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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 9h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 8h
A free press is an important tool against a government entity trying to consolidate power. And it's a tool that scales, from local sheriffs to presidents.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 5h
Black text on a white page that reads as follows: 

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5h
These people are utter garbage.
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Steven Pinker recommending Bill Maher is a matryoshka doll of bullshit
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you’re at all curious about the petition incident referred to early on in the piece, some of the witnesses to that debacle wrote up what happened. he leveraged his anti-woke network to facilitate a full-bore attack against the signatories journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...
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The Open Letter: Responses and recommendations | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The not-so-subtly veiled animosity is mostly just holdover from the academic feud of which Pinker was an active participant. The guy is totally lost in the culture was now (e.g.)but imo the seeds were always there since he was part of the Science Wars v. 1
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EO Wilson, as Peggy Sastre writes, was Patient Zero in academic cancel culture, the campaign to discredit scholars with heterodox beliefs by smearing them with fanciful nefarious political motives. Back in 1975, after one of the first modern challenges to the doctrine of the blank slate, he was the target of a petition preposterously accusing him of justifying slavery and genocide. Not even death was an escape: a historian trawled through his correspondence and got him re-canceled for a sympathetic personal letter to an even more reviled professor. quillette.com/2025/12/06/soc...Steven Pinker • @sapinker
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Ironically, the attackers, most prominently Stephen Jay Gould & Richard Lewontin, were Marxists, & in the latter case, a Maoist, praising the man whose harebrained theories led to the worst man-made famine in history. In Not In Our Genes, Lewontin et al. wrote, "Against this economic reduction as the explanatory principle underlying all human behavior, we could counterpose the ... revolutionary practitioners and theorists like Mao Tse-tung on the power of human consciousness in both interpreting and changing the world."
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Gumba Masta @gumbamasta.newgrounds.com · 22/09/2026
Steven Pinker Oh yea I know who that guy is. And who his friends with.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
why did i agree to read this fuckin thing im so annoyed pinker says both sides have extreme unverifiable beliefs:
easily verified beliefs.4 A prominent coali-tion-signaling belief among the American right is that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Prominent belief signals among the young educated left are that being a man or a woman has nothing to do with biology and that America is saturated with racism.Steven pinker book: when everyone knows that everyone knows… 

COMMON KNOWLEDGE
AND THE MYSTERIES OF MONEY, POWER, AND EVERYDAY LIFE
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A group of pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere... to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men..." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 26/09/2026
New on Pinkerite: Kathryn Paige Harden and the race war manifesto of Nathan Cofnas www.pinkerite.com/2026/09/kath...
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Kathryn Paige Harden and the race war manifesto of Nathan Cofnas
I hadn't paid much attention to racist Nathan Cofnas on this site prior to his Jason Arday campaign . So I wasn't aware, until recently, o...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Try to live the kind of life that will make war criminals hate you.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wonder if this is legal to teach in Texas www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What happened to Steven Pinker? I only felt free to write this because he blocks me: www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...
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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Damn someone call the police, @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social just murdered a man in broad daylight
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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Standing ovation to best-in-biz @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for calling out fellow media reporter @dylanbyers.bsky.social for his nonstop obsequious toadying to Bari Weiss & CBS/Paramount (as a Paramount investor looks to take over Puck). www.status.news/p/puck-cbs-n...
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Bari’s Byers
Puck's lead media reporter has gone to unusual lengths to defend Bari Weiss’ disastrous CBS News overhaul—all as the outlet pursues a lucrative deal with one of Paramount’s top investors.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
While millions of Americans struggle with the rising cost of groceries, gasoline & paying rent, a certain someone has far different priorities:
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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In English: Kid: My girlfriend broke up with me. AI: Sorry. Would you like a joke to cheer you up? Kid: Yes. AI: Knock knock. Kid: who's there? AI: Not your girlfriend!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
On September 17th, we filled our 200,000th pothole. See something that needs fixing in NYC? Call 311, tag @nyc311.bsky.social or go to portal.311.nyc.gov.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to." This is an AI bot writing to itself. Sound like any prominent official you know?
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm good thanks
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The Republican Party in particular must finally loose the chains of its practical & moral enslavement to Donald Trump & separate itself from the MAGA political party cult" A MUST-READ. It may be frightening, but it's crucial we are all prepared for the inevitable! shorturl.at/US1eU
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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The only thing better than the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of mail-in ballots is the #CryBaby-In-Chief's predictable, but oh-so tiresome meltdown when he loses. #Waaahhh 😭 😩
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I will destroy the Kennedy Center unless you name it after me" isn't surprising because it's petty and petulant and exposes the morally vacant core of a sore loser. But the political ineptitude of it is jolting. We're deep in Trump's "tantrum minus strategy" era. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...
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Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump calls fears about AI a "hoax." He also calls climate change a "hoax." See any trend here?
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Gets Onstage Call From Trump, Who Dismissed A.I. Safety Concerns (Gift Article)
Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls to slow down and regulate A.I.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh boy www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The corrupt machinations of the Missouri case reveal that MAGA’s perfidy is limited only by its creativity." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
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Opinion | The Fix Was Almost In (Gift Article)
The midterms dodge their first MAGA bullet. It won’t be the last.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/09/2026
We are opening 51 safe overnight locations for New Yorkers, especially those living in basement apartments or low-lying areas who need a safe place to stay. Locations are listed at on.nyc.gov/SafeLocations and are also available by calling 311. Service animals and pets are welcome.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The labs are saying to governments: ‘We’re quite likely to kill every human being on Earth; please stop us.’ Governments respond with ‘Can we give you a tax break? Build you a datacenter?’ Perhaps at some point governments will remember that their voters prefer not to be dead.”
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Why the AI race has its creators fearing human extinction
Advances in autonomous agents and bitter rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed once-fringe fears into the mainstream
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One thing that non-NYCers may not remember is that 9/11 was followed a week later by the NYC anthrax attacks, and a month after that by a plane crash on the streets of Queens that killed 260 people. By the end of 2001 it felt as if we were in a permanent cycle of horror. An unfathomably rough time.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Therrrre it is.
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 05/09/2026
#Montreal is not impressed with Steven Pinker. Some unofficial marquee arrangement has taken place at the Rialto in anticipation of his upcoming appearance. Works for me.
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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh and there is no way Pinker didn’t know he was writing a letter on behalf of Epstein as he subsequently claimed that he did it as a favor to his good buddy Dersh—Epstein lawyer Indyke wrote in his notes in 2008: “Alan had us give Steven Pinker $10,000 for a letter” www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anyway, good piece in the Times here. (It still happens!) People are starting to talk very weird about AI on this site, and honestly it's kind of distressing seeing people fall into the abyss thinking it's alive. That ain't good. The rest of us should expect boring bad stuff and guard against it.
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Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? (Gift Article)
The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can't believe that disgruntled spider biologist Colin Wright would make something up, that's totally out of character
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My name is Zohran Kwame Mamdani and I approve this message.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
To me this is a sign of how desperate Bari Weiss is to find anyone who will work for Zombie 60 Minutes radaronline.com/p/maria-bart...
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Maria Bartiromo Eyes '60 Minutes' Comeback: Axed Fox News Anchor in Talks with Bari Weiss About Switch to CBS News
Former Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is being lined up for an instant comeback on '60 Minutes' after holding talks with Bari Weiss, according to new claims.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I legit can't wait for Drunk 60 Minutes.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Giuliani is disgusting, bigoted slime who should be in prison, not at Ground Zero. ‘It Offends Me’: Giuliani Says Mamdani Should Skip 9/11 Memorial www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/n...
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Giuliani Says Mamdani Should Skip 9/11 Memorial
During an anti-Muslim diatribe, the former mayor called for Mr. Mamdani to skip the ceremonies. The mayor has said he is going.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

In 1882, 10,000 workers marched up Broadway in the first-ever Labor Day parade. Led by democratic socialists and organized by New York’s unions, they rallied the movement that went on to win us weekends, safety standards, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and social security.

None of those victories were guaranteed. And none are permanent.

We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next.

Happy Labor Day, New York. The future of worker power is ours to build. Learn more at nyc.gov/workerpower.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/09/2026
Thank you to @nyccomptroller.bsky.social for the work that informed this analysis. New Yorkers can read more here: comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/rece...
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Recent Trends in Personal Income & Wage Inequality
Introduction For most residents and outside observers, New York City has seemed to be an expensive place to live for about as long as anyone can remember. More recently, rapidly rising costs and wages...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem taught America that sexism is a symptom of a system that can be changed. 

From the fight for equal pay to abortion access and political representation, she showed that progress comes when people organize, build power and refuse to accept inequality as inevitable.

She staged protests, established domestic violence shelters, created a magazine owned and operated entirely by women and helped build a movement that fundamentally changed this country.

Her legacy is the millions of people she inspired to believe that a more just world was possible.

She lived in New York for 70 years. We were lucky to have her. We mourn her loss and will carry her work forward.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2 months from TODAY is the beginning of the end of the Orange Embarrassment. Check out these Screenshots (as if you needed any more motivation to VOTE on 11/3/26!) Register- Iwillvote.com vote.org Get involved at- Rockthevote.org GoodParty.org DemCast.com Postcardstovoters.org movement.vote
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