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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 9h

why do they need so many pigeons

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the only Kennedy I want managing infectious disease outbreaks is Leon

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

and the rest of us, right in the middle

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

found a photograph of the last time I ever looked relaxed

picture of me as a baby, looking chill af in my blue cozy shirt

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026

the constitutional convention was one of the most epic examples of “we’ll fix it in post” in human history

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He didn’t *ask* anything, he engaged in baseless insinuations and accused Smith of perjuring himself

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh, good, because if there’s one thing Americans asked for it was for TSA staff to be MORE irritable and unpleasant

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I reach a verdict of genocidal intent from Israeli leaders’ frequent and express statements of genocidal intent law4palestine.org/wp-content/u...

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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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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It really was an Army-McCarthy Hearings “cropped photo” level of embarrassing

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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

nytimes.com

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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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @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

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He has the lowest opinion of the intelligence of his own voters

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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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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A full accounting of impeachable offenses would require a 2 mile long scroll that unfurls down the Capitol steps to the Lincoln Memorial

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

seriously. people need to stop anthropomorphizing Nate Silver

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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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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

those strike me as good reasons to stay home (I’d disagree but I get it), but not good reasons to vote for Susan Collins

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

how do you have that conversation without blurting out “what is wrong with you?”

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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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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

part of the problem is that all the oversight roles have been captured by the people they’re supposed to oversee

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it’s weird watching the overton window move a millimeter in the other direction for once

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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

ugh, and it’s all the more annoying because she represents Illinois & won by a 15 point margin in 2022. She doesn’t even have the excuse of being in Texas or whatever when she says this sort of triangulating third-way nonsense. Which means it’s probably an honest expression of what she *prefers*

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

What you are describing sounds like some sort of ‘Backrooms’ liminal-space-horror situation. What a nightmare

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