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Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 19h

Lockdown. (Alternative title: "Hey, it's the 14th century again.") open.substack.com/pub/newsitem... Narrator: "Get RFK Jr back on the bus!"

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did the Secretary of War's lifestyle taboo list in his speech last week make anybody else immediately think of his new BFF –– the trannyish, fattyish beardo and weirdo (multiple names & religions) wimp (no sports, Marine PR guy) a heartbeat away from being commander-in-chief?

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

100% worth reading.

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Moi? Putin is a disaster for both Russian and humanity.

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Real thing: The band's original name was the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). But the actual CTA sued them in court over the name, and won. Hence: "Chicago"

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Tom Nichols is Eastern Orthodox. I just fucking give up. You know? Nothing makes sense anymore, and the thing that makes the least sense is supernatural belief. Color me, heathen.

The Trumps Keep Cashing In on the Presidency With a Putin-Linked Oligarch Paying for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding: An Executive Watch Roundup

I got this. "Teapot Anthill". Any questions? The Trumps Keep Cashing In on the Presidency With a Putin-Linked Oligarch Paying for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding: An Executive Watch Roundup open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

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Our early-October selection of the president’s latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law

When mama auditions your bride choices. 😱

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"He made Tucker look like a complete imbecile." Bullwinkle: "And now for my next trick." 😂

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Yuki is a subscriber. And it's Kurt, so you're in for a treat.

I walked Red Square, but it was the interim, neither commie or oligarchy. It's a strange land. Russians have 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 known real freedom, or the responsibilities that come with it. Given that, I would expect 'barbarians at the gates'.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't know if you know, but you probably do, that wasabi growing is not for the faint-hearted. You need really good water, and it's best if that water kind of gently cascades over them. All that, and yet wasabi has succeeded in evolutionary terms. 🤪

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Taking the unprecedented non-stop large-scale corruption to the grotesque next level — not just enriching the Trumps and their cronies at the expense of American suckers/investors, but driving hugely consequential foreign policy. Vote them out. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The irony here might be that "genius IQ" POTUS is grammatically ignorant, using 'that', when 'who' is actually what grammar teachers would scream for.

Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If We Americans Are to Save Our Democracy, We Must Disenthrall Ourselves from Our Political Bondage to the 47th President and His MAGA Republican Party judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/if-we-amer... Digest, if your stomach is strong.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

More than 1.5 million kids were missed in the last U.S. census. The undercount was 2.1% for children <18, and 5.4% for those <5, the highest rate of any age group. Now the Census Bureau is proposing major changes to 2030 Census rules that could make some children even harder to count.

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Children Are Already Undercounted in the Census. Proposed Changes Could Make It Worse. - Population Reference Bureau

Newly proposed rules for who is counted and where could make millions of children harder to count in the 2030 Census.

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@strictscrutiny.bsky.social As there is little conservation about them, particularly when it comes to conserving democracy, let’s not use the term “conservative six”. Authoritarian six is a better descriptor.

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Proposed US Constitutional Amendment (short & simple) "Because States conduct elections, The Supreme Court of the United States is prohibited from ruling on any lawsuit, statute, or complaint, any of which even tangentially impacts any election, in any state or territory of the United States."

The Supreme Court Just Consigned Migrants to Cruelty Far Beyond Their Crimes

The Supreme Court Just Consigned Migrants to Cruelty Far Beyond Their Crimes open.substack.com/pub/theunpop... Tell me, so I can laugh in your face, that this is not "cruel and unusual", and therefore itself a crime.

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Letting the administration deport them for now to nasty third-country dictatorships should shock our conscience

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Must defang him in this election, however. He's "immune", and ignorant, and he's got > 2 more years to "help" those that need no help, while hurting every innocent he "touches".

I mean, you can't find a hot button? Then you probably don't deserve power. You Yanks have had your faces smeared in it. You have no single "This one, was way over the line?" JFC

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Once you get your supermajority, you can talk 'vague', or even 'specifically vague'. Right now, you need a violation that pulls at heartstrings. Not a list, a single whopper.

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We Need to Talk About Ethics Reform

That's about as diffuse an idea as you can come up with. You need to find a massive, singular, ethics violation, and ride that pony into a supermajority. If you can't, god help ya. pca.st/3ik6yufk

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In the fifth and final installment of our Hot Supreme Court Reform series, Kate speaks with Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court. What would a meaningful and enforceable set of ethics…

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The small- to mid-sized entrepreneurs, who should enjoy a lot of "laissez-faire", get scared by the propaganda of the behemoths, who desperately fear being "well regulated" (to borrow a 2A phrase), into voting for "total laissez-faire for all", which the behemoths then use to squash them like bugs.

e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 30/09/2026

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"pete hegseth's idea of a smart guy" is such a brutal own

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There is no such thing as a “free market”

There is no such thing as a “free market” robertreich.substack.com/p/there-is-n... So agree. The issue isn't 'socialism' 𝒐𝒓 'capitalism'. All economies are mixed. The tough part is discerning the appropriate degree of market freedom based on size. Americans don't even try anymore.

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All markets are defined by laws and rules. The question is who are the laws and rules for?

"Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reports more than $250 million in income last year" More than $1,000,000 dollars per average working days in a year. Narrator: But he's actually working for 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 😂🙄🤕

We humans know how to do this peacefully (if such a word can be used in conjunction w/ an execution). But really. We know what drugs to use. We know how to avoid pain and needless suffering. That we (both we Japanese, and Americans) still persist in butchery tells me that we like the suffering.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike still alive after failed state execution attempt, lawyers say" Ghastly. State fails in trying to execute a 50-yr-old woman for a murder she committed when she was 18. Maybe Tennessee, and the rest of the US, should get out of the execution habit.

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The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time. As well as the stupidest President and probably sloppiest White House ever.

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I mean, they're only showing exactly the same behavior traits as the POTUS. What's all the worry? 😂

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"If You're Evil, Maybe You're Good": Peter Thiel's Worldview Explained

www.youtube.com/live/BkpFTzk... Thiel: "If you're evil, your competent." Narrator: I guess US prisons are full of competent evildoers. 🙄 Reminds one of the old saying, "If they were smart, they wouldn't be criminals."

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More Than One Antichrist Is Making Christians Betray Jesus

youtu.be/jV5uFSEYhcQ?... "To save American democracy, it will be necessary to dismantle the authoritarianism inside the heads of [too many American Christians and their leaders]."

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Top AI executives sign commitment to ‘self-police’ after meeting at White House Trump apparently believes that 'self-policing' has ever worked out. Narrator: "Safety for our time. I have a paper here with Herr Zuckerburg's and other signatures on it." 😱

The very idea that you would vest "management" of AI (tempted to say "control", but I'm not sure 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 can be done, either) into one human's fallible hands is both laughable and terrifying.