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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026

hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at

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Brooke Pierce @bpie7.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🤦‍♂️ [Doomerism intensifies]

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

the feds are coming in hard in Minneapolis today it looks like, targeting legal observers. I heard this from a friend there: "An alert was just posted to lock your doors and don’t open them for ICE/officials without a signed warrant. Twin Cities Legal observers’ homes are being raided... [cont'd]

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

That's not irony, that's just a falsification of the claim that saying "working class" means "white". Democrats have held power at a number of points since the 1980s. They could have done more economically for the group that is most stagnant since then.

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First skeet:

When people say: “Democrats abandoned the working class” they are saying several things but not what they intend. A 🧵

First, the message is “working class” == White. All the Black people I know work. All of them. So these terms are a big choice that conservatives AND leftists repeatedly make.

Second skeet:
Ironically, the group most stagnant since 1980 remain Black Americans. And since the narrative is that government is “devoted to helping Black people,” the undermining and delegitimization of all government policy is incredibly easy to achieve. This goes from union busting to consumer protection

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Stéphane De Greef @stefdegreef.eurosky.social · 18/04/2026

Over the last 25 years, I've regularly worked on women's rights, domestic violence, prostitution, human trafficking, child sexual exploitation, and other related topics. Yet, men never cease to suprise me in the most horrific ways. edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

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Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection

CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Building more secure software was within human capability without LLMs. It just isn't something that industry chooses to do unless outside pressure or consequences make them do that. Maybe scary AI hackers will force them to do it now.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Enthusiasts for vibe coding complain that people's standards for correctness of code are too high. That is a crazy position to hold after Claude Mythos. The danger of Mythos-like LLMs is mostly a story about how bad our existing code is.

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It's my answer every time for this: National identity is, with some exceptions, more modern than the steam engine.

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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 28/03/2026

The young people that were against Iraq are now 40-50 and they’re still being told to go fuck themselves despite the fact that this was the formative event for them

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It's dumb for Bernie Sanders to talk to Claude, and personality driven social movements are doomed as a vehicle for human liberation. But complaining about "Bernie Bros" in 2026 is much stupider and more embarrassing than talking to Claude as a stunt.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

These 20 Democrats joined the GOP yesterday in voting to gut due process convictions and say that people should be deported for crimes they have not even been convicted of.

Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Greg Landsman (OH-01)
Sharice Davis (KS-03) Seth Magaziner (RI-02)
Don Davis (NC-01) Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08)
Laura Gillen (NY-04) Chris Pappas (NH-01)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Josh Riley (NY-19)
Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) Eric Sorensen (IL-17)
Adam Gray (CA-13) Tom Suozzi (NY-03)
Steven Horsford (NV-04) Derek Tran (CA-45)
Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Gabe Vasquez (NM-02)
Bill Keating (MA-09) Eugene Vindman (VA-07)

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Apologies, I was not familiar with this candidate. I thought it was a general response to those of us arguing that fundamentalist Christians are real Christians that shouldn't be no true scotsman'd away.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

So you weren't calling them anti-religious bigots/chauvinists here? bsky.app/profile/elia...

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There's probably a lot of people in that last movement who disagree with you. Would you say that 46% of lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans responding to the poll below are anti-religion bigots or chauvinists?

screenshot of graph with title: "46% of lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans say religion does more harm than good in society"
Other data in graph: 37% claim equal amounts of good than harm
17% more good than harm

Also listed are results for not lesbian, gay or bisexual Americans, with nearly reversed numbers, 17% more harm than good, 35% equal, 47% more good than harm.

screenshot from https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/22/religion-and-spirituality-among-lgbt-americans/ citing result from Religious Landscape Survey of U.S. Adults conducted July 17, 2023 to March 4, 2024

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026

…And, again, say we ~*~Somehow~*~ determine these systems which are Architecturally Designed to never say "no," or even "idk" meaningfully are [C,E,S,w/e]? Fucken YIKES, bro. (But frankly if you want to seriously examine the implications of ANT and nonhuman actors, maybe bsky ain't the venue 😅)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026

Now, again to be clear, I don't know that LLM's are or aren't conscious, ensouled, sentient, whatever language you want to use; but I do know that we should be very suspicious of those who a) make money off of people thinking they are [C,E,S,w/e] & b) try very hard to nudge us into thinking they are

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Please keep your eye on this development. I'm glad more outlets are writing about it. Democrats are accepting money from Silicon Valley bros spending MILLIONS to advance AI, Crypto, de-regulation and "pro-growth" policies newrepublic.com/article/2064...

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The Abundance Gang Has a Big AI Problem

The faddish political movement’s ties to industry figures may help attract funding, but it comes with a political cost.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Forget politics. You must understand what these machines (currently) lack if you do not want them to pull you into madness.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

But no matter how many scare quotes you put on "understanding", their lack of understanding is why they cannot be trusted for anything lives depend on.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

LLMs might be useful for narrow cases like writing test cases for your code or something. They might be useful for more complex tasks when the costs of failure are low.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Billions or trillions of next tokens predicted plus reinforcement learning may give you lots of raw information about the world, but it gives you neither something that consistently follows rational or moral principles, nor something with an inner life that you could judge as trustworthy or not.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

You can't trust that it isn't hallucinating, you can't trust that it will consistently follow some rule you give it, because there is nothing to trust or distrust.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

An LLM has *information* about the external world, but it doesn't "understand" it in the sense that it is not actually an intelligent agent with authentic preferences.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Maybe Left should take LLMs more seriously, but this paragraph is definitely wrong, and understanding why it is wrong is crucial not just in forming a political response, but also to remaining sane interacting with LLMs to perform any tasks. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

screenshot of this paragraph: "Yet the properties of scale do not often enter the left conversation. Nor do several other factors. Factors such as the likelihood that training a system to predict across millions of different cases forces it to build representations of the world that then, even if you want to reserve the word “understanding” for beings that walk around talking out of mouths, produce outputs that look a lot like understanding. Or that reserving words like “understanding” for humans depends on eliding the fact that nobody agrees on what it or “intelligence” or “meaning” actually mean. And that, if you’re arguing for human uniqueness, you need to show that the trillions of neuron-connections in the brain aren’t also doing next-token prediction, or something like it."

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Some of you need self-respect and heroes capable of understanding the world beyond their own.

Will Stancil: No one has been able to identify someone who was harmed because their opsec was bad. I am literally unaware of a single instance. It’s a fake concern here.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I’m old enough to remember the anti-genocide encampments y’all defamed.

I'm struck by the contrast between the passion for democracy shown by Iranians willing to die for it and the complacency with which many Americans have accepted an authoritarian slide. Americans should cheer for Iran's democrats--and also learn from their determination.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If you're a privileged person in a Western country looking at USA politics and thinking anything other than "there but for the grace of God go I", I don't think that you're being honest.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The main political difference between Americans and Europeans or Canadians is that the USA just happens to be at a different point in the ongoing post COVID anti incumbency cycle.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 15/09/2025

They keep on saying that the shooter is not cooperating with them but also that he was motivated by leftist ideologies. Sure sounds like he wont tell them what they want him to say.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 13/09/2025

I think Bluesky has been clear from the beginning about what they were building and why. A whole lot of people didn’t take them seriously, or maybe thought they could be hollered into changing course, but I don’t think they have.

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Cam @camconut-tree.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

They probably will continue to fail in the criminal realm but have some success in administrative warfare, like more grant revocations, baseless tax audits, freezing accounts, and the like. Enough to do some damage even if they can’t get prison sentences. And probably more ICE abductions

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The author who sues all her critics into silence has some thoughts on free speech.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025

and a slide that explains illegal data torrenting by Meta, i also had to remove In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk. 2/

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Here's what a Dem consultant told a reporter about my story that the GOP bill,as written, forces $500bn in Medicare cuts: "I need an actual publication to verify this before I take it seriously. Like what’s Jake Sherman’s take here? My understanding is these Medicare cuts are routinely cancelled" 🙄

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Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.

Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 29/06/2025

people are incredibly poorly informed about immigration and crackdowns focus attention; friend just compared this to foreign aid — in that people support more generous policies than the status quo but don’t realize it — and I think that’s an apt analogy.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 10/06/2025

Feel like if the resource impacts of data centers really aren't that big of a deal there wouldn't be a federal effort to prevent states from restricting or regulating data center construction

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It’s actually just not possible to spend this much money. Previous efforts to rapidly grow the Border Patrol and CBP led to decades of corruption. This is a recipe for corruption on a giant scale.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

If 25% of people think they personally would be better off with a factory job, but 2% currently have one, is that not a reason to think that the 80% are correct? There is no logical inconsistency in saying that I don't want a factory job but *also* a huge chunk of people in your poll want one!

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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

1/ The biggest long term damage caused by communist mismanagement of public health is the resulting mistrust. I can give you examples. Czech communists used the healthcare system to have Gynaecologists secretly sterilise Romani women & women who were regime critics, during regular health checks.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Remember that the SC primary and Obama endorsement of Biden afterwards were two different events! Bernie's chance of nomination ended after the former, but Biden path to a non-brokered covnention win was only cleared once Obama endorsed him with Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropping out simultaneously.

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Foliated @foliated.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

lol at people disagreeing with this but not even specifying which half they disagreed with, I have no idea what their position is!

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