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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ten-year yield blasts thru 5.25% @cnbc.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is correct - personal experiences of needing social services makes people, including policymakers, more opposed to imposing administrative burdens (which is how they are breaking SNAP and Medicaid) academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

• When a policymaker has personal, firsthand experience navigating a welfare system or public service, their tolerance for administrative burden significantly drops. © Oxford Academic
• Conversely, policymakers without personal experience are much more likely to tolerate or actively support high administrative burdens, often driven by political ideology or a perception that the target population is "undeserving".
Syddansk Uni...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

happy first (full) day of fall, bluesky

ina garten in a witch hat saying “If you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.”

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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“We likewise perceive political ideologies and political parties in subconsciously gendered ways. In contemporary American discourse, liberalism is female-coded, conservatism male-coded. As a result, rivers of ink are spilled to frame liberals as possessing sole agency, and hence responsibility. There is a palpable aversion to saying voters who loudly proclaim the most extreme racism, sexism, threats of violence, or deranged conspiracy theories are doing anything wrong. They are just reacting. Reacting to alleged liberal disrespect, to alleged liberal cultural dominance, to some kid hundreds of miles away on a college campus using obtuse social justice terminology, to Democratic politicians getting their messaging a bit wrong, not ‘talking their language.’ We shouldn’t even be thinking about what is wrong with them—we should be asking what we did to provoke it. We should be careful, always so careful, not to ‘set them off.’”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“The administration wrote to several grantees working on maternal health that while ‘maternal and infant health are important issues,’ their work ‘does not advance minority health with regards to OMH’s current priority areas.’” we don’t loathe these people enough.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

WHAT IF EVER STUDIED BODIES OF HALF OF POPULATION HOW MIGHT THAT GO (also bodies are WILD)

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Starre Vartan @starrevartan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We used to think that once ovaries had passed through the menopausal transition, the scarred (from making all those eggs!), shrunken organs sat inert in the body. NOPE. "What we found was super surprising.” says Francesca Duncan at @medillschool.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2533...

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 03/09/2026

The most frustrating thing about the Twitter acquisition is that Musk won. He successfully took over the conversation hub for the US elite class, started paying 4channers subminimum wage to post for an algorithm that boosts far right content, and now "women shouldn't vote" is in the Overton Window.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

americans, my one big hope for you, and i am really rooting for all of us here on this one, I want you to remember you really can just take control of your society. you don't have to worship money and police and domination and elites. you can despise them and penalize them

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

as an em dash liker I do really hate the machines for taking that from me

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

this is all so fucking instructive if they would take a step back and learn something. you cannot let this happen ever again. when you are weak and crumbling, you cannot revive your prospects by painting everything gold and declaring a victorious golden age. it makes it look even weaker and rotted

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

this sounds politically boring but it is just standard New Deal thought and it was the benchmark for rational (mainstream) political economy until the Reagan era rebooted the previously-failed project of laissez faire (and subsequent Dems acquiesced to it)

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My grand unifying theory of politics rn is that we haven't invented an ideology for the material conditions of the 21st century yet, so it's just been cargo cults for everybody.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 28/07/2026

“Not vaccinating your kid is like saying, ‘I don’t want my car to have brakes,’” said Dr. Mark Roberts of the Public Health Dynamics Lab at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. “Because it’s other people that you can hit. It’s not just you in your car. It’s other people.”

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There Are Already More US Measles Cases This Year Than in All of 2025

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come.

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California Democrats @cademocrats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In 1990, disability rights activists organized the Capitol Crawl to demand passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Their organizing efforts helped shine a light on the barriers disabled Americans faced, & built support for one of the most important civil rights laws in our nation's history.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

correct. the conservative movement is opposed, wholesale, to the concept of learning and science

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025

Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Chat I am not looking forward to living the rest of my life in a country that tripled down on a hazily remembered version of the 20th century because keeping up with the times was going to upset people who have 5 years to live, 10 tops.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The FDA has announced that 1.6 million eggs have been contaminated with salmonella, forcing a nationwide recall. Last year, the Trump administration scrapped regulations to limit salmonella and laid off hundreds of food safety inspection workers.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not!

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Private equity guys should have to wear sashes to identify themselves And all the sashes should read “soulless weiner” And we should be able to kick them all in the shins once per day

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I said it during his first term but the Chinese absolutely nailed this guy 100%: throw him a parade and tell him it’s all for him. Do whatever you would do to give the worlds most spoiled six-year-old a special birthday boy treat.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I genuinely think one of the most under-covered stories of my lifetime is the huge, pervasive and partially-invisible propaganda network the oil industry created (and presumably will die along with the oil industry) bsky.app/profile/mase...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's something I'm not sure people understand about solar because we're so used to fossil fuels. Big business and billionaires LOVE oil because using it requires constant new inputs. Infinite profits. Solar isn't like that. You build and erect a panel and it just kicks power out basically forever

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

all that straight in to the pockets of his handpicked contractors. It's ALL grift. It's ALL impoverishing America to profit a few individuals.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

despair is not a synonym for political clarity!! yes! it’s cool to care, it’s not cringe to dream. be realistic when you talk logistics but believe in impossible beautiful futures the rest of the time! we can all take turns being hopeful, you don’t have to do it full time. but you do have to try.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026

Why does it matter what term we use? Because diagnoses imply remedies. If the problem is polarization, the solution is civility. Dialogue. Lowering the temperature. Finding common ground. Compromise. But what if the problem is right-wing radicalization?

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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‘There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America

Trump’s tariffs, threats against Greenland spurred a rebellion by top leaders; the limits of “flattery diplomacy.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/07/2026

Donald Trump is once again openly bragging about his own corruption.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 06/07/2026

Trump is preparing to fire the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's most prestigious scientific and historical research and education organizations. He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:

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White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can't be trusted

The report released late on Independence Day by the White House Domestic Policy Council comes in the midst of Trump’s aggressive campaign to overhaul some of Washington's most sacred cultural and hist...

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.

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(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Their most basic conviction is that being restricted by anything—even one’s own principles—is soy, gay, and effeminate

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/07/2026

Getting back to this was always the goal of Republicans which is why they’ve been the traditional party touting a return to federalism. The Democratic Party turning to the same system in the hopes of “lowering the temperature” is literally the compact northern lawmakers made with southerners.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/07/2026

This is literally the setup that allowed Jim Crow to be a decades long racist regime of apartheid while modern moderates lament the lost comity of the Senate. This is literally a politics of white reconciliation which we’ve already seen.

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