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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 1h

Democrats haven't openly hated their opposition like this in a while and God it's hot

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 4h

I don't understand how anyone can still be a capitalist in 2026 when so much of capital now prioritizes its core functions in capitalism (maximizing profit & minimizing risk) well below, like, exercising unprofitable control over its workers or building clout in a fucking group chat

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 5h

Capital is literally incapable of recognizing existential threats to its own business models if the solutions require donating like 0.05% of its revenue to some kind of common good. It's not even cynical profit maximization, capital is genuinely just structurally insane

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 6h

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 7h

Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.

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Kieran Doyle @kierdoyle.bsky.social · 6h

It does feel important to note that not only did Chelsea self disclose (and at the most defensible moment - when they got the club), but the magnitude (in quantity/size of individual infractions, AND the impact relative to PSR FFP of the infractions) was so much smaller than City’s

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 8h

Jesus Christ dude

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Ran Disc Golf LLC @randisc.com · 5h

Hey. If you order an Ocean Discs Sea Turtle Midrange, I’m Going to throw in a FREE Sea Turtle Necklace until I run out of them. :-) (pendant is about 1.5”) 5/5/0/1 Putter Feel, Midrange distance. This disc NEVER leaves my bag! Randisc.com

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h

By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 8h

Horn Park, Brillion, WI. Hole 7 - 257ft, Par 3. Watcha throwing? #DiscGolf

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h

Glonzo is real, and strong, and your friend. Masterful gambit sir.

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Graham MacAree @grahammacaree.com · 9h

i know people will say chelsea fans got away with it compared to what manchester city are about to have done with them but have you considered how upset i'll be if spurs finish 17th because city get a 75-point penalty this year

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Chris Nee @chrisnee.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Reminder: Football supporters owe their clubs protective scrutiny, not blind backing for the wrongdoing of owners who wouldn't drag them out of a burning building.

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like a major lesson of Trump is that people like him will act in bad faith or violate the law no matter what, so it's literally not possible to Trump-proof a policy except through robust removal and punishment provisions for people like Trump.

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 11h

JCO for the win.

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Kieran Doyle @kierdoyle.bsky.social · 10h

I said this assuming City would put their hands up and say “ok ya got us” but if they’re not going to I think you kinda have to go nuclear punishments

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 10h

I've said it many times, but when I was spotting at USWDGC and two dozen of the sweatiest freaks—all dripping in MVP gear—you've ever seen materialized to watch teenage Shelby Cowen on like 11th card. It made me want to stop being a part of #DiscGolf and made me want to grind MVP to dust.

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Masters Disc Tommy @mastersdisc.bsky.social · 11h

Disc golf needs torn down and rebuilt. The number of creepy fucking guys on the average Instagram posts of underage girls is bad bad. The racism and transphobia don't need help, ya creeps. Maybe we should make it expensive to play this hobby sport ? Or have an iq test. Something.

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 11h

If only to reduce the number of dads-only spaces. Boys-only stuff gets way less toxic the second moms are involved. Like, I enjoyed Cub Scouts with a 50-50 split in parents, but noped out instantly on Boy Scouts that was all dads.

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 11h

The Lance Armstrong School of PR

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

there is an invisible seam running between men who tolerate this stuff and those who don't, determined relatively early by your first objection

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12h

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...

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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028

Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 14h

Stephen's a very funny guy and you'd do well to recognize when a guy who's on here is making a joke

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 13h

every service dog should come with a smaller, pettable dog to run interference

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13h

Recently discovered the slur climate change deniers use for climate change believers

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23h

The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23h

People are also upset about non-economic things that get expressed in economic terms, like the fact that everything seems wildly out of control and we have a maniac in charge of the country

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 17h

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 12h

It feels like watching Ric Flair in the ring after the turn of the century at this point. You don't have to be out here doing this any more, brother.

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Liam Twomey @liamtwomey.bsky.social · 19h

Chelsea fans have BlueCo to thank for the fact that their club avoided sporting sanctions now on the table for Manchester City. Self-reporting and “unprecedented” cooperation on serious Abramovich era rule-breaking made all the difference 👇 www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

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The Man City case is a powerful reminder of a fate that could have befallen Chelsea

Chelsea's post-Abramovich ownership adopted a proactive and deft approach to dealing with the financial irregularities they inherited

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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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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23h

just from a senate perspective you don't want to lose a blowout election in the best of your classes by partisanship

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe the reason the economic vibes are so off isn't that things are *worse* than the great recession but because back then we all thought the pain was temporary, whereas the things that are wrong with the economy today have all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 12h

It's the jumping straight to hot dogs that kills me. There are many cheaper ground meats before hot dogs!

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

The absolute worst argument I see is that Trump was impeached for withholding aid to Ukraine. No he was impeached for withholding aid as part of an attempt to extort the Ukrainian government for his sole, exclusively personal benefit. POTUS has wide powers to withhold aid for normal reasons.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A political social network has latched on to a handful of politically active academics whose views are the vast minority in their field, who keep making wrong predictions and denying verifiable facts, but retain a large following. Bluesky recognizes this pattern with climate denial, but not with AI

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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

More specifically, Iran uses *crypto* to fund terrorism around the world. But it’s issued by a company that the Commerce Secretary is invested in so they’re probably not going to do anything about it. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

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Exclusive | Senate Investigation Finds Rampant Use of Tether’s Stablecoin by Iranian Regime

Wallets sanctioned over Iran ties overwhelmingly dealt in Tether’s USDT stablecoin, according to Senate Democrats.

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's talking to someone too afraid to take wealth management advice from Life Surge

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's true, it's powerful. It does presume we have not self-sorted out of peer groups where people comfortably say bigoted things, though. Progressive cis men who are adults generally have.

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