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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rufo boosted the conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating pets, offering $5,000 reward for evidence, and posting grainy video (of other people from elsewhere) he cited as proof. Now the Haitians are being deported, because this is how colorblind meritocracy works I guess.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When Trump took over, Rufo personally led the campaign to get a hundred trans intelligence fired. Was this about merit? No. Rufo has been very clear. We protect our people, we denigrate and punish the others. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rufo pioneered the tactic of calling any discussions of race Critical Race Theory, and used it to get people fired. He pioneered the strategy of labeling teachers as "groomers" if they talked about gender identity donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-qanoni...

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JDG @cottonmather.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A huge chunk of elite poli-tastemaking is writing essays from the unstated perspective “Let’s just act as if this obvious liar is being genuine,” like people’s lives are just the score in a debate competition.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

these little freaks love playing dress up

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Indeed, Obama's genius was summoning up an army of door-knocking, phone-banking small p political activists and then euthanizing that organization after he won the election: newrepublic.com/article/1402...

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Inside the Fall of Obama’s Grassroots Army

The untold story of Obama’s biggest mistake—and how it paved the way for Trump.

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ChelseaNH @chelseanh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is Hamilton Nolan's framing of elections as the choice between enemies and cowards - you elect cowards and then work them to get them to deliver what you want - rather than the eternal disappointment of savior politics. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-thi...

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How to Think About Politics Without Wanting to Kill Yourself

There are Enemies, and then there are Cowards.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we should be clear-eyed about this, this thing where rightwingers take it as a given that global nazi domination is self-evidently better than non-white people self-governing or non-white immigrants existing

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

as near as i can tell from watching the whole exchange, tucker's contention is that the UK becoming a conquered territory of the nazi reich would increase the possibility of hypothetical fascist vassal uk ruling india for longer & this is obviously preferable to hosting allied us troops

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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I Know What Juda Did Last Summer @gypaetus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the very same day the hospital i worked at started handing out "healthcare hero" t-shirts to us, corporate also had us sign a paper acknowledging that there would be no expectation for hazard pay or additional PTO for sick leave if we contracted covid

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyway, articles like this are not meant to be helpful or useful for anyone contemplating a decision between college or trade school. They are meant to make people who do not have to make that decision feel ... something. Enlightened? I'm not sure.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

robert kraft screaming, crying, throwing up

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.

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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?

Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances"

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Given that virtually everyone with a high level role in Watergate is dead, I wonder if this is going to turn into another cadaver synod type thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver...

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Cadaver Synod - Wikipedia

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The president won’t be satisfied until every minute of Fox programming is indistinguishable from North Korean state TV — and every minute of coverage at every other outlet is as well. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/don...

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Donald Trump’s insatiable demand for Fox propaganda

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 01/10/2026

Republicans’ OBBBA specifically targeted New York by stripping 450,000 New Yorkers of their health insurance. I'm proud to introduce the Restoring Essential Plan Coverage Act with @schumer.senate.gov to reinstate federal funding for the Essential Plan and protect our communities.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This whole thing has been an interesting window into the gop post Trump — when you don’t have a gifted conman to organize the machine, you will see these cracks. The clip economy and digital spin room couldn’t pivot fast enough to account for Schmitt’s failure to deliver content.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · 01/10/2026

Elliot is a gem for being down to film this in such a chaotic environment

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Audrey Dutton @audreydutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Emma Joyce was sick and vomiting for days when she died. The next summer, Ava Joan got sick: wouldn't eat or drink, rapid breathing, and her vomit was black. It was untreated diabetes. The girls' toddler brother was next to die. Years later, another brother. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.

An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...

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Ariel Elias @arielcomedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Instagram is like, hey we noticed you reposted something that you made, but we're not going to show it to anyone because we value original content. For example, have you thought about stealing someone else's stuff and running it through AI?

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25/09/2026

“PUT THAT ICED COFFEE DOWN.”

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross, yelling about coffee

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve come to realize a lot of people don’t care about anything until it affects them personally and he has deeply fucked up the economy and people’s ability to get jobs and go on vacation. American life has changed in the last two years, materially, and universally for the worse.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this was done *in the house* *by the minority* *on a bill that had to become law*, which is basically playing legislator on legendary mode and house judiciary was far from the only committee doing this, in both chambers

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

for every one "trans women are double super secret probation banned from playing sports at the military academies they already can't go to, fine it's in the NDAA" there's been literally 50 "the GOP wanted to insert a 'all trans people must go to camps' rider into an approps bill and dems got it out"

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

What if I told you that one of the most influential conspiracy texts in US History--a text that inspired T. McVeigh, Alex Jones, & the Wu-Tang Clan--was written by a skinny Oregon Pearl Harbor truther who was an Elvis impersonating piano player who believed he could bring people back from the dead?

Reflections of Elvis
Artist reproduces the king
By Dale Poune
Staff Writer
Those of you readers who might be in search of that special getaway or maybe a new place to try, here's a tip. At the corner of 26th and S.E. Clinton is a little cantina that serves excellent Mexican food.
Estrellita's is the place, also featuring special entertainment.
Currently, Hartford Vandyke presents the "Reflections of Elvis" show every Thursday and Sunday nights.
"Reflections of Elvis" is a stunning rendition of songs by the late king of rock and roll and other artists of that era. Sit at your table, close your eyes and
Hartford Vandyke (Gene Bayot photo)
you can visualize Elvis singing the songs himself. Vandyke's voice reproductions of these songs are so accurate that it is
unbelievab

SILENT WEAPONS FOR QUIET WARS
ADVISORY
LUPUCIE CONTENT
KITHEMAY

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sheri Mecklenburg says she followed the instructions of U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros' front office "at every turn" as she sought an indictment against the "Broadview Six." UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story on the lead prosecutor breaking her silence: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor ‘owns’ mistakes in tainted case, says she was just following orders

Lawyers for former federal prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg say she retired Thursday from the Justice Department — a week before a federal judge is expected to hold a crucial hearing over the mishandling ...

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really hate living in the future lol:

“If you see a turtle lying on its back in the road…” I began.

Crystal interrupted me, sounding both real and extremely impatient. “We’re not very interested in some kind of dramas here,” she interrupted me. “We’re not interested in these games. Just want to make sure we’re straight to the point here as well.” We soon ended the call.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

actually spent half of therapy today ranting about how much this country hates women bc this documentary had me so mad Natalie Suleman I will be your strongest soldier

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Have extremely strong political opinions… of 1906. When are we going to crack down on cocaine cough drops? Why are they not regulating firemen chariot races? That Annabelle person is corrupting morals with her butterfly dances!

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026

If Paxton’s so offputting that he’s turned off two certified Texas Freaks from ever voting for him he’s completely fucked

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

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

kind of wild that the conventional wisdom of my political youth was “the more people who vote the better the dems do” and that has been completely flipped on its head reliable high information voters are bright blue and we need the low info trump voters to stay home

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