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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

People have concerns but I think the U.S. should try, for obviously the first time ever, sending a small contingent of military advisors into a foreign country on a mission with unclear objectives and unlimited scope. It's not like there's a long historical record of exactly this going poorly.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 5h

many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 1h

It’s actually shocking how dishonest this article is. Russian military aggression is presented totally passively, as if they’re weather events, and the supposed warmongering from NATO is western leaders and military figures saying “If Russia keeps bombing us we might have to retaliate”

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 5h

This is this promotional material that Netflix is using for Theo Von’s new special. Who is laughing at this?

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 7h

Funny story: After Maryland Rep. Andy Harris blocked marijuana legalization in DC, residents would call up his office to complain about potholes and stuff. When the staffer would explain that they weren't constituents, they'd yell something to the effect of, "Then stop fucking with our weed!"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

man said it was unconstitutional to laugh at him. (5-4, Alito and Thomas dissenting, joined by gorsuch and kavanaugh) bsky.app/profile/ab21...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Democratic Failure to Prevent Conservatives From Lying Raises Ethical Questions About Talarico bsky.app/profile/shoe...

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 42m

terrible move. history tells us the correct play is to abandon the city and defeat your adversaries at sea

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 7h

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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Red Sox @redsox.com · 4h

For the third year in a row, Wilyer Abreu is a Gold Glove Award finalist!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

hell ya

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Red Sox @redsox.com · 4h

Ceddanne Rafaela has been named a Gold Glove Award finalist for the second year in a row!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

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Business Insider: AI
Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer

The Onion in 2013: Man Who Drinks 5 Diet Cokes Per Day Hoping Doctors Working On Cure For Whatever He’s Getting

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

they all know the bottom is falling out and instead of trying to prevent that they are ripping out the copper wiring

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18h

It’s pretty remarkable to have a photo where everyone’s expression is a real life version of this

The party photo meme where everyone’s expression is staring at you uncomfortably

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

What’s so striking about this is seeing other reporters get annoyed by his bullshit and say he’s wrong and keep asking questions as opposed to what the national media does for Trump which is go oh ok thank you sir

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 9h

There have been a lot of proposals of giving parents money to increase the birth rate. What would actually help is shortening parents required work hours to 6h/day. Economists might think these are the same, but they very much aren't

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

increasingly I have come to believe that men sexually assault and harass *other men* far more than is clearly understood, and I suspect that grappling with that will be crucial to bringing about real change.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 23h

i can’t believe marco rubio hit the pope with the cancer gun

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 23h

since we’re doing this discourse again here’s why im no longer on twitter

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h

I asked an AI if this work was AI and it said yes so it must be AI" is the sort of sentence that would get you frogmarched from the building if you replaced AI with anything else

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h

yall ever just watch a wombat eating grass

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

"Today I want to consider how aspirational fascism never goes away in a society. It can only be politically beaten into submission..." no amnesty

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Ossoff: "You stand here and say you're gonna be a champion for Black Georgians when you elevate to positions of leadership in your political organization people with ties to the Ku Klux Klan."

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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 17h

It's gonna be 90 tomorrow and 34 this Saturday. If I start hearing trumpets I know something

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 12h

We need to make Stephen Miller's nightmares come true. Jot that down as a platform plank.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net

Rank-and-file Democrats — and, I’d wager, a substantial portion of the voting public — do not want compromise and cooperation. They want accountability. And if we hope to confine Trumpism to the ash-heap of history, then accountability is the only choice there is to make.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10h

European politicians won't even get off X (neither will ours), but this should prompt an EU-wide attempt to expel Elon from the continent. And we need one here, too. You have to be Walter Isaacson to miss what's going on.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

roughest exit in Greece since the Socrates thing

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 15h

Simba Kundizeza's statement on his Caine Prize-winning story "The Blue Fighter" is also worth reading—keep in mind, the evidence-free article slandering him was published in The Atlantic to a mass readership and his defense is a tweet to his eight hundred followers

Simba Kundizeza
@S_S_Kundizeza
Statement on The Atlantic article concerning “The Blue Fighter”

I would like to say at the outset that this statement is not in any way a proffer of an explanation or a defense against the allegations levelled against me in the article published by The Atlantic, because I don’t believe the article warrants either. I am however writing because of the level of public interest generated in its aftermath, and out of respect for the people who have supported and championed my writing, as well as my fellow shortlisted writers for the Caine Prize. I want to set the record straight.

For the avoidance of doubt, I wrote "The Blue Fighter." I did not use generative AI to write it. It is entirely my own work.

This story did not appear out of nowhere; it has a concrete, documented history. Its genesis was during my LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency in Ghana. While there‚ I read a poem by vangile gantsho titled “my father's hands․” I was inspired by this poem to write a story about my family's experiences in Zimbabwe‚ including my father leaving his accounting profession and the hardships my family faced as a result․ Other aspects of the story‚ including characters and the setting‚ are drawn from events in my own life․

There is also a clear chronology to the story's development. I sent the completed first draft of the story to vangile for feedback on May 15‚ 2025․ I then submitted the story to The Shallow Tales Review on May 27‚ 2025․ Fiction editor Nzube Nlebedim accepted the story on June 10‚ 2025‚ and it went through the standard editorial process. vangile then provided her feedback to me on June 25‚ 2025․ On the same day Nzube also provided editorial feedback to me․ In an email dated June 27‚ 2025‚ I sent the final draft and requested that the editor preserve the formatting of an epigraph in the story as originally submitted by vangile as a courtesy to her․ The story was published on June 30‚ 2025․

The Atlantic article seems to question the story's authorship by comparing its style to my other writing. As writers we develop recurring interests, but we don’t produce work from a single fixed template. My debut novel, “Freelance”, and the story titled "The Whistleblower" published in Transition Magazine in 2021 which is referenced by Ms. Vara, are thrillers dealing with political intrigue. "The Blue Fighter," however, is a deeply personal story about economic collapse and familial relationships. The voice shifts because the subject matter demands it. To suggest that a writer cannot write in different styles or genres, or improve his writing substantially after five or more years fundamentally misunderstands the craft of writing.

The motive for my supposedly using AI to generate the story is equally difficult to understand. I was under no obligation to write “The Blue Fighter”. I was not commissioned to produce it, nor was I paid a fee for its publication. The decision to submit the piece for consideration for the Caine Prize was made by the editor of The Shallow Tales Review months after its publication. I therefore didn’t write the story with any guarantee that it would be submitted, let alone win anything. The idea that I would have somehow written the story with the express intention of entering and winning the Caine Prize, despite the inherently competitive and uncertain nature of the prize, conjures up a motive that simply did not exist.

"The Blue Fighter" is my work, and I stand by it completely. I'm grateful to vangile for her inspiration, to The Shallow Tales Review for giving the story a home, and to the Caine Prize judges for recognizing the work on its merits. I’m also heartened by the numerous messages of solidarity from fellow writers and readers, and to Adrienne Ingrum and Regina Brooks at Serendipity Literary Agency for their support throughout.
I look forward to continuing to work with the Caine Prize team, and to celebrating this recognition with the people who helped bring this story into the world.

Most importantly, I will continue to write.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 9h

"The 'fraud' to them, is in Omar’s claim to the dignity of equal citizenship; in the idea that a woman, born in Somalia, might be as equally and powerfully American as they are." @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The raid on Ilhan Omar’s house is dangerous political theater | Moira Donegan

The raid is meant to cast an air of suspicion and criminality over Democratic candidates who, like Omar, are facing the voters in a matter of weeks

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h

Yet another issue where the only reasonable position is "everybody goes to jail." Anything less is incompatible with the rule of law.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OOPS GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon The PAC boosting Collins is "absolutely furious" at the "ridiculous error" made by the buyer, which takes blame and has refunded the money. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon

An outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/10/2026

- The sound a cow might make when spanked - Onomatopoeia in a Batman comic panel where he’s flipping a pancake - The sound a bee makes when flying around a flower before pronouncing the first letter of the word “flat” buff.ly/zlLH4L9

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Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-wise

- The National Association of Xylophone X-Ray Zebra Paleontologists, briefly - The sound a chicken bone may make when accidentally dropped into a garbage dis...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

I don’t know that I want Ossoff to actually win the nomination but at this point I do want him to run because I think seeing the response the base has to his obvious contempt for Republicans will make the entire rest of the field better

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

the biggest reason republicans are eating shit in every single debate is that their president is terrible and his policies are terrible and there’s no way to defend any of it that comes across in a credible manner and it couldn’t be happening to a more deserving group of candidates

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17h

girl please be so serious, how do you “vet” someone for the masked secret police murder and kidnapping squad designed to terrorize people of color that they want the job at all is disqualifying

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Greg Abbott has backed off data centers, but sticks by his equally unpopular policy of funneling money out of public schools to unregulated "alternatives." Why risk re-election over this? I dig into who is funding Abbott: Billionaires who want theocracy. www.salon.com/2026/10/13/w...

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Who really controls Greg Abbott?

The Texas governor’s war on public schools is bankrolled by donors who want a Christian state

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

he has made this world a crueler place and he deserves to suffer at least a fraction of the pain he has inflicted on others

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

my most fervent wish is for every one of stephen miller’s fears to come true hound him everywhere he goes prosecute him any way you can sue him and sue his wife and bleed them dry until the end of their days

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

this is literally the only thing ben shapiro ever wanted also, is jennifer jason leigh a hollywood conservative? damn

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Troy Jackson to Susan Collins: "In light of the article last week from ProPublica, I'm shocked that you're up here talking about fraud, because there's only one person up here that's been accused of that by the FBI."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18h

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20h

I'm officially a Lily Yohannes believer

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22h

Among the real journalists I know, "my friends weren't talking about this outrageous scandal so it doesn't matter" would be interpreted as code that they were under duress and needed rescue. It's simply not something a professional journalist believes is even relevant, much less dispositive.

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