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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 13h
I made the comparison at the end of this piece! www.crisesnotes.com/sigh-no-ed-z...
crisesnotes.com
*Sigh* No Ed Zitron, AI bond issuance is not AI’s "Subprime Mortgage Crisis”
EDITORIAL NOTE: Given the importance of this issue, and in a desire to be fair when writing such a critical piece, I sent a draft of this article to Ed Zitron to review and give his response to. I've ...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Authoritarians want despondency and an air of inevitability. Don’t hand it to them.
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Monster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
GUEST OPINION: If You Hogs Would Vote for Me I'd Appreciate It, by Michele Tafoya midwest-excellence.ghost.io/guest-opinio...
midwest-excellence.ghost.io
GUEST OPINION: If You Hogs Would Vote for Me I'd Appreciate It, by Michele Tafoya
Midwest Excellence, a newsletter by RandBall's Stu (from the internet)
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 09/10/2026
I don’t have time to fact check the latest Zitron on this flight (actual work to do) but it’s telling he blocked someone for these accurate observations.
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
$10 banana $420 $TRUMP coinz $7 diesel (Shaq?) $40,000,000,000 swizzz watches Someone good at money help me be rich, who cares about my family they can eat banana.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly 💯
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this kid going dead-weight immediately
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am pretty sure if we can handle Y2K in school districts we can also execute Start time = Start Time + 1 hour rather than change the clocks.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
nbcnews.com
How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story" Gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
wsj.com
Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be
Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.
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Technohawk @technohawk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is that where Eggs Benedict comes from?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026
A book about how black people in the US came to be one of the most consistent & reliable Dem voting blocs, despite Dems often saying & supporting terrible things, for the ruthlessly pragmatic reason that progress is more likely under inconstant allies than under implacable opponents.
press.princeton.edu
Racial Realignment
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026
this is the thing that gets me about the regular takes on here that “60 percent of Americans are living hand to mouth” or “the real poverty line is $135k,” etc, it is essentially stealing valor
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i'm sure this is true, but i've not watched espn since they replaced corso with that fat punter and his incel audience bsky.app/profile/sean...
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RevolutionaryRadish @revoradish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I hate this writing trope. <Long story about their boring ass day.> <Something annoying happens to them personally.> <How that means society is crumbling and the foundations of civilization are at risk.> <Why only some dumbass shit the publication approves of is the only way to fix it.>
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The unanswered question(s): Do popularists actually want to win? Or do they want to win only in their particular third way?
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The Bland Wazoo @zombieboof.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
God is punishing millennials for all the dumb shit we put on the internet by subjecting us to the dumb shit Gen Z and Alpha are putting on the internet.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
i will not feel badly for any of these people, because politics is not a dumb little game among Serious People for debate perverts. they are both nightmarishly awful people who deserve far worse than any level of questioning and mockery could ever produce
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I regret to inform you that in this week’s newsletter, I have been forced to take Trump’s stupid goddamn ballroom seriously. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Trump’s Ballroom Isn’t Just a Farce Anymore—It’s a Threat
In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explains how the ballroom could gut key environmental protections. Plus, the heartbreak of Jason Arday.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026
one part “my green room friends thought it was mean,” one part debilitating fear of backlash. inability to see that ossof successfully goaded the white house into *being reactive* and thus revealing that there is a story here
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/08/2026
“I was shocked that even scrapping a hybrid gives big climate benefits,” www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/08/when...
anthropocenemagazine.org
When should you scrap your gasoline car? The answer is almost certainly now.
Researchers calculated the carbon footprint of vehicle trade-ins across a wide variety of scenarios, and EVs emerged as the clear winner
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Netanyahu vs. Putin feud playing out in American right wing influencer proxy wars.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
i keep narrating pokémon like im werner herzog and it makes my niece and nephew crack up despite not knowing who that is. "i am driven by a compulsion to capture the creatures in plastic and airless prisons... these creatures, so small and vivacious... i must capture and subdue zem all"
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This week's newsletter is out, and it's about a specter haunting the Democratic Party - former Lincoln Project staffers trying to do mini-January 6s link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d...
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My kingdom for a snap election.
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
the implication seems to be that absent these government benefits wal-mart and amazon would need to offer better benefits or pay their employees more, which reflects a huge (but I think kind of revealing) misunderstanding of how wages are actually set
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026
I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan & Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Sounds like snake oil but 'regulated' aka seal of approval for big producers.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
ok good point jon but surely the unfair treatment of mitt romney balances this out
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/07/2026
I will never, EVER have sympathy or anything but contempt for the financial situation of someone that sends their kids to private school. I'm sure someone will get mad at me in the menchies about this, IDC.
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hades video games are canon passed down through the oral tradition for millenia. youtu.be/cQFEcBIf8z0?...
youtu.be
Hades II - I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death)
YouTube video by Supergiant Games
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Don't make fun of my Sam Altman bobblehead NFT.
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
lights out guerilla radio turn that shit up etc
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You could write a whole thesis on the rhetorical brilliance of the wording "I think California transplants like Ken Paxton can become Texans"
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The schools can just adjust their friggin bell schedules and bus schedules. We can optimize for a new set of constraints. The main point is don't change the schedules twice a year by 1 hour for all of our society.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
In March 2025, Trump met in the Oval Office with oil & gas executives. They listen their grievances and, on the spot, Trump leapt to address them. The executives were, in their own words, "stunned." Read these extraordinary excerpts. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/c...
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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
THEY VERY SPECIFICALLY AND QUITE LITERALLY ARE ANGRY THEY GET IN TROUBLE WITH HR WHEN THEY HARASS AND DENIGRATE WOMEN AND MINORITIES AT WORK
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One minute these babies are fine. The next they're seizing, or vomiting blood, or not waking from a nap, or not breathing. I spoke with more than a dozen doctors who have seen the consequences of more parents declining the routine vitamin K shot for their newborns. This is what it looks like.
nytimes.com
As Parents Reject Vitamin K Shots, Some Babies Develop Devastating Bleeding
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 06/07/2026
Yes. 1) Technology determines GDP/wealth. 2) Monetary policy determines unemployment. The lump of labor fallacy illustrates how technological advances lead to greater overall wealth which good government policy can make widely shared.
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 04/07/2026
I published a book on American democracy almost a year ago now. This is the conclusion.
Thomas Paine, a man who did nearly as much to write Amer-
ica into existence as Thomas Jefferson, shared his disdain for per-
petual constitutions. “There never did, there never will, and there 
never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any 
generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the 
power of binding and controlling posterity to the ‘end of time,’ 
or of commanding forever how the world shall be governed, or 
who shall govern it,” wrote Paine in Rights of Man. “Every age 
and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the 
age and generations which preceded it.”
And even as they defended a Constitution that they hoped 
would endure for some time, the Founders appealed to our rightand capacity to reason new institutions into existence. “It seems 
to have been reserved to the people of this country,” Hamilton 
wrote in Federalist 1, “to decide the important question, whether 
societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good 
government from reflection and choice, or whether they are for-
ever destined to depend for their political constitutions on acci-
dent and force.”
The years since have given us much to reflect upon. We 
have more than two centuries of experience with the Founders’ 
Constitution. We’ve seen governments across the world rise and 
fall, peer Constitutions drafted, amended, and replaced. Political 
science—a field that was still new in the Founders’ day—has de-
veloped to maturity; regularly, it tackles questions that vexed 
them with tools they did not have and a rigor they were not ca-
pable of. Human equality, a principle they gestured at but were 
unwilling to accept and act upon themselves, has come to under-
pin our society. So too, despite everything their institutions have 
done to undermine it, has a faith in democracy that the Founders 
never shared. We know more than the Founders did. We are more 
practiced at governance. We are more moral, more just. What 
privileges their intentions for this country over our own?
“The earth,” Jefferson wrote, “belongs to the living and not to 
the dead.” As so many have labored to remind us over the last 
decade, the United States has much to atone for, the sins of Jef-
ferson among them. But his words here—an intuition that can be 
read in the Declaration of Independence and the act of the Found-
ing itself—are unassailable. Our present is shaped by all America 
has done and all America has been, yes. But our future will be 
shaped in large part by our own aspirations—what we decide this 
country can and must be. America is ours. Not Jefferson’s. Not 
Washington’s. Not Hamilton’s. Not Madison’s. Ours. Our iden-
tity is ours to establish and define.mocracy and its possibilities to collapse. “Giving the world back 
to its inhabitants is too big a job for the merely practical,” the 
director Orson Welles once said. “Only the devout deserve the 
trust of government, for only the devout can face the unimagi-
nable vistas of man’s destiny.” A characteristically grand state-
ment, yes. But as Welles understood, this is a country that runs on 
grand visions. The cultivation of them is a core political compe-
tency. And the absence of them is an opportunity—not just for 
those who’d like to pull America forward, unfortunately, but 
for those who’d like to set America back. It should be plain by 
now that defending ourselves from the depredations of men like 
the president—those who would trade our future away for per-
sonal profit and the indulgence of their prejudices—will take 
more than the defense of American institutions as we’ve known 
them. The American project will be saved only by a return to the 
spirit that first inspired it. Each day, the darkness that shrouds 
this republic as I write these words makes new claims on our free-
doms and our livelihoods. But we have known darkness—we 
have seen it thicker, deeper, and more suffocating than the pall 
over us now. Through it all, these words set down by Paine in 
Common Sense more than two centuries ago—his benediction 
for this country—have remained true: “We have it in our power 
to begin the world over again.”
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 04/07/2026
I’m gonna be real with you all, I think that anyone who thinks America’s a shithole that isn’t worth saving isn’t worth listening to. The idea of a purifying revolution-to-come is a fantasy, a terminating piece of cope that keeps you from believing it’s worth putting in the work now.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 04/07/2026
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/07/2026
I’m a card carrying DSA member who initially supported Biden’s very cautious arming of Ukraine and I now think that was far too timid
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donny5k.bsky.social @donny5k.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ball Don't Lie
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/06/2026
This is a great example of what's called "pluralistic ignorance" -- the phenomenon whereby most people share a particular view, but they *don't think other people share it*. In this case: most people are concerned about climate change but think others aren't.
sherwood.news
Over 50% of Americans say climate change is a serious threat; only 10% think their compatriots feel the same
That perception gap on the issue is among the highest in the world, per a new Gallup poll....
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
the revealed view of this SCOTUS is that the framers got things mixed up when they wrote the constitution and that actually, the president is the central figure of the national government and congress exists as a junior partner that really ought not get in his way
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