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Erik Gullberg

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2h
It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 11h
Chief justice John Roberts
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14h
"No one wants to see a pasty bald man spew racist venom, or hear it delivered with the world’s most discomfiting “valley girl” affect, which tends to come out when his rhetorical flourishes approach Original German level." substack.com/app-link/pos...
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American ‘Psycho,’ Fascist Dork: Inside Stephen Miller’s War of Terror
The world’s most powerful unelected bureaucrat is leading Trump’s wars on immigrants, civilians, the law, and human decency. It doesn’t matter that he’s made Trump historically unpopular.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14h
Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.
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Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 14h
This is pretty wild stuff. Nancy Pelosi enacting revenge on a former ally because he wouldn’t humor her delusions that her daughter was going to be a competitive candidate for one of the highest-profile seats in the House
No serious candidates were publicly vying for Pelosi's seat in January 2023. Wiener's interest in succeeding the speaker, however, was an open secret. That month, Wiener found himself shaking hands at a crowded event at Bimbo's 365 Club in North Beach. Wiener was glad-handing when his phone buzzed. He stepped out onto Columbus Avenue to take the call.
Insiders with knowledge of the
conversation described it as coming from a
"very powerful person" in Pelosi's orbit.
"You shouldn't do this," the person told Wiener of his congressional run. "Christine is going to succeed Nancy and we should all support Christine." It is not clear if the call came at Pelosi's behest for her daughter Christine or was undertaken by the ally independently.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h
yes but the acolyte didn't get a second season so it was worth it bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 17h
I’m just going to make a last call on you needing to see Digger in theaters before it disappears. I can’t believe I’m cast as the guy begging you to see a Tom Cruise movie, but it’s really a work of art.
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Matt Patches @misterpatches.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In awe
Bratz x The Craft collab in the year 2026 wow
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 14/10/2026
yeah if the guy’s disabled that takes all the fun out of a live execution
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 14/10/2026
embarrassed that I’ve been saying this about Ronald McDonald for years and no one has corrected me
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I would like to see somebody run on swinging the pendulum back. No, actually, you don't have a Constitutional right to sic 40,000 Belarusian bots disguised as sexy grandmas underneath every WNBA highlight in order to make an entire sport about the existence trans people. Stop accepting that premise.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!
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Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices
Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
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The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 13/10/2026
Is it good when the US military overthrows a foreign government and then funds its own activities using looted wealth without input from congress
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The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Six in ten Americans believe Baal the Soul Consumption Demon may be consuming souls, three in ten say Baal would never do that, one in ten say they don’t know bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/10/2026
lmfao amazing work @emptywheel.bsky.social
EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check (
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.@KatieMiller is not going to do very well in a deposition.
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Promise made, promise kept.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar's DC home raided by DHS as part of probe into Dem's immigration paperwork trib.al/NW6k6rI
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/10/2026
It really is time for this entire generation of democratic leadership to retire. We get it: you’re rich, tired, and don’t give a shit anymore. Go away.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/10/2026
I don't think this sort of casual lawlessness is a distraction at all, I think it's the whole enchilada. ICE and HSI are thuggish scofflaws regularly deployed on American soil to terrorize nonwhite people so the president can make his allies in the right-wing press show black & brown suffering on TV
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/10/2026
sending the goon squad after Ilhan Omar is Trump asserting that he can turn the machinery of the state against any Black woman he wants, no matter how apparently powerful or respected, and her white colleagues won't do shit about it.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/10/2026
shockingly, the guy whose own lawyers had to interview him in pairs because he lies so much is not very good at diplomacy
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hey have you noticed that what’s moral and good and consistent with the “natural order” is giving me your money so I can get richer? Weird coincidence wow bsky.app/profile/moth...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sharing this because NYers who are unenthusiastic about casting a vote for Kathy Hochul need to know that the alternative, Bruce Blakeman, is a genuinely evil piece of shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/n...
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Blakeman Launches Graphic Attack on Mamdani in Meeting With Hasidic Jews (Gift Article)
While seeking support from Hasidic leaders, the Republican candidate for governor, Bruce Blakeman, said Mayor Zohran Mamdani would not act if riots hit their community.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes, yes, a disgusting sentiment and fully representative of his depraved cohort's worldview, they have too much power and too much money and we can't go on like this, etc. More than that we just need to build a society where we never see a pic of a guy that looks like this again on a news story.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Obviously this sucks and the future of our broader national project depends on maximum accountability for everyone involved in DOGE but also lol to Zone Frontier.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When I posted something on X after a break someone immediately called me a race traitor. Posts about ancient history inevitably end up in race science territory. So I’m sorry, but I wouldn’t call that a friendly place. Is there an audience? Yes. I don’t want to sift through shit to talk to people.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
After the crap that David Brooks wrote on the cusp of the Iraq War, no one should have published him anywhere again. Instead, it earned him a New York Times column.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“X is a GOP Super PAC run by the largest donor to the GOP ever.” This is correct.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We went to a police union convention and all we got was this disquieting sense that solidarity can only be stretched so far before it breaks. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-infiltr...
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We Infiltrated a Police Union Convention in Las Vegas
At the far edge of solidarity, ICE is more popular than the AFL-CIO.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I wrote this after January 6th, you all can tell me how it holds up. patrickwyman.substack.com/p/dont-quote...
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Don't Quote Laws to Men With Swords
Our Legitimacy Crisis
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An irony of this era is that Trump’s opponents and Trump share the same exact opinions about Trump supporters bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
You have to go back to the loyalty oath cases of the Cold War period to see relatively analogous situations where the government was trying to silence academics with viewpoints that they didn’t like,” Emerson Sykes, an attorney with the ACLU, told me. “But even in those cases, we did not see the sort of brazen attempt to ban particular ideas or ideologies and scrub them from the public record or from public education.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 11/10/2026
gonna go watch Longlegs again
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 11/10/2026
God, this all day. I had a guy calling me a pedophile and threatening to kill me *on his public Twitter account, using his government name, under which he is barred in IIRC Indiana* because I wrote a positive review of a movie the QAnon freaks had decided was a secret pedo project
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"All of the benefits, none of the responsibilities" describes Americans in general though, so can I really be mad about politicians acting the same way? bsky.app/profile/mich...
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Correct. I very literally brought a 9mm to court, while @neolithicsheep.bsky.social provided security, because I defended someone wrongly charged for pointing out a one-eyed Klanner had one eye And they still tried to block my car from exiting the parking lot bsky.app/profile/porg...
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When you have more power than all but a few hundred other Americans, it's not unreasonable to expect you to deal with the same unhinged whackadoos your constituents also deal with every f*ckin day. Cowards.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They just don’t have the requisite goons for what they’re trying to do. Goon shortfall.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Why stop there? Maybe Margaret White is just a great, concerned mom. Maybe Carrie learns how to use her powers for good. Maybe the prom goes great. Maybe this is all about empowerment and agency. Maybe we call it Bewitched.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All that money electing politicians who will cut their taxes and slash benefits for everyone else. They’re definitely going to use AI to help everyone out though, they really mean it this time bsky.app/profile/rbre...
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m. willis ✨ @theotherwillis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
on Paramount+ baby. shout out to my mom for letting me, an adult with my own child, continue to use her account.
The meme of Joey from Friends pointing a a TV screen. On the TV screen, it's a screenshot from AVATAR: SEVEN HAVENS, Chapter 103 saying the episode was written by M. Willis and directed by Jasmine Goggins.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whistles work! New York, get some whistles.
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