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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 3h

This man spent the Fourth of July 2018 in Moscow and then downplayed Russian election interference threats www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gop-pa...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

yeah one thing that gets to you about the UK gender wars is that despite everyone claiming they're on the side of rationality, the more you push them, the more likely they are to argue that no trans person whatsoever should have rights in the UK

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

wild to remember Capt Hannah Graf got a MBE in 2019 and now there's a de facto ban on trans troops

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

no you see Labour can't do anything to reign in ScotLab and Blue Labour-adjacent MPs because otherwise they'd lose their thin majority [touches ear] i'm being informed that Labour has a huge majority

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thepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 12h

In a party that wasn't institutionally transphobic they'd suspend the whip over this. Open bigotry

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/10/2026

Dude is pushing a full press campaign for explicit white supremacy with a fortune largely built from public money.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21h

85ºF. The closest early voting place took young, lively students 45 minutes to march to. An hour and 1/2 to get on line at the polls and turnaround to go home. Some folks aren't up to that exertion in the heat. In NYC – I walk 3 blocks to a poll. Everyone should have convenient access to voting.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19h

“And with the likes of Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Huckabee at the helm, the federal government has taken a public position that stands as the most explicitly pro-ethnic-cleansing stance that the United States has ever taken toward Gaza…

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 22h

Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, he is a lunatic, and they should report and write accordingly.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

I hope it doesn't come to something like that and the more you prepare for how to handle the mechanics of this situation, the less chaotic the end result will be and hopefully will also obviate the need for any violence bsky.app/profile/thef...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

start thinking through and wargaming this stuff now because it will be an issue in 2029 (if we make it that far) bsky.app/profile/dasi...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

Before Trump it was just assumed that all this background machinery type shit was in the hands of career civil servants who followed carefully prescribed legal and administrative procedures and one thing DOGE really focused on was disrupting that. Do not assume it still works like that!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

The next Dem President's administration will be over before it begins if it needs to file a bunch of lawsuits and wait for the Supreme Court to rule on them before they can do normal day one shit previous presidencies have taken for granted

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

Something very important to figure out before Jan 20, 2029 is whether, when a new President is inaugurated, they will control the computer system at GSA (i.e. doors to federal buildings) and Treasury payments system or if those systems will be somehow in the hands of DOGE cronies

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 20h

A thing I think even most people who have paid attention don’t realize about DOGE is that we still don’t actually know what they did. Just obtaining the records and putting people under oath is really important.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

one thing that really rules about AI slop like this is how little spatial continuity there is between one shot and the next, in a really uncanny valley way that actual footage or CGI animation never really has

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Boolassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I keep coming back to two things 1) there are single sex ERs in the UK? 2) why are you up in other people’s business in the ER?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This is the America we are fighting for

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One of the authors broke the Claudine Gay "plagiarism" story and also said "Whenever I'm on a career advice panel for young conservatives, I tell them to avoid group chats that use the N-word or otherwise blur the line between edgelording and earnest bigotry."

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Good thread here.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026

hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

this seems like straight up political persecution, I don't know, just a simple country journalist etc

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

VOLITION - I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I've said is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026

“you’re contributing to the nazi propaganda website” and “it’s making you worse” are both true for everyone who stays, but it’s hard to convince folks who don’t have a large following themselves that they’re really part of the problem they need to stop getting value out of the platform to leave

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026

I think this is a really important thing what finally got me to complete delete my twitter account and remove it from my phone was when enough of the people I enjoyed following had left the platform as long as people still get enough value out of who they can find there, they’ll stay

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/10/2026

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market

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Mike Gehrke @mikegehrke.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Who could have predicted that an exam taken by lawyers would generate such intense detail-oriented scrutiny over the exact wording of what she said and the process she went through?

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I never want to tell anyone what their experience was, I don’t want to use words that may scare the person telling me a story, but men have told me about things that have been done to them & those stories have broken my heart. I want to end the culture of sexual violence for *all* of us.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/10/2026

Vouch

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Cause #1: Republican presidents can do crimes with impunity Surely this is a core pillar of Founding-era thought, right??? Well, no, obviously no. The presidency even as it existed in 1960 was leaps and bounds more powerful than anything Alexander Hamilton would've dared propose

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And of course this is WHY they wrap themselves in formalism. It's kind of the Karl Rove thing, hit the enemy where *you're* weak. We're a bunch of hacks reverse-engineering our preferred political results, so of course we say that we're the only ones who are actually Doing Law

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Man, it's actually really striking how much this is true. Not just about the Nixon thing, there's a handful of right-wing causes celebre that right-wing legal thought is dedicated to justifying, but like..... that is so very much what it is

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/10/2026

a big reason (though not the only one) that so many elite institutions capitulated to Trump immediately in early 2025 is they had learned through long experience that Dems are too chickenshit to punish them for basically any reason. but things can change!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/10/2026

the combination of the Obama-Biden "look forwards, not backwards" approach to white collar crime plus Trump's vindictive punishment of anyone who pisses him off is a real bad one

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Average American politician: of course I support a two state solution, no I don't support doing anything to achieve that. Why do you ask? Average Israeli politician: by my own hand, the two state solution will be shot and buried in the ditch of history

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Fascists don’t believe in allowing any opposition at all, not even a symbolic one. No matter what you think of the Democratic Party, it will not be allowed to exist under a truly fascistic regime.

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p(Dulany) @dulanyw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Person who wrote the layout engine for Microsoft Word: absolutely not

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/10/2026

What an amazing pivot at the end.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yes they lied to you just like they lied to a hundred other judges and they are gonna keep going it

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Why does every member of the judiciary need to learn this lesson individually

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Universal Public Freak @madroselaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is how I'm finding out this is scheduled for my birthday...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ok heres one democratic senator being clear and unambiguous about this. anyone else want to step up?

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i do think this is the core of it. a lot of these guys have a sort of naive techno-optimism that will offset them from having to care about politics or power, which is why looking at politics annoys them and why he assumes people who post here must think the world is doomed to get worse

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The ads don't "brag about America", however useless that sounds to me. They brag about the President and warn against his political critics and opponents.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

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