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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2h

The town of my birth has produced a baseball hat i feel I must now acquire

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3h

I was just in Montgomery, AL and learned that their minor league team are the Biscuits and I'm not sure how that their merch isn't sold absolutely everywhere in Montgomery.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

This one’s definitely not gonna work and for a million different reasons

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

I think of Schlichter as the would be L Ron Hubbard of white nationalism. But a shittier writer.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

Wired just did a story noting that an influencer named Kurt Schlichter is a “civilian government advisor” (?) to Hegseth. This dude has been around forever in internet time and writes the worst novels that are basically Turner Diaries fanfic www.wired.com/story/a-pent...

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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6h

FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.

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Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 7h

angeladenker.substack.com/p/gang-rape-... My latest. Thanks to @espiers.bsky.social, who I quoted in this excerpt from my book.

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Gang Rape at Cornell

Violence against women in 2026 is not an isolated incident

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10h

So she's saying we consistently end up in the same place? Ok, yeah?

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11h

If any non Fox reporter gets an interview with McMahon they should ask her to explain what it is that she thinks AI does and how it works

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 12h

Everybody's got to stop thinking they're going to get some angel wings by pretending these plainly malevolent harmful assholes and bigots are really honored partners in the grand scheme of democracy. This debate society approach will end this country as much as the actual saboteurs.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12h

Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good luck telling your own voters that their hatred of data centers is a Chinese psyop.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if you’re over a certain age and don’t listen to pop or country you wouldn’t have heard this song legitimately. It wouldn’t be a conversation except that country music is increasingly liberal so claiming a popular conservative singer is being erased is a dumb protest from right wingers

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am embarrassed to admit this but sometimes a brand does some shit (like naming a seltzer liquid death and making it look like death metal merch) and I think are you reading my mind but peanut butter cup might be too far liquid death. OR IS IT

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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maybe don't feed your unpublished research into the plagiarism nexus?

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just had a weird episode with seamless where I ordered something for the kid that I promised him for dinner (sushi at our local) and it got delivered to where I was out having drinks instead of our house

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drmurphy.bsky.social @drmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

😒 Bonds should be boring but not on this ep. of Slate Money 📉 The best most informative & entertaining ep.s of the year💩... "shitton of borrowing 🤣" bravo ✅ @slate.com @felixsalmon.com @emilypeck.bsky.social @espiers.bsky.social @robinwigglesworth.ft.com slate.com/transcripts/...

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Transcript - Fabulous, Beautiful Debt

Transcript of Fabulous, Beautiful Debt

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok so anyone who is treating Yudkowsky as an expert should be forced to explain Roko’s Basilisk and why he took it seriously

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone pointed out that any time a Republican accuses Dems of sexual deviancy, you know what they’re going to get caught doing themselves, which makes me think people should keep Tuberville away from any college football mascots. And just to be safe, Gritty.

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Flyers Gritty

Alt: Flyers mascot Gritty

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lord, please let Troy Jackson survive his close proximity to The Consultants nymag.com/intelligence...

Another source familiar with the campaign said, “I don’t even think it’s disdain for Maine so much as it’s just disdain for, more generally, people. They want to run this campaign through numbers and spreadsheets. And wherever a campaign is connecting with people or doing anything quirky or unique, they’re like, ‘This is bad and weird.’”

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026

"What astonishes me in the public treatment of Hanania is how little attention is paid to his inveterate male supremacism. On this front, he has not attempted even a quick costume change. Instead, Hanania is quite simply a rape apologist." www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...

Richard Hanania Doesn't Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism

Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/09/2026

every time i see tom cotton i think about the fact that he just buys grocery store birthday cakes to eat as a snack. for most people this would be charming. not for this dude.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“All these 9/11 truther militia freaks yelling about chemtrails and vaccines and the New World Order are never going to matter, it’s not healthy for you to be so obsessed with them” yeah, you’re right, mom and dad, it wasn’t healthy, but unfortunately they’re also the United States government now

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typing loudly ⌨️ @typingloudly.zip · 24/09/2026

pencils in: obsessed that the internet is becoming haunted by meaningless metrics, dashboards no one looks at, recommender algorithms gone bad, unproductive abstractions, poorly accounted clouds, containerization run amok, and terrible ads all running on increasingly baffling code no one wrote

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The other reality (which I discuss) is that the Trump Administration has embraced policies that have moved people into high-deductible health plans. Trump Admin: We’ll make insurance unaffordable so folks enroll in plans with $7-10k deductibles. Oz: People aren’t using their plans — must be fraud!

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I put down my phone for a bit and suddenly Tommy Tuberville is talking about furries and embracing high gas prices

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, Matthew if Mamdani were in a position to make national policy I'm fairly certain he'd find some of that money in the budget we've carved out for bombing Iran

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Heads of state, governors, mayors visit Trump, he drags them to his golf club, makes them eat steak with ketchup. They visit Mamdani, he gives them a bus tour and they go meet some adorable second graders.

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MayhemMel! @melindameyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

x.com/HunterBiden/... I hate GOP it's no secret. But sometimes they do the stupidest shit that I love. 🤪😂😂😂😂

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just a meta note: part of what made the original New York Observer great is that critics were allowed to disagree with each other in print and it kept them all honest

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you're going to argue that major prizes are "deforming and hollowing out literary culture" because of the demographics and chosen topics of the winners, you need to go ahead and name exactly which books wrongly beat which books

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every book he claims is DEI is incredible, especially Marlon James’ new one. No indication Bret read any of these books www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

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Opinion | The National Book Awards Are No Longer National (Gift Article)

The National Book Awards longlists are a study in tedious political orthodoxy.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think that was the idea amongst optimistic centrists. But unless you find a way to give him actual consequences, it doesn’t matter. Consequences matter. Moral approbation only works with politicians who mostly try to be ethical and fail

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another thought on the HNJ piece: I have a bunch of friends who regret the schools they sent their kids to… & this includes decent public, magnet AND private schools. The situation she describes is egregious, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong & they’re not always obvious or predictable

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's an opinion workshop tomorrow. You can audit for $100 (which means you take the workshop but no one on one coaching after.)

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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kushner's involvement in negotiating the war with Iran and the war between Russia and Ukraine is emblematic of a brand of "diplomacy" (or lack thereof) that mixes political negotiation with personal business deals. Any benefit to the American people is incidental. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy

Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

E.B. White established this in 1949! Move on already!

Screenshot from E.B. White's essay "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 as 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, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The judge asked the govt if the Kennedy Center is going bankrupt. You should've seen them backpedal Why so fast? If it's broke, a court puts someone else in charge & they lose control of it @cnn.com👇 -TN

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Republicans' betrayal of the Bill of Rights is appalling. They'd dump the entire Constitution in exchange for a stock tip. Their intellectual dishonesty is appalling too. Cue Sen. Barrasso's reference to "Hunter Biden's laptop."

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The rev woke up with the spirit of the Lord on him this morning, read the whole thread

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why do we keep talking about this and the bunker (disguised as a "ballroom") like it's some funny excess and not actions being taken by the same president who has already used violence to hold onto power before

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