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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

Ossoff does debating the right way (Unironically)

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1h

Somebody check with David Brooks to see if we're allowed to talk about this.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe the real gorillas were just the face eating leopards we befriended along the way

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe the real gorillas were just the face eating leopards we befriended along the way

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

the gorilla channel isn't real, but we can recreate it in aggregate

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "Rich people are given all sorts of deductions. I take them. I take them!"

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 1h

Very apropos that the first pages of the Honor Harrington series are about a budget meeting

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Ossoff: "You stand here and say you're gonna be a champion for Black Georgians when you elevate to positions of leadership in your political organization people with ties to the Ku Klux Klan."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Troy Jackson to Susan Collins: "In light of the article last week from ProPublica, I'm shocked that you're up here talking about fraud, because there's only one person up here that's been accused of that by the FBI."

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2h

I think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 2h

I’m sorry, did a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate just ‘Won’t somebody think of the neo-Nazis?’ during a live TV debate?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

“…Guilfoyle reached out to White House officials to say the text messages were AI generated. The officials didn’t believe her claims…”

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Inside Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Final Days as Ambassador to Greece

To save her job, she claimed the incriminating texts were AI generated; Trump grew annoyed with the damaging revelations.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 4h

couldn't even write his own damn tweet, it had to be "we aren't X — we're Y" AI slop

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams

"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally p

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 5h

since we’re doing this discourse again here’s why im no longer on twitter

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

US Grant was cast as desdemona in in an army production of Othello during the Mexican American war. RETVRN bsky.app/profile/areb...

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 4h

i’m sorry the president is now posting snuff videos on his social media account??? i am so disturbed. it never ends.

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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

Burn DOGE to the ground, and salt the earth.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 5h

Dude is so fucking senile.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

gork how do i extract intel

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Treehouse of Howers @tylerhower.bsky.social · 5h

Every reason to get off X is a reason to get off all of META’s products.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h

Don Jr and Kim were engaged and broke up in late 2024

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

3. DOGE made false claims about employee performance in order to fire them, but did not want to put their names to these emails. So they would coerce civil servants into doing so. If the civil servants refused, they were fired. (Not just DOGE, other Trump appointees like Kash Patel did this).

The revealing moments in the civil service were lonelier. They occurred inside people’s hearts and minds, and seldom leaked to the press. After his arrival at the IRS, one of Gavin Kliger’s first acts had been to demand that the agency fire its 6,700 probationary workers, who had yet to be granted civil service protection. By law they could be fired only for poor performance. Gavin had asked Traci DiMartini, in her capacity as head of human resources, to agree to put her name on an email to the mostly young employees telling them that they had failed at their jobs. The Doge people played this trick often. They’d use or try to use civil servants as a kind of ventriloquist dummy so that they, the Doge workers, could keep their names off official documents. But Traci took one look at the email, saw it was plainly a lie, and refused to have anything to do with it. The price of that single act of resistance was her job. Gavin didn’t have the authority to fire Traci, but his new acting commissioner did. “He asked Melanie to fire Traci, and Melanie did it,” said Kathleen.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 5h

There's no way this is real. It's a joke. Right? ...Right? (AnakinPadme.jpg)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a week.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6h

Incredible first day for new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 6h

like, you claim to be "just an innocent, loyal son of Holy Mother Church" and your first reaction to news of the Pope having lung cancer is a "PROPHECY OF POPE'S DEATH" thumbnail about some 2017 horror movie, you might be a goddamn cynical atheist grifter

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Ms. Robin @msrobin.bsky.social · 6h

I read a theory that this is a sort of ritual disfigurement for MAGA women. I believe it.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 6h

John-Henry Westen has got to be the most shameless, depraved-ass grifter in the Tradosphere, and that is a hella tough competition. How does anyone actually fall for people like this claiming to have ANTYHING to do with Jesus or Christianity?

PROPHECY OF POPE'S DEATH - 2017 Horror Movie Predicted Pope Leo XIV's Death AFter Onee Week in Hospital

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 6h

Never thought I’d see the “we’re eager to put the wrong kinds of Christian nationalists in camps too” come out this explicitly before they had consolidated power, but here we are.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 6h

The White Sox blow a 2-0 series lead in the ALCS and the Chicago pope immediately gets cancer

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

the entire Bo French/Chris Rufo posting about the "Indian Question" (god, what an evil dude) is basically this entire dynamic in a nutshell

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 9h

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 7h

he also once told me that "you Christians should be doubly grateful to us... you needed a savior, and you needed him dead. Who provided on both fronts?" He was a character

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 7h

I used to work with a Moroccon-Quebecois secular Sephardic Jew who told me he put "African-American" in any race questionnaire "since my dad is African and we live on the American continent"

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

fundamentally when it comes down to it i'm just a rortyian about categories the categories were made for pragmatic use by people, not the other way around

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