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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

i think the real, good faith criticism of FIRE is specifically that its college free speech rankings (and deplatforming database) are a complete mess with no real grounding in objective metrics, and yet they reflect a massive percentage of FIRE's contribution to the public discourse. 🧵

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

I really think a lot of people underestimate the damage done to society by the conviction that, no matter what product we want, it should be delivered to us in a matter of hours.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Most Americans are pro-immigrant,” Talarico says. “Throughout US history, immigrants have always made us richer and stronger.” Trump's barbarities have opened the way to a new consensus. Talarico is giving voice to it in moral language that Dems can learn from. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social wrote a while back that there was such a low threshold for getting a Republican scandal claim on Fox News that people weren't bothering to do basic research on them before trying them out, and I think we're seeing a great example of that today

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Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falls Apart

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Mr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(absolute karen voice) karma police, arrest this man

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

10/17/23 is specifically the date of the al-Ahli hospital bombing when the IDF killed upwards of 500 Palestinian civilians. Western media collectively agreed that it was prudent to cast doubt on the reported casualty figures, so "Hamas-run ministry of health" became a thing.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tony Soprano, not in the sense that he’s a great character (although he is) but in how authentic it is that he understands he’s a bad man and claims to be looking for redemption but is actually just looking for someone who will tell him there’s a way to stay this way and be good

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)

Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.

Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.

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Vlad Oligarchsky @opulenceihazit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a two-way breakdown - from policy to people has also failed, rendering the entire 'political cybernetic mechanism' non-functional. At this point, the majority of the electorate does not actually understand what a policy even is, it's all jiet "President has magic Good Economy button on desk"

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

wow. weird. you mean making republicans vote on things, even when the good side loses, generates news coverage and frames the story in the way that democrats want? wow. weird. obviously better to say "the votes aren't there" and never try, right? yep. yep. yep. yep.

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Tony Zombie-ano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good question! State appropriations have dropped from 39% of the University budget since 1990 down to 16% in 2025 and I have also not heard a peep about this from state leaders. www.house.mn.gov/comm/docs/ZF...

Chart showing state share of U revenue dropping from 39% in 1990 to 16% in 2025

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Department of Getting Out of the Fucking House

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

crashing out because the pokemon company noticed you freaks shoveling boxes straight off the shelves into a sack and started producing more cards so children might actually be able to play the card game for children and calling it devaluation of your investment. bring back embarrassment!!

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We did this cycle once already. We muddled through after Jan 6, a near-constitutional crisis, then guaranteed we would be in for an even more serious assault on democracy. Because we showed people in DC who had tried to use political violence subvert an election that there would be no consequences.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Everyone stop, this is important

A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026

guess what

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Echoes of Wisdom has shortcomings, but I love the wackiness it allows. Like: I just got 1/2 heart back during a boss battle by manifesting a bed into existence for a split second power nap (while the boss was distracted by a bat I summoned) I hope Nintendo develops the concept more, it’s pretty fun

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I sometimes idly wonder how many students, full time faculty and staff could be supported with the money university admins spend on useless tech like Alcatraz AI and the other chatbot suites but then I start getting depressed

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning"

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wish Democratic candidates were less afraid to simply tell a reporter their question rests on a false assumption. “Why should I take a stance on a fake problem the GOP invented to deflect from their corruption and failures?” That’s all these red state Dems need to say to bad faith interviewers.

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Knowing that Teflon products in the 80s were giving everyone cancer really puts Reagan’s nickname the “Teflon president” in a more accurate light

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

they could’ve all done this a decade ago and saved us a lot of hardship he is nothing without the amplification of media technology

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These AI guys want to have the prestige of being knowledgeable or capable without the work. Whether it’s fake art, pretending to be a novelist, coding, whatever. The reason they frame it as a democratizing force is that they think it’s unfair that we don’t praise them for existing as much.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤

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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ph.D.s in the study of disinfo wd be more relevant if they focused on real world situations rather than artificial laboratory experiment situations--which most do not. Here's why this happens: Americans refuse to believe it's a problem that our nation is drowning in lies. bsky.app/profile/upin...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sleepy round boys: 1 Immortal legendary fire deities: 0

The legendary Pokemon Ho-oh is encountered

The legendary Pokemon Ho-oh is vanquished by Snorlax sitting on it

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m surprised AI apostles haven’t tried the claim “LLM outputs are the aggregated output of all the language of God’s creation, ergo Claude is the literal voice of the divine” It’s a profoundly silly idea, but I bet a cult could be built around it, as it authorizes people to stop thinking

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

democrats, your political consultants are using their positions to set up their future mid-6 figure lobbying job instead of giving you winning advice

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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"I can’t think of a single prominent political position which has been more thoroughly refuted by ensuing events than the notion that liberals were overreacting about Donald Trump" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/not-...

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Not just a river in Egypt - Lawyers, Guns & Money

A couple of commenters reminded me of something I’ve been inchoately puzzling over now and again: DamnYankeesLGM: The question that keeps coming up – obviously, what did people think they were voting ...

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/09/2026

“More than a third of the $2.8bn raised for the current 2025-26 election cycle comes from the 20 biggest mega-donors” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17/09/2026

so, is there, like, anyone in the republican party who has tried to explain trade deficits to him? like, even once? because he very clearly doesn’t understand them at all and his total wrongness is like the entire basis of our current trade policy

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every new dinosaur thing is like the Tyrannosaurus Rex wore short sleeved dress shirts and worked as a paralegal

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Curiously, Luttig’s essay does not mention that there is precedent for this mass refusal to seat House members. It actually happened before: after the Civil War. newrepublic.com/article/2151...

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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy

Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.

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