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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They colorized “A Night at The Garden?”

Fascist George Washington in A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN still

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net · 04/10/2026

Our ancient wisdom traditions have good reason for asking us to cultivate more compassion for present suffering, not less. If your ethical theory rejects this, then it's not worth the tokens it cost you.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This one is doing the rounds

A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 26/09/2026

What in the Marvel villain

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Idea: Maybe we shouldn't be treating 7th grade girls volleyball like the Thunderdome? It's not just bad for the parents (who hate each other due to playing time) and culture (watch ESPN for ten seconds), it burns out the kids and makes them worse adults AND athletes. Sports are supposed to be fun!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Again: this is the stupidest timeline.

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WIRED @wired.com · 10/09/2026

Trump has previously promised payouts like a $5,000 “DOGE dividend” or a $2,000-per-person tariff check—neither of which has happened. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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Trump Probably Won't Give $5,000 to Every American if Republicans Win the Midterms

The eyebrow-raising proposal, delivered during the president’s speech at the midterm convention, would cost $1.2 trillion and would need congressional approval.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Now, more than ever, we must: - resist the “will of the people” propaganda - fight back against the nationalistic essentialism - reject the tendency to normalize and sanitize the Far Right - repudiate the defeatist accommodationism - refuse to perpetuate rightwing assertions of inevitable dominance

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

are supposed to be, so they can try and use the LLM to speed up real tasks AND KNOW HOW TO DOUBLE CHECK THE WORK. You don't have to be a Luddite to oppose handing children tools they are incapable of using reasonably or well. You should, in fact, oppose that, even if you are in support of the tool.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

just from today bsky.app/profile/polp...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026

yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21/08/2026

They’re doing the meme

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"There is a revolution happening right now. It's not a woke one, it's an authoritarian one."

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

this is such a silly thing to say. the expansion of human knowledge consists in the successive settling of debates. i would have thought the university was meant to be involved in that project

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Once you have a lot of money it becomes easier to get more money by doing nothing, which disincentivizes work. This is why all our billionaires post insane bullshit all day. If they had to work they'd be too busy to act like this, doubly benefiting society

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.

But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 04/07/2026

I published a book on American democracy almost a year ago now. This is the conclusion.

Thomas Paine, a man who did nearly as much to write Amer-
ica into existence as Thomas Jefferson, shared his disdain for per-
petual constitutions. “There never did, there never will, and there
never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any
generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the
power of binding and controlling posterity to the ‘end of time,’
or of commanding forever how the world shall be governed, or
who shall govern it,” wrote Paine in Rights of Man. “Every age
and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the
age and generations which preceded it.”
And even as they defended a Constitution that they hoped
would endure for some time, the Founders appealed to our right

and capacity to reason new institutions into existence. “It seems
to have been reserved to the people of this country,” Hamilton
wrote in Federalist 1, “to decide the important question, whether
societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good
government from reflection and choice, or whether they are for-
ever destined to depend for their political constitutions on acci-
dent and force.”
The years since have given us much to reflect upon. We
have more than two centuries of experience with the Founders’
Constitution. We’ve seen governments across the world rise and
fall, peer Constitutions drafted, amended, and replaced. Political
science—a field that was still new in the Founders’ day—has de-
veloped to maturity; regularly, it tackles questions that vexed
them with tools they did not have and a rigor they were not ca-
pable of. Human equality, a principle they gestured at but were
unwilling to accept and act upon themselves, has come to under-
pin our society. So too, despite everything their institutions have
done to undermine it, has a faith in democracy that the Founders
never shared. We know more than the Founders did. We are more
practiced at governance. We are more moral, more just. What
privileges their intentions for this country over our own?
“The earth,” Jefferson wrote, “belongs to the living and not to
the dead.” As so many have labored to remind us over the last
decade, the United States has much to atone for, the sins of Jef-
ferson among them. But his words here—an intuition that can be
read in the Declaration of Independence and the act of the Found-
ing itself—are unassailable. Our present is shaped by all America
has done and all America has been, yes. But our future will be
shaped in large part by our own aspirations—what we decide this
country can and must be. America is ours. Not Jefferson’s. Not
Washington’s. Not Hamilton’s. Not Madison’s. Ours. Our iden-
tity is ours to establish and define.

mocracy and its possibilities to collapse. “Giving the world back
to its inhabitants is too big a job for the merely practical,” the
director Orson Welles once said. “Only the devout deserve the
trust of government, for only the devout can face the unimagi-
nable vistas of man’s destiny.” A characteristically grand state-
ment, yes. But as Welles understood, this is a country that runs on
grand visions. The cultivation of them is a core political compe-
tency. And the absence of them is an opportunity—not just for
those who’d like to pull America forward, unfortunately, but
for those who’d like to set America back. It should be plain by
now that defending ourselves from the depredations of men like
the president—those who would trade our future away for per-
sonal profit and the indulgence of their prejudices—will take
more than the defense of American institutions as we’ve known
them. The American project will be saved only by a return to the
spirit that first inspired it. Each day, the darkness that shrouds
this republic as I write these words makes new claims on our free-
doms and our livelihoods. But we have known darkness—we
have seen it thicker, deeper, and more suffocating than the pall
over us now. Through it all, these words set down by Paine in
Common Sense more than two centuries ago—his benediction
for this country—have remained true: “We have it in our power
to begin the world over again.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2026

under Alito’s jurisprudence, the “equal protection of the laws” means that racial subordination is constitutionally protected and ending racial subordination is constitutionally suspect

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

These takeaways are ... very good?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/06/2026

Dear every policy maker and leader ever including @rweingarten.bsky.social - generative "A.i." pushed by these amoral companies is not safe at any level in schools. Get it the hell out for all of K-12, and college, too.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/06/2026

your "I bought this before I knew Elon Musk was a pogrom-inciting gutter racist" bumper sticker isn't doing shit

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

250 years ago exactly Britain was locked in an unwinnable war with a distant, poor yet stubborn opponent. The French ambassador wrote: "This ruinous and mad war is the reverse of the philosopher's stone." Happy anniversary.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 06/06/2026

Standing at Normandy and bitching about invasions is a pretty big tell here folks

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The Press Democrat @pressdemo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Students were cheered on by family, friends, school staff and members of the Santa Rosa City Schools board of trustees as they received diplomas Friday, June 5.

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Ridgway High School's Class of 2026 graduates in sunny ceremony

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

You deserve guaranteed healthcare in the richest, most powerful country in the world. Don't let a corporation or a corporate-bought politician tell you otherwise. Pass Medicare for All.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/06/2026

New in PN: Why does the media ignore Trump’s madness? "The president frequently demonstrates a level of malignancy that still manages to shock. He doesn’t try to hide it, but the mainstream press covers his disordered thinking as a colorful 'quirk' rather than an escalating threat to the nation."

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Why does the media ignore Trump’s madness?

His Truth Social posts show he's better suited in a mental institution than at a negotiating table.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A lack of class political understanding obfuscates the obvious truth: The wealth and oligarchical classes are plundering what’s left of representative government, social programs, and resources. They’re not there to govern. They’re there to steal.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It’s important to recognize that paranoia and distrust are natural and rightful feelings to have in an era of manipulation, surveillance, oppression, and exploitation. What matters though is that we don’t allow the Far Right to harvest and redirect it on behalf of the wealth class.

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James H Hart @james-h-hart.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"[Y]our job at all times is to close that gap."

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/05/2026

One thing AI LLMs are very good at: convincing their victims that mediocrity is greatness, and that the ability to generate high volumes of mediocre content is a substitute for skill, talent, or work. This is the distinct impression I get every time I look at LinkedIn.

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It’s a well-known fact that people on the right side of history famously ban books

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'd forgotten half of these.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2026

there is something genuinely clarifying and useful about this kind of stuff. they are totally hoods off and proud of it, which means we should not hesitate to describe them accordingly

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This has been the goal of White Christian Nationalism in this country for as long as I’ve been alive and this is the closest they’ve ever been to achieving their goal of killing public education.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

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