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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 20h
Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.
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jpedretti.bsky.social @jpedretti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you | Marina Hyde
Today it’s a silly sports betting ad, but I can’t see anything she’s done that’s worth this ire. She’s in her 20s: she does dumb things. Enjoy! says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/09/2026
"They’re creating a system that’s not gonna work…This is designed to be a clusterfuck." @gtconway.bsky.social tells @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social how Trump’s new mail-voting rules could create mass chaos before the election.
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 03/09/2026
Yet another way AI is ruining the internet: online shopping
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 03/09/2026
The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/09/2026
Had a wonderful time talking to Vanity Fair for this profile and Q&A about the AI bubble and my larger thesis about how we got here. www.vanityfair.com/story/ed-zit... Archive link: archive.ph/IG97X
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He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living.
Ed Zitron isn’t concerned about our AI revolution turning into a murder-robot nightmare. He’s warning that the companies involved are spending insane amounts of money that they will never make back—an...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
James Talarico and Jon Ossoff are pulling ahead in red states on an anti-corruption message. This is shocking. Just a year ago, most political experts assumed voters stopped prioritizing clean government. What's changed? I have answers. www.salon.com/2026/08/31/t...
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Texas and Georgia races show voters are finally sick of MAGA corruption
Jon Ossoff and James Talarico are polling well with a clean government message
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026
This isn't some random troll. This is the Israeli minister of security doing this. Ben Gvir is the person overseeing the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. He's an integral part of the Israeli government posting this genocidal AI slop. Truly an evil genocidal government.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You've been hearing the story about how Dolly Parton turned down Elvis when his people demanded a chunk of her royalty rights in exchange for recording "I Will Always Love You". That reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long time. The guy who actually put the ask on Dolly was a ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think the general consensus of people around the world is that Americans can get fooled by a con man once, but to return him to power a 2nd time after having seen his corruption, incompetence, ignorance, & buffoonery, the problem isn’t just Trump it’s the American people.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/08/2026
I think every major company is looking at open weight AI models and realizing they can just bring them in house with an internal engineering team and cut out the frontier model companies to save money. They have more control and privacy. I really don't see frontier labs surviving this.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you read a post like this and feel scared, or numb. That’s ok! Totally understandable. But have courage! Decide who you’ll be in this moment. Then turn your attention to the people or ideas blocking the phaseout of fossil fuels, and use your strengths to fight them and create a new world. 💚
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Our political system has been allergic to consequences... basically my entire life. And our population has largely stopped thinking more than one step ahead. Our only understanding of what's good for us is now, maybe your boss will think to next quarter. Turn that stove on so we can touch it.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Stephanie Miller @stephaniemiller.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And now, a message from Natalie Harp, President Trump’s “friend”.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this guy is dumb as a sack of hammers and sure seems to want to get a whole bunch of kids killed but at least he sounds like a 4,000 year old with throat cancer who has been cursed by a witch to live forever while continuing to age
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...
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AI is making everything worse
The political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
AI could be super-capable and totally-benign and it would *still* not be a good idea for the left to go pro-AI because the entire industry is run by fascists and provides billions in funding for their fascist goals and, no, being nice to them will not change that one bit.
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immacule.bsky.social @immacule.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
by @courtneybonneau.bsky.social : What does terrorism mean to you? If it’s no double-tap killings of paramedics, journalists, and today a 12 year old girl, then what is it? the 12 year old girl I mentioned in this story who was hunted down by an Israeli drone has died from her injuries.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 19/08/2026
🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...
A photo of Donald Trump sitting at a desk with national flags on it, seemingly at a meeting in an office. His omnipresent aide, Natalie Harp, is sitting behind him, staring at him with an unnatural smile, her eyes shrouded with pupils not visible.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
No notes. youtu.be/GU_ID0asQ3M?...
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Scooby-Doo: The Mystery of the Reflecting Pool | Donald Trump Parody #ScoobyDoo #Satire #DonaldTrump
YouTube video by Midnight Oil Productions (Jason Moore)
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/08/2026
God this is so, so good.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Come on, Clacton. You have the opportunity to make galactic history tomorrow!
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 13/08/2026
Australians are changing jobs at less than half the rate they did in the 1970s. Financial insecurity and workplace barriers may be trapping workers in low-productivity jobs and weakening economic dynamism, Ian McAuley writes. #auspol #Productivity #Jobs
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Less job mobility, lower productivity: the cost of cosy capitalism
Australians are changing jobs far less often than they did 50 years ago. Financial insecurity, debt and workplace barriers may be trapping workers in jobs – and helping entrench a low-productivity form of “cosy capitalism”.
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jpedretti.bsky.social @jpedretti.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our politics is a farce and you’re paying for the tickets theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Our politics is a farce and you’re paying for the tickets - The Shot
Those of you not into torturous, pantomime-level political inquisitions may not have been following recent events at the NSW Independent...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...
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The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal
Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption
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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you haven't heard Count Binface's American accent, you should immediately stop what you're doing and listen to this. It's just so deliciously bad!
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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A thoughtful interesting essay by journalist Brian Beutler. Worth reading & thinking over, regardless of whether you agree w all of it or not. I do think Woke 1 happened bc Dems are ineffective at winning elections, due to ignoring how RWng propaganda sways elections. bsky.app/profile/upin...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/
"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/08/2026
Crypto is a weapon of mass corruption wielded by a cult of dangerous billionaires who want to kill American democracy. My interview on NPR's Fresh Air! www.npr.org/2026/08/10/n...
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'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'
Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.
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ljconrad @ljconrad.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
25 Must-Follow People in Pro-Democracy Media (including @atrupar.com ) www.stopthepresses.news/p/25-must-fo...
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25 must-follow people in pro-democracy media
One way to fight negativity is to lift up inspirational voices
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The state’s attempt to portray the man, who vandalised property in Sydney’s east in 2024, as a future terror threat was rejected after Fagan delivered an extraordinary criticism of the prosecution’s definition of antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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NSW Supreme Court says criticism of Israel not antisemitic in graffiti case
Judge rebukes state for seeking to add man who defaced property with anti-Israel slogans on terror watch list
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/08/2026
Chris Hohn, billionaire hedge fund manager: ‘All these people who say we can't afford net zero - they're completely misunderstanding the gravity of the situation.' www.thetimes.com/article/de38...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I’m telling you, corruption is what‘s pissing off most normies flocking to the data center resistance. this kind of thing is really activating
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
look how i'm treated for making a tongue-in-cheek joke 😔
Dan Crenshaw tweets: "I can't believe I live in a world where my only lunch option is a $20 burrito." 

I reply: "not true. republicans eat donald trump's ass every day for free." 

Someone named "The Noooticer" replies to me: "You're brown and larping."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Honest to God, don't think I've been inspired by a YouTube video like this in my life. What a weird savant.
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America’s largest grocery store should be out of business
YouTube video by Morning Brew
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is a catastrophic return to the bloody and counterproductive policies of the Uribe administration from two decades ago. They even want to bring back the futile policy of aerial spraying of coca crops with a super concentrated version of Roundup. I worked for 15 years to help end that practice.
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Trump Administration Fast-Tracks Military Partnership With Colombia to Target Drug Traffickers (Gift Article)
The country’s new Trump-endorsed president takes office on Friday. Sweeping plans to target drug traffickers with U.S. help are already underway.
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