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Lloyd Sullivan

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15h
The Talmud is dudes in 4th c. whats-now-Iraq nerding out about Torah, + some intern takes notes in the study hall sometimes they fight abt whether or not you accidentally making a furrow in dirt when you drag a bench is Shabbat-prohibited "farming" sometimes they make wang jokes like, chill
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16h
i think that part of the problem is that it's hard to tell which American MENA experts are on the Saudi payroll, Israeli payroll, Qatari payroll, or UAE payroll because they're all on every payroll
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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
very interested to see if this is your classic terrorist group or an extreme example of the way the Iranians have been subcontracting out to (mostly quite dumb) criminals www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Five men arrested at RAF Fairford are all UK nationals from London, say police
Officers say they have secured extension to continue to hold men, all in their 20s, on suspicion of terror offences
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An important message about the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia from @miniminuteman.bsky.social. It even has an IASIP joek in it. What more you want?
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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23/09/2026
please to see that my latest academic article is out now: "Ghost in the Machine. Crusade Medievalisms in the 21st-century United States" I take on the ghost of Samuel Huntington and some right-wing tropes in scholarship open access so free to read --> www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The jokes write themselves
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AJs Realms @ajsrealms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fantasy: AI becomes sapient, takes over the nukes itself, and wages war against Humanity. The reality: AI becomes the equivalent of a drunken, street-corner pseudo-prophet that Humanity decides to take seriously for some reason. Weren't there multiple TOS episodes with similar premises?
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
yeah i mean there's a lot to disagree with in "they go low we go high" as it turns out, but "tethered to factual reality" really needs to be the touchstone. hannah arendt etc etc
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 12/09/2026
(The Computer is mysterious and enigmatic.)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026
a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 30/08/2026
In an age of extremism everyone is an extremism scholar
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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes but that would require accepting the idea that American voters have agency and should accept responsibility for their actions and yet we still regularly have the burrito taxi argument on here.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The "climate sceptics" are going to pivot to becoming weather manipulation truthers or whatever. The problem isn't gas guzzling trucks and coal, it's those damn west coast elites stealing our water or whatever.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Does no one else find this an unforgivably stupid question? Emissions reductions won't make a heat wave NOW survivable. Likewise, more homes can have AC, heat pumps while overall cutting greenhouse emissions. This isn't an "either/or", both are needed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in five European nations, survey finds
Poll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homes
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you're into that sort of thing, GPPi produce a great podcast series on Assad's chemical weapon use as part of their Nowhere to Hide project chemicalweapons.gppi.net/podcast/
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Nowhere to Hide
The Story of Chemical Warfare in Syria
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The “you just don’t like AI because you don’t understand it” argument is completely demolished whenever I post about this nuance because everyone resoundingly agrees and supports this version. People understand AI. They understand what they don’t like about it. They are not ignorant.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17/08/2026
once again, essential reading:
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Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism - New Politics
La Botz analyzes the pseudo anti-imperialist character of campism and calls for genuine internationalism of workers against imperialism.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
stories like this are a useful reminder that a) Chinese people love goofing around and b) the CCP really distrusts people goofing around.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"We got our shit kicked in an exercise by one of the most experienced militaries on the face of the planet at current moment" is actually kind of what I want to hear the real problem is that this article is gonna be used as a sales pitch for the gizmo cult and Anduril
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If the Democrats really want to run on an anti corruption platform (and i think they should), this means coming out against prediction markets, crypto, and sports betting, all of which are either directly corrupt or facilitate corrupt acts.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And which is more serious: 1) A silly campus protest 2) Someone said a mean thing Leftishly 3) Armed agents of the state murdering people 4) A political party using the state to silence dissent. (3) and (4) are very obviously a much bigger deal than (1) or (2), not that you can tell from the NYT.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm not just talking about people who think there might have been a murder or a hate crime. We don't know, there might have been. (It seems unlikely, but let's hear all the facts.) I'm talking about people speculating that this was a KKK initiation ritual, organ-harvesting, or cannibalism.
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Lloyd Sullivan @lloydgonkillya.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It should not surprise anyone.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
No, it's really bad trying to court crank raw milk drinkers and child murderers who withhold medicine, in an attempt to gain votes as a progressive. If you think this can be defended on purely strategic grounds, you are already way too lost in the ideological hole.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Over and over the cycle repeats: Bad tech do bad thing Politicians: make bad tech not to bad thing? Companies: no bad thing make money Politicians: ah okay keep doing bad thing just add more spy
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 30/07/2026
Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I wrote about @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's recent comments on liberal/left pro-natalism: "Anytime someone wants to have a conversation about pro-natalism, they really want to have a conversation with you about white supremacy." badfaithtimes.com/the-bad-fait...
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The Bad Faith Of Pro-Natalism Is Uglier Than You Know
"Anytime someone wants to have a conversation about pro-natalism, they really want to have a conversation about white supremacy."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/07/2026
the chuds understand ‘what if a man was Large’ the chuds understand ‘what if a man was Woke’ the concept of a man who is both Large and Woke continues to break their brains
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Ukrainian F-16 shot down a Russian Su-35 in air-to-air combat, CJCS Gen. Dan Caine confirms, marking the first confirmed air-to-air kill by a Ukrainian F-16
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Decided to look at the classes taught at West Virginia University ’s Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship (the one with one enrolled student) and it turns out it’s teaching classes on the wonders of fascism
MWF 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM | WASH 393A

Often as revolutionary as it is traditionalist, democratic as it is authoritarian, individualistic as it is communal, the “right” is today far from an easily defined  or unified reality. Nevertheless, a certain emerging consensus can be discerned. Called the New Right, this consensus refers to a set of ideas and instincts that affirm the need for a new political paradigm beyond the three reigning ideologies of the twentieth century: liberalism, fascism, and communism. This idea is what Alexander Dugin has termed the “fourth political theory.” Using Dugin’s analysis as a starting point, this course will investigate what he and others mean when they imagine and think in this “fourth” place beyond liberalism, fascism, and communism. Readings in the first half will focus on philosophical foundations, and will include Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, as well as more secondary figures such as Ernst Jünger, Oswald Spengler, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Julius Evola, and Dugin himself. In the second half, we will critically examine several contemporary leading figures—such as Alain de Benoist, Renaud Camus, Michael Millerman, and Alexander Markovics—who have each proposed answers to the question of a “fourth politics” today.
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Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 13/07/2026
Nice work, everyone! Keep it up!
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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With "Pervert Glasses" Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are reportedly leaving their expensive smart glasses at home.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13/07/2026
I have no idea why any reasonable person would believe anything tech companies say about anything at this point, AI related or otherwise hostile skepticism should be the public default
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The Lies They're Telling Towns And Tribes About The Benefits Of AI Data Centers
Unregulated AI data centers will not, surprisingly, turn your struggling rural West Virginia town into a modern techno-Utopia.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
you know how tsunamis don’t seem insidious until they surge and destroy everything? yeah that’s basically what sportsbooks and the prediction markets are doing to millions of bank accounts right now
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
am i having a stroke
Marsha Blackburn will fight to protect TN land from china
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@ozkaterji.bsky.social
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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Some great points here. "The loose nexus between E.A., the 'rationalist' community, and the neo-reactionary movement has already given us the Zizian murder cult, the FTX fraud and bankruptcy, Curtis Yarvin’s whole deal, and the worst fanfic that can exist under currently understood laws of nature."
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Over Leveraged
The inside story of Peter Thiel's MKUltra by someone who thinks it was kind of good, actually.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This bit from the NYT Vance story describes basically all of ultra-right-wing chud classics and medievalism: it *feels* ancient or medieval - or what they think that should be - despite actually being very modern, because it fits their neo-fascist ideology.
Text: "One of his favorite prayers, the vice president says, urges the Archangel Michael to defend us in the battle “against the wickedness and snares of the devil,” and asks that “all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls” be cast into hell.

“I really liked that one,” Vance writes. “It felt medieval despite being written in the 19th century. And it felt mystical. You could almost see the angels and demons doing battle.”
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What we know about the sex trafficking that Andrew Tate is involved in is every bit as horrific and evil as the abuse that Jeffrey Epstein committed, and Tate is actually still alive, and yet there are a lot more conspiracy theories about the "Epstein class."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Morherfucker you are the invader!
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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald 🫠 @giromide.online · 25/06/2026
weird how the Rationalist movement gave us the current American Oligarchy and these clowns
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The idea that slurs need to be evaluated based on what is inside of the heart of the person saying them, which is by definition radically private and unknowable, and not based on their impact in intercommunicative spaces, is a sign of how culturally Protestant we remain.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Right-wing antisemitic incidents in Germany outnumbered both left-wing antisemitic incidents and Islamist antisemitic incidents combined in 2025, so the image here should really be an AfD rally, not a pro-Palestine rally. (www.jta.org/2026/06/18/g...)
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