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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Once you write these pieces, & find this evidence, they are the story. The only story. And yet, for a decade now, the NYT response to discovering unprecedented crimes, constitutional violations, & corruption, has been to just go back to covering Trump & the GOP as "normal politics." I don't get it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The obscure miniseries "Eternal Family" is back on Youtube for free. Directed by Koji Morimoto at Studio 4°C in 1997 for NTT Infosphere (52 episodes of 30 seconds). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyKz...

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026

In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)

The fractal game of epic histories

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵

Federal agents line up in front of community members at the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.

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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

ᴀᴍᴇʀɪᴄᴀɴ ɢᴏᴛʜɪᴄ 2025

A post-apocalyptic parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"moderator of r/doordash by the reddit username u/i_love_femboys6969 attempts to commit an act of terror on behalf of ISIS" is the most 21st century headline I've ever read.

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Honestly, the audacity of saying this while trying to purge the country of Haitians based on a lie he knowingly told is demonic.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Téléchat" now has an official YouTube channel (Season 1 already available) + new short episodes soon on Instagram. A children's television show aired in France in 1983, created by Roland Topor & Henri Xhonneux ("Marquis"). It was weird, I loved it when I was a kid. www.catsuka.com/news/2026-09...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/09/2026

🏛️ Before the Internet, computer clubs helped people learn, trade software & explore personal computing. A surviving binder of 50 Atari newsletters from August 1987 offers a time capsule of that world. Explore the Atari collection & more computer history: blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a... 🧵

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

to frame resistance to LLMs’ use in specific domains as resistance to expertise as such requires either thinking that tech is the only field that produces “expertise” or (a distinction without much of a difference) that technological expertise is somehow universally superior across domains

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I guess I just don’t think software/tech expertise is especially relevant to judging what works best in, say, a history classroom The issue isn’t whether tech people know tech, but whether they think anyone else knows anything at all, and whose expertise bosses and regulators are happier to spit on

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I mean it’s kind of remarkable that he’s a heretic to both Christianity and the American civil religion in the exact same way: he places himself at the top of them, and the people who most loudly proclaim allegiance to those creeds are the biggest adherents to his heresy.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

one of the major issues with Trump in particular is that his entire worldview is rape. he wants to conquer our allies not in spite of their being allies but because they are allies. he wants to ruin and spite them because they propose that there is mutual exchange, which means they are weak.

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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026

The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Concept art by Carter Goodrich for Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), dir. Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore, DreamWorks Animation

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

👇🎯 Interesting. The person closest to the president lacks security clearance & is a channel by which foreign leaders try to reach him. Seems like something that should have been on the front pages at some point. What a difference a decade & a Republican makes. And the chance to sell books.

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Salome @salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

what is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

No one, not a single person of note, is arguing that universities should not enforce rules against plagiarism. What we are pointing out is that it is insane and disproportionate for the attention of an entire country to move to one plagiarist until he kills himself.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

turning on Ludicrous Mode in my Cybertruck (flying) and 9/11ing myself into the 47th floor of the Wells Fargo building while watching AI porn on my Neurolink

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's so blazingly obvious that this is true. A university lecturer being fired for plagiarism would not be national news >99% of the time. It was inflated into one this time purely because it fit into racist "culture war" narratives about "DEI".

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14/08/2026

this is a thing that i don’t think can or maybe ever could resonate with the median voter, but the stratospheric wealth enjoyed by — mostly but not exclusively — american tech plutocrats is destabilizing to american society and our government should treat it as a national security threat

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tremendous insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration that the NSA/SecState was allowed to go down in a fireball but the person who posts AI slop for the President qualified as needing to survive at all costs.

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Jeff F @jfeej.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Rubio asking if he can pretty please not ride with the reporters

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Bane Wreckage

Alt: The Dark Knight Rises

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

personally I think God is probably more in the 'sending the actual pope to tell you you are a sinner' camp than 'glass falls off wall'

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Apropos of nothing immediately in particular, it seems to be increasingly well appreciated that the American military system faces challenges in terms of drone-heavy warfare. What I see as equally true but less appreciated would be the challenges running in reverse in a land-war context.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 🔜 NFC @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🐭Little mice choir 🐭

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026

MS: One of your criticisms of Fauci is that he said one thing publicly, where he sort of downplayed the virus, & one thing privately, where he acknowledge its seriousness. President Trump did exact the same thing. Does Trump deserve the same level of scrutiny? RAND PAUL: *immediately changes topic*

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

From a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

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beany tuesday @beanytuesday.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Fandom: A Comics Quadrilogy (2021)

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The reason climate doomerism is so infuriating is because it's always like five companies doing it, yet a huge number of people just go, "well as a species we are destined to destroy the earth." The idea that you could just put restrictions on corporations not entering anyone's mind here I guess.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...

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An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just THREE DAYS LEFT on the Outlaw's Apprentice kickstarter! Lots of stretch goals unlocked, so backers are also getting stickers, a fieldbook, fold-out map and castle cutaway posters, a keychain, a paper figure booklet, coloring sheets, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...

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Outlaw's Apprentice: Broken Blade

Book one of the Appalachian-inspired swashbuckling fantasy graphic novel series

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