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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

NEW: on Fauci diaries The story isn't what's in them — it's the method. "Selective disclosure": leak real documents stripped of context, let partisan media run, go viral before the fact-check lands. Don't ask what's in the dump. Ask who it benefits, and why now. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

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The Fauci diaries are a predictable bust

Rand Paul desperately applies selective disclosure methods in his latest attempt to sustain lab leak fan fiction for personal gain

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Peter Daszak @peterdaszak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

*Warning* The "lab leak zombie" is back & wandering around your neighborhood. @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social calls out Rand Paul's "attention seeking twattery" (apologies The Thick of It) for what it is in this great read... open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

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The Fauci diaries are a predictable bust

Rand Paul desperately applies selective disclosure methods in his latest attempt to sustain lab leak fan fiction for personal gain

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Catherine Feore @catherinefeore.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What a weird way to report this. He is reviled by loons like Rand Paul. A motivated figure who was once told directly and correctly by Fauci that he did not know what he was talking about.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“.. he was met with applause from roughly half the room .. before turning toward new #WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich, who smiled .. and embraced the man who had just spent more than an hour assailing the work of those seated before him.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/the-white-...

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Or, how many drones can the Iranians get to the Houthis? I have no idea. But we'll probably find out pretty fast.

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Lenny Marlow @lennymarlow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

@phillipspobrien.bsky.social Listened to a series of lectures you gave a couple of years iago at ULB (maybe?) & you mentioned a study you were doing between St. Andrews & Johns Hopkins on the studies/analysis pre 2022 invasion on the immanent military victory by Russia. Did this get published?

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Judge Kaplan just ordered the $5.8M released to E. Jean Carroll despite Trump’s lawyers trying a last-minute filing the night before to block it. 1/2 #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AU4JMnjmNQlm...

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US judge orders release of $5.8m Trump owes E Jean Carroll after court loss — Guardian US

Manhattan judge’s order frees funds from Trump’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation verdict after supreme court appeal failed

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If you ever thought “Hey, I’d love to have my taxes raised $1,000 this year so I can help Trump payoff Iran for the Republican’s war”, this is your lucky week!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/05/2026

You can tell when people have no confidence in their ability to argue using facts & reason because they will inevitably steer any discussion, any exchange, as quickly as possible into who is the more beleaguered & marginalized, who's being mean to who, who is respecting whose "personal experience."

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

As far as I can tell from reporting, there's no breakthrough with Iran. There is only another classic Trump faux deal that leaves us and the region in a worse position than we all were prior to the start of this illegal, foolish, costly war. All hard issues are punted to the indefinite future.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18/05/2026

📣 Democrats have overperformed by 13 pts on avg across *105* Special Elections! 5/19: GA SD-07: TBD 5/19: PA HD-196: Ron Ruman 6/09: ME HD-029: Nancy McDowell 8/04: CA-01: TBD 8/04: AR HD-044: TBD Donate today! #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/speci...

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 11/05/2026

This, plus markets are by their very nature future-focused The war has to end because it's untenable, unpopular, and unsustainable It's the whole "Efficient Market Theory" (which I don't really prescribe to)

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Donald Trump just bragged about securing a ceasefire for Russia—but he didn't even make the deal. Putin is calling America for help because he's out of missiles. If Putin falls, Trump does too. Here’s why: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/putin-is-l...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Good debate: "I think the single biggest risk is if China overwhelms our auto industry and becomes dominant here.. China is so powerful and has so much leverage—low cost, high speed, good quality—that it could simply...obliterate legacy automakers. That’s the risk" www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

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What policy choices does the US face on Chinese clean energy investment? | Brookings

A group of experts examine how U.S. policy on Chinese investment in clean energy operates in practice.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Me: This was a political problem, all of us failed. Whiners: Wah wah wah wah, I want to outsource it to lawyers so I don't have to get off my ass. That's how you lose. And I promise you, the far right did not outsource.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A room full of the most powerful people in politics and media presumed they were being attacked by an active shooter. They dove under tables and texted loved ones. They feared for their lives. And somehow, not a damn thing will be done by them to push for gun reform tomorrow morning. America.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Trump going on 60 minutes and having to deny being a "rapist" and a "pedophile" was probably not how he hoped things would go.

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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 26/04/2026

It's not a true story. WIRED sourced an inaccurate history of GrapheneOS from a serial fabricator who has spent the past 8 years trying to destroy it and the life of the founder. Donaldson didn't play the role he claims in creating or supporting GrapheneOS. Copperhead was founded by 3 people, not 2.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/04/2026

Former FBI agent Dan Brunner: From what we saw, the suspect wasn’t even close to breaching security. He still would have had to go down two flights of stairs and get through additional secured doors. He didn’t even reach the magnetometers before being stopped.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/04/2026

Yell at me if you want, but my understanding is that rule No. 1 for the Secret Service is: remove the principle. When there's an incident, the FIRST thing you do is get the president to a location you can be certain is locked-down & secure. After all, in the chaos of the moment, you have no idea ...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

With Trump's coalition collapsing, Trumpism is shrinking into a personalist cult that banishes all who dare question his power to say what MAGA is at all times. It's purging itself down to its molten MAGA core. New piece on the inner logic of MAGA authoritarianism: newrepublic.com/article/2094...

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The Incredible Shrinking MAGA

How far can MAGA continue to get if it keeps purging itself down to its ever-more-molten core? Donald Trump appears bent on finding out.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Exhibit #5,794 of why women opt for the bear.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 15/04/2026

If current cuts to the Federal Science Budget proposed by the White House are approved by Congress, that will far-and-away be the largest cut to science since the United States began funding it. Republicans & Democrats alike know there’s no surer path to Making America Not-Great.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Oh this really pisses off DNC leaders and their corporate donors.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/04/2026

Megyn Kelly admits she was a driving force in getting Pete Hegseth the job, now she’s clutching pearls because he’s quoting scripture while talking about wiping people out. Did she even realize the scripture was fake? I guess they’ve got each other convinced they’re Christians, that’s about it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The two parties are not the same

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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Not feeling good about giving my hard earned money to the oligarchs, to fund illegal & unnecessary "wars,"or fund any of this admin's crooked schemes. Not at all 'good.'

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 14/04/2026

Thank you! According to this bot/service, 94.4% of my followers are legitimate.

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Jack will show you to your room. I have given you the room in th @timescarcass.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Watching the US media solemnly listening to Trump, asking him questions, interpreting him... it's like they made a goldfish the President and they're trying to 'read' the air bubbles in the fish tank...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/04/2026

Man. Person. Camera. Jesus. Doctor.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 12/04/2026

Right then! It's election day in #Hungary 🇭🇺 And - after train disruption yesterday - I am finally here This thread will develop over the day based on what I see and experience My night train is passing Győr, and my first stop will be Tatabánya

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2026

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/04/2026

Artemis II was overshadowed by other bad things in the news but what it accomplished was frankly amazing. We are capable of incredible and unprecedented things. I’m in awe at how far we safely sent humans into space.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12/04/2026

Bath tub gin for everyone?

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John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Union workers stepping up against fascism.

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If you read anything today, read this: The Hungarian Candidate open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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The Hungarian Candidate

Is Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall?

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11/04/2026

NYT: Vance has been at the Serena Hotel, the site of the talks, in Islamabad for nearly 9.5 h. WH never released a schedule of how long he was expected to stay in Pakistan and has declined to comment on the status of the negotiations, but the lengthy talks suggest the two sides remained engaged

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Thought I had helped this guy a little, but when I stopped in to say hello on Thursday, he told me he was very suspicious that the Artemis II mission wasn't real.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 10/04/2026

All those models that told us to be prudent about solar powering the world - fuck em

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