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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 38m
Banning books is always the sign of a healthy democracy! 🤪 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 1h
If there is there's a time jump as John is supposed to show up in Man of Tomorrow
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 3h
It is really chilling to see how quickly Black, Caribbean, and African writers and academics have become the global face of AI use and accusations of plagiarism. For such a serious charge, @vauhinivara.bsky.social's article rests on...a Pangram scan. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...
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Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI
The prestigious Caine Prize, announced last week, went to a story with many red flags.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 16h
Unfortunately Disney listened to the crybabies who screamed about how horrible TLJ was nonstop so decided to retcon it instead of building off of what Johnson did
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19h
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
truthout.org
Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20h
Shut up!
"GE warns its toaster may grow human arms and shoot you with a gun" Ok that sounds like their fault. They should do something about that
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 20h
Looked it up and they cut out the tumor in his lung, and part of the lung for good measure, it's one of those cancers where prognosis is 84% if removed before metastasized and 12% if not
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/10/2026
I left X *because* I had a large following. People told me I was the reason they were staying on there, and I didn’t want to be responsible for 100k+ people sticking around for abuse, CSAM, and Nazis. Simple as that
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I don't blame them feckless leaders are making the Democrats look weak and stupid as a whole but trump is dragging the GOP down with him
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Forest Gump: Are You Stupid Or Something?
ALT: Forest Gump: Are You Stupid Or Something?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Unfortunately it seems to work like the dark side from Star Wars EU where it rots your body but prolongs your life
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For the love of God, stop saying this regime's ruthless authoritarianism "raises questions" and start telling us what answers you have for us. If you can't do that, get the fuck out of the way.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Lawless president violates court order. Just say it like that. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump blew past deadline to halt running taxpayer-funded campaign-style ads
A coalition of nonprofits had sued, calling the ads “propaganda.” The president has said campaign funds would be used to pay for the commercials going forward.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again"
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 12/10/2026
A good reason to see Jeffries as weak that is orthogonal to immediate political affinities is that now would be the moment, for an opposition leader fueled by self interest, to unleash fire from his belly against what is a clear and obvious authoritarian attack by a massively unpopular loser.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
She is a grifter, she has no chance and she knows it just scooping up campaign money for herself
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
the reason Jeffries is catching heat for something the Trump admin did to Rep Omar is that he has repeatedly failed to defend her from racist and Islamophobic attacks, including bogus censures, because she opposes his pet ethnostate
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
X is the platform of choice for these smears. Musk himself pushed this conspiracy from his own account three times. Democrats need to go to war against Musk because he's already attacking them. He's deeply unpopular. And, as we saw in Wisconsin, voters recoil when he becomes an issue in a race.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is the most obvious attempt at rage bait I've ever seen? "The site filled with antisemites, racists and Nazis openly using slurs and attacking anyone not a white man as 'DEI'? Well, ACTUALLY, I find it remarkably friendly."
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 12/10/2026
Trump’s feds raid home of Ilhan Omar as part of criminal investigation
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Trump’s feds raid home of Ilhan Omar as part of criminal investigation
Raid comes as Omar, the first Somali American elected to Congress, has drawn President Donald Trump’s ire for years
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/10/2026
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
mortally offended they might turn the Friend-Shaped USPS Trucks into mobile Flock cameras like how dare you ruin something so pure
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Every single bit of this thread.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026
The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Remember this the next time you read another idiotic piece asking "wHy dO pRoFesSorS aLL vOtE foR DeMoCraTs?" It's a real mystery why more faculty don't back the party that's actively working to destroy them and their work.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nothing is stopping your blue state or city from renaming its waste treatment plants and sewage facilities and garbage dumps after the needy, sweaty president. They could do it today! Give the man the attention he desperately needs!
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Happy birthday eat some grass for us
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The only thing I relate to trump on is that he hates his voters almost as much as I do
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When -- not if, when -- Republicans respond to their losses this fall by crying about "voter fraud" and demanding Congress or the courts review the results, we have good lawyers and elected officials ready to push back. But the rest of us need to take a page from 2000 and mock them as sore losers.
"Sore Loserman" buttonProtesters with "Sore Loserman" crying towels
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Like yeah the nations they're going to compare them to are "brown people" do you have any idea how few nations have a majority that fits under the US's narrow definition of "white"?
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yeah he hasn't gone full transphobe like other Democrats especially in ohio but
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John Cena: I'm Watching You Gesture
ALT: John Cena: I'm Watching You Gesture
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Especially if you hate Israel because any posts about something Israel has done always has the comments "the Austrian painter was right" or something of the short
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Sydney Stare
ALT: Sydney Stare
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
going from defending ukraine against russia’s unprovoked war of aggression to directly funding the russian war machine what an abject disgrace
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 09/10/2026
A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.
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Negative Utilitarian @josephcw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thing about children, when you tell them they can't do something that's what they want to do more than anything
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
the supreme court: good news, donald!you are the untouchable god-king you always dreamed of being only one condition: you may not fuck with The Money donald trump: I will fuck with The Money if it’s the last thing I do
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
apropos of nothing in particular remember when the NYPD kidnapped and publicly threatened de Blasio’s daughter
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republican candidate: I think for myself. I don't have to do what the president says, I can disagree with him-- Trump (tweeting): Everyone has to call Congress "Toilet" now! Republican candidate: --and that's why I'm running to be your next Toiletman
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/10/2026
theonion.com/democrats-co...
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Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants
WASHINGTON—In a statement calling for more guardrails around ongoing immigration operations, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives publicly condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thurs...
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