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Michael Hobbes

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h
i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...
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How ‘Woke 1’ Radicalized the GOP
On May 30, 2020, five days after the death of George Floyd, the head of a prominent DC-area think tank issued a stentorian condemnation of the killing and the bigotry she said had enabled it.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 8h
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I can't really describe how evil and cruel this is. I can't really describe how this is one of the most awful policies I've ever heard, and how much it will hurt people. I don't even really have the words.
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Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says
New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex.
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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s actually shocking how dishonest this article is. Russian military aggression is presented totally passively, as if they’re weather events, and the supposed warmongering from NATO is western leaders and military figures saying “If Russia keeps bombing us we might have to retaliate”
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This podcast is amazing
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“The Journey,” a Five-Part Audio Investigation
Why did a mysterious couple collect babies in a Los Angeles mansion? A five-part podcast series from In the Dark investigates.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Apartment amenities in Seattle are getting weird
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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC
BBC screengrab from within their Russell Brand trial coverage.  Image of Brand in 70s-style aviator glasses, with earpods in, blank expression. Long dark wavy hair, black and grey beard, dark unbuttoned shirt. All on a fire red/orange and black background
BBC logo top and centre, underneath a subdeck reading: Fame Under Fire. Then the headline 'Russell Brand On Trial'. 
The words 'fire'and 'trial' are coloured to look like they are glowing orange at the bottom
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/10/2026
I hope non-journalists can appreciate how embarrassing this is.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not this www.curbed.com/article/art-...
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The taking pictures of what people are texting in public trend is pretty psycho. Like yeah most of the time what they’re texting about is pretty embarrassing or bad or whatever, but normalization of looking over stranger’s shoulders and surveilling them for #content is pretty psycho!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a week.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Can't believe Jean Twenge, the woman who has dedicated her career to manipulating data about teen mental health, would manipulate data about teen sexuality.
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Michael, turns out your post here was pretty much prophetic.
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☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.゚☠ @sababausa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
SECRETLY TRAVELED TO DUBAI…
WITH HIS MISTRESS…
TO PARTY WITH TWO INDICTED AMERICAN FUGITIVES WHO DONATED TO HIS CAMPAIGN…
WHO STOLE $293 MILLION FROM A TAXPAYER PROGRAM MEANT TO BENEFIT POOR PEOPLE
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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I really hate this "things were always bad so it's pointless to say they're getting worse" take. It always depends on treating two things that are different as if they're the same, and presents the options as total revolution or nothing, the end result is always nothing.
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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's a two part series by Maintenance Phase giving the background on Brand that you won't read on the BBC. Spoilers: it's bad (the background - not the episodes which are great) maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/epis...
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Russell Brand Part 1 - Maintenance Phase
Tracing the left-to-right political trajectory of the unfunniest man in British comedy.Support us:Hear bonus episodes on PatreonWatch Aubrey's documentaryBuy Aubrey's bookListen to Mike's other podcas...
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Suggested slogan: "It's not just our name, it's what we provide."
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
10/10 name for a high-end property management firm www.chicagotribune.com/2015/01/30/r...
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
just recorded this and proceeded to close more tabs than i ever thought possible
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 08/10/2026
When you consider that Mario was already a dude in his 20s when the first game came out and he's canonically from Brooklyn, odds are hes from bentonhurst and nowadays is a retired dude complaining about Chinese immigrants taking over the neighborhood.
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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you're the owner of Last Ditch, the COVID Conscious Lesbian Bar in Western Massachusetts
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You: My grandfather died in 2020 Me: WHERE IS MY $6,000
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
lmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20...
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the anger over the plan to fight antisemitism is particularly amusing because both the fringe left from today’s protest & the Fox News right are angry over increases funding for the PATH (Partners Against Hate) program - although they are upset about different partner groups.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Back from our book tour week in London and, man, after spending time in a place that’s made so much progress as far as streets and transportation go, it’s always a shock to come home. New York just smacks you in the face with the sheer volume of cars everywhere.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The music of Seinfeld, divorced from the show itself, is nothing short of disgusting. Imagine if the show didn’t exist but the music somehow did. Hearing it, your face would twist in angry revulsion
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Totally, totally, kids cut off their parents because of "ordinary conflict." Hey, unrelatedly, here's an email I got from my father 27 years after the last time I saw him.
Dear Evil One -
    Just a Happy Halloween Wish! I hope you took the kids out Trick or Treating and they had a great time!
    Tomorrow is All Saints Day and Deb and I will be going to Mass at our local church. It struck me on this Halloween Night that the evil of witches and goblins and such is rooted in the very real evil of Satan. Hate and pain are the hallmarks of evil... the hallmarks of Satan. With all the evil and hate you have demonstrated with me, along with all the pain you have caused, it struck me that just as Deb and I will attend Catholic Mas tomorrow... will you be going to a Black Mass to worship Satan?
    It was just a question that came up as we pulled "candy duty" with all the Trick or Treaters. 
    Well, will you be attending a Black Mass?
 
Love,
 
Dad
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
gorgeous framing of the idea that the increase in divorces in the 70s and later was not obviously a huge net good for society as well like no no you're right, before the 70s marriages were perfect, totally equal, the lower rate of divorce was definitely not due to massive structural disincentives-
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Umm the story actually includes super good prevalence data, how dare you
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
lmao the piece literally argues children are the problem for wanting positive relationships with their parents
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
why would you cite a survey of parents and not children to uncover the behavior of the children
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
According to a 2013 paper, almost 40% of female homicides globally are due to intimate partner violence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 06/10/2026
this is the future @michaelhobbes.bsky.social wants 😔
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This thing where reporters simply do not check trump supporters' public social media posts at all, and editors don't give a shit either, has to stop
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
what's crazy about this premise is that local businesses in minneapolis hated the ice raids, made it clear they hated the ice raids, lost a ton of money because of the ice raids, and were generally quite sympathetic to the people telling ice to get the fuck out bsky.app/profile/will...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ummm
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not the biggest deal in the world obviously, just another small example of how robots are flooding the internet with convincing-sounding lies
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So apparently numerous celebrities have nonexistent children for whom AI is now hallucinating entire biographies.
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Charity Nye Doesn't Exist
YouTube video by STRANGE ÆONS
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I will not spend 100 minutes of my life watching a low-rent Netflix rom-com. I will, however, spend 200 minutes of my life watching unwell zoomers recap a low-rent Netflix rom-com
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: Bari Weiss will direct the next four DC superhero movies
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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