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ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 18m

How much are Deion Sanders and Nick Saban getting paid to support the Protect College Sports Act? Neither of them ties their shoes for free.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16m

These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12h

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4h

I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines

RFK Jr saying that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & the Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid—these are 2 dangerous lies

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1h

A bastion of Irish American excellence

Dropkick Murphys @DropkickMurphys
@ScottWalker @GovWalker please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you !!!
Love, Dropkick Murphys

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 5h

the time has come bsky.app/profile/musi...

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 6h

Pat Fitzgerald, long branded as The Only Coach Great Enough To Accomplish The Impossible Task Of Going Slightly Better Than .500 At Northwestern, now trails David Braun in winning percentage there. Fitzgerald also just lost 31-3 to a Wisconsin coach who tried really hard to get fired last week

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 8h

“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 7h

Of course he doesn't intend to pay anything, so my slim hope is a lot fewer people believe his bullshit this time.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13h

Prosecutions are gonna be an extra uphill climb given that he plans on just preemptively pardoning a slate of people and officials so it falls to local and state prosecutors where federal pardons don’t just cut it, but they’re made v difficult in those situations. However, some prosecutors…

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Public opinion doesn't DO anything and is not correlated with policy. BUT it can be a resource if people want to organize.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If this woman has ever expressed an opinion that wasn’t both extremely stupid and extremely evil, I’ve never seen it.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How is it possible that the man deciding the future of our military doesn’t understand why radar stealth is useful Literally read one (1) thing

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OK. Just a reminder that they didn't get into bed with all these military drone/camera tracking/data silo companies for no reason at all. This is connecting the most basic of dots. Also Musk is back with the administration. Trump talks about drones a LOT.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/10/2026

great speech. FDR had Stephen Miller and his blustering bullshit dead to rights 90 years ago www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...

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Address at the Annual Dinner of White House Correspondents' Association | The American Presidency Project

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026

Americans have never felt worse as they’re getting squeezed at the gas pump and grocery store. Donald Trump and the Republicans own this.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A cynical part of me thinks the only reason these ghouls are pushing the “AI could be conscious rhetoric” is because when it comes to deciding whether humans or data centers should get access to limited energy and water resources, they want ambiguity about why humans should clearly take precedent.

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We HAVE to put people in jail after the midterms. Ossoff is right. What is needed right now is a set of examples that will scare off anti-democratic acts such as those from this admin, for a century.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 02/10/2026

Bookmarking “we’re going to have to do less with less” for every K-12 referendum/levy campaign from now into eternity

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good employers think in terms of "If I worked here, what would I want?" Forcing employees to stand rather than sit in chairs is basically the polar opposite of this approach and indicative of an employer who should be treated with contempt.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo's co-host is Jonathan Keeperman, who @jasonaw.bsky.social unmasked as "Lomez," a “key player and influential tastemaker in a burgeoning proto-fascist movement," who heads up Passage Press, which reprints out-of-print works by fascist authors talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got your Super Intelligence right here at the origins of the Iran War. AI also implicated in the signature war crime the US committed.

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illinirunner.bsky.social @illinirunner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I feel like this is an un-tapped tourism promotion opportunity by Maine. "Come to Maine! And tell John Roberts he sucks shit!".

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"LOLLL THERE GOES THE DUMBASS WHO SAID CORPORATIONS CAN TALK LOL"

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Mark Primiano @doctor1hundred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The real tragedy of the Mets trading him for Javy Baez years ago is that it would have ruled to constantly go "PCAy, I'm walkin' heah" when he got four balls.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

“The film, with the working title Pawn Shop, centers on an Antifa siege of a Minneapolis pawn shop amid anti-ICE unrest.” My thing about all of these movies is that “End of Watch” exists. Hollywood is not opposed to portraying marginalized people as monsters at all.

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The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.

Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026

i feel like everyone would have a better time accepting what the constitution and the broader social contract of liberal democracy is for if they remembered how low the bar is: not killing one another

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026

the constitutional convention was one of the most epic examples of “we’ll fix it in post” in human history

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026

for too long, Republicans have been able to do everything—up to trying to overthrow the government!—and still get invited to the parties they want to get invited to. nothing changes for them and all I'm saying is that it should. you shouldn't keep getting invited to the party.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026

we should normalize the social shaming of bad people. sorry you don't think your Maine summers are as idyllic as they used to be, John Roberts. but you sold democracy to the highest bidders among your friends you don't get to summer without sometimes seeing a kayaker with a poster that says you suck

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Guess we’re just stuck with mocking users and throwing them in the garbage when we see them on a table.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As I keep saying: in America, we’re seeing the two faces of Christianity simultaneously. The wrecked creature of cruel power; the dynamic structure of genuine compassion.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolutely stunning/horrifying to see a 5th measles death in PA. This means the outbreak is probably far higher than numbers count, seeing as roughly 1-3 people die per 1,000. Many people aren't being tested. Also: I'm going to states now for info, not the CDC* app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrI...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think the key is that “Supreme Court reform” is understood by Serious Commentators as this absurd partisan exercise that will never occur, and thus proposals are basically vibed out on the basis of how radical or moderate they want to seem. Implementation is irrelevant because it won’t happen.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million

"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes. After some thought, I decided to write just about this set of news regarding cuts to the UMN system. A short essay can really be only about one thing most of the time. But the whole public higher education system in this state is being sliced away bit by bit.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/10/2026

This guy literally packed the courts because Utahns passed an anti-gerrymandering referendum and the state Supreme Court justices, many of whom he appointed, repeatedly sided with the people over him and his fellow Republicans. Spare me the white man tears www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms

Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My life as a reporter changed a lot moving from Oklahoma to Connecticut. The most profound change is probably not having to witness executions anymore. Utmost respect to the media witnesses in Tennessee who’ve watched multiple botched executions this year. It’s a hard but incredibly important job.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 02/10/2024

annual PSA

a witch holding a candle saying

if you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

RIP Cubs 2026. PCA season was amazing and I’m grateful, pitching injuries too much to overcome, but also: it continues to burn that this organization with all its resources keeps getting lapped by Milwaukee. This year felt like a step back.

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