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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/12/2025

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

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Doug Brinbury @dirgeoverdrive.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

feels like our interesting times have lasted longer than four years, which I think means we're supposed to call a doctor or something.

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bikebike @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Ya, no. If I see one of these in one of our bike lanes, it's going be out of action pronto.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

At least 30 people have died in ICE custody in less than a year under the current administration. With the massive increase in detainments, conditions inside ICE detention facilities will only get worse, leading to even more deaths.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22/12/2025

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/12/2025

if only we had some sort of massive federal grant program that provided all kinds of money for people to make the sorts of upgrades that experts thought were best for climate adaptation all while creating jobs and developing industries... oh.. wait.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/12/2025

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

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Doug Brinbury @dirgeoverdrive.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

they're awful at summarizing texts. but they're great at pretending they did.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Just because everyone assumed this is what Bondi would do with the Epstein files isn’t a reason to not raise holy hell about it.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/12/2025

So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now: 1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?

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Jeremy Duffy @thegeekprofessor.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Former NSA employee (16 years) with a pro tip for you. Released controlled document on the left, Epstein on the right. See the difference? In real redactions, some words, headers, and bits will almost always still be visible, but especially classification headers. These documents are UNCLASSIFIED

Left image source: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/foia/2019-04-18/redactions-declassified-file. Shows a fully page of redaction, but some headers and individual words are still visible. Also, a page header showing the classification is visible.

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I don't see any alternative but impeaching Bondi. Put Republicans in Congress on the record that they are OK with the coverup.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 20/12/2025

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

The greatest thing she ever said to me was in 1943 after the opening of Oklahoma!, when I suddenly had unexpected, flamboyant success for a work I thought was only fairly good, after years of neglect for work I thought was fine. I was bewildered and worried that my entire scale of values was untrustworthy. I talked to Martha. I remember the conversation well. It was in a Schrafft's restaurant over a soda. I confessed that I had a burning desire to be excellent, but no faith that I could be.
Martha said to me, very quietly: "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. As for you, Agnes, you have so far used about one-third of your talent."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/12/2025

"There’s no reference to any legal authority & no detail. It’s just 'there are security concerns, as evidenced by the Secret Service saying there are security concerns & the project cannot be stopped, & you cannot have any more details.' How do you possibly push back against that? It’s just mush."

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The legal "defense" for Trump's ballroom is a joke

If everything is "national security," then nothing is.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Epstein Files, everybody!

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This is the thing that really gets me. I have absolutely zero doubt whatsoever that if we elect another milquetoast centrist business as usual establishment democrat they will not revert a single one of these things.

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Doug Brinbury @dirgeoverdrive.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

You're not getting the brightest scientific talents from the rest of the world to reflexively aim for a life here for probably a generation. The narrative is gone, the trust broken, and both will be difficult to recreate. The city on the hill is awfully dim.

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Doug Brinbury @dirgeoverdrive.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I think you're underestimating the damage that has been done. Longitudinal studies have been broken. Data sets are gone. Labs are decommissioned. And the scientists that would run them aren't going to want to come back. There's a lot we can stand up quickly, but some things can't leapt over.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19/12/2025

They’re trying to do reparations for white people.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 19/12/2025

White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 18/12/2025

Nation Just Kinda Assumed Pacific Northwest Always Lived in Giant Puddle Like That: tinyurl.com/bdh393s4

Home and street flooded in giant mass of a brown water

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.”

When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother.

During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation

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A memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi said these agendas may merit a federal investigation:
• "anti-Americanism"
• "anti-capitalism"
• "anti-Christianity"
• "opposition to law and immigration enforcement"
- "radical gender ideology"
- "hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality"

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Doug Brinbury @dirgeoverdrive.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is not a time for nuanced, above-it-all takes. All those signal is that your opinion is functionless and your voice is bound for the blockpits.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

David Brooks writing about how there was nothing to see with the Epstein Files while not disclosing *he was in them* is at least a Nuzzi-level journalistic scandal What I'm saying is, get ready to see a nude painting of David Brooks in the NYT within weeks

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Have we considered just not paying attention to any of these people or at the very least not paying for their opinions? They got the biggest most important story of the century wrong and were smug assholes about it. Of what value are their insights?

"As is so often the case in heated political debates, this is projection. Here’s a list of everyone I’ve quoted making anti-alarmist arguments, in this and another article on them: Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Brett Stephens, Corey Robin, Jon Stewart, David Brooks, William Watson, John Harris, Simon Jenkins, Zachary Karabell, Josh Barro, and Noah Feldman."

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18/12/2025

i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--

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Congresswoman Sarah McBride @mcbride.house.gov · 17/12/2025

I was a kid once. And my biggest regret in life is that I never got a childhood without pain. Politicians should never insert themselves into the personal health care decisions of patients, parents, and their providers—and that includes trans Americans.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Umm… what the fuck is even happening right now in the White House? The fucking Downfall meme feels more calm, measured, and logical by comparison.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This story Carl Nassib told on RC's pod about coming out in the NFL cracked me up. His delivery is so good!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/12/2025

They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/12/2025

given how much cheaper touchscreens are than having to tool and manufacture physical switchgear, the safety data must be really bad for automakers to be voluntarily shifting back to real controls

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Doug Brinbury @dirgeoverdrive.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

If Jud kills Wicks, it solves two of the Bishop's problems.

Jason Mendoza gesturing excitedly: "Boom, right away I had a different problem "

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Doug Brinbury @dirgeoverdrive.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Absolutely flies today. If they want continued off-hour access going forward they'll pay the small amount.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/12/2025

if you need AI to do your powerpoints or write your emails you shouldnt be in your job. those things ARE your job.

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