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Sam Pottle

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Confront the authoritarian impulse wherever you find it. At least *notice* it.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Student journalists across this country have been churning out some of the best journalism these last couple years Thinking of the radio crew covering the encampments in New York, UCLA crew doing the same, not to mention groundbreaking investigation after investigation Brilliant, the best of us
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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Cornell story is now on Good Morning America.
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 24/09/2026
Top tip: whenever reading an alarmist article about AI, swap "AI" with "abacus". "The abacus has broken through security." "Amodei says that the abacus will become self-aware imminently." "Analysts project that all middle-class jobs will be replaced by the abacus...real soon."
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
if he goes in the bunker next year and says that Congress isn't Congress, we can go in there and take him out of it, and at that point he is just a man
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Auntie Social @auntiesocial.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In the memory of the great Frank N Furter, Bluesky will be going down on everyone
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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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The year is 2035. Flock cameras are everywhere. You step out of your home and hear a voice coming from somewhere overhead, possibly close to the streetlight next to you. It's me. "Collar gap."
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Defending the Bonds
I am reporting for duty
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Schiff:
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Candidates should be talking much more about not just the rule of law on principle, but the prosecution of people in practice."
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 15/08/2026
Stephen Miller deserves to spend the rest of his natural life fighting a legal system charging him of crimes he didn't commit in a language he does not speak, alone, and without counsel: publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller…
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Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Mrs. Peabody resists 🦋👊🦋 @peabodya.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“It’s becoming ...clear that [the real purpose of ICE's gross violation of our rights] is to establish a national police force to do the bidding of a corrupt and lawless administration.” -Sen. Angus King What do we do? For one thing ... 🗳️ We vote as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
US: We want to wait, let economic damage accumulate. Iran: Sounds good! Iran (turning to others): So, anyone want to talk about a post-US regional security arrangement? Pakistan: Sure. Turkey: Okay. Oman: We were a no, but now a yes. Qatar: Sure. Saudi Arabia: Ugh, fine. Dammit. Iran: Cool.
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Tracy Benton @tigerb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A. I'm so tired of all this B. I REFUSE TO GIVE UP
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”
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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My read of Nolan's Odyssey is that it's a not-at-all subtle takedown of MAGA ideology and how it's destroying the world, given from the point of view of a principled conservative. Which, ironically, all the MAGAts will miss because they're boycotting the film for having black people in it
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FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Women out here quietly crushing men and women’s endurance race records www.bbc.com/news/videos/... by *days*
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Runner on smashing Alps ultramarathon record by 6 days
Sophie Woods ran the Via Alpina through storms, heat of up to 37C and dodged floods and wildfires across eight countries.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/07/2026
graphic in that "in this house we believe" style with the multiple lines in different colors on a black background reading:

IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE:
YOU SHOULD
BLOCK
THAT GUY
YEAH THAT GUY
FOR REAL BLOCK HIM RIGHT NOW
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
No. You and Jamie Kirchick can have a debate about how you ruined your own party. Not this.
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 17/07/2026
This is election interference.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Wilson: I guarantee you there are 10 reporters in D.C. right now who know exactly what Mitch McConnell’s medical status is. They’re not reporting it.  If I’m Beshear, brother, just declare the election. And if they want to prove that Mitch McConnell is alive and well, go do it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/07/2026
yeah, not all that surprised that a guy who was incapable of taking responsibility for any of his choices or decisions also refuses to take responsibility for this one.
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Sam Pottle @dribrats.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
At least in that scenario Collins definitely loses. It turns out the worst timeline is called Defective Monkey's Paw.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Perhaps. But it could be argued that I’m already doing important work that I’m actually good at.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.
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RoseyRoseamund - VOTE, OR FUCK OFF! @roseyroseamund.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social has said she will NOT run for Maine senate. Not her wheelhouse. She also said FIND ANOTHER CANDIDATE, BACK THEM & GET MOVING ON THE PRIMARY. Her message, as someone who lives in Maine herself - DON'T GIVE UP. GET MOVING.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For months now, almost since the beginning of Graham Platner's campaign, I have seen the same pattern unfold. Some scandal breaks out, first the tattoo, then the racist and sexist Reddit posts, and then the texts, but I walk around my neighborhood and still see the Platner signs up, still hear about the massive turn outs for his rallies across the state. Support never wavered, and I do not think that it was for the reasons that people out of state thought; it was not because people in the state were basically Nazis, or so caught up in some fantasy of flannel and masculinity that they fell for the image. People were willing to forgive, to believe that he had changed, because they wanted very much to believe that there was a politician who wanted to help working people, to deliver promises of universal healthcare, to say no to genocide and war, and to openly confront the rise of fascism in Washington. People believed that Platner was the person he said he was, and he exploited that belief until it could no longer be sustained.
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FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We are all Belgium now.
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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
actually it’s because the guy that scored the goal at the World Cup, born in NYC to Nigerian parents visiting from London, is exactly as American as me, a white person from Florida who can trace their lineage to pre-revolutionary Pennsylvania, and that’s a system worth fighting for you fascist dicks
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
With the DSA victories in NY we are seeing lots of discussion of "hating America" again, a reduction of all of politics to feeling. www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/10/the-...
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The Affective Constitution and Reduction of the Political
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Shut up
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/06/2026
vance is basically nixon if nixon were a dipshit and not a genuinely impressive guy
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday
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Marlene @live4today.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
#IDIOTSInCharge
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Well, I'll be damned. Mike DeWine has had, in effect, an execution moratorium in place in Ohio, but this is such an important progression on his part.
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Republican Gov. Mike DeWine wants Ohio to abolish the death penalty, saying it is not a deterrent
Gov. Mike DeWine says he believes Ohio should abolish the death penalty. The term-limited governor, who has repeatedly postponed scheduled executions, said Tuesday that data shows the death penalty is...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Five Summer Outfits That Will Make You Look Like A Sexy Little Reflecting Pool
A photo of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The water is green and it's surrounded by gray-white stone structures. A man wearing a green seersucker suit with a white shirt and black knit tie.
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Grungehamster @grungehamster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Still one of the funniest calls on this site (note date):
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i didn't believe that platner had a history of sexual violence until ryan grim started defending him
11:30 PM · Oct 29, 2025

Everybody can reply
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.
An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot
Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player biting an apple. The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
”If you question or criticize Platner you are rooting for Collins” is the new “objectively pro-Saddam.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026
Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.
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Sam Pottle @dribrats.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Counterpoint: the Hormuz situation should be of little interest to someone who refuses to buy anything sold or processed
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