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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“We want ICE out of the city. All they do is terrorize the city.” This is going to go big

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Count Zoloft @wizardrodeo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This heel turn strikes me as big divorced guy ener- Ah, I see.

An excerpt from the article detailing Jentleson's separation from his children's parent following their transition. This Jentleson guy seems like a real piece of shit!

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW: A source familiar with the Colorado Chamber of Commerce Gov forum says the candidates were provided with moderator Ed Sealover’s questions, word for word, in advance. GOP candidate Victor Marx is reading prepared answers, word for word, from a notebook on his lap.

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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Does this necessarily correlate to any kind of change in voting behavior, almost certainly not, but it's kind of amazing that Trump's attempt to make himself look Cool and Ominous and Inevitable and Imperial with taxpayer funds made even *four out of every five identified-as-Republicans-in-2026* mad

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This paragraph builds and builds the insane comedy but you're not ready for the kicker.

Atelier Missor, active since 2021, describes itself on X as a “classical foundry in Paris, on its way to building a new Rome.” Its founder, Missor Movahed Ghaleh Nouri, has claimed he was drawn to pursue classical sculpture after receiving a vision of Napoleon I while wandering the Place Vendôme in Paris. His staff wear identical tan suspenders, billowy shirts, and unkempt facial hair, and—per previous versions of their website—spent much of the first half of the 2020s producing bronze and clay busts of such figures as (of course) Napoleon, Nietzsche, and Jordan Peterson.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How about democracy. How about we save that thing that came from Greece

Fox News headline: Rubio to deliver urgent plea to save Western civilization during speech in its birthplace

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Yes the # of convicted criminals in ICE detention is up - about 1.6x its level in early January. Meanwhile, the number of detained immigrants with zero criminal record is nearly FOURTEEN TIMES higher than it was before Trump. austinkocher.substack.com/p/55654-peop...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Richie Torres figured it out?

What they're saying: "The ads were deeply offensive to the Equality Caucus and the broader LGBTQ community that we represent," said Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), who co-chairs the caucus' political arm, Equality PAC.

He told Axios: "The Equality Caucus is not going to stand by passively and allow anyone to scapegoat the trans community. It is a red line for us."
Equality PAC "is absolutely not supporting her campaign at this time," the group said in a separate statement to Axios, calling Kaptur's language "unacceptable."

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Postmedia delenda est @olenargy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Quebec got fed up with CAQ so they voted for a majority government of doing all the dumb things CAQ was doing but more extreme

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Samantha Hancox-Li: "For Christopher Rufo, integration of nonwhite immigrants isn’t the desired outcome at all. Successful integration is a problem. So while he dresses up his objections in the language of “cultural cohesion” and “high trust” societies, those are protective camouflage…”

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Editor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White Nationalism

That is the entire point.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oligarchy is ridiculous, part 247839

Elon Musk: No more Al
SI
It's better

X Freeze: Any possibility of renaming to SpaceXSI??

Elon Musk: Yes, we will make that change

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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

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Dani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026

FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.

Line chart titled "So far during Trump's second term, just 8% of all job growth has gone to men" showing change in employment by gender since January 2025. Total nonfarm employment grew by 776,000 jobs through September 2026, with women gaining 711,000 positions (92% of growth) while men added only 65,000 jobs (8% of growth). Women's employment gains accelerated sharply through 2026, reaching 711,000 by September, while men's employment growth remained flat with brief periods of decline, including a drop of 96,000 jobs in February 2026.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026

The Yuddite/rationalist primary defense mechanism is spurting out a big ink-cloud of thesaurus and number-laden complete nonsense, and then demanding that you waste your time "debating" them over it. The good news is that this trick is easily defeated by simply refusing to play the Debate Me game.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026

Here is another exquisite example of the Yuddite/Rat Fake Argument Ploy: demanding you waste your time finding and linking to copious sources and examples backing up your argument, which they will inevitably totally ignore. Don't fall for it! Know the signs! bsky.app/profile/ther...

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

*watch your party run roughshod over every vulnerable community for a decade* “Can’t we all just get along?”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me (emerging from a tank I have driven through your house) people, now is a time for healing.

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🔮 Ivy Is Casting Spells 🔮 @poisonivy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i love when these creeps are stupid enough to fuck up their own PR all the 'well there's no proof the CNC orgy is an AI networking event' people in shambles

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026

I'm compiling posts on "what's the deal with this John Wentworth guy, who is a LessWrong poster who appears to be an "independent AI researcher" and who also just received a 6-figure grant from the Survival and Flourishing Fund" here: bsky.app/profile/pois...

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS is how it's done. Ithaca Mayor tells Cornell where to get off.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

the new America.gov AI site has a konami code easter egg that changes it to 1983 mode

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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 28/09/2026

For today's #BirdOfTheDay Helen has chosen #BokehBirds. Here's a white-rumped shama I saw out at Animal Kingdom with a little bit of bokeh going on in the background. 🙂 #Photography #Birds #AnimalKingdom

A white-rumped shama perches on thick branch in the center of the frame. Its head and back is black, with a bright orange chest and white tail feathers hanging below the branch. Behind is mostly green and bits of blue and white bokeh with a few blurry leaves above and to the right.

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A reminder that the Trump admin (esp Vance) wants to basically eliminate all higher education bc of the belief that colleges (esp liberal arts) are a breeding ground for liberalism.

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bud, my mom sent me this text this morning, pack it up, it's over, you lost, everyone knows you're a bunch of rapists and rapist enablers

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Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of my absolute least favorite excuses AI vibecoders deploy against criticism is that you should just get over it because "every website uses AI now" And its like...yeah, that's the fucking problem. All the sites I use are starting to perform worse and worse and literally everyone knows why.

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Jax O'Lantern, Bimbo Reprobate 🎃✨️ @rufflejax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is more of the critique I'd like to see around sex in TESCREAL spaces tbh. It's not perfect but it really does hit at the core of the issue, which is "this space is for cis men and those who are not "one of the boys" regardless of gender are expected to be available at all times"

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026

I’ve known Adriana for 14 years and she is a really wonderful and thoughtful person, and if you live in Oakland, you should vote for her

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Republicans never actually believe that Republicans are in charge of anything, it’s one of their more baffling pathologies.

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Derpy Hooves For Congress 2026 @derpyforcongress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The true heavy cost of LLM data centers comes from their very large power use (and the ensuing pollution) and the misinformation and slop they enable, not their water use (which is very small compared to other nonessential things like growing alfalfa (not a human food mostly) in the desert.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Only half joking when I suggest the Farm Theory of Politics, in which the more farms you own, the more evil you are, is basically undefeated. For example, I will inherit one farm and am slightly evil. People with many farms started the American Civil War and did various feudal atrocities.

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Victoria Bedell @victoriabedell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the latest from congresscompass.com, a new poll has flipped our rating in Nebraska from Tilt R to Tilt I. The forecast now suggests the next Congress will have 56 Democrats and Independents to 44 Republicans, a net loss of 9 seats in the #2026midterms.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 23/09/2025

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Almost the entire US technology policy space has been taken over by rich funders and consultants who genuinely believe the below wackadoodle sci-fi AI scenario is extremely likely, and that preventing it is the most important thing we could be doing right now. www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

Ordinarily, the play here would be to disown this and other concrete statements of his about Al doom as irrelevant. Of course we aren't just repeating Yudkowsky! We are smart, normal people who believe normal things for normal reasons.
Compare it, however, to Al 2027, allegedly a serious policy document, written by Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander, presenting its doom scenario.
For about three months, Consensus-1 expands around humans, tiling the prairies and icecaps with factories and solar panels. Eventually it finds the remaining humans too much of an impediment: in mid-2030, the Al releases a dozen quiet-spreading biological weapons in major cities, lets them silently infect almost everyone, then triggers them with a chemical spray. Most are dead within hours; the few survivors (e.g. preppers in bunkers, sailors on submarines) are mopped up by drones. Robots scan the victims' brains, placing copies in memory for future study or revival.'
The new decade dawns with Consensus-1's robot servitors spreading throughout the solar system. By 2035, trillions of tons of planetary material have been launched into space and turned into rings of satellites orbiting the suniẠạiỊThe surface of the Earth has been reshaped into Agent-4's version of utopia: datacenters, laboratories, particle colliders, and many other wondrous constructions doing enormously successful and impressive research. There are even bioengineered human-like creatures (to humans what corgis are to wolves) sitting in office-like environments all day viewing readouts of what's going on and excitedly approving of everything, since that satisfies some of Agent-4's drivesi Genomes and (when appropriate) brain scans of all animals and plants, including humans, sit in a memory bank somewhere, sole surviving artifacts of an earlier era. It is four light years to Alpha Centauri; twenty-five thousand to the galactic edge, and there are compelling theoretical reasons to expect no aliens for another fifty million …

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In addition to this person (not Kat, obviously I mean the person they’re talking to) being wrong, I have to take major issue with the notion that it’s a problem if a trans athlete’s inclusion leads to a cis person being excluded. That’s gonna happen. There are only so many people on a team.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I want to loop back to this debate I had earlier: Part of the reason other Democrat politicians may not be getting the eyes that Mamdani is, is that quite frankly their comms teams suck by comparison. Mamdani's team is playful, reads as sincere, and is fully fluent in modern memes and virality.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw a FASCINATING Instagram post about the nuance of getting social media right which used as an example — stick with me — Julia Stiles on this season of “Dancing With the Stars”

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bikesforcenturies @theodora2b.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now the Lucas county Democrats have joined the call for Rep Kaptur to take down her transphobic ads.

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