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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

not gonna lie sometimes I get a little embarrassed about how much time and effort I put into youtube videos that got like 2k views so honestly seeing The Washington Post spend millions to flop even harder is actually pretty comforting

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2025

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2025

give me a bag of these and you don't even have to worry about the money

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/08/2025

The Tesla Diner is a perfect metaphor for the whole Tesla brand: a bad facsimile of something that already exists, made by people who don't understand what they're recreating, with a thin veneer of superficial futurism on top, for people with no taste or self-respect www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/d...

Tesla engineers built a proprietary tool to flatten patties for the smash burgers with crisp browned edges, held together with caramelized onions and cheese, which seemed to be on most tables. It lent the dish a superficial whiff of innovation, but the burger didn’t stand out in any meaningful way.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14/07/2025

“They have betrayed the society that enriched them, and have put us at serious risk of authoritarianism, ethnic cleansing, lawlessness, and stagnation. They have betrayed the values that made that society great, values which they apparently only ever held superficially”

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Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor

It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/06/2025

the culture war and the complete destruction of local news in favor of propaganda outlets has been successful beyond the wildest dreams of its proponents

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

don't really even know what we can say about the information environment anymore. the justification machine working so efficiently that it has replaced military intelligence.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

the future of the democratic party is this old guy who sucks

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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

i think the basic crisis of the 21st century is that technology has vastly empowered the capacity to bullshit without any comparable increase in the capacity to counter bullshit. truth is a knight in plate armor getting riddled to death with a machine gun

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U.S. Institute of Peace @usip.org · 13/06/2025

👋 Hello, we're the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)! We are very happy to join @bsky.app, and thrilled to announce that our website, www.usip.org, is back online! We look forward connecting here and bringing you useful content, resources and opportunities for peacebuilders around the world.

Message and screenshot of the www.usip.org homepage, featuring a photo of the USIP headquarters building.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

nothing could be less useful right now than institutionalists when we don’t have working institutions

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Great news! I'm told a few moments ago US Institute of Peace Board Chair Amb. George Moose went to the USIP building where he and legal counsel were able to retake possession after the recent court decision. They were accompanied by a small team securing the building and assessing maintenance needs.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is major. As a reminder, DOGE stormed the USIP building in March with the help of DC Metro Police who were originally called there by building employees. Even tho, USIP owned the building, DOGE just…took it. Background: www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institu...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/05/2025

oh no

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 10/05/2025

The National released 'High Violet' 15 years ago today. The album sits on Rolling Stone's list of The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century, So Far. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Woke Pope is such a perfect brainrot phrase.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2025

would love to read a portrait of rubio the person, who seems to be the kind of vacuous, amoral ambition addict who excels in tyrannical regimes

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Thousands of Afghans with Temporary Protected Status are people who helped US forces and who risked their lives to work with the Coalition. Now Trump is going to toss them aside, strip their legal status, and maybe even try to deport them back to the Taliban. It's unconscionable.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Kurt Vonnegut man

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

BREAKING — Nearly all employees at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) received an email tonight informing them they were fired effective immediately, multiple staffers confirmed with me. Just a few HR and IT staffers are being kept on to assist DOGE’s illegal dismantling of the independent nonprofit.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/02/2025

guy who wakes up one morning to find everyone remembers the beatles but not wings and achieves a few substantial hits but not enough to carry a real career

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Weird how worried Wall Street is about DeepSeek, weren’t they just saying AI innovation is good even if it harms some people in the short term

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

One of the worst things about AI is that it devalues Actually Doing Something. The act of researching or reading is valuable in and of itself. If we're just asking the computer to do everything for us we're turning into the slobs from Wall-E.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

so many people warned about exactly this for years and major papers preferred to publish scare pieces about trans girls playing sports

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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Duke Silver @mattparkes16.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Grateful Jimmy Carter lived long enough to experience Brat summer

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