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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 14h

Losing 5-15 million Californians is a "small price to pay"? Impeach this treasonous buffoon.

Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lazy, lazy attempt at character assassination. Richard Nixon is spinning in his grave now that GOP "dirty tricks" have come to this! And this at a time when the President's lawyer runs the DOJ, and they coordinate all the time in plain view.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11/09/2026

Where did it all go wrong? Leaving primordial ooze 14% Origin of bilateral symmetry 7% Transition to land 32% Human-Chimpanzee divergence 47%

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Deserve” doesn’t come into it. We either get out, or die. We don’t have the luxury of time to reflect on culpability.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On the contrary when a man stands up to him he often switches tacks and “shows his belly.” But he is routinely menacing and abusive to women, berating and trying to silence them.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Go in and go in full." "Full"? Full of what? What is the objective of "going in"? Is their idea that Iran will submit to becoming a vassal state? That US oil companies will be able to set up operations in a compliant Iran? That is completely delusional.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Clinton, Obama and Biden were well known for their efforts to give control of the means of production to the proletariat. *checks notes* Oh, wait. Nothing like that happened.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wait, so historically it is like a part of Mexico that then became a part of the United States, and took the name New Mexico, right? So what third country would "New America" be part of?

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At the trial is fine, but I'd be most comfortable with him seeing the alligator at sentencing. Seeing and hearing it approach, and then not.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

They achieved "a lot of unthinkable things" all right, but not in the way Kushner means it.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Here’s the best shirt for Halloween. 🎃

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026

They capitulate to the party that’s against stem cell research and gender affirming care for kids, but they want to hack children’s brains with chips before the age of 7 because that’s when they’re the most pliable. Makes sense.

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The Captain @thoreau.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this is what resistance looks like.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

But not all tech billionaires are this bad. Most of them are worse.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I bet it is an AI-generated message and he didn’t specify the gender of the subject in the prompt.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Don’t support the Giants, support the outcome you just bet on!

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Claude, a reporter I feed stories to is resigning from Fox News, write me something classy I can post.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026

NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...

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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say

A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEWS: Status is reporting Fox fired Maria Bartiromo after she leaked internal texts to the White House showing the network had told staff to stop amplifying Trump's latest election conspiracy theories.

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God @thegodshow.com · 03/09/2026

Dear Americans, The president golfs every weekend while getting soldiers needlessly killed and and got mad that you get “too many holidays.” National strike when?

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026

A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

a knack for doing nice Miyazaki-like visuals

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026

the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The best chicken pie I've ever ate!" Rogers is great (spoiler: .... although the movie has sort of an argument for marrying within caste.)

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Among other things, Elon Musk now makes clear his belief that women must be disenfranchised. And he's now the sole source funder of the Texas GOP. Shouldn't Texas GOP candidates who are running with his money be asked about this?

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Speaking as a vegetarian, I disapprove, but also will be keeping my eyes open for the glut of new estate sales.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/08/2026

Dr. Vin Gupta, an actual health expert, just dismantled RFK Jr.’s entire health agenda piece by piece. Medicaid cuts. NIH trials canceled. Environmental protections gutted. "Lots of marketing, little substance" on food policy.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It is worth taking inventory, before we take action based on the deficiencies that you so accurately enumerate, of just what else stands between us and a cold, dystopian future of japelessness?

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

From the Guardian: A former military officer now working for a navy contracting company, who has been briefed on the shortfalls, said: “They’re f-cked. They shot all their weapons; they trashed all their ships; they ran out of their money.”

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Who says conservatives can’t do humor?

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DaughterOfDefiance @z-buck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And that folks, is how you do it.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I went to West Point for two years and - by far - it was a better education than I got from two years at Penn. No more, it seems.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To get a sense of it, you could also listen to my recent podcast with two philosophers, Justin Tiwald and Richard Kim. Their podcast "This is the Way" is on Chinese Philosophy, it's always a good listen: This is the Way: Chinese Philosophy Podcast August 4 2026 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you've ever wanted to know more about Chinese thought, my new book -- Confucius: A New Tradition -- just came out! Part of a series called "Ancient Lives," it uses a Han dynasty biography discovered in 2015, the oldest extant one, as a taking off point to talk to introduce his life and thought.

photo of Mark Csikszentmihalyi's dazzling new book (or so the back cover tells me) Confucius: A New Tradition

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Living to see your kids reach adulthood is COMMUNISM

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A lot of tech people talking to each other in a bubble, but for some reason no books or wisdom or life experience seem to have been allowed into the bubble.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026

"We watched it on TV. And it's like, 'That's our son. That's Alex. And they killed him' ... trying to help someone" -- Alex Pretti's dad

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A Coming of Age. You know, as one does on Trips of a Lifetime. A regular E. M. Forster, Natalie is.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/08/2026

Traveling from Texas to Cali is revelatory just because the contrast is so obvious. You know what California doesn’t do? Put big ol’ California flags all over because it doesn’t need to insist on itself.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If Trump's approval is 30%, how is it that his twin lickspittles, Marco and JD, are polling so much higher? "I can't stand Mr. Burns, but this Smithers guy has leadership written all over him..."

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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

www.reuters.com/world/us-jud... A federal judge allowed trump's administration on Tuesday to end legal ‌protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in the United States....

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US judge allows Trump to end thousands of Ethiopians' deportation protections

A federal judge allowed U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday to end legal ‌protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A legacy of mental illness "that will be handed down from generation to generation."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/08/2026

oh look, dems can easily leverage messaging to hijack, create, or redirect entire newscycles by exploiting the infotainment media's obsession with scaled ad engagement, who could have possibly imagined such a thing

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Who is Natalie Harp? Sen. Jon Ossoff puts Trump aide in spotlight

The former TV news anchor began working for Trump in 2022 and has become a close aide during his second term.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I made the mistake of, in 1976, thinking Americans could never elect an aging B-movie actor to the presidency. And Reagan didn’t win the primary that year, but then what was left of him served eight years. I think “X could never be elected” is true right up to the point that X gets elected.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The judge is biased because she said we were doing something bad. That we are totally doing right now, officially, in a legal brief.

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Mark Csikszentmihalyi @markcsik.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The cultural regression of the last few years is shocking in so many ways, but the casual normalization of misogyny and policing sex roles like this just stops me in my tracks sometimes.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them

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