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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For decades we have been saying: maybe Democrats should run ads that simply quote Republicans saying horrible things about their own constituents. But Democratic consultants convinced Democrats that that would be too effective. So, this is validating to watch. Also, always hated false civility.

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I didn't understand this until I read Caste by Isabel Wilkerson; she explains that the Dems see their minority voter base as low caste people and they wish they could get the approval of the high status straight white birth citizen voters instead

In a caste context, the two main political parties bear the advantages and burdens of the castes they most attract and with which they are associated. At times, the stigma and double standard attached to disfavored minorities have accrued to the Democrats while the privilege and latitude accorded the dominant caste has accrued to the Republicans, who have come to be seen as proxies for white America. This in part explains the unforgiving scrutiny and obstructions faced by Democrats like Barack Obama and Hil- lary Clinton, and before them John Kerry and Al Gore, as white support has intensified for Republicans, now seen as the party of an anxious but powerful dominant-caste electorate.

A subliminal awareness of the power of caste (though the word would rarely, if ever, be used) appears also to be at work, to whatever degree, in how the parties respond to their respective bases. The Republican reverence for its base of white evangelicals stands in stark contrast to the indifference often shown the Democratic base of African-Americans, who are devalued for a host of reasons, among them their suppressed status at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
For the Republicans, the singularity of focus, the sense of rallying around an existential threat, combined with the inherent caste advantages of the collective wealth and influence of its voters overall, gives the GOP a seeming advantage in firing up its supporters against Democratic opposition. For their part, Democrats constitute a diffuse majority of the electorate, but seem at times lukewarm toward a base that the party has often lectured to or taken for granted, chided, if ever there is lower-than-expected turnout, despite voter suppression, sadly buying into caste assumptions rather than bolstering their most loyal voters as do the Republicans with theirs. Democrats expend energy and weaken their power pining for the die-hard voters of their opponents, the homecoming queens of the electorate, while taking for granted the majority that they already have.

As the most loyal voters of their respective parties, white evan- gelicals are to Republicans what African-Americans are to Democrats, though each makes up a minority of the total electorate But the foremost concerns of the Democrats most reliable voting bloc--affordable housing, clean water, police brutality, the racial wealth gap, and reparations for state-sanctioned discrimination (as has been accorded other groups discriminated against in the United States)--have remained on the back burner, or have even been considered radioactive issues for the party that African- Americans help to sustain. To those who say that this would be impractical, it would be the duty of the party representing and dependent on the subordinate caste to open the eyes of their fel- low Americans and make the case for a more egalitarian country

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 19h

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social has been on this beat for a minute www.etsy.com/shop/WideAwa...

COPPERHEADS OUT!
WERE VOTING FOR A NEW RECONSTRUCTION CAUCUS
UP AND DOWN THE BALION
PRIMARY THEM ALL 2026

The phrases “Defend the Homeland” and “Join ICE Today” split in two like the tearing of paper, and between them are artistic representations of the letter “K” and “L” with the following text:

K is the Kidnapper, who stole
That little child and mother—
Shrieking, it clung around her, but
He tore them from each other.

L is the Lash, that brutally
He swung around its head,
Threatening that “if it cried again,
He'd whip it till 'twas dead."

NO COMPROMISE WITH TRAITORS.
NO ARGUMENT BUT THE CANNON'S MOUTH!
FREE SPEECH!
FREE SOIL!
FREE PEOPLE!
WIDE AWAKE CLUB
Est. 1860 Re-Est. 2026
MIND YOUR EYE

THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE

NOW THEY CAN CALL US

WIDE AWAKES

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: Donald Trump preyed on party loyalty and fear. One of the reasons he [failed] is bc Republicans stood up. I personally find it hard to understand how our investigation could be viewed as partisan when our strongest witnesses were Republicans. [Names Rusty Bowers and Mike Pence.]

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely the worst campaign message I’ve ever seen

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 22h

I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

1 - You have got to be fucking kidding me. 2 - I’ll take it. A win’s a win.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 20h

Super Intelligence, the everything AI

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 23h

Updated information shows PPB killed the man and the dog. Absolutely shameful how some media talked about this man’s life like it was an afterthought, and unquestioningly put out copaganda.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 21h

Source: See What You Made Me Do: the Dangers of Domestic Abuse that we Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See by Jess Hill

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 21h

Similar to MRA and domestic violence. Men and women often have same levels of situational violence but men are way more likely to have coercive control, and are more likely to seriously harm or kill their partners. When women do kill their male partners, it’s often as a reaction to abuse/to escape.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...

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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
9.8K Retweets
32.7K Likes

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash

Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is always how it goes. The accused are allowed to ruthlessly and relentlessly smear the victims while engaging in a supposedly fair and just legal process that retraumatizes and creates fresh trauma for victims who are already supposed life altering, sometimes permanent consequences of rape

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out

Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

@mt ... . 1d

@Anth ... . 1d

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Expedia, Motorola, Remax - FWIW

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us."

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