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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 13h

Sir, I find your terms acceptable. Deal!

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holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

The difference between the Paxton scandals vs. the Talarico scandals is that the Paxton scandals are a) demonstrably worse, and b) demonstrably real.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13h

The judge who signed off on the Omar warrant should be impeached.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 19h

this is straight up impeachable conduct and if Democrats can't imagine getting the American people to care that's a skill issue

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 12h

The world's great libraries: the Victorian State Library, Melbourne, with added Ned Kelly.

The beautiful green reading lights of the Dome Reading Room, Victoria State Library, Melbourne.

View of the Dome Reading Room from the Victoria State Library 4th floor gallery.

Ned Kelly's armour, showing impact of the bullets in his last stand.

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 12h

let ms. rachel run dem strategy and actually i am so serious

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

humanity is doomed because the best way to make number go up is to make other people angry what a stupid world we live in

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16h

rainbow capitalism is important not as a statement of any corporation’s values (for that, look where they donate money and talk to LGBTQ employees!), but because they have access to consumer data we don’t have and they’re conservative by nature. a pendulum swing right now is useful data

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 16h

An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15h

I am normal, I don't hang out with platforms and people that sell child porn. That's who I was ten years ago; that's who I've stayed. That's *the big things*. It is the people who have stayed on Twitter who have changed, and who have not realized it. They embrace the dumpster fire, and can't see it.

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 14h

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 15h

Facebook back in 2021 temporarily turned off the “drive people insane” setting and it completely changed what people were seeing. They turned it back on when engagement dipped by like 1 percent.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 15h

I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

Oh Wow.

Tweet one:
James Talarico posts a picture with Kacey Musgraves.

Tweet two:
Kristi Noem responds "I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.

And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico."

Tweet three:
Kacey Musgraves responds "I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The only thing this headline lacks is the phrase, “in a chainsaw-involved incident.”

After 500 trees fall at D.C. golf course Trump wants remade, foes ask judge for halt
Preservationists said they were told the East Potomac Golf Links operation went "faster than anticipated" and "hundreds of additional trees" are now slated for removal.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

Last month, Van Hollen became the first Member of Congress to call on European states to sanction the president. Now, he seems to be the first Member of Congress to say that Trump himself should be investigated and possibly prosecuted by the ICC.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21h

So they’re torturing this guy.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 22h

When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h

Friendly reminder that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social thinks we should "turn the page" on these guys even though they're literally doing "show me your papers" shit after raiding the house of someone he works with. Every day. Who has the same job as him.

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 23h

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 21h

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026

"Together with documentaries such as Exterminate All the Brutes and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Black Zombie offers an indictment of not just colonialism and slavery, but of the damage that former colonial powers continue to inflict ..."

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‘An embodiment of white fears’: how zombies went from Haitian spiritual tradition to Hollywood monsters

Maya Annik Bedward’s fascinating new documentary goes beyond reductive imagery to place the zombie and vodou in their true historical context

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026

"Michel’s great virtue is his persistence,” said Haynes Miller, an M.I.T. professor emeritus of mathematics who is close to Dr. DeGraff and who says his friend is not an antisemite. 'He doesn’t give up. If he sees an injustice he will attack it.'"

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The Controversial Class That M.I.T. Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach (Gift Article)

Michel DeGraff, a vocal pro-Palestinian activist, can’t be easily fired because he has tenure. But he has been kicked out of his department.

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wrote a little bit about the late, great Jim Knipfel in my appreciation of the paper we both wrote for, NYPress, when they ceased print publication in 2011. nymag.com/intelligence...

started as a film critic at the Press after I moved to Manhattan in 1995. I worked with Godfrey Cheshire, who was later named editor of the film section, and Armond White, who joined the paper in 1997. The paper spoiled me for all future film critic jobs because it gave its columnists so much space and freedom. The editors' only demand was that we not be too "pointy-headed," as Strausbaugh put it. When we proposed starting our own version of the Voice's film quarterly, he shot it down and dubbed it "Cahier du Poopheads."

The rest of the paper was just as freewheeling. During its heyday - 1995 through about 2000, by my reckoning - New York Press was one of the most defiantly noncommercial, unpackaged, personal things I'd ever seen sold in a news box. Russ Smith, who published under the pen name MUGGER, was a right-winger who wrote the longest column in the paper; he spent half of it ranting about politicians and arguing with pundits, and the other half talking about the lavish fun he was having with his family. During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, one of his columns was illustrated with a cartoon that showed Bill Clinton buggering Uncle Sam.

Russ didn't insist that everyone else at the paper follow his lead. At one point the broadsheet simultaneously published
MUGGER, the liberal David Corn, and Taki Theodoracopulos, whose opinions sounded like what the little guy with the monocle on the Monopoly box would say if he were a Greek playboy. William Monahan, who would go on to write scripts for Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott, published a column about historical topics. Future novelist and screenwriter Jonathan Ames (HBO's Bored to Death) wrote a lively column about his personal misadventures.
Future New York Magazine contributor Amy Sohn wrote a dating column. J.T.
"Terminator" LeRoy, who was later exposed as a fake identity devised by Laura Albert, published regularly there. Dave Eggers,

The New York Press, which publishes its final print edition this week, was an alternative newspaper as auteurist statement, reflecting the spiky and often bizarre personalities of the people who worked there. The paper was founded in 1988 by Russ Smith.* His advisors included John Strausbaugh, a sinewy guy with a flattop and a rock-and-roll demeanor, and the brilliant Jim Knipfel, who was going blind from retinitis pigmentosa. Knipfel wrote arts reviews, the crime blotter, and a sardonic, often moving weekly column titled Slackjaw. He also worked as a receptionist at the New York office. The way he pronounced "Afternoon, New York Press" when he answered the phone always made it sound as though he was trapped under something heavy.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026

Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They need to start calling them people and not migrants, because too many people think migrants aren’t human.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.

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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A little preview from the Knock LA voter guide, dropping tonight.

$The corrupting influence of money in politics can be seen in the ghoulish way some liberal lawmakers and organizations have come out against Prop 40. All we have to say is that those people — Gavin Newsom, Xavier Becerra, Katie Porter, and all the rest — have betrayed you. They have chosen to take the side of the absolute impunity of the billionaire class over your right to health and life. They would sooner see you and millions of Californians like you sicken and die before calling on the richest people in the history of the world to pay a fraction of their fair share. Vote yes, and don't forget.$

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nic Cage:

He continued: “How do you survive AI? Amazon is a very AI friendly company to the tune of 50 billion dollars invested to OpenAI. I am not an AI friendly actor. I didn’t sign the waiver to let them use AI on Spider-Noir. It’s kind of like I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again. But that’s OK. So I got to get with these young directors who are Gen Z and they’re going at it their own way, whether it’s through the YouTube culture or whatever it is. They’re doing it from scratch and by hand. I want to get with that.”

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/10/2026

Happy Italian Heritage Month, New York. Here’s continuing to fight for Vito Marcantonio’s vision of a government that works for all working people.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

CLAIM: the ICE agents fired into a vehicle with a child in it for no reason at all FACT: these keys here are jingling isn't that interesting? isnt the sound they make really something?

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

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