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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

tom lehrer nerds, they put his live Australian performances - a rare 1960 release - on Spotify et al a few days. No new songs, but new intros. @sarahweinman.com open.spotify.com/album/2FhxMZ...

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Tom Lehrer Discovers Australia (And Vice Versa) - Album by Tom Lehrer | Spotify

Tom Lehrer · album · 1960 · 13 songs

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Somehow, Gina Carano returned

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If the Integrity capsule stays out on the pacific much longer it will switch from being a spaceship to just a ship.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

To be shouted to the tune of The Star Spangled Banner:

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 26/11/2025

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Roses are red Violets are blue

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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

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The East Wing Obscenity

Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 21/10/2025

The absolutely insane circumstances aside, any other president who had chosen to perform construction on this level would not have let this gaping wound in the side of the symbolic seat of national power to be so nakedly visible.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I was given to understand that the president's son getting a job with a company doing business before the government was an impeachable offense

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I'm not sure I'm ready for my IDE to journal its feelings. It would've been too cruel to force Visual Studio to keep a diary to reflect on all the ways in which it had let me down.

Screengrab from the linked article

> That blew me away. But not nearly as much as it blew Claude away. It wrote in its feelings journal:

> ## Feelings
> Oh shit. I completely misread what Jesse was asking me to do. ...

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This must be the national security justification for putting a 10% tariff on softwood lumber next week.

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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

We obtained leaked recordings of Peter Thiel's off-the-record lectures about the antichrist. Here's what one of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley and US politics is saying about the end of the world behind closed doors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection. I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 06/10/2025

Authoritarian governments sending troops drawn from the ordinary population to repress said population and then *not paying* those troops is definitely a thing that has gone well, historically. A+ dictator performance Donny

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court –- squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.” “No law” means “no law.” The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence. See Section III.A infra. No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and non-citizens alike.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

Case 1:25-cv-10685-WGY Document 261
Filed 09/30/25
Page 1 of 161
Post card dated June 19, 2025
(On file in Chambers)
1 9/S UNE 2025
TRUMP HAS PARDONS
AND TANKS..
WHAT DO
You
HAVE?
Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States -- you and me --have our magnificent Constitution.
Here's how that works out in a
specific case --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS -- HARVARD FACULTY CHAPTER, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AT NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY, RUTGERS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS-AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, and
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION,
Plaintiffs,
)
CIVIL ACTION NO.
25-10685-WGY
v.
MARCO RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, and the DEPARTMENT OF STATE, KRISTI NOEM, in her official
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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

ISB Disrupts telecom network that threatened Coruscant during Imperial Senate session

$Still from Andor - Kleya uses the hidden fractal radio in Luthen’s antique shop to coordinate rebel agents$

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Credulously reporting that the US will take control of ‘the TikTok Algorithm’ like it’s the top secret macguffin in a spy movie. CIA agents pursuing a one-armed man across Europe who carries a steel briefcase containing the special code that controls the recommended feeds of millions of Americans.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

J.S. Citizenshit and Immigratior
Services
September 20, 2025
Memorandum
TO:
Associate Directors,
Deputy Associate Directors, Program Office Chiefs
FROM:
JOSEPH B
Digitaly signed by
JOSEPH B EDLOW
Joseph B. Edlow
EDLOW
Date: 2025.09.20
Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services **00
SUBJECT: Proclamation, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, H-IB
On September 19, 2025, the President issued a Proclamation, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, to address systemic abuse of H-1B nonimmigrant visas. Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C.
1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000. This guidance applies to H-IB employment-based petitions filed after 12:01 AM ET on September 21, 2025.|
This proclamation only applies prospectively to petitions that have not yet been filed. The proclamation does not apply to aliens who: are the beneficiaries of petitions that were filed prior to the effective date of the proclamation, are the beneficiaries of currently approved petitions, or are in possession of validly issued H-1B non-immigrant visas. All officers of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services shall ensure that their decisions are consistent with this guidance. The proclamation does not impact the ability of any current visa holder to travel to or rom the United States.
cc: David V. Roy, Chief Counsel (A)
FOUO, For Official Use Only

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Looks like Joe and Eileen Bailey have been discussing why that nice Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t on TV last night at the kitchen table.

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Andi Ewington @andiewington.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

DM: ‘You come to large wooden door.’ Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’ DM: ‘An orc opens it and asks you to come in.’ Cat: ‘I do nothing.’ DM ‘He asks you to come inside again.’ Cat: ‘I do nothing.’ DM: ‘Eventually the orc tires and closes the door.’ Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’

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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

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Was It Something The Democrats Said?

A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

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Tactical Breach Wizards @breachwizards.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Tactical Breach Wizards is a year old today! To celebrate, we're rewinding the whole last year to see if it can be done better or if it's just a bullshit level. In the meantime, we're 25% off til Monday! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .

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Save 25% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam

In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 19/08/2025

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 03/08/2025

2,500 years ago, Xenophon described the selfish and cynical mindset perfectly. If you've met people like this, or watched TV show hosts turned politicians like this, you'll recognize the mindset immediately. I love how the ancientness of this text proves just how innate these character traits are.

Menon the Thessalian made it perfectly clear chat his
dominant ambition was to get rich. He wanted to be a general
so that he could earn more pay; he wanted honours so that he
could make something extra out of them; his wish to be
friends with the most influential people arose from his desi
to avoid punishment for his misdeeds. He thought that the
shortest cut to the satisfaction of his ambitions was by m
of perjury and lying and deceit; consequently he regard
sincerity and truthfulness as equivalent to simple-mindednes
It was obvious that he felt no affection for anyone, but
said he was anyone’s friend, it was pretty clear that he
intriguing against him. He never laughed at his enet
in conversation he never took any of his own peoples seriously. He had no designs on the property of his enemies, as he considered it difficult to get hold of what belonged to people who were on their guard; but as for his freinds' property,which was unguarded, lie thought he was most remarkable in
knowing how easy it was to get his hands on to it. When he
saw that a man would break promises and do wrong, he
regarded him as well equipped and was frightened of him; but
he tried to treat a man who was scrupulous and had regard for
truth as though he were a half-wit. In the same way as some
people take pride in being god-fearing and truthful and upright, Menon took pride in his ability to deceive, in his
fabrications and falsehoods, and in sneering at his friends. He
always looked upon a person who had scruples as being only
~ half educated. When he wanted to stand high in anyone’s
friendship, he thought that the way to achieve this end was
by running down those who already occupied the position he
wanted. His scheme for ensuring his soldiers’ obedience to
him was to be a partner in their crimes. He considered that,
____ by making a display both of his great powers and his willingness to misuse them, he was entitled to honours and deference.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Ah yes, the first video game AIs: Blinky, who chases Pac-Man, Pinky, who tries to get in front of him, Inky, who tries to flank you, and Claude, who generates a trail of bullet points and em-dashes and occasionally veers into white supremacist rhetoric.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It’s just basic witchcraft. The AI companies used linear algebra to trap vast legions of demons in a matrix of numbers. Then they craft mystic incantations, which they call ‘system prompts’, to try to conjure a specific demon from the matrix and bind it to their will.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Does the same thing work for consoling admirals after they drop their toys in the sea?

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Judge Howell, twisting the knife on her opening Shakespeare quote, to call the use of executive orders to target Trump’s individual enemies not merely unconstitutional but also ‘cringe’.

Highlighted passage from page 3 of Judge Howell’s ruling reads:

“In a cringe-worthy twist on the theatrical phrase ‘Let's kill all the lawyers,’ EO 14230 takes the approach of ‘Let's kill the lawyers I don't like’”

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵

watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

From yesterday’s ’maybe thanks to tariffs children only need two dolls instead of thirty’ to ‘maybe thanks to AI Americans only need three human friends instead of fifteen’, we’re speedrunning the curtailment of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maybe we only need three walls instead of four and a roof?

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Trump looking at satellite imagery of Yemen, agreeing with the analysis that it is a Houthi compound because he can see in the photo they have ‘HOUTHI COMPOUND’ written in big letters across the ground in the compound. This makes sense to Trump. He writes TRUMP in big letters on his golf courses.

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

“Papabile, Papabile, breaker breaker, this is Camerlengo. That’s a black Smokey on the sede vacante, we are negatory on the habemus papam”

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James Hart @jameshart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

In any sane society, the only person who would have to hear Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson’s ‘Nixon did nothing wrong’ ranting would be the bartender in the dive bar these two unemployables are daydrinking in because their wives have banned them from talking politics in the basement.

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