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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

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licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is SO FUCKING AWESOME how blatant race-war shit has become not only totally normalized, but is now officially government policy. And our loyal opposition can only muster the most tepid of critiques, while they desperately try to reach across the aisle and find some compromise point.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fraternities are the ur-old boy network in the US. Joining one won't guarantee you end up running a fortune 500 company, or sitting on the Supreme Court... but if you don't join one the odds of those things happening are practically zilch. And that's a problem.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All right, so I’ve gotta get back to the art shit, man, my goddam brain is melting. So, here’s entry one for #Artober or whatever. Just a another preliminary sketch for my eternal attempts at an actual GOOD spiralwork raven image. Someday I’ll get it right.

A loose pencil sketch of a spiralwork raven, with a mechanical pencil and an eraser laying on the upper corner of the page.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

not my circus, not my monkeys. but i like that clown. what’s his deal

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me, totally safe, after spending four delightful hours in Jurassic Park's passenger pigeon and dodo sanctuary: "Fuck happened out here"

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026

"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank

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Bree | PAILBN Art @pailbn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

No one is free until we’re all free. High resolution poster available to download for FREE on my Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/s/7a8b1eae5e #art #digitalart #fanart #poster #politicalart #freepalestine #moomin #moominvalley #snufkin

Snufkin holding Palestinian flag with text “right to roam right to remain right to return”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To save you the trouble of looking it up, this is the antihistamine dosage for best chances of avoiding long COVID! bsky.app/profile/raha...

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Damn, outta practice. Anthropeum.com · Sep 26 2026 🟦🟩🟩🟦🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨🟨 63,363 · top 27% of players today!r

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Sarah N. @vermillionworks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An updated free comic and web novel host list that doesn't include Webtoon (thread)!!! PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE AGREEING TO A MONETIZATION DEAL! Sorry if any of the info is inaccurate, I tried to look everything up. Now ON TO THE LISTS! 📝--

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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@DoBiddley1
I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Caspia's PhotoBOOOOs! 🏳️‍⚧️ @caspiasphotos.com · 26/09/2026

And Palestine's international supporters are far weaker now than the ANC's were in the 1980s. South Africa was eventually surrounded by hostile states or active wars.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah I very much think they are inventing robot wife-servants because they’re mad human women have better options than wife-servant now I think all the time about that guy who said male clients kept flirting with his automated scheduler because the software defaulted to a female name

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oh jeez @nimakokaaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

WHY MUST YOU FAIL ME SO OFTEN

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

…I’m sure it’ll …be …fine?

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's really cool how the most powerful people in the world are all like obviously guilty of a whole bunch of sex crimes but "sorry they're too rich that's just how it is now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" is the only response from the media and people who should be holding them responsible

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’re like a month away from a bipartisan bill that forbids the population from either looking directly at OR away from the surveillance cameras.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we are reinventing scheming eunuchs from base principles

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"what do you mean, people have to remember how to count?" is only possible if you have used mindbogglingly vast resources to outsource every smallest possible hassle in your life to someone else.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These guys, who are uniformly the stupidest fucking people who have *ever* fucking lived, can't even recognize that it's their dragon hoard of wealth that lets them such as not know how to open doors or remember their kids' names or their own addresses etc

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about all these genAI fuckwits like Jensen Huang constantly announcing in public that they don't know basic life skills, is that they are billionaires. They have outsourced *every single* hassle in life. They then attribute their soft babylike life to genAI and not their wealth.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When we say that, outside of some extremely narrow specialties, these people (who are literally running the world) are DUMBER THAN SHIT, this is the kinda thing we’re talking about. Profoundly incurious sociopathic fools.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A helpful summary of a long running project though: social media creating a credible risk that the public might impose their awful views upon their superiors by e.g. shamefully dictating which public figures are good and should be praised, and which behave badly and deserve contempt.

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Ivy @becauseivy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's Thinking Thursday, delete your robots

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You’d think rather than buy into some horseshit conservative fantasy, Dems would be finding other side issues to run on. Maybe talk about women dying of sepsis or going to jail because of draconian abortion laws. No dearth of horrible shit that the GOP is doing to talk about

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 24/09/2026

I think it's good for news organizations to report known and understood facts instead of speculative unknowns and subjective post-hoc explanations so this is the correct move.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not all heroes wear capes!

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

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Mollypop Chainsaw 🔞 @mollyskyfire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I detest puritanism and purity culture with every fiber of my being. Sex is a beautiful expression of humanity and life, and should not be villainized. Smut artists are following a tradition as ancient as the cave paintings at Lascaux and the Venus of Willendorf. The god of the puritans is evil.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

KILL FOR THE LOVE OF KALI! (Ahem) …I mean, let ‘er rip, yeah, that’s what I mean.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Once you remove all the other genres, what else are you writing about, though? Grocery lists? That…doesn’t sound particularly commercial to me?

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah, I’ll hit you back via email (a at aw dot etc still work?), my thoughts are longer than 300 per break will cover.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Art of Persuasion Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT
Panel 1:
A woman and a man sit on a low stone wall in a park. The woman is upset; the man listens.

WOMAN: And now the Democrat in the race is backing some anti-trans laws! I’m not sure I can vote for that.

MAN (thinking): Uh-oh. Democrats need every vote. How can I convince her to vote for the Democrat anyway?

Panel 2:
The woman and man walk through the park, the woman ahead of him.

WOMAN: Of course, the Republican is even worse. But if Democrats turn against trans people… I’m so frightened.

MAN (thinking): I’ve got to be empathetic and persuasive.

Panel 3:
Close-up of the man, looking thoughtful with his hand on his chin.

WOMAN (off-panel): Look at what happened to the UK — they’ve now got two anti-trans parties. If we let that happen here, trans rights are dead.

MAN (thinking): Okay, I think I know how to reassure her and get her vote.

Panel 4:
The man is suddenly furious, leaning toward the startled woman and pointing at her.

MAN: You’re a Trump supporting moron and you deserve to die!

CHICKEN FAT WATCH
PANEL 1:
A good dog with a halo peers out a window. A hand sticks out of a hole in a tree holding a sign that says SEND CANDY.

PANEL 2:
Groucho peeks from behind some bushes. A poster nailed to a tree reads "Background gag to come and it'll be so funny!" A bad rabbit (we know it's bad because it's smoking) sits beside a bad worm (also smoking). A bottle lying in the grass is labeled "BARRY BEER" and has a disturbed-looking drawing of Barry. A mouse holds a knife to a cat; the cat raises its front paws in surrender.

PANEL 4:
A giant mouse (?) in a shirt and tie sits on the wall reading a newspaper, called "Daily Blah Blah," whose headline says "Literate Rodent Escapes Lab."

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, and that’s why this is still the essay I wrote at Arc Digital that I remain proudest of (despite it not ever getting much traction) www.arcdigital.media/p/capitoline...

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Capitoline Crises

Reflections at a political crossroads

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