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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yeah, you could see the whole Reflecting Pool as a colossal failure, but OTOH, it gives chemists and materials engineers a chance to geek out in public about all that they know about the chemistry of polyurea laminates and "bond-breaking edge stress". So overall, I'm choosing to be happy for them.

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Even as he became the center of the art celebrity culture that he had once skewered, he kept looking and looking and looking and looking. RIP, Mister Hockney.

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THUNK DA PEON @thunkdapeon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

IN A EFFORT TA COMBAT INNERNET MISERY AND CHRONIC ONLINENESS, THUNK HAVE DIS TA SAY TODAY. BIRDS ARE HOPPING AROUND, YELLING AT NOTHING AND HAVE TINY DEVILSAUR FEETS FOR SOME REASON. THUNK BET YOUS NO CANS STAY GRUMPY WHILE WATCHING BIRDS BE RIDICULUS FOR TWO WHOLE MINNITS! GO LOOK AT BIRDS.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Idk about you, but it seems to me like we’re well into whatever phase comes *after* farce in the whole history-repeating-itself cycle.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I've said similar before, but if step 1 of the plan to avoid the end of the world is "Democrats win every election everywhere until the end of time" then it's a bad plan.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

@hcrichardson.bsky.social -you correctly noted that there are only 2 people with the power to reconvene Congress and to start proceedings that might remove a certain genocidal maniac from power. One of them will be speaking at 7:30 very close to where you’ll be speaking at 6. Any thoughts?

A graphic from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics advertising an appearance by Colorado Congressman Jason Crow, moderated by Heather Cox Richardson at 6pm on Wednesday April 8

A graphic from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics advertising an appearance by Speaker Kevin McCarthy at 7:30 pm on Wednesday April 8

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"Hooray!" shouted Yertle. "I'm the king of the trees! I'm king of the birds! And I'm king of the bees! I'm king of the butterflies! King of the air! Ah, me! What a throne! What a wonderful chair! I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me! For I am the ruler of all that I see!"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Looking forward to upcoming social media posts from the Trump White House and Day Care, including "Pete Hegseth plays with G.I. Joes" and "Stephen Miller lights ants on fire with a magnifying glass"

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Oh right. (Another basic truth about our world that I hadn’t thought about much, but that makes total sense in a way that leaves me a bit embarrassed that I’d never thought about it in exactly that way before.)

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 17/02/2026

We haven’t seen this kind of confident religiosity on the left in a long time. This is a guy so fluent in the substance, themes, upshots of his tradition that he can’t help put draw on it to frame the message of the campaign itself. It’s something close to a perfect alchemy of faith and politics.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Well, except no, they really can’t. Real housing requires infrastructure that warehouses don’t have. To put a whole lot of people into a city block and keep them healthy, you need lots of plumbing, lots of HVAC, lots of windows, etc. They’re just not worried about the “keeping them healthy” part.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

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Rep. Stansbury: I viewed the unredacted Esptein files earlier today

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/01/2026

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

Two federal agents in t shirts and vests

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 03/02/2026

Garcia is holding up a chart that shows how the Trump administration made "ICE the highest funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States" and says this funding has been used "to terrorize, disfigure, and in some cases kill" US citizens.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Waiting for the "aNtiFA rAddYcalLz R uSinG kiDz aS hYoomaN sHeeldZ" comment coming in a Homeland Security press release in 3... 2... 1...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Jesus, this is a brutal minute.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Two fables to share with you this morning: Fable number one, or why doesn't anyone know who Ernst Röhm was anymore? (a 🧵)

A black and white photograph of SA chief Ernst Röhm, a slightly pudgy man in his.. thirties? wearing a moderately ill fitting German army uniform of the time. (Note the leather bandolier belt going diagonally across his chest)

Photo of CBP chief Gregory Bovino outside the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago last fall, giving what's pretty clearly a Nazi-inspired salute for the cameras after appearing in court to answer for excessive brutality in ICE operations.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Duuuude, that's me on the drums! Well, one of the drums, anyway. A silver lining in [everything everywhere] is that you can come with an instrument, bump into a random group of people, and get woven in to a moment of utter joy in the midst of it all. Most people still don't suck. Good reminder.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m going to respectfully disagree. Unless your personal health is at risk because of past trauma, we ALL need to watch, and be traumatized, by it. This is what America is becoming, and unless we’re happy about it, we need to internalize exactly what happened so that we can’t pretend otherwise.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I was living in China during the Arab Spring of 2011. The wave of anti government uprisings started with the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, so “jasmine” was banned from the Chinese internet for a while, leaving many tea producers very confused about why one of their products was being censored.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Day-umm WaPo. Why don't you just start using the lyrics from Free Bird and My Way for your headlines? It'd save you some time.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Does anyone besides me remember the Reagan Era movie Red Dawn? Where a bunch of All-American high school students in Colorado took on the evil invading Soviet army and against all odds, triumphed through sheer pluck and tenacity? Why bring this up now..? No reason, really.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Oh man. It would be terrible if people started following Bovino around and playing Baby Shark. It would be terrible because he would hate it, and it would probably become his theme song, and it would make his Nazi in a long coat cosplay all the more ridiculous. So no one should do that.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

“These senior citizens on the bus with me are tiny people with tiny budgets and tiny left uppercuts. Under every understanding of law that has existed about personal property for 500 years, to keep your wallet you have to be able to defend your wallet.”

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

NEW An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found: In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.” 🧵

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

In Chicago last fall, some fresh new outrageous ICE bullshit occurred every three days or so. Now it looks like they're upping the cycle to 18 hours, minimum.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

New long-term Trump strategy plan just dropped:

A totally bonkers diagram by Clarence Larkin entitled "The Church Versus The Kingdom" with circles and arrows and clouds and spheres, showing a very literal interpretation of Biblical apocalyptic theory.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/01/2026

I know it's hard to shock these days but Elon Musk going full Rhodesia defender and calling for the ethnic cleansing of the US should still shock you. These are neo nazi views that were only previously shared on explicitly neo nazi sites.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Elon Musk. Musk replies "Yes" to a post by "The American Tribune." The American Tribune post reads: "Further, what they've managed to accomplish in South Africa is what they want to inflict on all of us. The anarchotyranny, expropriation, and race communism that destroyed Rhodesia and South Afric..." The text cuts off at the "Show more" link.

A screenshot of a post by "The American Tribune" quoting a post by "Humble Flow." The American Tribune text reads: "Further, what they've managed to accomplish in South Africa is what they want to inflict on all of us. The anarchotyranny, expropriation, and race communism that destroyed Rhodesia and South Africa are the same things they are bringing to America and the rest of the Occident to turn us into the Global Favela."
The quoted post by Humble Flow includes a vintage photograph of three white soldiers in short shorts and military fatigues holding rifles in a brush environment (evoking the Rhodesian Bush War). The caption reads: "What they once did to Rhodesia, they now attempt to the whole world. Resist."

A screenshot of a thread on X involving Elon Musk. At the top, a reposted tweet by "Hugh Anthony" reads: "I will never stop. REMIGRATION TILL I DIE!" Below this, Elon Musk replies "Yes" to a post by user "RAMZPAUL." RAMZPAUL’s post quotes the Hugh Anthony tweet and states: "Demographic replacement is genocide."

A screenshot of a post by Elon Musk quoting a post by "Will Tanner." Musk writes: "Unfortunately, this is where America is headed."
Will Tanner's post reads: "High civilization existed for a brief flicker of a moment in Rhodesia, a few decades where the primordial darkness of the Stone Age was vanquished. But then it returned, in the name of equality, and Zimbabwe is once again a ruin..."
Below the text is a six-panel comparison image titled "THEN" and "NOW."
Rhodesia: "Then" shows a clean, orderly city street; "Now" shows people behind a locked gate.
South Africa: "Then" shows a bustling city skyline with traffic; "Now" shows a crowd holding a sign that reads "kill WHITE."
America: "Then" shows a historic city street scene; "Now" shows a white square with the text "COMING SOON."
A watermark at the bottom right reads "NOWHITEGUILT.ORG."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/01/2026

COLLINS: Minnesota officials say the FBI isn't sharing evidence with them. Do you believe the FBI should do that? TRUMP: Well normally I would, but they're crooked officials. Minneapolis and Minnesota are being destroyed. I feel that I won Minnesota all three times. I won Minnesota three times.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Abolish and prosecute ICE.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Nonstop lying. Abolish ICE

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/01/2026

Abolish ICE is the absolute minimum.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Well, as a side note, the leftie alt wellness people who went antivax then backed RFK then swallowed the whole “he kept us out of the forever wars” argument can certainly go f*ck themselves…

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

What to say about this thread re an actor I don’t know anything about? 1. Damn, that’s a HUGE commitment to a bit about 2. a really easy target but 3. So many of these are laugh out loud hysterical, and 4. You need to have the Simpsons’ Monorail Song playing in the BG as you read this. Srsly.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

donmoynihan.substack.com

The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College

A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 22/12/2025

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

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Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail

Get it while it's hot.

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David Wells @misterwells.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

OMG, the release of the Epstein files finally proves what we've suspected all along - OUR GOVERNMENT IS BEING RUN BY A SECRET CABAL OF EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY RUSSIAN SUPREMATIST PAINTERS!!

Totally censored letter from the Epstein report that is now a collection of black rectangles and stripes.

Painting by Kasimir Malevich of one black square and one red square.

Photo of Malevich’s studio. Black rectangles.

Redacted photo page from the Epstein files; all black rectangles

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

“We fall into this rhythm of silence.” A poem by Dorianne Laux.

Enough Music

Sometimes, when we're on a long drive,
and we've talked enough and listened
to enough music and stopped twice,
once to eat, once to see the view,
we fall into this rhythm of silence.
It swings back and forth between us
like a rope over a lake.
Maybe it's what we don't say
that saves us.

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