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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Enceladus rocks, I just wish it had more gravity

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

and yet they always say, you can't possibly take war money and use it for health care, those are DIFFERENT THINGS

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25/09/2026

‘Around’

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would add to this that the whole point of an academic publications is that they are supposed to be records of things you have learned through careful scholarship. If they contain non-existent references, they are a misrepresentation of what is assumed to be the process behind the product.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026

Agree with this & I'd broaden it: as income inequality increases, the affluent class increasingly strains to free itself of public services. Those services suffer & the flywheel accelerates. Only way to stop is to say, for certain things, no: you have to use the same shit as us.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is usually the conservative play with unpopular wars — of course I support ending it, but ending it by *winning* not your bad plan of ending it by *losing* — like no one ever thought of winning the war before they suggested it

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Saw the new South Korean movie Hope last night. Super fun, engaging thriller. Hoyeon is so hot #moviereview

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This doesn’t answer the deeper question of “what the fuck good is all that money when climate change kills us all?” But it’s good to have an inside window I guess.

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

FWIW I think Starship Troopers is tricky b/c it depicts a fascist *utopia.* Most of what we learn about fascism are the warning signs of its advance: agitation about the “enemy within,” etc. In the movie that enemy has already been vanquished, so we don’t see the societal tension we’d expect.

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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 03/09/2026

Just keep learning the newest in demand job every three years. If you get in before everyone else, you'll have a few years of high wages before the labor market is flooded and you need to learn the next skill.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/09/2026

The bar for progressive policies is: "did this unilaterally solve the entire gigantic systemic issue without making a single person sad?" The bar for conservative policies is: "did the people pushing this yell out the name of a real problem before doing something unrelated, cruel and ineffective?"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They found a set of targets they think can produce the thinnest veneer of pretext for (they might be carrying drugs, though neither to nor from the United States), and they think, maybe correctly, that none of their domestic critics will truly go to the mat to protect alleged drug runners.

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Even in my DC neighborhood, in a precinct that voted for Harris by a 90+ margin and overwhelmingly for a DSA mayoral candidate this summer, there is at least one little shit who keeps defacing anti-fascist protest posters. In like Alexandria, where actual Republicans live? Lots of collaborators.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sounds like it's time for somebody at Google to cease being a useful idiot for fascism and instead make an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly.

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sadly, it does not. The form shown here is to report an incorrect address on a business or other human-created place that has been added to the map overlay. You won't be able to submit the form unless you add a bunch of nonsensical info (such as street address).

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

this is why i don’t care to bow to those “stop talking like an ivory tower intellectual” assholes. because reactionaries will pull out the same proudly ignorant response just for saying true things in extremely accessible language. so why should i give a shit. i will trust my own barometer on this

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cottle: My guess is that you then completely reject [two-bit bullshit]. Bouie: I completely reject that for simple reasons of linear time. Cottle: Yeah well we still have a lot of column space to fill, so.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the fact that democrats can decide to something pointless, like risking midterm success to censure an annoying streamer, and a whole cadre of voters will dutifully fall in line is super instructive on one point: if democrats decided to do smart things those same people would fall right in line

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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 27/08/2026

Democratic leadership should be lampooning his dead ass everyday, instead they're hanging out with Jared and asking me for money so a socialist doesn't win an office three states over.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"A selling point for the car is that it supposedly allows the driver to go anywhere they want at any time; in practice it creates an uneasy mass of cars squeezing along the same highways at the same time, headed for the same destinations."

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The only thing I really want to add to the plentiful discourse around this weird behavior is that no one’s “child” goes to college. College students are legal adults more than capable of choosing to take some fun, critical, interesting courses without guys online being paternalistic about it.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

To memorialize Jim Haggerty getting shot in the ass, the Gorton’s Fisherman should wear black for one year.

Yellow box of Gorton's fish sticks with an illustration of a fisher holding a wheel. Text above suggests the Gorton’s fisherman should wear black in honor of Jim Haggerty. The bottom text reads, "1 Share = 1 Agree.

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sure, let's game theory it out: The best option is number three: Explicitly express interest to women "regardless of what they feel about you." 🧵

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's so bizarre how readily ChatGPT "admits" to a catastrophic error of reasoning it made seconds ago. You would think that whatever insight can be gleaned from "you fucked that up" is something that the world-historic powerful thinking machine would have considered in the first place.

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suzannf.bsky.social @suzannf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s profoundly depressing that at this moment, it looks very likely that dems may get some power back and then do fuck-all with it other than try to gently soothe idiot war daddy into being less crazy. Why is it so damn difficult to get some people who want to be decent and do real shit into power?

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

musk endorsing this would have been the number 1 story in the world a few years ago, governments investing in him would've had to comment, investors would've got nervous now, nothing. we've just given up bsky.app/profile/polp...

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John Cockrell @patsox23.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Watch this Bo Burnham takedown of same - youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0?...

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Bo Burnham's Country Song | Netflix Is A Joke

YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/08/2026

DoorDash has been silent as ICE detains and murders their delivery drivers. But to avoid a 20-cent tax on delivery orders, DoorDash is now backing a bill that would give Trump more authority over DC and its residents. Delete your account until DoorDash stops fighting to give the regime more power.

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Delete DoorDash: our demands

Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's true that *at an individual level* you should be kind. Don't scream at your anti-vaxx neighbors or whatever. But when it comes to *public discourse* the most important message is that vaccines save lives and anti-vaxx beliefs kill children. If they feel attacked by that, it's not my problem.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Writing a longer bit on this, but the problem with (let’s be honest: pretextually) teaching the Bible as history is that you have to teach it AS HISTORY. And lots of the bog standard historical consensus on the Bible, routine college intro fodder, would be absolutely incendiary in a middle school.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My whole childless life I’ve been told when you become a parent your heart opens up to a new special magical kind of love, apparently a love so strong it will let children die of entirely preventable illnesses.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A few of the most famous linguists you’ve heard of are cruel grifters totally incapable of staying in their own lanes. They’re also making a fortune selling variably obvious forms of “race science”. They’re a disgrace to our field.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The party in which he is nominally a leader just passed a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE but this mealy mouthed clown can’t help but undercut it. Jeffries must be replaced when Democrats retake the House.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Still reeling over that Pwn Sauce!!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just a few days ago, Senator Moreno was asked if his daughter's alleged abuser should drop out, and he responded, "I don't know."

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Jason Lemieux @jaylemeux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My friend who grew up Jewish doesn’t understand why I look forward to watching the Christmas specials on the one time per year they air on cable. “You could watch it on Netflix anytime!”

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