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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thread. This is also why they want to replace teachers with AI, replace musicians and writers with AI, replace scientists with AI. They want total control of the information people are exposed to. It's a dream that would make Lenin blush. The boldest act of rebellion is always thinking for yourself

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The country with a whites-only refugee policy? That country cannot possibly be saturated with racism.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It turns out there are consequences for fabricating demonstrable lies about SPECIFIC people. If she’d stuck to defaming the community as a whole, she’d have a lucrative podcast.

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melindamosheim @melindamosheim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yep...he is immune. Dems have done zip to hold him to account since 2015. DOJ did nothing. Mueller did nothing. SDNY did nothing. Biden/Garland did nothing. And on and on. Of course USA is a techno fascist regime now. 😒

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Communist counties are famously known for holding police accountable to the public, and for their lack of policies promoting domestic manufacturing. Right? But of course in this context, "communist," like "illegal immigrant," just means non-white. "It's all just racism" is the MAGA Rosetta stone.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026

Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wonder what the likely consequences are of rendering it impossible to enact justice within the boundaries of the law? Surely attempting such a thing won't in any way backfire on those attempting to elude accountability.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s interesting how much we’ve seen of this. Trump & especially the folks around them were absolutely crystal clear that mass deportation would not be about rounding up criminals, but peaceful, taxpaying workers & families by the millions…

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 17/09/2026

“you can’t just point at random inventions and say they’re transhumanism” glasses? transhumanism. prosthetic arms? transhumanism. transgender hrt? transhumanism. the iphone? oh buddy

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Kaleidic Riot @badmenbad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Look, it's one thing to believe in "sovereign nations" and "borders" as a child, but eventually you're supposed to grow up and become an anarchist.

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Jeffries/Schumer Democratic leadership is either fully collaborationist, or so cowardly as to make no difference. Complete obstructionism is your DUTY, dammit. Shut up about "battleground states" and DO YOUR JOBS.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As I’ve said before, a lot of modern American Evangelicalism is just a lifestyle brand for right-wing authoritarianism. It has no real core principles; its function is just to ventriloquize whatever otherwise-indefensible view serves power as a command from God.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It sends a pretty strong message that liberals see LGBTQ+ rights as an inconvenience to winning elections rather than standing up for oppressed people being integral to defeating fascism

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It has never ended, it will never end

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 10/09/2026

Since it seems necessary in the face of one-year-past-Kirkening discourse: *all of you* support political violence with the possible exception of a handful of principled anarchists. What did you think the state was made of? Why would you internalize its bogus ontology and let it thus mystify you?

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm not saying no one has real grievances - although honestly, a lot of MAGA and AfD voters basically don't have real grievances (lotta 'boat parade' fascists out there) - but the only problem these far-right parties have shown any interest in solving is 'not enough people are mean to minorities.'

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As we get deeper into anti-fascist collaboration between liberals and progressives, with likely many years remaining ahead, I think it's worth thinking some about the basis for and necessity of that collaboration, as well as its limits. Quoted post a case-in-point. Thread follows.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Trump is a return to *that* kind of corruption. Not baleful special interests influence in politics, not petty local schemes managing to fly under the radar. Full-scale, completely unchecked, all of government for sale and official powers openly abused for personal profit.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of the unfortunate things about property rights is that they're understood--by people on every side of the discussion--to be mostly about the rich. Yet when you've only got a little, knowing that it's secure from seizure means so much more, and not just for peace of mind.

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I dunno, the persistence of human mortality doesn't seem to have done anything to stop illiberal bullcrap from pervading every corner of socio-political-economic discourse.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Setting aside all the civil liberties, privacy, and free expression concerns, online ID checks / “age verification” laws are just a massive massive security risk. Every time I read one of these bills I ask “did an identity thief write this?!”

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It was a big mistake that politicians and civic leaders haven’t been uniformly insistent about prosecuting ICE and others involved in this ethic cleansing campaign. They know what they’re doing is illegal (why else wear masks and scrub tail numbers off planes?) and they’re afraid of consequences.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 30/08/2026

if they were honest about what was happening it would be like "trump expanded his promised ethnic cleansing campaign to Chicago, detaining thousands while Gov. Pritzker deployed state police against protestors"

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Chat, is it good when an aspiring authoritarian is purging the military leadership to install politically reliable generals (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...)

Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens

The turmoil has left a leadership vacuum in the Army at a moment when it is trying to find ways to defend troops against the threat posed by cheap drones.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotions of four Army officers selected for promotion to one-star rank, a highly unusual move that appears to be targeting officers who worked for generals he does not like, current and former defense officials said.

So far this year Mr. Hegseth has removed at least 45 officers, selected by boards made up of peers, from promotion lists. More than half of those officers have been female or Black.

Mr. Hegseth’s actions appear to violate the rules governing a promotion system that is meant to be apolitical and merit-based.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the core of the problem really. For just about everyone, simply taking the data from USGS at face value has always made sense til now. For apps to ignore a dumb presidential order, they’re also having to also reckon with trusting a basic data source.

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The more we talk about how necessary damnatio memorae for this regime is, the more I see just how gratifying it would be to be able to do it *while he's still alive*. People need to see that you can't be a p.o.s. your entire life and just get away with it all. #Retribution bsky.app/profile/norm...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Everyone else wants him in jail and too many Dems are like “*nervous laughter* Is that really necessary? Let’s talk about something else.” In everyone else’s eyes that person is an enabler and barely any more trustworthy than the actual monster.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Democrats are obviously not the primary villain in American politics but they really, really need to take care to not find themselves in the position of being the person who downplays the offenses of the abusive maniac they share a home with.

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Extradite Hegseth, IMO. We need custody of the folks above him to try for domestic crimes, or I'd say extradite them, too.

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's worth reiterating every time the Trump regime performs one of these murders that they are murders, wholly illegal, & everyone in the chain of command from the president on down to the officers who fired the weapons should be prosecuted for their crimes in aiding & abetting the murders.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"The problem... is that the current social context is stimulating a vicious kind of polarization which grows on the assumption that political ‘others’ are at best not worth engaging with seriously, and at worst, bad people for holding certain political beliefs."

liberalcurrents.com

The Reasonable Liberal

We must begin the process of making our political rivals not just more legible but human in a way we can also recognize in ourselves.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

But this is sometimes just literally true. Some beliefs absolutely aren't worth engaging with seriously. The proper place for those beliefs is in an editor's wastebasket, not in the readers' minds. Editorial choice is necessary, and when done well, it's good.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I remain *more* uneasy with this than with, say, the case of a great researcher who is garbage at writing (or writing in the desired language) & gets an LLM to convert their findings into prose. I think there’s an untenable implied dichotomy between the ideas or arguments and their prose expression.

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Writing is thinking! And clear, rigorous writing is clear, rigorous thinking. "Putting it into words" is not some formality you do after the hard work is done, like handing off a new product to the marketing team--it *is* the work.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

When the public broadly believes something foolish, it isn't wrong to note that fact, but you have an obligation in so noting it *that it is foolish* - yes, actually, the collapse of American democracy will impact you more than the time you had to sit through an HR training.

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 31/07/2026

i think it’s good to scan books for any reason and if you’re mad that copyright law encourages the book to be destroyed afterwards you should be mad at copyright law

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quasisocial 🏴 @quasisocial.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

you actually can't give the state just a little more power, just one more capability that will be heavily regulated by a nonpartisan oversight committee, and maintain that level of containment for any length of time. sorry, but that doesn't happen and in 2026 it's ridiculous to pretend otherwise

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is what’s especially troubling about the current majority. I find Dobbs morally appalling in its consequences, but it does follow more or less coherently from a particular jurisprudential philosophy. But you can’t plausibly say that about many recent rulings, where approach serves outcome.

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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Elite universities, particularly American ones, are a vacuum which pull in the brightest and most ambitious young talent from around the world to their host countries. It is, without exaggeration, the greatest long-term advantage America has. And they decided to turn that system off because racism.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

FWIW, I think the question of "Did Woke 1 go to far?" it depends on where you ask! On college campuses? Sometimes. In making cops responsible for bad behavior? Obviously not! In holding sex pests and criminals to account? Clearly incomplete, look at the damn White House.

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The breakdown of the police/military distinction is one of those disasters--like the legislature controlling military spending, rather than the executive paying his own private army--that gets at an issue so fundamental to modern politics that the layman lacks the vocabulary to talk about it.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When you make anti-immigration policy cruel and dehumanizing enough, in future years it won't matter that we've gone back to welcoming immigrants. The memory of what we did will be there, and so will the risk that we may do it again.

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is the point--the putative advantage of first-past-the-post is that rather than the fascist party or the tankie party having 5% of power, it gets 0%, and the relative moderates get 100% instead of 95%. We are living in the failure mode.

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Grant Babcock @grantbabcock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The settlements for his frivolous lawsuits are also bribes!

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