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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Nick @nm-88.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Listening to some American Football, might follow up with some vintage Deathcab for Cutie

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i am fine with infighting among coalitions, though i'll admit i've found the recent round particularly tiresome. they were trying to delete people's votes en masse and we only win because, presumably, roberts, coney barrett, and gorsuch are pissed about gas prices. united front against fascism ppl

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 10/09/2026

young people romanticize the 90’s because the aesthetics are neat and they like the jeans or whatever but I think it’s hard to convey to someone who wasn’t there the world was so SMALL. it was claustrophobic compared to what we have now. in every dimension, from cooking to media to communication

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

48% actually. I keep this graph on my phone

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.

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

a huge part of why we are here is because people in positions of power, including at ostensibly liberal institutions, wanted either themselves or their friends to be able to grope women again.

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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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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What Max Miller’s case really illustrates that if you are a wealthy conservative and there’s obvious physical evidence of child abuse the authorities will wait until the case is airtight to charge. But if you’re a gay liberal Dem any call gets you 24 hours of separation from your kids.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

People have opinions and they believe in them and argue for them. I’ve done it, you’ve done it. We can and should hold ourselves accountable but nobody would pass the “I told you you’re full of shit and you didn’t immediately acquiesce” test.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 23/07/2026

Once again screaming: Before modern medicine, the NATURAL way of doing things (giving birth, fighting/preventing diseases, treating wounds, etc) was DYING. A LOT of people died, all the time. Mothers died, babies died; rich or poor, if you got a thing we couldn’t treat yet, ya dead. THAT’s natural.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.

Chart of the polio vaccine obliterating polio

chart of the measles vaccine smashing measles into bits

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

what's especially stupid is WMATA (of all agencies) has cracked the code on how to address this: - people in a uniform (not cops) present to deter kids from doing stupid shit and drug use - fare gates that's it, that's the secret

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/07/2026

Ossoff: “You refuse to answer a simple matter of the fact about the 2020 election.” Clayton: “I’ve given you my answer.” Ossoff: “What is your answer?” Clayton: *doesn’t answer* Ossoff: “Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question?”

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 13/07/2026

Housing opponents will use literally any argument that they think will convince policymakers to delay, shrink, or kill a project. If you address their stated concerns, they will simply move to a different argument. They do not engage in good faith because they oppose any and all neighborhood change.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

i think that routine mass starvation that every generation before my great-grandparents lived throuhg was worse imo

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Entirely related, because nobody does effective policy around tech. Nobody.

A Natalie Horburg black-and-white cartoon.

A passenger on the right speaks to the driver on the left:

"Remember, it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead, use
the giant iPad built into the car."

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026

It’s funny because when kids ride dirt bikes in the city it’s taken as proof we need a totalitarian police state.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

There is something terribly wrong with a polity where supposedly pro-democracy Senators pose in seersucker with the supporters of lawless authoritarianism, who also happen to be the prime enablers of the trillionaires who have committed unprecedented constitutional crimes & mass murder 🤷‍♂️

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/06/2026

I would say Wood's most influential idea is that the American Revolution unleashed republican/liberal ideas that were uncontainable — well beyond what the founders originally imagined. It set off a chain reaction that reoriented societal hierarchies and continued to do so over time.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 10/06/2026

“Above all, the HR Lady represents a woman’s ability to tell a man ‘no.’ And to judge him for refusing. Those twin sins supersede all others.” www.liberalcurrents.com/gender-graha...

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Gender Graham Crackup

For the antifeminist leftist, the HR Lady symbolizes the empty triumph of managerial liberalism and girlboss feminism, to be vanquished by a pair of sapient Carhartts.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"For the third straight time, a Dem president handed a GOP president an economy that was at the least pretty good...for the third straight time, the GOPer made things worse." Essential @mjtoma.bsky.social: Trump's policies are directly to blame in a truly rare way: newrepublic.com/article/2105...

newrepublic.com

When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

Donald Trump is different in many ways from the Republican presidents who preceded him. But there’s one way he’s exactly the same.

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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Duaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Gonna need a moment to process the fact that the cities gaining Black residents are not the ones with the strongest rent control laws, but the ones that are building housing.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/04/2026

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

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Six Conservative Activists Killed the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 25/04/2026

The First Amendment applies to immigrants! This is obviously true! There needs to be such a reckoning over this

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The simpler a potential change appears, the more likely that it has not been implemented because it features deceptive complexity that others have tried and failed to resolve. From an interview of an IRS employee who worked on Direct File donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

I think that anyone who comes into government and wants to make change goes through a period of, like, understanding just how difficult it is to accomplish and just how just what the scope and scale of complexity that you’re dealing with…someone should patent a law that states that the easier a project looks in government, the harder it is to do in reality. The justification being: if it looks really easy and common sense, it means that 20 people have already thought about it and tried it before you, and they’ve all failed because it’s still around…They don’t know what skills are necessary to do this work because I don’t think they understand the complexity of the work. And meanwhile are creating an environment where the people who do know how to do that work either are being forced out by being fired or are not interested in sticking around.

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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 11/04/2026

Democrats should take it as a personal insult that this man has the gall to run for governor of our largest state while knowing what he did.

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Rie Merritt @justrie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Watching @maddow.bsky.social tonight and she showed the blueprint of the proposed warehouse turned ICE Detention Facility in Georgia. Each dot represents a human bring. 10,000 dots. She asked "what does this remind you of?" I immediately knew the answer. A slave ship on the middle passage.

Blueprint of a slave ship on the Middle Passage, designed to bring Africans to the Americas to be enslaved.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

SoH transits from Lloyd’s List:

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Called my reps. But didn’t use a script and had more of a “how are we going to stop a genocidal manic with nuclear codes” energy. You don’t HAVE to be polished to call your reps. If the president can be unhinged, so can I.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I wonder how all the “I don’t do politics” people are doing now that politics is doing us all

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

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Ashwin Varma @ashwinvarma97.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Here are a couple of examples. Lung cancer survival rates for EGFR+ mutated Lung cancer.

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

And here's a secret of the past decade: a lot of the crucial organizing/resistance work is done by women who look like nice mom-type ladies, often suburban variety, sometimes through nice organizations like churches. Sorry if anyone needs it to look like Che Guevara.

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Tbf, as the kids say, the tea party protests produced regular meetings in hundreds of towns that connected grievances to electoral politics. For years. Let’s see what #nokings produces.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

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Sandy Parker @sandyparker.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We’re so far behind where we should be as a nation and falling further every day. It’s nearly hopeless.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

people don't realize how concentrated GOP fundraising is. more than half of all money that they got in 2024 was from donations over $1mn. it's like 200-300 rich cranks that keep the party operating. underrated explanation in why they've gone so insane.

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Men, here is a thing you can start today: Speak up every single time another man says something sexist, predatory, abusive, or dismissive about a woman in your presence. Every time. Make yourself and him uncomfortable. Stop turning away and keeping the peace.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The extent to which the last few years demonstrate that "good times make weak men" is true, but that it means the opposite of what the phrase's proponents mean by it, is wild.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

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