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Putting down a marker that sometime next year, the US will have the kind of full blown, dual sovereignty constitutional crisis that Juan Linz described in The Perils of Presidentialism. It's why impeaching Hegseth has to be a priority for the next Congress.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6h

Exactly this. And applies to having the state kill people, too, actually.

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Josh Weinstock @joshweinstock.bsky.social · 10h

Thrilled to share our first work on centromeres in human biology, led by tenacious student @yikaidong.bsky.social, with collaborator David Cutler . Q: Does common centromeric variation matter for complex traits? medrxiv.org/content/10.6... We thinks so! 🧵🧬👇

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ashley (birthday) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7h

he would’ve won big if it weren’t for the pandemic. I’m convinced

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

that’s the hope, yeah

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

Fascinating stat considering everyone says they want less horserace and more substantive journalism: When I wrote about how Democrats can talk about trans people in a humane way, I got far less traffic than when I wrote about whether all of the polls are off.

Analytics for an article entitled "Democrats are still trying to figure out how to talk about transgender athletes." It shows that it generated 4 new susbscribers, $60 dollars in estimated revenue increase, 510 total views, 304 recipients and 48.85% of open rate.

Analytics on Substack for "Just how far off could the polls be?." It shows 21 new subscribers, $170 in estimated revenue increase, 4,029, 270 recipients and a 53.53% open rate.

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Cai : go see DIGGER @annenotation.bsky.social · 7h

Again, a bit of this has existed for a while. I can do traditional oil painting, and quite well--this is something very very few digital artists can do. And that's fine. But digital artists were being disingenuous about how much work the computer could and was doing.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

I can run qwen 27B, an open weight model, on my desktop with my 4090 and it is more advanced than the state of the art models a year ago. We could see a similar jump in open weight models in a year and the uncensored versions will be about as good at hacking and illicit actions.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14h

Hello, Georgia Tech's Nexus supercomputer is online. It builds out a major part of the NSF's public AI computing ecosystem.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 14h

Major lifestyle upgrade for the qwen that colonized my smart fridge

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 9h

This is like the CECOT shit. Everyone’s rights are at stake with a government willing to act this tyrannically.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 9h

I’m giving leeway now but Dems sure as —t better be demanding impeachment post election.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 11h

If there isn't an impeachment vote about this first thing January 3rd, then Congress has already failed.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly as expected.

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Michael Anderson @michaelander45.bsky.social · 11h

If this is what they are up to, its really not tenable for a dem majority to act like a “normal” opposition Congress.

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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 11h

Right and again, the challenge with this analogy is a lot of the angst with Manchin was the antics and shit with the media. Murkowski does the stuff good for Alaska without doing the hit jobs on her party in the media 24/7

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h

I keep yelling this and I don't care how many people get mad at me! Manchin actually behaved the way a senator should: withholding his vote and using it as leverage in a way to benefit his state. People just didn't like he was from West Virginia. Republican senators give their votes away for free.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

To what extent is she a genuine skeptic of the president? Because she voted no on stuff that would pass without her vote anyway?

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Matt @mattmark.bsky.social · 13h

Man, Naturalization is already a gauntlet. Hell, those Naturalized are more informed about civics and American history than half of those born in America living it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I didn't go to Congress. Remember Sleepy Joe? 'Oh, if they would give me approval in Congress!' You're not gonna get approval. You just do it. You're the president."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like if they are anything you might even remotely call conscious it's probably sufficiently difference from what we experience to probably require a different word for it.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 13h

You can’t build a high trust society by constantly and angrily eroding trust wherever you can. You gotta support good regulation and good governance to restore it.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14h

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants the Trump administration’s stay request in the FCC political ads case—effectively absolving the FCC of any requirement to complete the administrative process regarding its relaxing of the “lowest unit charge” rule before the midterms. Justices Sotomayor & Jackson dissent.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21h

Long Island right-NIMBYs are genuinely some of the worst people on earth. they’ll beg for a government handout in the form of NIMBY policies that artificially inflate the value of their homes, and then turn around and say that simply making it legal to build apartments is “charity” or something

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crazy moment in the NY governor debate: Hochul says she wishes she pushed even harder on YIMBY policies, meanwhile, Blakeman literally *brags* about how his NIMBY policies have made housing so expensive
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Dumbass. She wanted to put low income housing in our beautiful Nassau County. The people stuck together under Blakeman's leadership and stopped the socialist idiot. You're such a moron.
You have no clue what YOU are talking about. My $500,000 house in now worth $800,000. That's progress. We are not a charity.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15h

Acela corridor NIMBYism deserves more public scorn.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15h

notably this will be true even if it turns out that there are minor irregularities with Omar's immigration paperwork.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 15h

This is straight up, plain and simple authoritarianism. This is the canonical impeachable offense

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 15h

Naked authoritarianism and utter un-American garbage.

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Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 16h

That's pretty fucked up! The court decides that an officer, who is much more aware of distracted driving laws and dangers than the average person, isn't being *deliberately* negligent and deliberately indifferent to imminent harm?! Seems bad.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 16h

Holy fucking hell we have to end QI

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 16h

I've been surprised how little disruption deepfakes and AI video has caused relative to my expectation, maybe this is the explanation

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 16h

Stepped out of council meeting to take a call; came back to hear Rob Saka railing against Katie Wilson's proposal to add new public restrooms because "we can't even get our own bathhouse in order!"

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 16h

Scott Alexander definitely sucks on average but Lizardman's Constant was a legitimately valuable contribution.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 16h

This is above lizardman's constant, but perhaps within the margin of error of Lizardman's constant

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 17h

You’re not trying to get individual candidates with ideal points closest to yours elected! You’re trying to elect candidates such that the pivotal vote in the Senate has an ideal point close to yours!

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

In the Cold War, "western" authors sold books behind the Iron Curtain but could not legally (on either side) have the royalties paid to them across borders. You could spend your Polish royalties, e.g., only by showing up in Poland, receiving cash, and spending it locally. Anyway, this is insane.

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

>seeing some wealth created >ask politician if it's productivity or rent-seeking >he doesn't understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is productive and what is rent-seeking >he laughs and says "it's good wealth ma'am" >cast vote >it's rent-seeking

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 17h

Washington has open presidential primaries and two years ago I voted in the GOP one to vote against Trump, specifically. Now I get GOP election texts. Anyway if you're wondering who to vote against in the Washington supreme court races, here's who the GOP is endorsing.

Did you know 6 of 9 Supreme Court Justices were appointed by a Democrat Governor?

we have a chance this year to elect 5 objective non partisan judges to the Supreme Court.
Please don't leave the judges off your ballot!

Vote:
- Scott Edwards Pos No. 1
- David Stevens Pos No. 3
- Sean O'Donnell Pos No. 4
- Dave Larson Pos No. 5
- Todd Bloom Pos No. 7

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Samus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 19h

It’s cool that the richest man in the world is spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year or two to try to incite pogroms against a minority group he hates because his daughter belongs to that group.

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Eli Kahn 🏳️‍🌈 @elikahn.bsky.social · 19h

spinning a big dial with a list of marginalized groups on it, shouting slurs about whichever group the dial lands on, and looking over at the audience for approval like contestants on The Price Is Right

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 19h

I guess the unifying theme is that they are running on whichever bigotry they think is most relevant in any given race and nothing else.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

the belief among a wide swath of politicians and commentators that trump’s “they/them” ad won him the election has resulted in a bunch of people making very stupid choices about how to spend money and win support

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

this guy gets it. your typical voter just does not care about this shit. does not mean that they support trans inclusion, it just means that it is incredibly low on the bottom of things they even think about.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 20h

Correct, nobody does this because that would obviously be fucking stupid

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20h

The GOP candidates for secretary of state in Arizona and Nevada would be in charge of election administration. Both think the 2020 election was rigged against Trump.

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