iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Make a war film rubbish. Paxton

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

These are politicos who cheer on, for example, Ron DeSantis’s efforts to destroy his state’s institutions of higher education. They’re the sort of people who believe that some books’ highest value are as props for a public burning.

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Richard Wattenbarger @musicologyman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’d like to be a fly on the wall in one of the meetings between Putin and Xi, because I know they sit there and yuk it up over what a patsy Donald Trump is.

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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Amazing week on “On Point”-a five-part series inspired by my book “Gerontocracy in America” that is enjoyable, fair, and interesting. Check it out! What an honor. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

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Senior Class: Gerontocracy in America

Older Americans have amassed massive wealth, power and voter influence. On Point's special series "Senior Class: Gerontocracy in America" explores the causes and impacts of this generational imbalance...

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Richard Wattenbarger @musicologyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You know, if Guilfoyle hadn’t blown all her money on luxury items like a top-of-the-line mobile phone, meals at Michelin-starred restaurants, and designer fashion, maybe she wouldn’t have this problem.

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Richard Wattenbarger @musicologyman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The West Wing after Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme left.

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Richard Wattenbarger @musicologyman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ummm. Just whom do they expect to sign such ethics legislation into law?

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 02/10/2026

Vote for "WHO BLEW UP THE GUIDESTONES?" for Best Sound Design at the 2026 @signalawards.bsky.social here: bit.ly/GuidestonesSignal

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Band and orchestral instruments have been hit the hardest… In the second quarter of this year, imports of instruments were down nearly 20 percent from the same period in 2024. Imports of orchestral string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos, dropped 50%. Brass instruments fell 43%”

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Tariffs Are Making Instruments So Expensive, School Music Programs Are at Risk

When a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026

mein gott!

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 28/09/2026

NEW: Today, the ACLU and other immigrant rights' orgs filed a new lawsuit — NATHAN V. TRUMP — in federal court in D.C. challenging President Trump's new birthright citizenship executive order by asking a judge to declare it unlawful and prevent the admin from enforcing it.

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 28/09/2026

NEW: A Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report released today "exposes how [Howard Lutnick-linked] Tether & its...token have become central to Iran’s shadow banking system" allowing Iran to fund proxies, commit human rights abuses, and...defy US sanctions, says Senator Blumenthal.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.

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Richard Wattenbarger @musicologyman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just realized that "theobro" is an anagram of "theorbo," and now I am very sad.

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Crushed Cybertrucks. And somehow, they look better?

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is an excellent reframe.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Abolish San Francisco.

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Richard Wattenbarger @musicologyman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So let me guess: this administration is sharing no intel with Saudi Arabia, an avowedly Muslim nation. Right?

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not on X and I try to keep my head down and focused on protecting people's material well being and not get trolled but it is so fucking shameful the official voices of our national institutions are now chuds spewing racist memes. I don't think we come back from this and yes, I blame Trump voters

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026

This is Eugenics. Couple amping up the libido of their chosen specimens with their bid to lower the standards on human research subjects’ informed consent and mass deportation, and what other conclusion can be reached?

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Espresso Legal @legalespresso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I would absolutely subscribe to a @jamellebouie.net and @dieworkwear.bsky.social podcast.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

desperately want to break the hold that slim, tapered, low rise pants have on my generational cohort

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pulte has a broad portfolio. 1. Firing people of integrity. 2. Prosecuting people of integrity. 3. Destroying monuments to people of integrity.

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Richard Wattenbarger @musicologyman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have fiund The Pitt a terrific show, and Noah Wyle’s and the show’s Emmy awards were certainly deserved. But Wyle’s vomit-colored dinner jacket? Hoo-boy! Maybe I need to revise my opinion...

Noah Wyle wearing a vomit-colored dinner jacket.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The reality is that just like every other industry AI has touched, AI is showing us that yes, even software engineers are a little lazy sometimes and make silly mistakes that would have been caught if someone just slowed down and wrote some fucking unit tests.

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Richard Wattenbarger @musicologyman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Rolling Stone Fruit

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/09/2026

So I called it, but y’all. The fact they’re saying it was “a military aide” is even more concerning. A single person can deploy a slide in error if the plane isn’t parked. But this was parked. The door wasn’t supposed to be armed. That is MULTIPLE PEOPLE’S ERRORS. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

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Trump Is Delayed After Emergency Slide Deploys on New Air Force One

The mishap occurred while the Qatari-donated jet was parked on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. It delayed President Trump’s departure to a Republican convention in Dallas.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There is also something amusing in how AI oligarchs think hiring philosophers will help them anticipate future risks in searching for the machine gods when so many escalating risks that might take them down are lurking in more mundane spheres of everyday politics and economics

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When looking at the stuff turned out by AI researchers right now you get a really good sense of the risks that build up when scientists aren't forced to work in the same building as people who study history, culture, politics, economics and war.

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 08/09/2026

For more on why we at @lawfaremedia.org are suing the Trump administration and State Department, read this piece from @sranderson.bsky.social, published moments ago (link below)

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We’re suing to bring transparency back to Trump’s State Department—and you can help! Are you aware of an international agreement that the U.S. may have concluded since Jan. 2025? Have you been unable to locate it on the State Department’s site? Let us know 👇 ⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-...

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Why We’re Suing the State Department Over International Agreements

Lawfare is suing to bring transparency back to international agreements—and you can help.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Even if you aren’t aware of any such agreements missing from the State Department’s site, you can still help out by RT’ing this piece…or share it in relevant Reddit subs, email listservs, etc. Tysm 🙏

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I am just me... 💙🦋 @phillyangell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Witkoff and Kushner fly out. The missiles fly in. Two dead in Kyiv. Seven wounded. Before the plane even cleared Ukrainian airspace. That’s not diplomacy. That’s a photo op with a body count.

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Statements that Mamdani should stay away from the 9/11 memorial are so nakedly bigoted they take my breath away. Ffs, he was a little elementary school kid living in NYC when the attacks happened. If you think he should stay away from the memorial, you are a shit person and an idiot

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026

right. when thinking about slavery as a system i think it is important to foreground the fact that this was an astonishing wealth production machine. to paraphrase barbara fields, the point of slavery was to produce commodities; white supremacy was the ideological superstructure of the whole thing

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly

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S. Joel Garver @sjgarver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I can't make this, though I'll be there in spirit. But if you have a free hour on Tuesday morning at 10am, show up and let the powers-that-be know that the museum must not and cannot be closed.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm told there's a move afoot to rename Ontario's Welland Canal—a ship canal that's part of the St. Lawrence Seaway—as "the Strait of Our Moose."

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