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The last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22h

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Four days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2

The evidence points to numerous failings on the part of both ICE and the officers
who testified, including:
1. evasive and apparently perjurious testimony by the ICE agents, including the
testimony concerning supposed observations of the petitioner engaging in drug
transactions, which bear all the hallmarks of coordinated fabrication,12 the absence of any recovered drugs, paraphernalia or cash from the petitioner,
the failure of the agents to follow up upon these supposed observations or refer
the matter to another law enforcement agency, and the notable absence of any
reference to these observations in the voluminous documentary records, further undermining the agents' testimony;
2. the seemingly reflexive, though false, claims that the petitioner was
"misidentified" as the target of the operation;
3. fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents authorities and duties;
4. illegality of the arrest and detention of petitioner and Concepcion;
5. the post-arrest documents, which not only were procedurally and legally
suspect, but contain false statements;

Notably, in its filings, Government counsel has not referenced this testimony, seemingly abandoning any argument predicated upon these sworn assertions by the agents.

6. the database search process used to justify the administrative warrant, as
described by the ranking supervisory officer, which appears designed to generate misleading information in official records; and
7. the inexperience of the agents involved, their woeful lack of proper training, understanding of law, policies and procedures, and their ready recourse to false testimony to conceal these failings.

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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Democrats will never learn.

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Remember when the current frontrunner for NFL MVP was our quarterback? We’re a long way from those days. #BlueCy

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coach smitty @cwsmitty74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“you got that hit mail piece on Talarico?” “sure thing, boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked” “what?”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026

The Wave Building in La Baule, France, designed by architect Pierre Doucet in 1979 thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/8299993...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apologies. Saw a typo. There are few beliefs more fundamentally right-wing than the belief that a man’s nature is fixed.

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You’re thinking of “The Farmer and the Viper,” whose (extremely right-wing-coded) moral is to extend no kindness to evil. By contrast, “The Snake and the Farmer” observes that people who have hurt each other are, unfortunately, unable to reconcile in the face of constant reminders of past pain.

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I would understand the impulse to post this in response to an article lionizing him or whitewashing his past actions. But what is the utility of responding in this way to a post you presumably agree with—other than discouraging anyone else from breaking with the GOP and allying with the left?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FUN FACT: The Bible doesn't say *anything* about abortion. Ever. Well, except for the time God provides a handy recipe for a magic potion to induce an involuntary one. Numbers 5:11-31

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m not proud of it, but I did laugh.

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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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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This week I released a song I wrote about missing the Iowa I grew up with, before Kim Reynolds and rest of the Republican Party decided to make it dumber, crueler, and less free. youtu.be/pqWOnPiSRU4?...

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Fields of Opportunities

YouTube video by Larson Lee - Topic

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

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So life now is just entering one-time verification codes again and again until we die, is that right?

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well for one thing I think we’re gonna need to call them something else

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*youth pastor voice* You know who else was betrayed after a private dinner by one of his twelve closest friends?

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s not dirty! To “whip a shitty” means to make a sudden U-turn. If you are “whipping shitties,” plural, it means you have intentionally induced your car to make tight circles (donuts) in an icy parking lot, snowy field, or on the lawn of a mean teacher or hated rival.

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are also regional slang terms I suspect are less likely to escape containment because they’re varying degrees of awful. Like in the South there’s a weather event that prompts people to say “the devil is beating his wife.”

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our nation-wide slang may be everywhere, but America is so big we have tons of regional slang that doesn’t translate outside of its region. In my part of the Midwest US we sometimes “whip a shitty.” I’d be surprised if Brits knew that one.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ringo is recognized as a *great* drummer by those who believe the job is to serve the song, not overshadow it, and also by those who have tried to imitate his shuffle beats. Besides which, he was more technically proficient on his primary instrument than John. And also, yes, that song rules.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/09/2026

Big subtext: Hamilton is proving to be a hard target for the GOP. When Vance attacked his faith, a local UMC bishop and 120 UMC pastors issued statements defending him. When his competitor Sen. Marshall called him a pastor who is "too woke for Kansas," Marshall's *own pastor* suggested otherwise.

But the attacks have also revealed the positive reputation Hamilton has forged among his co-religionists. Last week, David Wilson, the United Methodist bishop who oversees Hamilton’s regional conference, published a statement dismissing attacks on Hamilton by Vance and Marshall as “inaccurate and unwarranted,” describing them as an “invective against the church, of which Adam is the founding pastor.”

“The language used, in effect, criticizes fellow Christians merely for living up to what Jesus taught in the Gospel texts,” wrote Wilson, who oversees the Great Plains Annual Conference.

A few days later, 120 UMC pastors from across the state signed a public letter to Marshall, urging the senator and the Vice President to tone down the rhetoric.

“When you attack Adam’s pastoral ministry, his home congregation, and our denomination as a whole, you sow seeds of division and dissent,” read the letter. “You tear at the fabric that is the body of Christ.”

And when Marshall derided Hamilton in August as a “megachurch pastor that’s too woke for Kansas,” Hamilton’s campaign quickly noted that the pastor of Marshall’s own non-denominational church has publicly referred to Hamilton as a “middle-of-the-road pastor who is willing to listen to all sides.”

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Jim Grayson @jimgrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Students at the high school where I teach are circulating a petition to stop the use of generative AI by staff at all levels of the district, demanding actual human work for actual human kids. I have so much hope for the future. The kids are alright.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Have you read “High In Hell,” by Kevin Fedarko, Esquire, August 2006, about Khat? One of my top-five favorite pieces of writing, ever. “Khat is my brother. It takes care of all things.”

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.

And so for Democrats to say, They have a point on some of this, it is engendering a lot of hopelessness and a lot of fear in the trans community, because we have been just trying to hold on, hoping that this time would end and we would be able to get back to where we were five years, six years ago. And what Democrats are signaling is, like, No, we’re going to keep things as they are, and maybe even make them worse.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All I see is Mondrian when I'm waiting for a train at Green Park!

Green park station looking like a Mondrian painting

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.

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spirit airlines presents: airplane fall @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

interesting to think that trump’s childhood home was once home to a pack of vicious, ill-mannered creatures, who were later replaced with adorable kitties

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On the one hand these AI models need miles and miles of server racks full of very special chips in order to function. On the other hand, I’m told, they might become super-intelligent and decide to kill us all. But, forgive me, if they did… couldn’t we just, like, UNPLUG THE SERVER RACKS?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Me: what’s your favorite letter Fonzie: A Apiarist: B Sailor: C Nympho: D Dolphin: E Mean Teacher: F Gangsta: G Junkie: H Optometrist: I Silent Bob: J White Girl: K Legal Blonde: L 007: M Pessimist: N Understander: O Urologist: P Line Waiter: Q Pirate: R Snake: S Golfer: T No one: U

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Larson Lee @larsonlee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Aw, man. I haven’t followed hockey much in recent years, but losing Barry Melrose at 70 makes me sad. He always seemed like such a cool dude and a real one, and from the rememberances it seems like he was. defector.com/barry-melros...

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Barry Melrose Brought Hockey Home | Defector

Go ahead and listen to this. (For the real perverts, use this one; you just know you’re about to stay up until 1:00 a.m. for a particularly shitty Sharks–Mighty Ducks game.) What does it evoke? What d...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My AI pacing playbook: if your AI bot does crimes you go to jail. You know, how the law should work at present Pretty sure massive fines (100-200 billy) or jail time, would make safety a top concern really fast

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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I'm too talented to need shortcuts" goes so fucking hard.

youtube community post from Huggbees that discusses why he does not and will not ever use AI in his art

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

reading a book on African economics. Amazing how racists contort themselves to create narratives of racial inferiority, when one of the basic explanations for lagging African development is that fucking elephants will destroy crops

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