDULING PTO AND ETC

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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The fact that the biggest pedophiles and child abusers in this country are Republicans and Evangelical Christians is indisputable, and we should treat them like the child rapists they are. It really is a fact. Fox News just admitted it right here. And 1/3 of the country nods along in agreement.

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