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This 2022 piece by Jeremy Peters In the New York Times was hilarious bullshit when it was published but now that Musk is literally bankrolling the entire Republican Party it’s a fucking laugh riot.

Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It’s Not So Simple.

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 6h

Gillis tries hard to subtly distance himself from the MAGA comedy crowd (despite being close friends with all of them)

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 9h

RANDOM POSTER WHOSE OPINION I HAVE NO REASON TO TRUST: A result like this in NV-03 would be seismic. That’s deep Blortles country. It was Vinkum +8 in ‘24 ME DURING ELECTION SEASON: totally. i just need to look at 9000 more of these

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h

Harp is...one of the most powerful people in the country/on earth?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8h

The owner of X is almost single-handedly funding the Republican midterm election campaigns. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 6h

Abdul El-Sayed: “JD Vance was just in Michigan. He had a cute little rally in Monroe. He invited the like, I don’t know, five people who like him.”

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 6h

Jesse Signal, who will screenshot this and name my employer, claims "The public pays attention to trans issues because trans activists wanted them to." That's the wisdom he brings to the conversation.

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Trans Issues Are No Conspiracy

The public pays attention to trans issues because trans activists wanted them to.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 10h

Elon Musk is an enemy of human freedom and we should strive to end his time as a free man.

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 10h

The white supremacist trillionaire whose businesses were funded by the US government is now the largest funder of the governing political party of the United States, and he uses that influence to control global geopolitical decisions to promote the destruction of democracies.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10h

If Susie Wiles is forced out or marginalized, Trump will truly have no one in any position to counsel against an extremely stupid and desperate attempt to overthrow Congress (again). The fact that Hegseth and Miller are still in power is a leading indicator of what happens next.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 7h

This is just beautiful to see

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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 10h

Do you know how many times I thought about if or when the US and/or a billionaire owner might try to do some sort of disruption at scale? The blocking of ICJ judges’ Microsoft accounts but for a much larger ”enemy“ faction? It would be bad but also it would be suicide for any US service company.

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Stéphane Lachance @lachstep.com · 10h

I’ve kept thinking back to Carney‘s NYT interview in September where Starlink was such an obvious national security risk for him, and Ukraine was a stated reason. “Starlink, we will diversify away from, no question.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

Many in various NatSec and foreign policy circles have spent the last 2 years—last decade, really—telling themselves the Putin sympathy is a show, a negotiating tactic, or a conspiracy theory. Or that Trump is purely transactional, so make him a better offer. Nope. Ideological affinity. It's real.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10h

from a real-world standpoint it's obvious untenable and unacceptable and incredibly obscenely immoral -- but also from a theoretical pov, from a Weberian pov, what the fuck is the US government if this one guy, who is not elected and not in the gov't, is making these kinds of decisions?

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10h

the more i think about this the more i feel like it's possibly one of the most outrageous scandals to happen in global politics in a long time. if it is what it looks like it's an absolute watershed crisis moment for the US and world.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9h

what even would be the precedent for something like this?

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9h

when we take a step back it's worth just saying this is so, so nuts

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11h

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

this is insane at every level; the UK's determination to institutionally harass trans people is deeply evil.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 11h

Donald Trump, in his infinite idiocy, is giving his Democratic successor as close to a literal "make prices lower" button as you can get

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly, this is maybe the easiest time to answer these questions in recent political history bc the reason prices are up have extremely clear and specific causes. Stop the war and stop tariffs! Done!

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Whenever you get a result like this it's because the other side is convinced you're as bad as them. Like how Trump did surprisingly well among voters who had "democracy" as one of their top priorities

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Again, he'd much rather run against JD Vance than Mike Rogers and Vance keeps letting him

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16/10/2026

it's amazing to watch *a canadian* who's job is best described as "twitch stream clip maker" corncob that she's not a wrecker, just that this guy really should be running as a m4a socialist in texas. dont u know how important that is!!! she used the word OECD!!!!

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16/10/2026

absolute cinema

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I'm sorry but James Talarico telling a horrifyingly sad story about how he nearly died from undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes yet still being against Medicare for All is absolutely insane. Jesus Christ.
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SORRY. I have to clarify again: please still go out and vote for James Talarico. Phone bank for him. Please ensure that Ken Paxton loses that general election. However, critique of his lack of enthusiasm and support for M4A is still warranted. It should be critiqued. I'm sorry.
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I'm speaking from experience as a canadian who is living in the province of ontario. My province is currently run by a conservative who wants to privatize our healthcare, but even he knows that if he touches that and completely privatizes shit, he would lose his job as Premier. Universal healthcare/socialized healthcare, specifically being able to see a doctor without going into medical debt, is embedded into the fabric of Canadian life and into the fabric of all OECD nations except the United States. It should not be fence-sat on.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 18h

Peggy Flanagan runs the kind of ad that every user on this website has been demanding Democrats run for years and the replies are just people getting mad that she didn’t use the exact words that they wanted. This website is addicted to getting mad and should knock it off. It’s embarrassing.

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Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 17h

I suppose there's a tipping point past which his $ actually becomes an issue for voters, ie if he is dropping 100x as much as anyone else then "Musk" becomes their party label.

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Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · 17h

The surprising thing is not how much Musk spends on politics, it's how little relative to the stakes.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’ve tried to engage him, but I don’t teach at Yale and I don’t defer to acumen not in evidence so that didn’t go anywhere. Accordingly, this is what we’re doing.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Screenshotted because I think he genuinely likes getting dunked on

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

imagine being nominally on the left and evidently believing oneself intelligent and reposting this piece and highlighting these sentences

Sam Moyn, who I should stress has been wrong about absolutely everything related to authoritarianism for the last 10 years, reshares Ross Douthat:

"As Trumpism has flailed and failed, it hasn't consolidated the kind of authoritarian power anticipated by its most alarmed opponents. It doesn't justify making anti-populism the
measure of all things."

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

“Democrats don’t care if they win or lose.”

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 18h

Miller Lite stats o’ the day $8 $2006 -face value for a standing room ticket for the 1982 World Series in Milwaukee -cheapest standing room ticket in StubHub this morning for game one

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18h

I intend to spend the next two years incessantly yelling at my reps and the Democrats writ large about the existential importance of crushing Elon Musk.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 18h

“This, but unironically.” —Dylan Byers

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 18h

these are the classic signs of a well-run organization being led by a serious and competent manager.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18h

This morning I re-watched my video argument with the NY Times' Patrick Healy, and it's clear that the Times believes if it says explicity that the Trump regime is assaulting democracy, that would undermine its work to investigate how the regime is assaulting democracy. What an absurd position.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/10/2026

Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning: Work faster, or the company might fire her. She said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.” (Published April 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

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A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.

Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s ho...

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Living Dead Girl @jillblacksheep.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

imo this is how you resolve the seeming contradiction between Vance's mixed-race marriage and his obvious white supremacist leanings. He doesn't believe in full white separatism, he just thinks whites get to pick which of the Untermenschen deserve junior partner status.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

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칠락싱하는중 @lcj-faure.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Unless we're talking stroads or R1 zoning, then we gotta keep some of the most sociologically damaging regulations of the latter 20th century on the books forever. Nothing can change

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

how does ohio boy vance keep walking right into the buzzsaw of one of the midwest's most Ancient Tribal Hatreds. dog no one in michigan cares what your OSU ass has to say

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

...it actually undercuts itself. Part of this is the fallacy that the way to make a narrative deeper by explaining every aspect of it. For instance: Chris Hargensen is a monster. You don't need to know WHY; you just need to grasp her place in the cosmos of that high school. No more than that.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have not seen the new version. But one brilliant thing about the original was that it made the audience culpable. Carrie is just weird and off enough so that you can’t smugly say, “Oh, but I would have been nice to her.” Instead you say, “I should have been, but WOULD I have been?”

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You cannot possibly look at Sissy Spacek’s performance in Carrie and not be wowed by the ways in which that movie gets you to care about her, to root for her, and to imagine against all reason that it might work out for her. If you don’t get that, you have simply lost the plot.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Why stop there? Maybe Margaret White is just a great, concerned mom. Maybe Carrie learns how to use her powers for good. Maybe the prom goes great. Maybe this is all about empowerment and agency. Maybe we call it Bewitched.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"shouldn't be this hard" is an all-encompassing, feel-it-in-your-bones summary of modern American life -- of difficulties big and small, existential and annoying -- that should be at the core of every Democratic candidate's message for years to come.

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