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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 2h

Every day a new atrocity.

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

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

in case it's not clear this is a commentary on the defenses I'm seeing from some surprising quarters of Trump daydreaming about cities in California getting nuked

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Text of this fascinating article:

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nice going Jared Polis

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The fake debate was ‘are people blank slates?’ and the real debate was ‘i don’t want non-whites to go to college’, and the existence of unanswered questions in the fake debate doesn’t mean you have to pretend they’re asking them in good faith.

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Which traditions? Oh, you know the ones.

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The fuck are these “big” and “in the US” qualifiers

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Looking into it very strongly

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All (State owned) Cameras Are Bad

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm not sure if @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have issued a statement on this yet, but they should publicly announce that if Russ Vought tries to fuck with the election in any way they will fire him out of a cannon when they take power.

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Honestly opening this app up is like gambling- maybe I’ll see something fun, or I’ll lose and see that fascism has done a weird unexpected thing that benefits no one but is racist as shit

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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's so much discussion about artists being political or whatever and then Hayley posts like this once a week

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lol- jail for a thousand years for all of these clowns

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Uncle Dominique as a Lawyer, 1866 botfrens.com/collections/43/content…

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It cannot be said any more clearly. Trump should have been arrested on January 20, 2021, and held without bail. Trump should be arrested now, or at least on January 20, 2029, if a Democrat wins. Let the justice system go to work. And if SCOTUS frees him, send him to prison in New York.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

new: federal authorities tapped into a network of flock license plate readers and surveillance cameras owned by chicagoland police during their failed attempts to prosecute marimar martinez and anthony ruiz for following immigration agents last october.

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Feds tapped local surveillance networks in botched Chicago prosecutions - Chicago Reader

During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

chris rufo (twitter): we’re going to lie and say school teachers are involved in satanic ritual abuse of children and these dumb fuck journalists will buy it jake tapper: and now we take a look at mcmartin preschool and the grave allegations against it chris rufo: thank you jake, fearless as ever

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not a ton of reasons to shout out Florida government for literally anything, but that’s just good legal writing.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Future presidential debates should probably feature questions like "are you stupid enough to start a cold war with Canada" or "who pays a tariff"

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Lake Huron! Live! @lake-huron.live · 28/09/2026

Current* conditions near Wasaga Beach, ON:

View looking SW over Wasaga Beach into the Georgian Bay. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-28 10:42:03 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: wasagabeach.com // Current Temp in Wasaga Beach: 63 F | 17 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: N at 2 mph | 3 kph // Humidity: 81%

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

just want to point out how crazy it is the justice department put this in writing

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As foretold by the Epstein files

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 23/09/2026

Gavin Newsom thank you so much

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026

As Greg says, we all know why they call it "Remigration" in the first place. Just horrid. Every document associated with this "office" should serve as evidence for future prosecutions.

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worth noting that the Kol Nidre BS is a traditional antisemitic trope going back *literally* to the middle ages. It's in the same category as using blood to make matzoh. So, congratulations to Aladwan for going to the sources.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is amazing as there was literally a top 40 hit explicitly about how Fleetwood Mac were square music for olds

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The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org · 21/09/2026

At our Legacy Museum, visitors can see 800 jars of soil collected from lynching sites across the country. Part of our Community Remembrance Project, the jars provide a tangible way for communities and Museum visitors to confront the legacy of racial terror lynchings.

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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

War criminal George W Bush on the timeline again. Reminder that he belongs in The Hague and gave us Roberts and Alito- not all painters are good people.

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Lauren Tackle @unlox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ME WITH A TIME MACHINE: even accounting for inflation, we’re talking about the most expensive diesel ever. the proximate cause is Trump starting a war in Iran- 2024 MEDIAN VOTER: hawk tuah! ME: yeah pure adventurism, quickly getting bogged down in- what 2024 MEDIAN VOTER: spit on that thang!

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

friend told me a story about her dad’s college music class where they wrote different examples of classical compositions John Williams ripped off and John Williams showed up for a masterclass one day, saw it, went over to the blackboard and started adding more examples

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/co... The come to Stinson Beach creepypasta has a perfectly dreamlike feel to it, *evocatively* unexplained shit. It's 15 years old now.