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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/09/2026

Over the last couple of days we have got several polls of Dems leading by double digits in the national environment, and ahead in states and districts Trump won by 15+ points. Starting to get hard to deny that Nov could very likely be a bloodbath for the GOP

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...

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What Keeps Me Up at Night

Rising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

PENTAGON REVEALS ELON MUSK'S GROK AI WAS USED TO COORDINATE DEPLOYMENT OF OVER 2,000 MUNITIONS ACROSS IRAN.

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

He is more dangerous than Trump.Time for a coordinated response.

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Translation is always a fraught exercise

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 02/06/2026

Dire scenes h/t @leftoutside.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

Pay as the primary motive for service has also created an accumulation of personnel in Russian units who are eager to avoid combat. Officers accept bribes from soldiers who don’t want to be part of an assault. Meanwhile, soldiers who break the Russian military’s growing array of contradictory standing orders are punished by being thrown into assaults. This uncompromising approach often sweeps up important support troops, such as those responsible for logistics, who have run afoul of regulations. In a force in which logistics is overwhelmingly coordinated through the social media app Telegram, but in which Telegram is banned, a conscientious logistician is at high risk of finding himself stopped by the military police and either being shaken down for money or reassigned to assault units.

Russian combat performance is waning.
The result over time has been a buildup of connected and fee-extracting soldiers at intermediate echelons, such as the regiment, and a hollowing out of personnel with any professional experience in subordinate units as they are killed or wounded in attempted assaults. The lack of quality at lower levels has seen a deterioration in performance and an inability to execute plans or orders. Many officers have received their promotions in the field, without having gone through extensive officer training, and their foremost task has been to psychologically prepare their soldiers for attacks rather than to plan and execute competent attacks in the first place.

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Existential crisis for Waymos? "Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Officially released TODAY!!!

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

@hntdove.bsky.social I apologize if people have asked you this many times, but why did you never write an alternate history in which the Mexican-American war never happens?

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Soviet style problems

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

anybody who’s been paying attention to politics understands these numbers

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

POLYBIUS, the authoritarian consolidation index, is live. (daily updates for now) polybius.world

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 30/12/2025

Blackbird in the style of Radiohead

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Incredible research on origins and spread of the Black Death

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This is a beautiful statement from Leo

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Combatting disinformatiom must happen in the context of social identity.

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

@ossoff.senate.gov I live in Cumming and would like the senator to vote for new leadership in the Senate. The latest capitulation was plain embarrassing (and will not protect ACA).

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The process of completely insulating rightwingers from any reasonably objective knowledge continues...

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I notice news outlets don’t make it clear that the Insurrection act is not equivalent to martial law at all.

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

@jamellebouie.net how can we find out why the NYT has buried what may be the largest protests in US history on its site (there are like a dozen stories above)

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Can we get Chotiner to interview one of these SCOTUS frauds?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The Who record “Who Are You” 48 years ago today — at a time, Daltrey said, when the band “felt very threatened by the punk thing.” “.. It was like, ‘Well, they think they’re f–king tough, but we’re f–king tougher.’ .. When I listen back .., I can hear that it made me incredibly aggressive.”

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This is full of great insights. Do yourself a favor and subscribe to John Ganz's substack.

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hugely consequential and not well understood by the general public

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Ancient DNA study shifts Uralic origins east: ancestors of Finns, Estonians & Hungarians trace back to Yakutia ~4,500 yrs ago—far beyond Indo-European steppe homelands.https://tinyurl.com/4uapb497

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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

More of this please. Anyone will a big megaphone needs to speak up now.

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