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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 10/10/2026

still hilarious that i'd take bloody bill kristol over the median Dem senator these days

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is astonishingly stupid but also, as a descriptive matter, completely accurate

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s this tweet except dumber because it’s the media defending him

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WaPo: The president shat himself.
White House: The president would never shit himself.
Trump: I SHAT MYSELF ON PURPOSE
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/10/2026

Hats off to the user who reported the Eva Marie Saint trending topic for sexual content. Lady, you've still got it

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What are the Democrats in the Senate doing to stop him? It was clear we'd get here when you made that legislation bipartisan, and you are still proceeding by regular order. We're in a war for liberal democracy, and I wish Dems would act like it.

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe they would understand the argument in meme form?

A schoolgirl holding a tuba over the head of another schoolgirl. The first schoolgirl is labeled "EVERY TECH COMPANY." The tuba is labeled "AI FEATURES NO ONE ASKED FOR." And the 2nd schoolgirl is labeled "CONSUMERS."

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YES. This is a significant reason why I dislike AI. AI hinders my ability to investigate things on my own, and it forces me, at least at some level, to trust the magic machine that gives me answers and that happens to be created and owned by the worst people alive.

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YES. This is a significant reason why I dislike AI.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes! I've been waiting to watch it until I finished the book.

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was the 1st time I ever saw him smile free...It was like looking at the face of God. And I knowed then, for the 1st time, that him [it] weren't no lunacy. It was something he knowed true inside him...I knowed then, too, that he knowed what I was-from the very 1st. "Whatever you is...be it full."

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see you accept God in that engine house, Onion. That alone, that one life freed toward our King of Peace, is worth a thou- sand bullets and all the pain in the world. I won't live to see the change God wants. But I hope you do. Some of it any- way. By God, I feels a prayer hatching, Onion." And he stood up and grabbed my hands and prayed for a good half hour, holding my hands in his wrinkled paws, his head down, pow- wowing with his Maker'bout this and that, thanking Him for making me true to myself, and all sorts of other business, pray- ing for his jailer and hoping the jailer gets paid and don't get robbed and nobody breaks outta jail on his watch, and throwing in a good word for them that jailed him and killed his boys. I let him go on.

After 'bout a half hour he was done, and sat back down on his bed, tired. It was getting light outside. I could see just a peek of dawn was through the window. It was time for me to go.

"But, Captain, you never asked me why I ... went 'bout as I did."

The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till a big old smile busted out from beneath 'em all, and his gray eyes fairly glowed. It was the first time I ever saw him smile free. A true smile. It was like looking at the face of God. And I knowed then, for the first time, that him being the person tỏ lead the colored to freedom weren't no lunacy. It was some- thing he knowed true inside him. I saw it clear for the first time. I knowed then, too, that he knowed what I was-from
the very first.

"Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full. God is no re- specter of persons. I loves you, Onion. Look in on my family
from time to time."

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I am the luckiest man in the world." "It don't seem that way." ". . . I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. . . . ."

Onion?"

"I'm fine, Captain."

"It does my heart good to see you," he said.

"Is you all right, Captain?"

"I am fine, Onion."

"I didn't right know what to say to him at that moment, so I nodded at the open cell door." You could escape easily, couldn't you, Captain? There's plenty talk 'bout rousing up new men from all parts and taking you back out. Couldn't you bust out and we could stir up another army and do it like the old days, like Kansas?"

The Old Man, stern as always, shook his head. "Why would I do that? I am the luckiest man in the world."

"It don't seem that way."

"There is an eternity behind and an eternity before, Onion. That little speck at the center, however long, is life. And that is but comparatively a minute," he said."I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. To hive the colored."

I couldn't stand it. He was a failure. He didn't hive nobody. He didn't free nobody, and that spun my guts a bit to see him in that state, for I did love the Old Man, but he was dying cockeyed, and I didn't want that. So I said, "The slaves never hived, Captain. That was my fault."

I started to tell him 'bout the Rail Man, but he put up his
hand.

"Hiving takes a while. Sometimes bees don't hive for years."

"You saying they will?"

"I'm saying God's mercy will spread its light on the world.
Just like He spread His mercy to you. It done my heart good to

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"f you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free?"

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who you is? I had thoroughly been a girl so long by then that I'd grown to like it, got used to it, got used to not having to lift things, and have folks make excuses for me on account of me not being strong enough, or fast enough, or powerful enough like a boy, on account of my size. But that's the thing. You can play one part in life, but you can't be that thing. You just play- ing it. You're not real. I was a Negro above all else, and Negroes plays their part, too: Hiding. Smiling. Pretending bondage is okay till they're free, and then what? Free to do what? To be like the white man? Is he so right? Not according to the Old Man. It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? That pressed on my heart like a vise right then. Just mashed me down. I was head over heels for that girl, I loved her with all my heart, I confess it here, and her father's charge would be against me for the rest of my life if he got killed on account of the Rail Man not hearing the right pass- word. Curse that son of a bitch father of hers! And the Rail Man, too! That self-righteous, ignorant, risk-taking, elephant- looking bum! And all them slave-fightin' no-gooders! It would be on my head. The thought of the Captain getting deadened on account of me made me feel ten times worse than Annie not loving me, which if shed'a knowed what I was, shed'a been dis- gusted with me, a nigger, playing a girl, not man enough to be a man, loving her and all, and she wouldn't love me back in the least, or even like me, no matter how much she felt for me at that moment as a full-hearted girlfriend. She was loving a mirage. And I'd have her father's blood on my hands the rest of my life, laying there like a coward under the hay and not being a natural man, man enough to go back and tell him the words

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The Old Man was a lunatic... he couldn't no more be a sane man in his transactions... than you and I can bark like a dog, for he didn't speak their language... Pure to the truth, which will drive any man off his rocker. But at least he knowed he was crazy. At least he knowed who he was."

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every day. You know his wants, his needs, and watch him proper. But he don't know your wants. He don't know your needs or feelings or what's inside you, for you ain't equal to him in no measure. You just a nigger to him. A thing: like a dog or a shovel or a horse. Your needs and wants got no track, whether you is a girl or a boy, a woman or a man, or shy, or fat, or don't eat biscuits, or can't suffer the change of weather easily. What difference do it make? None to him, for you is living on the bottom rail.

But to you, inside, it do make a difference, and that put me out to the part. A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside. Sibonia back in Pikesville showed me that. I reckon that business of Sibonia throwed me off track for life, watching her and her sister Libby take it round the neck in Missouri. "Be a man!" she said to that young feller when he fell down on the steps of the scaffold when they was ready to hang him. "Be a man!" They put him to sleep like the rest, strung him up like a shirt on a laundry line, but he done okay. He took it. He reminded me of the Old Man. He had a face change up there on that scaffold before they done him in, like he seen something nobody else could see. That's an expression that lived on the Old Man's face. The Old Man was a lunatic, but he was a good, kind lunatic, and he couldn't no more be a sane man in his transactions with his fellow white man than you and I can bark like a dog, for he didn't speak their language. He was a Bible man. A God man. Crazy as a bedbug. Pure to the truth, which will drive any man off his rocker. But at least he knowed he was crazy. At least he knowed who he was. That's more than I could say for myself.

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Finished a book. Would recommend.

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way Mr. Douglass could'a brung hisself to fight a real war. He was a speeching parlor man. Just like I knowed there weren't no way I could'a brung myself to be a real man, with a real woman, and a white woman besides. Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need a party that starts out with a sense of its own convictions: Good government, an equitable and just society, zero tolerance for dictators, capitalist vultures, and foreign genociders. This is basic human morality and people are showing right now that this is what they thirst for.

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Drug-o-Lantern 🎃 @drugslinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The weekend Trump got Covid was one of the funniest times to ever be online

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my god the direct use of the hot dog guy sketch from I Think You Should Leave in a political ad

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyday we stray further from God’s light Cc @jfallows.bsky.social

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fair! I'd hoped some group might be assembling prosecutions to hit the ground running--charges, defendants, and evidence on each element of each offense identified, etc. I guess maybe I should be the DOJ-in-exile I want to see in the world . . . .

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Does anyone know of any org that is cataloguing offenses and evidence for future use? For crimes big and small and officials high-ranking and low?

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 27/09/2026

“I don’t get it” well first of all it’s not for you and second of all some of us like it BECAUSE it sucks

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ravioli is plural. The singular is raviolus.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m still not over that essay that kept repeating “apocalypsis of the ancien regime.” Just insufferable.

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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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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What are your professionally acceptable fluids in your job interviews chime in below

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is an amazing quote 😹 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...

“Talking to Rahm, it’s like middle-age married sex,” said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who has known him for decades. “It’s focused. You know what you’re going for. And it’s short.”

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 26/09/2026

Like @gregdoucette.bsky.social says, guillotines are the moderate option. There will never be a return to normal politics until there has been a reckoning. Those who so callously cast aside the norms and mores of civil society must pay a public price for the restoration of those norms.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

for whatever it's worth: as a political philosopher I fully cosign this message

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is utterly enraging and I gotta be honest, I have no idea how to fix it. It’s a symptom of a much, much deeper problem. The next two years are just going to be a slog.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...

After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.”
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics.
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the last ten years or so have taught us that one of our major problems as a society is that we’re being run by perverts (derogatory) rather than perverts (complimentary)

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

*to the tune of Eleanor Rigby* Beetlejuice handjob Rubbing a guy at a show while he squeezes my tit Take a vape hit

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ceej @ceej.online · 21/09/2026

See here how The Stance has entered his body and his mind. The Stance infests him. The metamorphosis is complete

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