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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026

one thing i have long thought, in this business of Takes, is that there is an enormous necessity to discipline your own thinking. it is *so easy* to get lazy. to just talk shit. to just outsource your brain to your own comments section.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

All I ask is for political journalists to get merely as angry about this as they did when Obama tried to move Fox News's seat to the second row in the WH briefing room.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

if matt yglesias did not exist we would be forced to invent him

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Reading more about Flock I both completely see the arguments against them but am separately worried that the anti-Flock sentiment is being used by a lot of people as a general case against red light and speed cameras, both of which we need way more of imo

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the thing is that appointing every american citizen to the supreme court and making every block of Washington DC its own state with two Senators -- both of those are constiuttional. judicial term limits are unambiguously unconstitutional. anyone telling you they will do that think you are an idiot

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

really into this guy who krumps to various songs while singing said songs a cappella

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 25/08/2026

For no reason at all, I’d like to report that I’m at the part of Annie Jacobsen’s “Operation Paperclip” where she recounts that the bodies of the Nazis hanged in Nuremberg were incinerated in the ovens of Dachau and their ashes dumped into a river.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Someone should put up a billboard that updates how much money the Trump family has stolen from the government. Like the National Debt Clock, but focused squarely on the grifter in chief.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Look, they may call us enemies of the country to a violent base. They may celebrate when we’re fired or have our shows canceled or die. And, yes, they did just make us decoys for an assassination attempt. But have you considered they respond to emails in a timely fashion?” Dear God, grow a spine.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

don't mind me, just coming up with new terms for immigrants & naturalized citizens: Self-Made Americans. Volunteer Americans. Americans of the Oath. Aspiring Americans. American Dreamers. The American Promise. The Hope of America. Ad America Per Aspera. Sworn Americans—

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/07/2026

i remember the moment when i realized how sick i was of dogpiles. mobbing. of everyone saying the thing because everyone's saying the thing. i just didn't want to be part of that anymore. being committed to the truth means, occasionally, rowing against the stream.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The perception of consensus among your peers, especially the ones you envy or respect, exerts far more influence over your understanding of the world than any distant leader

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i think it's natural to immediately draw connections with, like, ICE, but this is also how eg the federalist society operates

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?

Headline from March, 'The March is Going Better Than You Think.'

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

As a student I borrowed a copy of Descartes’ Meditations. The only passage that had been underlined was at the end of the First Meditation: “But this undertaking is arduous, and a certain indolence insensibly leads me back to my ordinary course of life”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

an entire edifice of belief about medical opiates being non-addictive was built off a citation chain that led back to a four sentence letter to the editor about anecdotal observance. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics | NEJM

To the Editor: Recently, we examined our current files to determine the incidence of narcotic addiction in 39,946 hospitalized medical patients1 who were monitored consecutively. Although there we...

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

In the US you should be able to lay down and sleep wherever you want—completely undisturbed!—as long as you place a big cowboy hat over your eyes in a way that suggests "not now pardner"

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“The U.S. and Israel bombed Ahmadinejad to free Ahmadinejad but the plan failed after Ahmadinejad did not enjoy being bombed as much as he thought he would. Meanwhile, the Kentucky 6th district has deposed its representative due to his opposition to pedophilia.” Sure. Fine. Whatever. I give up.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I am training to become a lesbian the difficulty level is pretty high I am 99% gay and 1% synesthesia

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I’m really bored of this in-group signalling where you have to add a caveat about how we all agree Goody Proctor is an evil whore before we can suggest that burning her at the stake might not be a good idea

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rimidar @rimidar.au · 02/05/2026

I don’t think people should verbally abuse Will Stancil online

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

being a high profile woman on x dot com must be like living in Gotham from Batman: The Animated Series. Every day some weird little guy appears in your mentions with his own villain monologue

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Chip Daniels 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @chipdaniels.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

That just calmly reciting an objective fact is considered a Breach Of Etiquette tells you what sort of a information environment the Beltway Pundits have created.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19/04/2026

This is honestly one of the better court reform proposals, and certainly a bold one. It doesn’t just solve the problem of *this* Supreme Court, it solves the problem of bare Court majorities imposing their will on law and policy, permanently.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19/04/2026

“The Roberts Court, supine and submissive as it is to its Caesar of choice, will suddenly rediscover its constitutional role again the moment the White House changes the color of the drapes.” www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

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Break Up the Big Court

The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

One of our (many) problems in America is elites unwilling to acknowledge self-evident realities, and then apologizing if they ever acknowledge one by accident

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

the Democrats need to announce that anyone who drops a bomb on Iranian civilian infrastructure will die in prison

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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Change in Headline

Before: Being Trump’s ‘Friend’ in Europe Is Becoming a Real Liability
After: How Giorgia Meloni Fell to Earth

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Vance's book about Catholicism is going to be "who you gonna believe - me or your lying Pope?" bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

The marches had no shortage of skeptics.
In Oxford, Miss,, Cass Rutledge, a first-year law student at the University of Mississippi, walked through the No Kings protest and around the town square on Saturday and questioned why people thought Mr. Trump was acting like a king.
"He is, you know, a duly elected president who won the popular vote and the electoral college in a landslide," Mr. Rutledge said.
"And so I'm a little bit confused on how he's acting differently than any other president."
He pointed to the stalemate in Congress over the SAVE America Act, the Republican-driven bill to tighten voter identification and registration rules, which Democrats have called an attempt to suppress turnout based on false claims of voting fraud. Mr. Rutledge said that Mr.
Trump was "going through the process" to try to get the legislation passed.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence." Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

like, the hillary clinton emails story's newsworthiness was pegged on the idea that she may have possibly have committed a federal crime much less serious than this one that trump basically just confessed to. generated a drumbeat of negative stories for two years

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

they like trump and want to help him

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nnjjnn.bsky.social @nnjjnn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I think we just vastly overestimate how much information is actually getting to voters

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nnjjnn.bsky.social @nnjjnn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

People used to watch tv, and sometimes they'd watch the news because nothing else was on, and that's how the vast majority of us learned anything at all about politics. Now that we have streaming and social media, people don't have to settle for tv news as entertainment, so they know ~nothing

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/03/2026

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Following this account is like how Inspector Clousea has Cato attack him when he's least expecting it, but with Discourse.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/03/2026

I've always found it ironic that the left came up with postmodernism but the right actually lived it, perfected it.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

a way to lend legitimacy to future war crimes tribunals against the Trump administration is to also charge Biden officials for abetting war crimes in Gaza. Also let’s put finally try John Yoo.

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