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semi-retired door-knocker svengali.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
mistakes: it could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

(pictured, shipwreck)
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
in the BC, i enjoyed the guy in india harvesting the cave of dried urine for white phosphorous but kept thinking, i probably can't cite this in internet fights, yes?
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
uh oh, another neal nerd (probably my fave neal novel, actually).
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
lol AUTOWARCOM, more like ONANCOM amirite?
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
maybe subconsciously he knows he's an asshole since he stumbled on the deliver of his bad boy shit-talk. "Simple translation -- translation of that, no fatty -- no fatties, no trannies (sic), no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals, just warriors."
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
tossing out slurs too.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
as a descendant of hiberno-normans i'll solemnly use the generational admin skills to start the reparation payouts.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
RETVRN
nick fury with a really big gun, from elektra assassin, good ol' bill sienkiewicz.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
yeah wondering if traister and grim got punked by someone sending a generic consultant memo from two years ago.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i was telling my sis about HPMOR and she pulled it up to read, i warned her cognitohazard but luckily she just put it down after a half hour, "really boring."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Speaking of chickens... Today is the day that I will debate...an empty podium. Because Mike Rogers is…well…
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it. My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :
foreignpolicy.com
The Laws of War Must Change for the Drone Age
Hunting civilians from the sky is growing disturbingly common.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i transcribed the first airings of the fox talarico interview last week, after uploading to the place with which i contract, jumped over to check the clippers, rupar etc, and thought yeehar, if nothing else, this is gonna be bluesky inferno, time to add more sporps and star trek follows.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 12/09/2026
"I came at a low point, with accordingly low expectations. I found a room full of people of all ages, who care a lot, work hard, develop relationships, and who have accumulated expertise in things you wouldn’t imagine someone might know." www.liberalcurrents.com/meet-the-dem...
liberalcurrents.com
Meet the Democrats
The party is not an abstract cabal powered by fever dreams, but a living, breathing coalition held together by a ceaseless grind and people with the will to face it.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/09/2026
The crowd erupts in chants of "Shame on you!" as Roger Marshall tries to explain why he sued 700 of his patients, leading to 81 arrests:
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
another perfect call with sheikh bababooey
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
the kids are alright
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
scheming vizier misleads frat czar in affirming 151 for jungle juice when court astronomers know the proper accelerant is everclear.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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DEEPLOCK #28 FURRY EDITION @djdeeplock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I went to the trouble of generating it
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
work light industrial temp in SW virginia and long island, get the american rainbow of racism.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
but also the model is broken. lots of orgs still surge strangers to doors every sept.-nov. like it's 2008 instead of training/paying professionals and targeting. election's over, whole structure goes poof, then next cycle people reinventing the wheel, again, as if it's 2008.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
field has been a mess for a while. campaigns frequently recycle cronies and buds and never listen to lots of experienced FOs, DODs, and RODs.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
good ol' stovepiping, i'd be almost nostalgic, except the run-up to the iraq war was one of the most depressing times in the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_...
en.wikipedia.org
Office of Special Plans - Wikipedia
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
read the quote and looked up the speaker, using eu- and dysgenic a bit too much for my comfort, but there was a whiff of appropriating the slurs and pejoratives in punk/queer style, but don't know enough about speaker's other work as to whether that's what they're doing.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
as someone who transcribes many political events, please pray for me this week lol.
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
obsessed with this from @racketmn.com. one of my core principles is that we need like 20x as much scene/street style photography from media outlets as we have. it's so wonderful racketmn.com/enjoy-43-lov...
racketmn.com
Enjoy 43 Lovely Portraits of Minnesotans Thriving at the 2026 MN State Fair - Racket
At the Great Minnesota Get-Together, humanity shines as bright as the midday Midway sun.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i treat is as stephen jay gould's non-overlapping magisteria, uh, i like both types of wile e.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
witchfinder general.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
new righteous trollface.
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...
strangematters.coop
Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters
Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
i get it'd be nice for candidates to try promising to "repeal all of trump's billionaire and corporate giveaways," ahem OBBB *and* TCJA, hopefully that's step two in the next congress going into 2028.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
i'm fine with "only billionaire tax hikes" slop as long he doesn't internalize it like some other should know better dumb dem tax cut proposals (warren, porter, etc). sadly think we're in an age where the rhetoric-policy gap will just have to widen.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
bill gets his preferred eastern front victory.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
AES is so good at this.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Watters: You think it’s ok to slash a ding-a-ling off El-Sayed: Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Watters: Yeah El-Sayed: Then you probably want to move on.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Jake Lang getting his Nazi ass beaten by Spider-Man in Minneapolis today is the ray of sunshine I needed.
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
it is grimly fitting he goes to church at the converted capitol lounge.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New Public Comment on the self-interested case for quitting X publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past...
publiccomment.blog
It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X
Yes, I'm talking to you. 🫵
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hilux joyride @leftspace13.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
just wanted to chime in on your fox monitoring days at MMA. 2004ish i used to transcribe part of the primetime lineup, half an hour each of orly, hannity (back then also colmes), and greta (murder mayhem yeehaw), and it triggered a depressive episode for months. felt stuck in an abusive household.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Cadaver Formosus is Already Spooky @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New from me: Why is Communion so WEIRD? Why does the second half feel like a different book? Why does it get Catholicism 101 wrong? What’s with all the non sequiturs about spies and why did Ross Douthat quote a literal Nazi in the NYT last week? Well, Vance thinks we’re too stupid to ask…
lareviewofbooks.org
J. D. Vance’s Straussian Moment | Los Angeles Review of Books
The US vice president wrote his new book without citing his source—Peter Thiel.
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