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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 17m

FFS, Why is this asshole on SNL? WTF INVITED HIM ON? That's an easy no on the shit bird.

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 19m

Holy moly, that dude is not funny and just annoying.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25m

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 35m

That isn't a show of strength.

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 1h

At that point, just block them and move on. Fuck them idiots.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

For those complaining that this isn't enough. Stop it. I'm sorry that actual judges understand the importance of doing what they're doing correctly because these things, inevitably will be appealed. Judge Reyes is doing an incredible job of immediately obtaining a robust record here.

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 3h

Wait, did you have to get a script from your doc for the Covid booster?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

I also pointed out when the fascist administration went after Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver that it was a test for what was to come. I still get yelled at on here when I say that the Dem Leadership failed that test at the time.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

D+15 Midterm indicator

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15h

"If you're not the paying customer, you're the product." The very lowest-effort ethical action one can take in response to that fact in the world is: don't provide free content that makes his megaphone more effective and powerful. What are we even doing, people?

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 19h

Different strokes. Going back to my hometown makes me very uncomfortable.

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Men not being able to adult or socialize appropriately wanting AI taking care of their every whim? Color me shocked!

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And this is why Silicon Valley advertises AI taking over social responsibilities (remembering anniversaries, buying gifts, making appointments, etc). AI culture is dudes who don’t know how to function in society and want chatbots to fill in for women as partners and secretaries

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

A reminder to folks that studying racial disparities is important to learn because, despite the denial that these people have about demographic change, it is *already* here. One in four Gen Z is Latino, and Gen Alpha is majority minority.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I’ve never liked Gavin Newsom so I appreciate that he’s done all he can to tank his presidential chances. Maybe go punch a baby just to seal the deal?

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And an OMB official says the $20m for the ads came from funds originally appropriated under the Working Families Tax Cut Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2026

ALSO Justice and vengeance are two very different things. The government shouldn’t have the power to execute people, especially when our justice system doesn’t deliver equal justice. Race, wealth, and access to the best legal representation can determine who lives and who dies.

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ceej @ceej.online · 11/10/2026

24 days until midterms

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

wish i’d been wrong 🧵

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is that a fully painted Tarrasque?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s long past time for the U.S. to get a new president.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

like to extend some logic around here, he's not stopping them from protesting but 1. you still really don't want the military this close to free speech activity as law enforcement; 2. if he was going to stop them, this is also how that would start

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY IS NO KINGS #4 (Details at: nokings.org) We must turn up in MASSIVE numbers to show the world we don't support this Administration or a criminal president who has enriched himself to an obscene level at the expense of everyday hardworking Americans! #GettingReadyToDump-tRUMP 🟠💩 👎

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

you literally started a war with iran!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'd like to encourage every single historian of Nazi Germany to submit an application to this job.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Once again, Federal fascism is already here and people aren't "complying in advance," they are simply COMPLYING. Some people got mad when I said in late 2024 that most people are not brave which is why we need collective action. There's strength in numbers. Most people are not brave on their own.

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Who are these muppets? What is their problem?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

it's a bit concerning that instead of responding to obvious political incentives and moderating on some of their worst and most unpopular policies, the Trump administration is getting more and more extreme

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hmmm, I was going to give you the guest bathroom. Now though? You get the half bath.

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404 Media @404media.co · 09/10/2026

"It's making me dumber." At 404 Media's three-year anniversary, we got into how we report our stories. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social talks about how he was able to talk to developers at Google about how forced AI use was making them feel stupid. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Vj...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: When Christa Pike became the first person to survive multiple lethal injections, witnesses at the prison that day suddenly became a part of history. I spoke with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social of Nashville Banner about the things he saw in the execution chamber—and the things he could only hear:

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What it's like to witness a botched execution

Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Democrats who want to live in a world with more justice and less violence should make this a part of their policy platforms. Thus far I think I’ve only heard Chris Van Hollen talk about it.

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It really does reward how you play and the choices you make. Regardless of those choices though, we all reach the same conclusion at the end.

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It does pick up with the overall hope of humanity and the overall lesson of our mortality and what to do with our remaining time left. The start is very, very difficult though.

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Dogkowski @merholtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It is disturbing how closely we are following that game's reality to our own.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

we sifted through hours of this body cam footage and one thing that kept happening was the cop obsessively taking photos of the haul to send to his captain and repeatedly joking about how “nervous” the suspect was

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