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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17h

Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day.

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8:36 AM • 10/1/26 • 458K Views

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

The most enthusiastic advocates of unrestrained AI development are consistent in one thing: they don't understand AI, its promises or its problems.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20h

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 4th 2026 (Hard), in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Martha near Seattle, 8647 @marthawt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He really thinks we all have a Natalie to curate our news for us. Because he never buys gas or groceries or utilities, he does not realize that all of us DO. DAILY.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

the birthright citizenship question is, to me, the clearest evidence that originalism as practiced is just living constitutionalism for right-wing jurists. the originalist answer is the conventional one is the textual one, but that was basically unacceptable to much of the right.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There’s a motte and bailey to it. That ambiguous text and terms of art can codify a meaning understood at the time of adoption is true and mundane. But in practice “originalism” has become just this: bad faith window dressing for right-wing policy preferences and pro-Republican partisanship.

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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A single $90 check seems like a more insulting bribe than a ham.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pretty sure he’s the one in the middle here.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pete Hegseth pretends he’s laser-focused on “warfighting” but then focuses on a lot of stuff that’s just…. Not actually that important to modern warfighting. What he’s actually doing is performing <gasp> gender ideology.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Our business model is to bring enslaved conscious beings into existence, which we then murder at will.” So… you should all be in prison?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is bizarre in part because if the idea that AI models have “moral standing” were actually taken seriously, all of these companies would immediately be banned.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think she needs someone to the strength to restrain her when she becomes agitated (I had no trouble as a middle-aged man in so-so shape) but I never even for a second felt there was any risk of her attacking me. I would hold her until she calmed down and she was fine.

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Breaking Mews/Ruff Translations @breakingmews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holly the #therapydog hopes you will celebrate #NationalBlackDogDay by adopting a black dog. They are frequently passed over in favor of blond or brown dogs, and are often the last dogs adopted. Please consider sharing Holly’s photo to encourage your friends to rescue a lovable black dog today!

Black dog with gray face wears an orange bandanna labeled THERAPY DOG.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also, look, I can’t overemphasize how absolutely sweet and loving she is to a human who is treating her kindly, but she has serious “I would fuck up a burglar” energy, if that’s something you’re in the market for.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maeve enjoys ice cubes, long walks, classical music, and the works of Stefan Zweig. The last one is sort of a guess, but she seems like the type.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

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Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FWIW, you can visit her at the DC Village shelter, or even take her out to the nearby Oxon Cove park for an afternoon. The only caveat is that she probably needs to go to a home without other dogs.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here we go again

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is an important read and us not all bad news though still grim.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, in absolute terms probably Hamlet.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just took the lovely Maeve out for an afternoon. She gets agitated by other dogs, but is otherwise the biggest sweetheart you will ever meet. If you’re in the DC area you can adopt her here: bvspca.org/dc

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bigoted and stupid. The idea that the United States is at risk of falling under sharia rule is ludicrous on its face. There’s a much greater risk of Christian nationalists changing this nation for the worse. And they’re the ones using the phantom sharia threat to justify their own extreme agenda.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Was in Spain last spring and it really cannot be exaggerated how pissed Europeans are that their economies have been thoroughly fucked by the erratic whims of a maniac none of them voted for.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The principle isn’t that you blindly refuse to ever change anything. It’s that you understand the original rationale & function for the existing way of doing things before making alterations.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Though in this case the rationale for not advertising the contents of an envelope containing an extremely sensitive identity document ought to be pretty screamingly obvious.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the principle, named for the writer G.K. Chesterton, that you should not tear down a fence until you understand why it was put up — or, more broadly, should not lightly alter longstanding policies or customs without understanding the rationale behind them & the function they served.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember when soi-disant “conservatives” used to be fans of Chesterton’s Fence.

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WIRED @wired.com · 01/10/2026

The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past. www.wired.com/story/measle...

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Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal

The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yup. Though I think the more troubling aspect is that it's not that nobody *can* stop him -- it's that those who can, don't want to, and therefore will do nothing to rein him in.

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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's a chart crime (the numbers for 2026 are just for the first six months of the year). Here's what it looks like on a trailing-12-month basis: not great, but nothing like Covid

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 1st 2026 (Tricky), in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A bipartisan initiative to block Trump and Todd Blanche from embezzling $810 million from the Treasury under the pretext of a litigation settlement was blocked when Sen Ron Johnson (R-WI) objected, denying unanimous consent. wapo.st/3Vmagbk

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Democrats fail to stop Trump from canceling $810M in funds approved by Congress

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) blocked the effort, meaning the Trump administration will succeed in eliminating the funding it deemed “wasteful.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026

My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity.

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