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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The random civilian who illegally stole everyone's data & dismantled large chunks of the federal government, in an end run around Article I of the Constitution, should be jailed for life & not have large govt contracts, the ability to contribute to political campaigns, or stakes in large media orgs.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

housing politics is interesting because you have an ostensibly technocratic process influenced by a bunch of high info civically minded individuals and they basically got everything wrong

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Malimar @malimar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trumpism is a heresy against the American civil religion.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“It seems like politics worldwide started shifting in a populist and authoritarian direction beginning in around 2010 or so. This happened across most countries and independently of local economic conditions.” There is one trend that seems to track this political shift quite well: the phones

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

that cities should be safer for bicycles does not in any way mean that you should not have to wear a helmet, unless bike lanes magically stop people from crashing in non car-related ways

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This man responding to city residents asking him to wear a helmet, making an announcement about it, does not shift the responsibility from drivers cars and urban design, and this kind of argumentation is rookie shit. C’mon.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

JKR has crossed the Trump event horizon past which one’s rapidly dwindling stan base gets increasingly manic, violent and unhinged, which SORT OF lets you pretend it’s a tidal wave of universal adulation, right up until the moment you see someone else actually get that and you can compare the two

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

not sure how to express this without sounding like a chair-turned-around youth pastor, but there's something so radical about having your most well-known lyric be "i will always love you" and then sincerely embodying it whenever possible

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

a lot (not all, there are externalities, they're just normal ones) of the data center stuff does have witch hunt vibes in that that it's based moral panic pseudoscience, but considering how the AI industry has acted it's sorta like the accused witch *had* been going around bragging about her powers

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Like a type of music that has deep roots in American folk music and harkens back to classic country music exists and the audience for it is educated urban hipsters. The volk hate that shit and instead like mainstream country music, a hideous behind-the-times pastiche of other top 40 pop genres

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I continue to wrestle with how much I want a political candidate at a national level to talk to voters like they are goddamn adults with agency and responsibility for their actions instead of uwu smol beans and also how badly I know that would probably go and how vanishingly unlikely it is

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Indeed this is succinctly captured in a lot of the prices-and-affordability rhetoric we see. Most people are middle class, and getting by. Getting them angry about prices, and telling you’ll help them pay less, is a promise that can mostly be satisfied by crushing workers’ wages.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

grouchy "we live in a society" old man type take: people care way too much about 'nepo babies' in entertainment, as though the 'be hot on camera' industry was ever going to be a representative cross-section of society, and not nearly enough about them in things like journalism

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/08/2026

The dialogue around LLMs is kind of broken both in terms of critique and advocacy. For critique, we need to focus on how we attack fascist tech power consistently — LLMs are only one part of that; merely saying "AI bad" has simply ended up with a lot of people using AI quietly while feeling shame...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/08/2026

And amongst AI advocates, there's too often the same tedious fallback to arguments of inevitability and "progress", which excuse the enabling of the bad actors in tech, and advance their authoritarian project. It's a failure of imagination, in addition to being complicit in their political goals...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Type of guy who wants a completely planned economy but also constantly disparages spreadsheet people is an amazingly common type of guy on the Internet. Who exactly do you think is going to be planning your socialist economy.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 20/08/2026

spreadsheet people gave your trans employees the civil rights they are pissing away sabotaging the Democratic Party, Ben

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't think we should accept fundamentally right-wing framings about how people who work in offices don't have real jobs and are unmanly.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Republicans do this thing with unions where they rhetorically assert that the rank-and-file membership are mostly conservatives and only the sicko leaders, who have ascended to their position by corruption, are actually opposed to them, and the Democrats should steal that but for cops.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At some point, I argued that I think this will debut huge, slowly erode across S1, then the bottom will drop out in S2, a pattern that fits a lot of heavily hyped modern streaming shows. The ones that buck that pattern are ones the audience feels like it's DISCOVERING, and this can never be that.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

you think trans women should play in the WNBA? well how about this: I'm a cis man, who is decidedly not a trans woman, and I'd like to play in the WNBA. really makes you think doesn't it?

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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The thing about strategically leaning into populism is that some of those people will go from “affordability and data centers” to “(((affordability and data centers)))” without even blinking - if it’s just discontent you cant ride it forever because it’ll turn on you

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I Work As A Jungle Cruise Tour Guide At The Magic Kingdom. Here's What The Odyssey Gets Wrong About Boats

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Carly Rae Jeppson’s Malört @jables.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Working on ironing out my ongoing political theory called “everyone is wrong and nobody understands anything.”

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

convincing michiganders to get behind aes because his name is abdul THE sayed and it’ll piss off ohioans

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/08/2026

this is a real thing that happens a lot and it’s a total misunderstanding of capitalism and i really wish that more loud and online anti-capitalists would take the time to understand what it is they think they’re against, most of them are wrong about what they think they’re fighting

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The people who demand gross, obtrusive genital monitoring of children in the name of protecting girls sports will immediately pivot to using the gross, obtrusive genital monitoring as an argument against letting girls play sports at all.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 02/08/2026

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Right, exactly. If your end goal is taxing our affluent middle-class to help the needy, you WANT TO HIGHLIGHT HOW PROSPEROUS THE POPULATION IS. Talking about how the median American is broke and miserable and can't afford anything is a great way to make the necessary transfers seem painful.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/07/2026

"You realise you're an adult, right?" is kind of the ideal rejoinder to 90% of the therapy-speak discourse that plagues so much social media.

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

WGN posted a meme of Kyle Shanahan as Mitch McConnell when reporting on his car accident.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I think Zohran’s grocery stores are a worthwhile policy experiment. That said, the idea that people in food deserts eat less produce due to lack of access has been thoroughly debunked. The real problem is that low-income people can’t use SNAP for hot prepared foods.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/07/2026

Basic rules of society that we need to re-establish post Covid: - You actually have to stop for red lights and stop signs. - If you want to watch videos or listen to music in a shared public space, you need to use headphones. - Your pet does not need to go everywhere with you. - Don’t litter.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

far and away I think the single most consequential failures of the 20th/21st century environmental movement was going anti-nuclear. to a great extent we literally chose climate change.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

anyway i suspect this is the calculus for linear media like ESPN deciding to double down on chud talent? demographics of who still watches linear cable is older, more rural, lower education bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I think Israel has behaved abhorrently and committed many war crimes over the past three years. But the sheer… centrality it has taken in many corners of US politics is an alarming trend on its own and opens up a lot of dark possibilities. It is, ultimately, another country, that we do not control.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I think Democrats should exploit the GOP being down a vote any which way they can, but then flop like a fútboller if it comes out that there was an active Mitch cover up.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/07/2026

Instead of forcing everyone who uses the Internet to cough up their sensitive personal data to private companies and to the federal government to “protect” kids, regulators and law COULD go way harder at rooting out the many freaks and creeps in high tech company leadership positions, like at Meta

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