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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well if there is anyone who can be trusted to tell the truth more than a Russian oligarch I can’t think of it

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Latest piece. The discussion of a possible Russian escalation against European NATO often misses the main point that it indicates. It is not about Europe, it is about the USA. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-key-po...

phillipspobrien.substack.com

The Key Point Being Overlooked

The Russian escalation talk proves one key thing

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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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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it goes like this…the author’s Dad &his first wife , Mary had two daughters. These two daughters had a friend that the Dad married when Mary, their mom and his first wife died. This friend is the author’s mother and the second wife. Ugh I didn’t exactly streamline my explanation I’m sorry!

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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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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Argentina has been an economic mess for most of my lifetime -maybe he needs to try to remedy that instead of being so concerned about what Europe is doing

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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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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s the Dolly Parton of gems🤩

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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bowerbird senses activated!

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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I refuse to let polls get my hopes up again too-I will get hope from voter engagement and turn out efforts but I feel hopeful Dems have been burned by polls on and off for 8 years… and I have personally found it crushing and heartbreaking

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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s so infuriating to think about-all those years spent listening to Repubs rant about government overreach Obama gave a little recorded speech to schoolchildren about the importance of education &the caterwauling about big government trying to impose its will could have been heard on the moon

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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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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oooooooh I would so read this!!

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

I just don’t believe in Kara Swisher’s Road to Damascus moment- it would be great if her late realisations could have the same impact her early credulous cheerleading did

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

I didn’t even make it to angels kind of suck actually before I clicked the link and purchased! Thank you for the rec-it is a combo of my fav things too

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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well we certainly wouldn’t want Henry Ford, that nice fellow, to be turning over in his grave

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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

3 and I don’t even want to hear/know about Hassan Piker So only two willingly lol I’m pretty ok with being in this stage of life honestly

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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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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

16 Candles is the top pic for me- you just remember how dreamy Jake was and how great the young actors were and then you rewatch it now…

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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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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s making me bawl quite frankly - it seems cruelty is better than vitamins these days for life extension and we are losing the kindest people

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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is just back to back saddening news- just two human marvels gone

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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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What our freshmen are reading during orientation this week.
Contents
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.

knoxnews.com

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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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I somehow was following but now wisely blocked. I have enough to deal with in grappling with how the wicked are flourishing in our society- don’t need to pay attention to this sort of nonsense as well

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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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