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I wrote about Elon Musk, and why it bothers me that he is still first and foremost described in the media as an entrepreneur, rocketeer, or tech mogul, when the most salient fact about him is that he is now the world's most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...

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Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White Supremacist

The latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl...

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Mordy Ovits @mordyovits.bsky.social · 5h

Has anything bad ever happened in Germany because of belief in Christian Nationalism and ethnic purity? I sure hope not.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just comparing the stenographic account of fantasizing about catastrophic mass casualties with the one shot full of drama and high stakes of an obvious gaffe.

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After justifying the Iran war as necessary for "keeping the world safe," Trump suggested there could be strikes on the United States, including certain cities in California.
"They could take out a city," he said. "Let them take-Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego."

coin-toss election, where any small shift theoretically could be decisive, Mr. Biden has twice caused headaches for his vice president with ill-timed gaffes. His latest, during a video call with Latino supporters on Tuesday night, forced Ms. Harris to spend part of the last Wednesday of her campaign distancing herself.
Mr. Biden was denouncing racist comments made by a speaker at a recent Donald J. Trump rally when he appeared to call supporters of Mr.
Trump "garbage." He later explained that he meant that "the hateful rhetoric" from the Trump surrogate was
"garbage," not his supporters generally.
But Republicans, expressing umbrage, quickly pounced on what they hoped
wo be olio mc

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Things that are totally normal - and shouldn't be! - in 2026

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 05/10/2026

Reminder that Vice President JD Vance has said that he considers Curtis Yarvin a friend

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me, doing my best impression of an American studies expert: "so you see, flying airplanes into skyscrapers and killing thousands of people is very insulting in American culture. And when the American Native feels his honor has been impinged upon, his mind turns to something called 'revenge'"...

Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece:

Revenge Is a Central Pillar of Iranian Foreign Policy
A diplomatic agreement can’t bring real peace with a regime that has a long history of terrorism.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ok first of all, whatever horrific things the government in tehran is responsible for, it's a pretty normal thing for a country to fight back when attacked militarily

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Two absolute lunatics

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a Christian Nationalist revival meeting masquerading as a defense department speech...

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not enough is said about how Trump views United States dollars as HIS own money

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Mordy Ovits @mordyovits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And then everyone will clap.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

This is the second ruling against the illegal recision of Solar For All money. In a country with rule of law in effect, that would be it -- the money would be restored. But we have to ask ourselves whether Trump will simply ignore the ruling & if so whether there will be any consequences.

utilitydive.com

Federal judge restores $7B Solar for All program, says EPA illegally axed it

A Trump-appointed judge said the One Big Beautiful Bill Act did not convert the funding into “a lump-sum amount subject to EPA’s discretion.” Defendants acted contrary to Congress’ intent and with “no...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 25/09/2026

Man walks into a CISO's office and says "Have I got a solution for you!" Proceeds to demonstrate the absolute worst shit you can imagine, security tokens that persist on the filesystem, that can be exfiltrated and used elsewhere, have no real revocation story, even NIST says "10 minute TTL or GTFO"

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trump gave a bigly ballyhooed address to the nation about how China stole the 2020 election two months ago and everyone including him immediately forgot about it.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a dj friend of mine explained to me how the discogs site has made it so finding an incredible record for cheap at a used record store is virtually undoable. to find a gem you sort of have to buy an entire record collection from an estate sale and hope something good is in there

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it struck me the other day that the efficiency of information transfer at the moment makes getting a deal on some used item--a record, a game, clothes, a toy--almost impossible. the market is maximally efficient, which is I suppose fair for everyone but somewhat less fun

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Karen Monroy @karenmonroy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Epic corruption- we should be asking ourselves why aren’t they trying to hide it?

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The renamings themselves went through the pretense of finding random soldiers with the same surnames so they could pretend they're not really named after Confederates now, because that is still illegal.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So proud of it they have to hide behind silly euphemism and not say what kind of names they're referring to.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*Huge swaths of the Earth where AIs methodically annihilate all the human beings, but somehow these accelerating Gray Zones never get mentioned in Doomer AI-scenarios "Because those are just the FOREIGNERS getting killed by machines to the last man," yeah, sure, pal

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did you give them the third option, high gas prices and maybe Iran still gets a nuclear weapon and US credibility and military power is decimated?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When this is an applause line, you can guess what that crowd looks like.

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R Subramanian (he/him) @rsubramanian.com · 17/09/2026

"NPR tracked down equipment and found that some of it was auctioned, donated or thrown in the trash... NASA donated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of radio communications equipment to Capitol Technology University without the knowledge of the scientists who used it"

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DrHello @drhellodarkness.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do you remember when Trump stole classified documents, then was recorded on tape showing and talking about a specific classified document to brag to at least one woman? 1/

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*In the Gray Zone, "military camouflage" consists of disguising yourself as some low-value civilian object *It's not like civilians get to flee the Gray Zone. Suddenly extending the Gray Zone to endanger the formerly "safe areas" is the point of a gray-war youtu.be/0K1VaTYbxk8?...

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Russian military truck repainted in a bright civilian style colour hit by a drone #ukrainewar #drone

YouTube video by James Marinero

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

There's really no complicated explanation for this, or any kind of grand theory. It's just Econ 101 and he flat out does not understand it because he's an idiot.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

He also evidently doesn’t understand what a trade deficit is, how trade works, or… well, much of anything really.

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The prompt was "how I explain my job to my family". My first version "well, you're both solid state physicists, you know what a lattice is, just add 765 dimensions to the stuff you've worked on" was sadly rejected.

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Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trump's CDC is dusting off the admin's COVID playbook. When you're out of arguments... simply deny the diagnoses and causes of death. This is politically-motivated data manipulation from the CDC, plain and simple.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 14/09/2026

There’s going to be a lot of Americans who voted for a fascist, who displayed yard signs for a fascist, who donated their money to a fascist, who are going to claim they are not a fascist

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13/09/2026

holy shit, man, listen to that crowd

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026

Pretty wild that the US president openly and explicitly offered US citizens bribes in exchange for voting for his political party in an upcoming election and the best the establishment US media can muster is that it "invites legal questions."

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A $5,000 dividend proposal if Republicans win this fall invites legal questions

President Trump promised a monetary benefit for Americans if the midterm elections go his way. He hasn’t said exactly how such an initiative would work.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mike said this on the pod recently but it’s really been under indexed just how much Jack Posobiec is returning to form as a racist dirtbag after setting that to the side a bit for a few years to be able to lock up his spot in GOP organizing circles

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