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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘 The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am

A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"

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Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 21/09/2026

So they beat up a citizen for refusing to provide ID Papers, please

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Speak at Your Own Risk

Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/09/2026

The good news is, that this not true.🤷🏿‍♂️ We keep trying to rewrite history, and pretend that Trump happened, and then tech billionaires became radicalized, and then they supported him. We ignore that Thiel helped Trump get elected in the 1st place, and Bannon and Epstein helped start the alt-right.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

quite something this paragraph.

After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
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Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/09/2026

*sigh* Every few months, some new white journalist tries to write an article claiming that extreme wealth makes you turn fascist🤡 No. Then I have to point out Mackenzie Scott, Melinda Gates, Craig Newmark, LeBron James, etc. Then I point out that the alt-right dudes have always held these beliefs

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J D @lollandhop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ban car dealerships. I should be able to check out on my phone and get the keys from a vending machine. I should not have to speak to another person for 4 hours to buy a car lol

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ianal but this all seems fairly straightforward cybercrime? I know we don't care about laws anymore, but start to again and start throwing people at openai in jail, and they'll stop doing it

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We were like maybe the government shouldn't know every single book you checked out of the library and they asked why we hated the troops

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pitch perfect description, succinct as hell. This is a scam foisted on morons who aren't smart enough to realize they're stupid. The scammers themselves can't build shit (Musks track record in this space is well documented) but the suckers are unwilling to accept that. Perfect storm of foolishness

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The grifts, scams and corruption are endless. I only limited my list of Trump’s most corrupt acts of 2026 to 75 because I ran out of column space. I had well over 100. Here’s another one.

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Disco Central Banker @centralbanker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Survival of the fittest: Russian oligarchs morphology is adapting to the risk of being thrown out of the window.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/09/2026

Just gonna toss out there that one of the central facts of US politics--all politics, really--is that the general populace knows very little about who holds power, how gov't works, what policies do & don't exist, the balance of economic forces, or really much of anything outside their lifeworlds.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.

The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

Re LRP I cannot emphasize enough how we’re living in the ostensible dream reality of conservatives in the very recent past. Crime is down overall and particularly in cities like Chicago and Baltimore, teen pregnancy is down, drug and alcohol use is down among young people …AND YET

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

the speed at which everyone forgets is utterly shocking to me - it's basically just a single election cycle no matter how bad the damage is george w bush ran the country into a ditch, covered it in petrol and set it on fire and two years later republicans gained 63 seats in the midterms

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/07/2026

Just keeps happening, doesn't it? I'm gonna start making a thread of these. Stay safe out there, folks. And remember to never, ever, ever, ever vote for a Republican for any office.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 31/08/2026

Newsletter: The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions for crypto firms, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter.

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Issue 109 – Reg Crypto

The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/08/2026

Proof we got RFK lying on the record during his confirmation hearing (a crime). RFK should be referred to the DOJ for criminal investigation, and when Democrats retake the Senate, he will be at the top of the list of Trump officials I will hold accountable for endangering American families.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/08/2026

look these people are all crooks

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

it also gives us an opportunity to put as many of them as possible in prison and puts the ones we don't put in prison in a state of terror

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That’s one in 500 people in America, every year. In five years, one in 100 Americans needs to be arrested by ICE. And by the way they are building concentration camps with that capacity—resulting in, as Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons put it, be “[Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

we would very much like to thank you for all the time and dedication you put into being a multimillionaire or whatever you are. unfortunately we've decided to go in a different direction and will be rightsizing your assets. we will definitely provide relocation and transition support for you though

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026

don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA

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No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

During the railrood boom there were two decade of economy destroying speculative financial scams over fake lines and thousands upon thousands of miles of track were laid, wilderness devastated and indigenous ppl murdered and displaced for lines that never actually connected anywhere?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/08/2026

If and when we make it through this we need a constitutional convention, because the fact that this insane person hasn’t been impeached and removed 47 times over — and indeed that no one ever has in 238 years — proves the mechanism DOES NOT WORK.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The world makes sense when you realise everything is run by corpos and decisions are made to please arbitrary numbers and basically mythological entities called shareholders

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 23/08/2026

Again, no one has explained to me why it's bad, dystopian, expensive, fascism, if the GOP deploys 800 National Guard against Black people in DC... But it's good, wonderful, blue democracy, of Dems deploy 1000 National Guard against Black people in NYC. 🙂🙃 The NYC deployment has been even longer.🤷🏿‍♂️

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James B. Jones @jamesbjones.com · 21/08/2026

When people say they’re anti-AI, they’re clearly talking about generative AI in the arts and LLM slop that C-Suite jackoffs want to use to replace them. You know this. I know this. Everyone knows this. So the “then don’t use spellcheck if you hate AI” talking point is disingenuous horseshit.

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