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*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 3h

I think we're going to find that morally horrifying events have transpired in these detention camps, and anyone associated with the agency will be tainted.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 12h

On the left: President Trump false claims of violent crime in Chicago (as prelude for laying a pretext) On the right: Most recent official stats showing Chicago success in back-to-back years of historic reductions in violent crimes

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 05/10/2026

Last month: Beatings, starvation, even death ... Camp East Montana, a notoriously dangerous and corrupt immigrant detention center under the Trump admin, illustrates that where migrants are held is “more punitive than prison.” \

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ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations

To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in…

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 12h

Fascistic social engineering never goes wrong.

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 15h

This is a big deal. Hanning led German foreign intelligence ("C" in UK system) 1998-2005 and was state secretary in the interior ministry. The key question --> how secure are the intelligence services of a country (🇩🇪) that is becoming Europe's preeminent military power? www.ft.com/content/4c56...

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Former German spy chief arrested for treason

Ex-intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to foreign power

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Isn't Russell Vought showing us you can start/stop any program you want at will?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This goes from the interviewer trying to tie him the Muslim brotherhood to her defensively saying, no, she is not cheerleading the war.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Charging someone, when the government shot them. If you saw it somewhere else et cetera et cetera

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think people are sick of the political maneuvering and simply want these people held to account, the same way anyone else in society would be.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Astros having their season ended by the White Sox inspired me to remake my "Houston-sized Chicago" map. It's been 66 years since Chicago last grew by annexation. In an alternate reality where the city grew to match the physical size/shape of Houston (as shown) it'd have twice the population.

A map depicting Houston, TX with the following information:
Land area: 640.44 square miles
2020 population: 2,304,580

A map depicting Chicago if it had the same land area and similar shape as Houston
Land area: 640.30 square miles
2020 population: 5,059,448

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think there’s a stronger case for pretty much the opposite rule. If you’re studying a field where you’re going to rapidly be making a lot of income, why do you need a government loan? Get one on the private market.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Consultants making some money on that ad buy.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/10/2026

‘Gandhi in 1946 was never alone; visitors were numerous, journalists hovered. He held interfaith prayer sessions and sat with both Hindu and Muslim households. He kept up his daily quota of spinning cloth.’ Raghu Karnad on Gandhi and Partition. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Raghu Karnad · Mother Father: Gandhi and Partition

In 2014, Hindu nationalists won the general election in India: power was now held by admirers of Savarkar, who had been...

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So much for drowning the government in a bathtub.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

A member of the National Guard shot and killed a man in Memphis and it barely made a ripple in our discourse.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

one thing I remember thinking about during the NYT's wall to wall coverage of Claudine Gay's fake plagiarism scandal is how regularly the NYT denies credit to the work of local, independent, and/or student journalists

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People are intellectually lazy, and furthermore don't want to believe that bad things are actually going to happen. It's basically way too easy for politicians like Trump and Vance to lie, there's not a strong enough information ecosystem countering it.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I checked this week, my registration was gone. Durham County, NC voter in good standing for many years, and I was no longer a registered voter.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In Springfield, OH, nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally. Layoffs were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. apnews.com/article/trum...

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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally

President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

More Medical Debt Linked to More Deadly Cancers www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...

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More Medical Debt Linked to More Deadly Cancers

Patterns in overall cancer incidence were similar

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heh this is why I asked about GLM, that paper that Anthropic released basically said, these guys are directly behind us, watch out.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My impression was that people switched between models pretty fluidly, even using multiple models simultaneously. If GLM is that good, is there just lag in these numbers?

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 02/10/2026

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- the worst-ever in the vast central African country -- has killed more than 4,000 people, officials say u.afp.com/S9aG

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

remarkable thing to admit

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He'll probably tear down the rest during his lame duck period.

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good 🧵 worth your time. It's so unusual to have a frozen job ladder outside of a recession. A labor market with low unemployment but almost no opportunity to move to a better job isn't healthy for workers, economic growth, or productivity.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've thought talk radio is a very near parallel yeah.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We've known this for ages, I wonder if there's just less money in it, so the paid operatives are less interested in creating advertising there? Or if it's simply institutional inflexibility - always produced ads in English, just keep doing that.

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first team to advance to the 2026 Division Series: the Chicago White Sox, as we all surely expected when this season began

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's the thing though, it should've been sufficient for a Fox News bit, and they screwed even that part up.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think that is true, but I do not think it is necessarily an immutable law of the American Voter. It is a product of leadership and culture made up of individual decisions. It's a feedback loop, in part, of political leaders telling voters that it is right and good and just to be that way.

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maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“When asked about the missing section of video, the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) said it had not been redacted—and on that day, “Chicago Public Safety camera(s) may have been out of service or experienced technical problems.”

still from comedy bang bang reading “555-come-on-now”

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 29/09/2026

The US pharmaceutical lobby group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America said on Tuesday it had named former US House Majority Leader Eric Cantor as its next president and chief executive officer.

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US drug lobby group PhRMA names former House leader Cantor as CEO

The US pharmaceutical lobby group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America said on Tuesday it had named ‌former US House Majority Leader Eric Cantor as its next president and chief executive officer.

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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Def. Sec. Hegseth signed a memo today that CBS News obtained two months ago eliminating civilian tenure at military service academies. The Daily Wire was first to report on Tuesday that Hegseth signed the memo CBS News first reported on. Story: www.cbsnews.com/news/dod-pen...

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another way these political consultancies have made everything less feasible in politics.

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