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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I remember when Bill Clinton—a FORMER president—met Obama’s sitting AG on an airplane and it was a massive scandal. Now, here’s Trump’s new AG just doing Trump political rallies like it’s NBD.

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Bumping this again. Hope to see y'all out there, and even if you can't make it, signal boosts are super appreciated.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One bystander starts standing up for his neighbors and then others do too. Courage is contagious. Pass it on.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What kills me is that the mainstream media, then and now, this very day, could turn the country against Trump, easily. Minus 15-20% that will never leave him. If only they could come together with the kind of energy they had for curb-stomping Biden. They could turn this around. But they NEVER will

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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I love the fact that they're blaming Jimmy Carter and just hoping we all forget that Reagan illegally interfered with Carter getting the hostages released and was never prosecuted for it because he won.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 27/07/2026

They added 140 more wounded and restored the four soldiers killed last week whose names they had taken off the KIA list.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have no doubt this is what Elon believes and he messages it constantly. But my own sense here is that this is closer to Big Lie mechanics - stating a contrary set of maximal factual statements to give supporters talking points, a way of framing an issue.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Trump 2.0 has taught all the villains and henchmen in our cursed era that a relentless momentum of villainy will keep them safe. Never apologize. Never admit defeat or wrongdoing. Believe in the lie and no lie detector can touch you. The opposition will tire and grow cynical. And here we are.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s really hard not to despair about how seemingly every backstop for disaster seems to be purposefully failing. The trend will end, it always does, but it’s hard to see how at the moment.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A board probably WOULD step in if there were large scale, sustained outrage. But anti-RW narratives are starved and drowned. Ignored. All that’s “old news” now. At best, narrative-setters look at the 2024 election as objective proof that no horror is a dealbreaker, approval ratings be damned.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We really don’t reckon enough with how the flattening of truth and misinformation on social media + the right-wing takeover of all prominent “neutral” media = an environment where consequences for the far right don’t really exist anymore. Cowardice, confusion, complicity, & complacency rule the day.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One must remember that Republicans can never fail, they can only be failed. And that is why they’re the Party of Personal Responsibility™️! 👍

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Musk is Timothy McVeigh with a trillion dollars.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Which reminds me to remind you: if you preorder my Rod Serling bio and submit proof of purchase at this link, you get a bonus essay from me about *my* favorite Twilight Zone episode: hachettebookgroup.formstack.com/forms/serlin...

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

mark sussman is back at it, with his discernable takes and penchants for obscure tri-state law firm dramas, sly references to cronenberg's the fly and lynch's twin peaks, and no promises to keep the car running while pumping that gas (folks, it's good!) marksussman.substack.com/p/the-face-o...

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Finals coverage produced something like what the theorist Walter Benjamin called a “dialectical image,” in which “what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation.”

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Mark Sussman @marksussman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Haven't seen the Odyssey yet, but if the final scene isn't Odysseus putting a feather quill back in its ink well, sighing with satisfaction as he gazes on his completed book, and flipping to the title page—"My Big Trip, by Raymond Odysseus"—I will scream. I am functionally illiterate.

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Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Good Boy's new Spanish cover. I love it so much.

The cover of Good Boy, my novel, translated into Spanish. It features a black dog sitting on a patch of grass, staring either mournfully or excitedly up at a free floating window in the heavens.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Weird he said the same thing about being momentarily anti-Trump

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“Giants in the Sky” was my audition song until my voice changed, though!

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Would you believe I’ve NEVER been in a Sondheim production (other than West Side Story in high school, which we don’t talk about)?? I’m kinda stunned to realize that.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Best time to talk to them? 🎶On a SUUUNday🎶

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

UK FRIENDS! 🇬🇧 Have you preordered the @titanbooks.bsky.social edition of NESTLINGS yet? Waterstones is running a special preorder deal from now through Friday (24 July)! Just enter “SUMMER26” at checkout for 25% off! As your beloved band The Whom sang, “That’s a bargain, innit. I’d call it one!”

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Tonight! Brooklyn! Come see why so many of us across the country are so excited to celebrate @cgolden.bsky.social’s phenomenal new action-horror masterpiece, CARRY ME TO MY GRAVE!

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is a good definition of what conservatism actually is: whining about merely being told that your selfishness is harmful to *yourself*

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Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Really wonderful interview with Reactor Magazine!

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So yeah, buy some ebooks for $1.99. Buy several. badhandbooks.com/ebooks

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eBooks — Bad Hand Books

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Heartbroken to learn my beloved Taco Bell might be responsible for more diarrhea than normal. But also immensely relieved that my go-to order never wasted its time with something as dubious and risky as lettuce.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The suburbs are just fully not living in reality, all they have is TV

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PSST The deadline for getting dark demonic goodies with your pre-order of THE CALAMITIES from @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social approaches in a couple weeks -- Also, adding new tour stops! Madison! Minneapolis! Denver! St. Louis! And the Belmont Lit Fest in NC. Tell everyone! Even your pets!

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Deadline Approaching For Demonic Goodies (And More Tour News)

Firstly, I note that we are now in the one-month-ish run-up to The Calamities, which of course means I’m going to be louder and more annoying about that book for the next four or so weeks. (A…

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Happy birthday!!! I owe you so many emails!

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Exactly. The president is going to spin some incredible lies about the 2020 election and the media -- and every single Democrat in the country -- has to be ready to smack this bullshit down immediately. Not a mealy-mouthed fact check or, golly, this is weird. Call it out as an assault on democracy.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Before the news breaks: “I mean, it’s obvious he’s lying and it’s obvious why.” After the news breaks: “Controversial … Forceful … Critics Say … Distrust in Elections has Is at an All-Time High on Both Sides”

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Beyond infuriating to know how many of the same reporters who today are so clearheaded about the obvious motivations behind Trump’s upcoming bullshit about the 2020 election work for media institutions that will play into the weaponized neutrality Trump is counting on.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When people say that there is a bias against conservatives in places like the Times that reflects their failure to understand that the Times (like many university spaces) lowers standards to represent right-wing views for purposes of intellectual diversity.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I guess I just don’t understand how stupid you have to be not to see the world’s richest man embracing boilerplate white nationalism because it allows him to present himself as a victim bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

JUST IN: 13th straight rejection of DOJ's legal effort to compel states to turn over their voter rolls. George W. Bush-appointed Judge Thomas Johnston wonders what DOJ is really driving at. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

YES. Similar intensity, too. Great comparison.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just an absolute icon. A gleeful, committed weirdo.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Standing ovation for one of our greatest scream kings. I always loved and appreciated how fully Sam Neill gave himself over to his Horror roles - and how you got the sense he kept going back to the genre again and again not because that's where a job was, but because that's where he wanted to play.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Whatever shopped there shops alone.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

the future is worker-owned outlets like @weareravenous.com and @darkertimes.bsky.social where standards come before blind greed and idiotic trend-chasing.

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