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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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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

FAFO aside, his shock is a great distillation of how whiteness as a social construct is built around shattering communal understanding of our interconnected human ecosystem in favor of a mythical individualism How whiteness leaves its adherents defenseless against our shared oppressors: capitalists

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

I also think that he is simply fascinated with death and intoxicated by the idea that he can inflict death.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'd have thought that the goal of a nominally centre-left political party would be to build a voter base of marginalised groups with overlapping interests and not to deliberately alienate minorities and then get arsey about it. But, what I failed to consider is, they don't want to.

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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

no one is working class except a guy who inherited his dad's car dealership

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 13/09/2026

The fact that the other side is so evil on this issue creates *more* urgency not to join in on their harmful narratives, not less. It doesn't *excuse* this kind of behavior, it makes it *worse.* How is that not obvious?

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i don't believe talarico is a bigot. im pretty sure he isnt. but if he apparently "has to" answer bad faith questions in a way that appears to compromise on the rights of one group of people being repressed to get elected, it's fair to ask what else he will "have to" do once he's in office

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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Very disheartening to see more and more Dem politicians lean into anti trans positions and when trans people say "man, this sucks" they get swarmed by people yelling at them for handing elections to the GOP. Wish they had that energy for the politicians.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The progression of certain thinkers from denying the validity of trans people to denying the validity of disabilities is a nice illustration of the way in which transphobic habits of mind can quickly evolve into a kind of acquired sociopathy.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you object to public-funded housing of homeless people, in the end the objection cannot be the cost, because we pay a premium to be cruel to homeless people. At the bottom of the objection will always sit dehumanizing cruelty and a desire for eradication.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Yeah the long fight to destroy teachers unions.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026

Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 02/09/2026

boosters want us to believe opponents of data centers are a bunch of nimbys that just indiscriminately oppose development. they don’t want people to see (or hear!) what it’s actually like to live next to one of their monstrosities.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026

Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and

The results chart from Massachusetts showing Markey winning nearly every city by over 40 points

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

An essential part of fascism is rejecting bodily autonomy and consent, it's why they are all pedophiles and rapists and transphobes. The other side of that coin is rejecting the agency of people opposing them. They imagine there *must* be a centralized leader, an organization, a billionaire funder

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Feel like one question i always ask when reading stuff like this is: will the rich send their kids to trade school?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Also: the Trump presidency isn't even half over yet, and the maximum alarmists weren't nuts. ICE is operating as a death squad or is at least building up to it. Birthright citizenship nearly died in court. Mass corruption. Iran War. Haitian ethnic cleansing. Concentration camps. It's very bad!

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

He isn't fact-checked and so he’s indifferent to the truth when it gets in the way of his performance as captain of the “calm down” club. I’m sure he doesn’t read much of the paper’s reporting of this kind or any kind and telling liberals they’re overreacting is a popular and well-paid gig.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I simply don't listen to criticism of door-knocking politics from people who post in opposition to bike lanes

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Typhoid Mary only gave 57 people diarrhea and she was imprisoned until she died

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The conventional wisdom is the Democrats' big climate law failed to deliver votes and then died. That's wrong. My new study finds its factories moved 2.5 million votes—more than Trump's margin. And the law's still alive. My latest in @theatlantic.com. Gift link! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Leftists are supposed to wait for a more convenient season for change. Getting the most votes in elections just shows how out of touch they are with most voters.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

…or you could try to outspend the progressive by tens of millions of dollars again and get racist as shit one more time just to see if it works this time

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.

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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 01/08/2026

What I feel when I even *consider* using an LLM is best described as… revulsion?

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Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"It's not climate change, it's likely just someone not putting out a cigarette proper-" AND WHY IS ALL THE GRASS IN ENGLAND SO DRY THAT A COUPLE OF CARELESS CIGARETTE BUTTS COULD ENGULF THE NATION IN FLAME???

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."

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The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.

Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...

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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just an extremely bleak tie-in. The demo of aging millennials forcing the audio books on their kids while waiting in the drive through for a charred-yet-cold bagel.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Their plan is to say as little as possible and win by default, which in their mind is the safest path that doesn't alienate anyone. This misses the opportunity to galvanize the public around important issues, and then they throw up their hands about how the voters are ignorant and apathetic

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026

Annoying thing about that “I got carried away” quote from Elon is that’s going to be all these people post-Trump

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The GOP made a similar claim in 2003. Since UN inspectors couldn't prove with certainty that Iraq eliminated its WMD program, there's a possibility WMDs exist and thus we should invade. This reverses the normal burden of proof when making claims. Everything hinges on the the word "possibility."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Things will get worse as more students secretly use AI to do homework. There has always been a divide between those who care about education for its own sake and those who only care about grades, but AI will worsen this divide, leaving fewer people with the ability to do causal reasoning.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” This man did incalculable damage, while 'carried away.'

Headline: "Elon Musk says he got 'carried away' with Trump—but still holds onto contentious political views."

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Debate pervert libs love this idea that Democrats’ failures are some sort of collective lack of a call to service and ignore how the vast majority of people reach out to their politicians because they are upset about something, and Democrats seem flabbergasted at the idea this is their problem.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

there is actually a zero sum tradeoff between providing services at scale and punishing cheaters. and the revealed preference in the US bends towards political theater about punishing cheaters

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21/07/2026

This particular criminalization of parental poverty, used to disproportionately pathologize Black women and steal their children, is called Jane Crow. And it's proliferating because of deliberately cruel, punitive administrative policies like what's happening to SNAP and Medicaid.

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