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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 18h
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The posture of Knowingness which is quick to assert that actually there is no sense things are getting worse when the state livestreams an execution because it's analogous to cop killings of the past is very stupid. You can and should notice changes.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Construction workers in #SanDiego stood up to ICE agents who tried to kidnap their co-workers on the job site...workers stopped their job, helped their co-workers get away and demanded that ICE leave." Source Stop ICE: www.instagram.com/p/DeQGKxtv4Pq/
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bfd1212.bsky.social @bfd1212.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Theres a plaque on the gas station near my house in Indio, CA commemorating when Swaggert met the woman he was busted with.
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Joe Don Baker was the Jason Statham of his day
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Carrington Ward @carringtonward.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
GW Bush & !Jeb! Ostentatiously learned a lesson from from Pete Wilson immolating himself and the CA GOP. Of course poor George and Jeb never actually had the courage of their conviction… slunk off from Trump’s shellacking like pathetic inbred dogs.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“One paradox of our time is that whilst the educational attainment of the population has increased, there has been a decline in public intellectual standards”
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"That why they're going to hell" -- the old man's still an artist with a Thompson
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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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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so incredibly massively fucking tired of this
Three National guard soldiers walking through a metro station
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To wit: it’s not a “fever” if it never breaks! That is, the ‘fever’ metaphor was only ever attractive because it entailed a radicalized GOP reverting/changing through almost no political effort by Democrats. This is a legitimate political movement, and to that exact extent, it has to be defeated.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
people were so fixated on the Duke stuff in White Lotus S3 that we forgot this choice in S1
Alexandra Daddario and Jake Lacy in White Lotus S1. He is wearing a Cornell hat
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chicago’s an immigrant town. Midway Blitz stole a lot of our neighbors, but we fought them tooth and nail,* protected far more than we lost.
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NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What's funny about this is that @whstancil.bsky.social thinks it shows that people have been brain poisoned by social media in their antipathy towards the economy and anxiety about the future. Don't these people know that cable was way worse than streaming and median wages actually rose in 2021?
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
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Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.
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NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How is she not in Congress, folks? One of the funniest skeets of the day.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JCO for the win.
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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why colleges are fighting so vociferously to restrict players’ ability to form unions.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This (superb) reporting reveals ASU has basically attempted a full cover-up and the only reason they aren’t going to get away with it is the genuine courage and solidarity of his teammates. Very rare in college sport.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I simply do not believe you can take Middlemarch into your heart and launch the Iraq War. Accordingly, my most lowercase-c conservative view is that 1) below is false. Whatever else you can say about Rumsfeld, Frum, et al, you can't say they were 'liberally educated'.
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Somehow this post became current events analysis.
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NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was very excited for Lanterns because of Lindelof's connection--Watchmen is, for my money, a top-10 tv series, and I am ride or die with The Leftovers--but it's clear at this point that the thing is either written by committee or that his abilities have become sigificantly diminished.
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NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love this movie, and IMO the final scene sticks an almost impossible landing.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
action therapist trailer 1-4
PANEL 1: Title screen for Action Therapist, "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy...By NIGHT"

PANEL 2: an ESRB rating of MATURE for Blood and Gore, Sexual Content, Attachment Issues

PANEL 3: A cab has pulled up to an airport arrivals terminal and Dr. Mariposa is getting in.

CABBIE: "All the way out to the university, eh? Well, it's your dollar, Mac..."

PANEL 4: The cabbie is driving Dr. Mariposa through the downpour.

CABBIE: "Did they ever find that famous professor lady who went missing up there?"

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is still in his dripping trenchcoat and being talked to by Dean Hondo, a heavyset duck with a beard and a coffee mug.

DEAN HONDO: "We're confident your...memory issues...won't keep you from a full load of case work."

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DEAN HONDO: "Keep an eye on your Psy points. They can unleash special attacks and combos, but run out and you go nuts."PANEL 1: a mockup of a video game screen. Dr. Mariposa stands in the foreground and Diane in the background in a building. 

DIANE: "The police told me to take an ibuprofen and get over it..."

PANEL 2: the player, as Dr. Mariposa, is prompted to TALK

TALK: "Say more on that" 3 PSY
"That sounds like judgment." 5 PSY

PANEL 3: Diane is crying into her hands.

DIANE: "...Maybe you are the therapist who will break the terrible curse."

PANEL 4: Different view of a break room with stats for Dr. Mariposa. This area is called ADMIN BLDG BREAK ROOM and there are menu options to
MAKE COFFEE
MICROWAVE
BULLETN BOARD
DISH WASHER

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is in an aquarium talking to a different patient. Again the player is prompted to TALK: "Let's go deeper on that." 3 PSY
"You're being pretty hard on yourself." 10 PSY

PANEL 6: screenshot of a cinema scene where Dr. Mariposa is looking angrily at a pouncing astronaut

MYSTERIOUS ASTRONAUT: "You won't traverse the catacombs of my mind so easily, Doc!"PANEL 1: Dr. Mariposa is standing in ruins under a purple sky and a wrong-looking moon. Its strange light shines on a pinkish lake. Crystal, a duck in a uniform from a restaurant is there.

CRYSTAL: "I'll tell you everything, but we can't tarry here..."

PANEL 2: The game interface shows a 24-hour pharmacy. Dr. Mariposa is a slightly higher level now but he has a CURSE status effect.

24 HOUR PHARMCY (NORTH)
* Fill scrip
* Develop photos
* Browse magazines
* Energy drinks

PANEL 3: Dr. Mariposa is talking to a shopkeeper in the faculty store. A flyer for a Walpurgis Night Sale 20% Off hangs behind him.

SHOPKEEPER: "I can only sell items to tenured faculty. You should publish a peer reviewed article!"

PANEL 4: Dr. Mariposa is in his underwear and his hair is messy. He's in his office. Diane is there and the sky is strange.

DIANE: "Maybe this CORN KEY x1 will be useful on your journey. It's been in my family for generations."

GOT CORN KEY x1

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is now talking to an astronaut in his office. The astronaut lays back on the couch in full spacesuit.

CMDR WALLACE: "We are building American pyramids on the moon, configured to strange geometries."

PANEL 6: Close up of a hand holding a book.

Text: "It's a paperback copy of Peter David's 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel 'Vendetta'"PANEL 1: A spooky clocktower under a strange sky with an unsettling full moon. Bats are swooping around.

TEXT: "Maybe there's someone in the old clocktower who could benefit from talk therapy."

PANEL 2 : Game interface showing a treasure chest shaped like a corn on the cob.

TITLE: Hidden Corn Treasure Chest
Description: The small chest is shaped like a corn on the cob. It hums with a strange energy. 

USE KEY:
* Office Key
* Corn Key
* Citadel Key
* Empty

PANEL 3: Panel from a cinema scene where Crystal the waitress is leaning in to confide to Dr. Mariposa. 

CRYSTAL (here credited as only WAITRESS): "My mom tried to get me to go to therapy, but the therapist refused to talk about all the disappearances in town."

PANEL 4: Dr. Mariposa is in the clocktower at night. His flashlight is pointing at a nude woman, the Clocktower Hermit.

TALK: 
* "That's black and white thinking." 3 PSY
* "Would you say that to a friend?" 18 PSY

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is digging through a filing cabinet in a dark basement.

DR. MARIPOSA: "These are all my old patient notes from before the accident! But ... what are they doing here?"

PANEL 6: White text on black.

PHYSICIAN

HEAL THYSELF

FAST.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
he's responsible for over a million dead in Africa already and experts believe USAID cuts will eventually kill 14 million people. he is a Nazi who committed one of the most horrific genocides in history. and even the opposition party just shrugs.
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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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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/09/2026
sad but unsurprising Taylor Lorenz news:
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Taylor Lorenz is proof that Elon's ideological project at Twitter is working. Yeah, the lady who spends 18 hours a day online suddenly got more right wing after he took over, that was the point.
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
TRUMP HAS PACKED THE KENNEDY CENTER BOARD. Some Trustees: Donald J. Trump, Susie Wiles of White House, Pamela Bondi former AG, Usha Vance, Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao, Dana Kraft, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s wife, Maria Bartiromo Fox personality, Laura Ingraham, Lee Greenwood
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you ever read a series of words
Includes exclusive Hanks for our troops pumpkin brulee
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
my guess is that most americans do not perceive these deportations for what they are -- systematic crimes, under a framework directed at the highest levels of government, the evidence of which is in this defiance (inter alia). the rest of the world would rightly call this crimes against humanity.
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NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And, at the dumbest, electoral politics level: to a man, the AI CEOs have cast their lots *publicly* with Trump.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"You can fool all of the people some of the time and 43% of the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
if donald trump stole the constitution from the national archives and torched it on the white house lawn those two would say that clearly the president has the authority to do so
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