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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Truly gross stuff.

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

these refs have been atrocious

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Evan Maple VO @evanmaplevo.com · 22/09/2026

it’s been said a ton already but I really do appreciate mamdani so throughly dismantling the core democrat ideology of “we actually can’t ever do anything helpful or good because of. circumstances”

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

woof at that ai slop graphic about the colts post-luck

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OpenAI set $22M on fire just to steal $1M from a human who did the actual work, and that’s the business plan our economy is betting everything on? Lol.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026

You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible

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bergmayer @bergmayer.net · 04/09/2026

counterpoint: companies that bribed Trump including though bogus "settlements" should be criminally prosecuted and dragged through endless hearings pub.bluehorizonproject.org/p/democrats-...

pub.bluehorizonproject.org

Democrats Should Focus Oversight Strategies on Trump

Democrats are strategizing about what their agenda should be if they are able to retake the House, or potentially both the House and Senate.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the seth moulton playbook. waste millions of dollars being a pathetic loser. demonstrate that you are an untrustworthy bigot and coward with the right wingers leash around your neck

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

california's top-2 primary system pretty much ensures we are stuck with this embarrassing loser as our senator until he decides to leave on his own.

schiff getting mogged by ted cruz while posing in an embarrassing ass picture with netanyahu (and some of the other wack dem senators you would expect this shit from) last year

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

youtube.com

What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Democrats should be unafraid in saying that Roberts on the Court is comparable to Mike Johnson in the House and John Thune in the Senate. They're all in thrall to Trump.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Loving that some establishment Democrats have resorted to saying, you know, Laura Loomer and Richard Hanania are making some good points. Listen. To. Your. Fucking. Self.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I just finished this book. It is such a crazy, brilliant fever dream of a book. If you like science fiction, and specifically the experience of an intellectual round house kick to the head that changes your view of what‘s possible, I cant recommend it enough.

Book cover: There Is No Anti Memetics Division

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

Al policy

Context

Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/08/2026

A monstrous waste of money.

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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Bulwark was founded by never-Trump Republicans. rats who jumped from a sinking ship and desperately need a home for their dwindling political power. they want to solidify the Democratic party as centrist at best, blocking out left-wing influence and power. just look at how they work

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

These people are fucking evil and I’m tired of hedging on that point.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned)

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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tapper is being insanely dishonest with his audience in characterizing El-Sayed's comments like this. It wasnt a public statement, it was a surreptitious recording of an off the cuff internal campaign discussion and ripped out of context.

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

this is good and more people in charge should be saying it

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19/07/2026

What 'moderation' really means is adopting the views of a very small group of loud, centrist writers and their big business backers, and is increasingly out of step with (a) the big problems in the US and (b) the polling on what Americans say are the biggest problems they want government to fix.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

a great piece from Parker that i hope you all read. i would humbly add that no matter the issue, policy, statement, or scandal, we’re more than a decade into the MAGAverse and have seen how little we gain with cries of “aha, hypocrite!”—these freaks can’t act in good faith and don’t deserve yours

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Here is an unpaywalled article re replies with confusion of where the outbreaks have occurred vs the farm location. Giant corporate producers like this ship elsewhere as most their business. Part of how the corporate food systems work is we don’t know where our food came from and it isn’t local

nbcnews.com

Iceberg lettuce supplier investigated as possible source in cyclosporiasis outbreak

Nearly 7,000 cases nationwide are confirmed or under investigation, according to the CDC. Michigan has accounted for the bulk of cases so far.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

“You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

unfortunately, with the way california elections work, we are likely stuck with this guy until he decides to leave

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

sometimes you get two bags of chips out of the vending machine I guess

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

rip lindsey another guy who clearly saw the danger of trump and decided to facilitate it instead of fight it. party over county. can't say he'll be missed

static.klipy.com

Tombstone: Well Bye

Alt: Tombstone: Well Bye

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

i think it's time to switch pharmacies from cvs i walk in today to see this classic enshittification tactic of pushing labor onto the customer in order to avoid properly staffing the counter with humans

picture of a new self-service kiosk at cvs. the screen says:
Wait here for assistance
A team member will be over shortly to help you with your prescription order.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is true and it is tragic: it can happen to absolutely anyone, no matter how good a parent you are. Just telling yourself to always look in the backseat when you get out of the car isn't enough: your brain can create false memories when stressed or sleep-deprived.

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Brooke Pierce @bpie7.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Harper's signatory labeller is so handy for pointing out people who refuse to let the fact that their judgement is continually proven to be shit stop them from inflicting their opinions on the public sphere.

Post from Michelle Goldberg
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There's a label which says Harper's Signatory.

New York Times link.

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While I'm assigning blame, I shouldn't leave out myself. Last October, when stories about Platner's tattoo and Reddit posts first broke, I went to Maine to write about him. I tried to convey what I saw: a campaign that was electrifying angry Maine voters. But I deeply regret that, impressed by Platner's political charisma, I wrote that he was “nothing like the edgelord caricature I encountered online." If anything, he seems to be significantly Worse. One person who tried to alert Democrats was Platner's former political director, Genevieve McDonald. She quit when the first Platner scandals emerged and has been increasingly outspoken against him. Progressive operatives made her seem like a vindictive person eager to curry favor with Maine's political establishment. In retrospect, she looks much more like someone who took a profound professional risk to do the right thing. I can't be the only one who regrets not taking her more seriously.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

politico.com

Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Feels worse than 2022 because then it felt lucky to get out of the group stage while for 2 weeks this was the best the USMNT had ever looked and then they shit the bed.

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

i'm not an expert, but it looked like we: - were too indecisive in our own half, both with the ball and on defense - lost the ball too often on offense with bad passes and ineffective moves - had too many finesse-less touches, losing the ball where we shouldn't have - kept crossing it to nobody

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

that one was embarrassing lol

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

OH NO! DISASTER!!! WHAT A BAD IDEA!!!!

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

at least it feels like we're generating more chances so far this half

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Nick Arizti @nickarizti.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

tbh feels lucky to only be down 1 after that first half

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