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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i mean they tried: idk if "the guy eager to prove something faltered because he was confused" is very accurate framing here

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And, around us, the world that made that world feasible has fallen in part. Destroyed on purpose, I’d say, by a combination of omission and commotion

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That didn't use to be our job! We got our local paper and bought toilet paper from the guys selling ads on 60 Minutes. We had a few magazine subscriptions and downed a book every trimester or so. We did our part.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The ultra-Far Right/neo-Nazis are joining forces in Europe, which should worry anyone with even a passing acquaintance with history. Germany’s AfD and Italy’s Future Nationale have announced a partnership. Everything old is new again.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This year’s El Niño is on course to be the largest in at least *1,000* years. That’s going to drive excess heat into the atmosphere and combined with man-made heating will make 2027 the hottest year ever recorded. #climatecrisis

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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak

‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Brazilian President Lula to CNN: “The leaders with the biggest economies, technology, militaries and nuclear arsenals are the ones who should stop wars and make peace. “Instead, they keep fomenting confrontations. Where are we going to end up with this?”

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Republican Project for literally my entire life has been to warn us that the Federal Government was Too Powerful and Overreaching and would Strip Our Freedoms and now they have gotten into lockstep behind this loon who's like "I might fuck around and ban muffins"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Friendly reminder that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social said if we win the house we're not gonna worry about impeachment and punishment, we're just gonna work across the aisle on affordability. If Jeffries doesn't understand that it is a moral imperative to save this country from Nazis, then QUIT

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I am maybe built different but I would be ashamed to show my face in public if I were caught on live tv saying anything close to what they’re all saying about Somalis

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In Ed Sheeran’s defense, as an Irishman, he really doesn’t have any frame of reference for understanding what it’s like to have a militarily aggressive nation as a neighbor, especially one who thinks of your people as a bunch of savage terrorists who practice the wrong religion.

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Stella @capestells.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why why why would any gvt want to bind themselves to him. Especially if he has that kind of control over the communications. He already shut down com links during the early days of the War in Ukraine and he shut them down for the good guys. Installing his product is incredibly shortsighted.

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5thgenfljane.bsky.social @5thgenfljane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Those downfalls just aren’t happening fast enough.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This setback, however, not only wasted a tremendous amount of Russian resources and troops, but also pushed the target even further away. It marks now the official failure of Russian summer offensive.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Even according the most optimistic prognostications for the Russian side, it would have taken years for them to take the Ukrainian fortress cities Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, if at all.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Iranian-backed Houthis have launched an offensive along the Red Sea coast which has yielded significant gains. The rebels have entered the coastal city of Mocha and conducted an amphibious landing operation at the Hanish Islands.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is especially a Saudi defeat, but it threatens the oil price worldwide. At the beginning of this year the Iranian regime was pretty much cornered. Now, they hold the Strait of Hormuz and are about to close the noose around the Bab-al Mandab Strait.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is big news for Ukraine and very bad for Russia - the failure of Putin’s summer offensive. 🧵

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God @thegodshow.com · 11/09/2026

We don’t talk about Russ Vought enough and he’s the most powerful villain in Washington, D.C.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2026

"surely it is insidious Chinese propaganda that's making normal people hate and fear us, instead of how we say stuff like this on main all the time" - the big American genAI companies

I don't know what my probabilities are on literal extinction, but I think there are a number of ways AI could go poorly for humanity, and at the current frankly terrifying pace humanity will be quite lucky if we manage to find and stay on the narrow path between all the bad outcomes.

I am heartened by the many costly actions OpenAI has taken recently (detailed in several recent posts), but regardless of what you think of OpenAI, this is not a problem that can be solved by any one company (or country) in isolation. We need coordination to be able to approach future capability increases with an appropriate degree of caution and humility, and we need it yesterday.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

this is the t-shirt the bigots at wnba games have made their uniform, and @foiaball.com found out why. great work here.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dems too busy being Islamaphobic about a liftbro on Twitch in the name of "fighting antisemitism" to notice that ICE has been going hog wild on the down low since Homan took over for Bovino and told the Gestapo to be a bit more subtle

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Heaven knows that no Black people or women in US History have ever thought much about what freedom means.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As a free thinker devoted to viewpoint diversity, I have nothing but respect for the University of Austin that introduces students to ideas about freedom ranging from Milton Friedman to Friedrich Hayek, from Leo Strauss to Allan Bloom, and from Forrest McDonald to Gordon Wood.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN
What Is Freedom?
Intellectual Foundations Seminar
1. Civic and Political Freedom
Session 1
Gordon Wood, "The Declaration of Independence"
Fomest McDonald, E Pluribus Unum, ch. 5: "The Critical Period of American History" The Federalist, No. 1 and No. 49
John Marshall, The Life of George Washington: Washington's Life and Character. Pp. 463-469
Il. Economic and Individual Freedom
Session 2
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, ch. 1: *The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Frecdom*
Fricdrich Hayck, "The Use of Knowledge in Society"
II. Is Freedom the Highest Good? Technology and the Human Future
Session 3
Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska, The Technological Republic, ch. 1: "Lost Valley"
Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas, paras 1-19, 97-130, 229-242
Yuval Levin, "Idols of the Valley"
Neil Postman, Technopoly, ch. 1: "The Judgment of Thamus"
IV. Intellectual and Inner Freedom
Session 4: The Intellectal Crisis
Leo Strauss, "What Is Liberal Education?"
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, pp. 19-43
Session S: The Student's Interior Lif
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, pp. 47-137
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So proud of my brother for having produced this documentary about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library that made clear the scope of one of Dolly’s many precious gifts to our world.

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Nick Geidner on producing Imagination Library documentary, "The Library that Dolly Built"

Nick Geidner on the motivation to produce the documentary "The Library that Dolly Built," a documentary on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026

To expand on my feelings a little more: It feels to me like so many of “today’s” wealthy and famous and powerful people are real pieces of shit. I feel inspired by learning about all of Dolly Parton’s *choices* to be different and do different. What an impactful, rewarding life.

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Shani Aviram @shaniaviram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Israelis who thought this would work were high on a similar grandiose fantasy and Bibi made sure those were the people in positions of influence. the belief is sincere, that doesnt make it less dangerously stupid

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Shani Aviram @shaniaviram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Bibi, tho he has a lifelong obsess with being the one who eliminated the iranian threat, was pressed to wipe his slate clean from the failure of October 7th and saw a win over Iran as a way to achieve that

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Difficult to clock israelis legitimately high on their own supply vs manipulating the US into known shenanigans because they think they'll still come out ahead Tbh the second part of that is just another version of getting high on their own supply I think

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They like Vance and want to help him. They don't like AES and they want him to lose the election. This perfectly explains the discrepancy in how each guy is covered.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

youtube.com

What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Big haul for Ukrainian drones last night: three Ozon warehouses, a MiG-29, four radars, a Shadow Fleet tanker and bulk carrier and a special forces position. Very successful #explodey

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is a real fascism bankshot. Truly impressive 2x assholery.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/08/2026

For the show they have to film him from pretty far away

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/08/2026

I am getting reports that in retaliation for scuttling the deal, Mark Carney has deployed Caillou to John Roberts' house

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/08/2026

The real life Caillou is fourteen feet (4.63 meters) tall

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And then establishment dems and pundits have the NERVE to act confused as to why democratic socialist candidates are doing so well in primaries and elections lately.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Heschel insisted we cannot accommodate the absurd or grow numb. Gaza is not the Holocaust, but every genocide is a unique moral crime. This scale of destruction demands clear-eyed acknowledgment, not retreat into our fears. If your Museum of Tolerance lacks an exhibit on this report, TEAR IT DOWN.

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Israel continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children

GENEVA – Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the W...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Listening to Rabbi Asher Lopatin sidestep the ongoing genocide in Gaza is so deeply clarifying—and chilling. Opposing AIPAC isn’t just political; it’s a moral imperative when defending an unatoned, ongoing atrocity.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I spent two scores avoiding the depravity of the Palestinian situation out of cowardice and a soggy loyalty to my Jewishness. That is precisely why what Beinart is doing matters so deeply to me. Facing the reality is a moral responsibility of all who can and have even the most minor say (a vote).

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Two Jews Debate Abdul El-Sayed

Michigan Rabbi Asher Lopatin and I hash out our differences about his state’s Democratic nominee for Senate

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This big drop-off in skills once the AI bots are removed is one of the few things research can tell us about students' use of AI. There's good evidence that this stuff could hurt kids and no evidence that justifies the rush to douse them in it.

medium.com

Here’s what we know about AI and education. It’s not good.

Yet we know the proven interventions that do work will remain sorely underfunded.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

People tried to shame folks out of using Instagram, out of using Uber, out of getting into crypto. How’s that going? What if, instead, we had focused on providing credible, pro-social community-based alternatives that addressed the things people *thought* they would get from those platforms?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026

Whatever else we're doing with our lives, that's now our job, too! It's an important one, and it'll last our whole lives! Let's find our organizing homes, get to work, and not fuck it up!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026

If you're from the US, at least you'll never have to wonder what your purpose on this Earth is. It's simple: to fight fascism, defend your neighbors everywhere, and work to repair the immeasurable damage this evil regime has done and is doing to every single person on the planet.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026

Trump is not just the worst president, but the worst US citizen of my entire lifetime. A world historical failure of humanity and morality. He and his wicked entourage have burdened us with the task of repairing his damage and eradicating his evil legacy for the rest of our lives.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trump has been banishing people to one of the world's worst dictatorships Including: a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt at 4 yrs old a woman who came to the U.S. at 5 yr old They're now imprisoned, & report being handcuffed and assaulted They've committed no crime tucson.com/news/local/b...

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U.S. deportees assaulted, threatened at gunpoint in Equatorial Guinea, three say

Immigrants deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea say they have been threatened at gunpoint and fear for their lives while detained at a former hotel.

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