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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 7h

Re: Brazil - my biggest takeaway is the extent to which the two largest nations in the Americas are now both stuck in this bizarre quadrennial coin-flip that simultaneously seems unsustainable but with no obvious replacement.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

“We hate this guy and would never vote for him…but what if he had our accent… 🤔🤔🤔🤔”

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 3h

It’s a little known fact that all the words associated with paying to see the Bayeux Tapestry are derived from Anglo-Saxon while all the words for being invited to see it by a corporate sponsor derive from French.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

chat we gotta get reagan's negatives way higher than this

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely 100% we need to add this to criminal code explicitly

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3h

According to this new paper, taxing the rich via wealth taxes (at least as implemented in Norway) has not led to detectable capital flight, though a small number of of the 0.1% (~100 individuals) outmigrated. This makes me wonder about the design of their wealth tax.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 7h

This would be a very sensible, logical strategy but... ... I do wonder if those briefing it have actually engaged with the policies the Tories have been throwing out for the past few years

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 5h

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 11h

On a totally different issue, when I & many other women were furious about the Green Party position on reducing c-sections ("we will work to reduce the number of interventions in childbirth" to treat it as a "non-medical event") we were told that these policies sneak in, because of member voting...

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11h

First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

i don't want JRM in the national divorce

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 21h

I very much fear an unstable equilibrium where every party across the west believes it will have two to four years to loot and crush its enemies but won’t bother trying to govern in the long term, because the voters are too fickle

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Tories are right to pledge to scrap the £100k childcare trap – and Labour should have acted first (as I wrote here). It’s not progressive for workers to be left tens of thousands of pounds worse off when they take on a promotion or more hours. www.arguably.uk/p/britain-ca...

arguably.uk

Britain can’t afford the £100k cliff edge

High marginal rates are penalising work rather than rewarding it

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h

this is a thing a lot of us struggle with, I think I, personally, have benefited greatly from social media and so have many of us even as it has been a massive net detriment to society if I could trade one for the other tomorrow I would, but I’d miss it a lot

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Odrok the Deceiver @odrok.bsky.social · 20h

A lot of people these days didn't grow up with 90s History Channel's 24/7 "The nazis were bad, & here's how it happened" programming, and it shows 😕

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An irritating thing that judges will do in gerrymandering court cases is do a whole “no I’m a simple country lawyer who don’t understand no fancy statistics” posturing. Fuck you! You should! It’s your goddamn job!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Voters having the memory of a goldfish when it comes to the horror of right wing authoritarianism is super not good

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 23h

lol I remember on the Old Site someone once laid out how it’s possible between the locals and the ex-pat population, FL has possibly the most right-wing electorate in the West

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 21h

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 23h

Billionaires ain’t broke, but they’re broken.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The parish newsletter should have 1990s clip art as nature intended

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

jacob rees-mogg eventually becomes british bill kristol after getting yelled at by right-wing freaks for the next 4 years. then we will know madness

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remember, you are under no obligation to ever side with Tucker Carlson when he makes some anti-Trump comment. He is a fascist apologist who apparently thinks Hitler winning WWII would have been fine. He is, in my humble opinion, a silver spooned bigot who romanticizes white supremacy.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this

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Better Danzig @betterdanzig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So like... do comedians tell jokes anymore or do they just whine and call you gay when you say their whining isnt funny?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The fact they have a tapestry confirming that he was only kicked out because they found his resignation speech raises questions about him being the source of all the problems in the party to that point but there’s clearly no one allowed round her who could ask them

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 04/10/2026

this is 90% of the problem with AI messaging. a bunch of computer touchers were told they were the smartest boys and were compensated in a manner that reflected it. then a huge part of their job was replaced by a beep boop robot (because programming *is* 1s and 0s via language) and they went insane

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh I so hate a world where I now how to repeatedly agree with Jacob Rees Mogg

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Did you make Angela Rayner.... even cooler, yes boss #CPC26

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump-appointed head of DOJ's civil rights office wondering why the most powerful women in Washington are primarily on the left when the current vogue in right wing politics is debating the merits of the 19th Amendment

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?

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Billy Shakes @exeuntpursuedby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Coming from New College, I assure you all from the ground, Chris Rufo does not care one bit for meritocracy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kemi’s (clearly sincere) position on Jenrick is straightforwardly a level of personal history revisionism that is just not compatible with “being an effective leader” in my view.

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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I guess it's as good a time as any to remind folks that some of the orgs pushing Alberta separatism are educational initiatives and are not subject to foreign funding prohibitions. 🤔 thewalrus.ca/the-russian-...

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The Russian Money Behind Alberta’s Separatist Movement | The Walrus

The Kremlin has perfected covert influence. I’ve seen how poorly equipped Canada is to stop it

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this is why we don’t do “poor Melania” or write fanfic narratives where the wives of these men are victims. they wake up every day of their marriage and choose this

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

fortune.com

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We need to humiliate and banish crankery from all the mainstream parties of the centre and left. And Labour under Starmer and Burnham is by no means immune from the charge. Antisemitic crankery has been replaced by transphobic crankery (in some cases propagated by the same people!)

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/10/2026

go ahead and put cannon on the court, she won’t vote any differently than alito but her appointment would a compelling argument for taking a wrecking ball to the institution

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The idea that we *can't* rebuild a thing that we built once already seems deeply flawed. It will cost a lot of money but we can in fact do it.

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