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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Also these people aren’t neglected teenagers, they’re adults with full agency over their actions and beliefs! Stop treating them like they’re maligned when they’re malicious

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That’s exactly what it is because they see him as this ultra-tough “alpha” male. That it rolls off the tongue makes it that much more appealing for the dumbest people who don’t bother to pay attention to anything past surface-level reading

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The “a man of his time arguments” are always bullshit because if you were, say, a Taíno, you probably thought Columbus was terrible regardless of what people in Spain thought. But yeah, plenty of people in Spain thought he was too brutal too.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 11/10/2026

The anti-anti-Trump movement has been as damaging to he country as the pro-Trump movement. The basic idea of the anti-anti-Trump faction is that they themselves criticize Trump sometimes, but any political or legal figure who tries to stop Trump is always going too far or not doing it the right way.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is why Musk doesn't mind that that Twitter revenue is down 59% (or Ellison w/ CBS). He's more than making up for that loss via Twitter's political effects--ingratiating to Trump, fomenting racist panics, etc--which help SpaceX and xAI get favorable public contracts and regulatory treatment

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s baffling how many people fail to understand this until you realize how many people see politics as a game or “horse race.” Then it begins to make a lot more sense why they care so much more about hypocrisy rather than an imperfect system that still tries to do *some* good.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It has to be completely deflating to see your ex-spouse use a fraction of their divorce settlement to do more good than you’ve ever done. People like Bezos and Musk know how much they’re despised and resent that they can’t buy respect so they kiss Trump’s ass to feel like they have any influence

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m sorry but even as a scholar I think sometimes it’s appropriate to say: what the actual FUCK is wrong with some people

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"First time Trump voter" five days after the January 6th Coup attempt:

Jack Buhring: Donald Trump we all stand with you. You have more people on your side than you know. If you can't get it done its hard to tell where this country will end up. Keep fighting!!!

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He never found his porpoise in life

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the clear throughline behind every Trump voter is a refusal to believe that their behavior has consequences

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Shane Gilgamesh-Anaximander @kafkaroach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Guy in 2006, who writes for a living: "Learn STEM! Writing & Humanities is a dead end" Guy in 2016, who writes for a living: "Learn to code! College is a dead end." Guy in 2026, who writes for a living: "Learn to lay bricks! Everything else is a dead end."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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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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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yep, they love to position themselves as “moral/political umpires” when they’re really just moronic and overpaid assholes. They’re not politically savvy, they just turn whichever way the political winds are blowing and say “see? We told you all along”

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t disagree but I really think it boils down to a lot of Trump 2024 voters checked out of paying attention to everything outside their day-to-day once the pandemic started and when the 2024 election came around, they associated the “pre-pandemic” vibes with Trump. Now they have buyers remorse

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we’re seeing generative AI being shoved down our throats at the same time there’s all these fearmongering news articles about the dangers of AI. The Silicon Valley class *knows* they fucked their own over so now they’re shifting to take down liberal arts majors

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Will this trend continue? I have no idea. But it is very striking to me that after years of being told I needed to learn to code (I actually did, in high school, but ok) and to do STEM, the numbers-and-code folks have mostly managed to automate away their own jobs.

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They’ll still cower out of fear and cry foul. Coming out against Trump now or after the midterms doesn’t earn them good will with *anyone.* MAGA wants them to be in line and the median and disaffected voters will see them as fence sitters. They have no other choice but to go down with the ship now

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A massive hypocrite who ran for governor on the platform of a reformer advocating for a merit system and railed against the spoils system Trump gleefully embraces wholeheartedly

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Are you at all concerned? This isn’t strictly a talent issue

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A garden? Don’t you mean “future site of a data center”?

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Imagine their frustracean!

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But far more importantly, the voters make no appearance whatsoever in Justice Alito’s reasoning. He, like the government, does not dispute that using the rule in 2026 would disenfranchise millions of our most vulnerable people. He doesn’t care. It’s despicable and antidemocratic.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For MSNOW, I wrote about the Trump administration threatening to strip colleges of their tax-exempt status as part of its larger segregationist agenda.

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Opinion | Trump’s next high education target: schools that help Black students

Victor Ray: American universities must stand up to Trump's plan to re-segregate higher ed

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Any opportunity he can, Trump threatens to take the ball away and go home. Calling it an extortion tactic, while true, doesn’t really capture the immature pettiness that guides his “thinking.” He’s mentally still 10 years old

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/09/2026

In addition to eugenicist and neo-Nazi social media posting, Musk is a big supporter of the neo-Nazi Party in Germany and spoke at one of its rallies last year. He has a 1st Amend right to be a Nazi, but he’s a security risk and should have his govt security clearance and contracts revoked.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026

that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.

"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is also a great example of how purported conservative virtues are a complete farce. Hypocrisy and lying/deliberate misconstrues are okay as long as they “validate” their actual racist and Christian nationalist values.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is both comically hypocritical coming from Trump’s lapdog and a crass, ignorant misunderstanding of taqiyya, which is the doctrine that it’s permissible to conceal your religious faith in the face of severe persecution.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is no real way to train a historian without having students immerse themselves (repeat THEMSELVES) in the material. Its what sparks that interest in the first place! Its when they have their baby eureka moments, and begin to form connections and think historically. gAI is poison for all that.

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Let’s hope this doesn’t turn into a squarrel between the hikers and them

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

the retconning is to support the argument that "trump won in 2024 because of anti-woke." but other than some nebulous "vibe shift" and the prominence of a few podcasters, there is vanishingly little hard evidence for this claim.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Jack @jack12240.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Unserious centrists like Chait treat politics like a “king of the hill” style game where the point isn’t to advocate for your values but always be on the winning side. It’s why you don’t ever see them meaningfully engage with or analyze an issue without distilling it through that perspective

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