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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Me, every time I see one of these 4- or 5-party first past the post Canadian elections

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

was zach there

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 13h

always found it fascinating that dennis hastert was the highest ranking elected official to ever serve actual jailtime

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

lmao

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3h

About 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous.

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Willow, but not Vamp Willow @salixwrosette.bsky.social · 3h

“No Kings” is evidence of TDS? So, himself is the “King” in that statement? And that’s A-OK with you?

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 12h

Can’t walk now, chewing gum.

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 11h

Aw, he's fucking off. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/birds PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com #birding

4-panel SMBC comic update. Two women are birdwatching, one marvels at a white bird standing on a rock, saying "oh my gosh, look, a Shitepoke!' The same woman is delighted as she sees other birds saying "what a charming Arsefoot! look sally, a Windfucker! Go fuck that wind, little Windfucker!" The woman birding with her says "okay fine, you can go back to scientific nomenclature and I won’t complain." The first woman replies "it is too late. The change is complete."

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10h

The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself. No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11h

It’s not just one billionaire. It’s a full-blown cult of billionaires who believe dictatorship should replace democracy—and that technology (crypto and AI) will make this inevitable. They say it loud. Some guy just wrote a book about it (That guy is me!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

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The Nerd Reich

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires ...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11h

This is a very good story. Yet it's amazing to see the New York Times continually miss the forest for the trees.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11h

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

good review and also, there is still something to be written about Sarah Palin as a key figure in creating the political space that trump seized just a few years later.

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scanit.bsky.social @scanit.bsky.social · 8h

If Catholic intellects are still in denial, an even worse fascist regime can emerge. They need to come to terms with the damage their Catholic SCOTUS Justices and lawyers have done to our rule of law, all in the name of anti-Democratic religion. Russ Vought is not an outlier.

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scanit.bsky.social @scanit.bsky.social · 8h

Bulwark has evolved, and I like that. But they still 1) deny there is a direct line from Reagan to Trump 2) refuse to address head on how deeply cynical the misuse of abortion is, can't face fact it is a direct attack on women--50% of the population. Which really worries me.

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Bob @bobisjim.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like there is a lot of Socrates shizzz going on these days. Democrats are basically correct about... everything right now. And most people broadly know that's correct. But they think dems are annoying and dont like being told they are wrong... so just put em to death

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 7h

is there a good illustrative example of an unpopular position that Dem elected have been pushed to take by niche groups? I am willing to be proven wrong on this, but i feel like we get a lot of that message and not a lot of specifics

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h

www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-bui... In the spirit of intramural rigor (as in, we are on the same side), I wrote a review of Sarah Longwell’s highly engaging but at times flawed new book on how to build an anti-MAGA coalition.

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You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History

Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

The family members of two Fox News journalists killed while covering the war in Ukraine are suing the network, saying it put getting the story ahead of its people.

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She died covering war for Fox News. Her parents blame the network — and a star reporter

The family members of two Fox News journalists killed while covering the war in Ukraine are suing the network, saying it put getting the story ahead of its people.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 8h

Accelerator Energies xkcd.com/3306/

Comic. [Chart with track length on x axis: 10cm, 1m, 10m, 100m, 1km, 10km, 100km; collision energy on y axis: 1eV, 1keV, 1MeV, 1GeV, 1TeV, 1PeV, 10^18eV, 10^21eV, 10^24eV, 10^27eV. Scatterplot increases in a mostly linear shape with points for first cyclotrons, ADA, cosmotron, bevatron, BEPC-II, J-PARC, CEBAF, RHIC, tevatron, large Hadron Collider. An outlier near the top of the chart is Daytona Speedway.]

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 7h

Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

in a just world someone would stone cold stun these guys into concrete

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Ryan (Ry) Warner @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 12h

I wanted to bring you in-depth conversations with the major-party candidates for governor. With Marx punting, here's half my wish: How does Democrat Phil Weiser's Colorado blueprint square up with a dearth of dollars? How does he feel about Democratic Socialism? What's his thinking on data centers?

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Weiser presses plans, details in making his bid for governor

Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, faces Republican Victor Marx this fall.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12h

if you’re wondering why we have to hear from and about this guy constantly it helps to remember that his brother Ari is the chairman of WME which is the merged version of William Morris and Endeavor. It’s the largest media group in the country. One of its clients is the NFL. It owns WWE.

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Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 12h

It's clearly from Arthropoda, which hell seems to spawn in great abundance.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Would have been nice, I think, if Jan Greenberg had responded, as virtually any of us would have, that "For your information, virtually every woman I know made crucial life decisions--in the workplace, the bedroom, the doctor's office, deciding where to live, etc.--in reliance on Roe. ... [4]

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h

“… Hastert faced allegations that he molested four teenagers, ages 14 to 17, in the 1970s, when he was a wrestling coach at Yorkville High School in Illinois. In 2015, Hastert pleaded guilty to structuring cash withdrawals to hide hush-money payments to one of his sexual-abuse accusers.”

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13h

The most obvious thing in the world is utterly puzzling to so many in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party, who believe the better idea is to spend the next 20 years on their knees before Republican voters, saying "We hear you, all your choices were wise and virtuous, please don't hate us"...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 13h

I don't recognize that. What is it?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 05/10/2026

On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.

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LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Astonishing that people everywhere are realizing that shit’s fucked up and are saying”I’ll vote to the people who want to make it worse”

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brazil looks over and like Bolsonaro's definitely winning the runoff. Some crazy flips too.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And they're now making very different decisions without it." [5]

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Countless women will now make different decisions about careers, education, relationships, and whether to try to become pregnant than they would have when Roe served as a backstop....For millions of women, Roe and Casey have been critical in giving them control of their bodies and their lives." [3]

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just to be clear, this isn't much different from what he wrote in Dobbs. To which Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan aptly responded: "This is to ignore as judges what we know as men and women. The interests women have in Roe and Casey are perfectly, viscerally concrete." [2]

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

what an asshole

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NPR @npr.org · 14h

The frontline in the Russia-Ukraine war stretches more than 700 miles and has barely moved in four years. Yet straddling this line is the Kill Zone, dominated by constantly evolving drone technology. n.pr/3W8svBd

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Drones buzz overhead, troops hunker underground in Ukraine's hellish Kill Zone

The frontline in the Russia-Ukraine war stretches more than 700 miles and has barely moved in four years. Yet straddling this line is the Kill Zone, dominated by constantly evolving drone technology.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14h

This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...

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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.

ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 14h

There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 14h

It turns out that if a party goes out and aggressively talks to people about the bad orange man its effective in creating disapproval. Crazy. Im sure the Democratic Party will change its long-term behavior with this knowledge

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 14h

Go to a rural county and tell me why the sheriff, whom everyone knows is corrupt, keeps getting re-elected.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h

No, just winning every election forever & governing well is not going to solve the authoritarian problem. Democrats have been trying that since the 1990s. It doesn’t work.

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