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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

Congrats again to the New York Times on its long form journalism

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

It's weird but I was in London thus summer and did not hear a single person ask: what would Hitler do? Maybe the company Yarvin keeps might explain why he keeps running into the Hitler-curious.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t really know when it happened exactly but Republicans have turned just basic kindness upside down. We all know what kindness is and we all know what a jerk looks like. At some point, Republicans decided being a huge asshole was preferred and kindness was bad.

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Oran Magal @oranmagal.bsky.social · 10h

I’m delighted that Albanians are protesting this corrupt deal, and I agree that U.S. media should be covering this. What I reject is the pathological obsession with linking anything bad and “Zionism”. Or is it because Kushner is Jewish? Because that doesn‘t make it any better at all.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

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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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 21h

This is a community note for the ages.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

With Orban going down and MAGA appearing to be collapsing in on itself, things were looking up for democracy. AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt was a setback, but it’s just one German state. Brazil heading for a Bolsonaro restoration really stings. Shows that this global struggle will go for a while.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 10h

Or more likely the "balance of equities" will compel them to rule in favor of Trump on the shadow docket, so they'll never have to generate any precedent that might empower a future Democratic president.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 10h

You'd think, but I'm sure SCOTUS will explain that the lack of "herein" in Article II means that Trump enjoys the prerogatives of the Stewart Kings of England, and thus such a ban directly impinges on the equal dignitude of the Executive Branch... or something.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 10h

Remember, if a Democrat so much as looks the wrong way at rural areas of the country, news media runs to attack Democrats but Republicans can regularly fantasize about destroying the Democratic cities/states and they never blink an eye

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Alison Frankel @alisonfrankel.bsky.social · 10h

What if we all just ignored him for the next 2 years?

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10h

The guys who baselessly accuse rape victims of lying reflexively clutching their civility pearls is just too much

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16h

The irony of course is that Originalism’s big selling point was supposed to be constraining the discretion or judges to impose their own political preferences as law. In practice the effect has been very much the reverse: Liberating justices from the constraints of stare decisis.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They'll miss the tips.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“And then the Senator with brain damage switched parties so that the senile president could keep appointing drunks and rapists to his cabinet…” Explaining this all to future generations will be tough.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is like saying “we will never tolerate fire” as your house goes up in flames behind you.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New today in the old tale of externalizing costs while privatizing profits: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Politico, “We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 04/10/2026

the man in the drunk castle

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Two parties, two wildly different journalistic standards about what is news & where/how often it appears in the headlines & on the front pages

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I do understand there are more uses than this. It’s just funny that every AI agent video is like, “All you have to do is give a bot all of your personal, banking, and medical information and soon you too will know when your kids have a little league game!” Sure, sounds great.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI COMPANIES: “People who don’t use AI agents just aren’t aware of the vast power they possess to do anything.” NORMAL PEOPLE: “Wow, okay, wow. Sounds great. What can they do? Give me your top example.” AI COMPANIES: “The hardest task of all: Checking you into a flight!”

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/10/2026

A lot of people in Silicon Valley keep talking up Alpha School. Move fast and break education. Of course, I'm guessing that rather than admitting it hasn't revolutionized education, they'll say the problem is the tests.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m more sympathetic to the median voter (derogatory) than most people on here but it seems like the only way you can instill some sense of civic virtue is to shove the consequences directly into their face after the fact

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When you bring fascists on your show you don't do journalism. You do fascism.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tucker Carlson’s frustrated bafflement when confronted with basic things like “the UK’s GDP is larger than Russia’s” and “in 1994, Ukraine, Russia, US, and UK signed a treaty called the Budapest Memorandum” shows the state of Putin apologetics. Without lies and conspiracy theories, it falls apart.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.

Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think what it has done is financially and societally reward people for being aggressively dumb which always happened, but not at scale like this and certainly not in the spotlight of the public eye

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

. @jonathanbchait.bsky.social on Christopher Rufo. Quite good. Might not be what you expect. Here's an excerpt. The ending comes back to this in an amazing way, but I don't want to stop on his punchline. alt link: archive.is/nndtD, h/t @tomscocca.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I want you to imagine people deciding you are unworthy of a basic level of standing in general society, based on a belief you hold specifically *because the last 2,000 years of the history of your people has shown, repeatedly, that it’s not just rational, but vital, for you to hold it*.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Despite disingenuous protestations to the contrary, this motion does EXACTLY what its fans claim to oppose - conflating Zionism with Judaism. The language around “Zionist synagogues” is so completely open ended that it will end up applying to most Jews, whether they are Zionist or not.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Although it feels like I am shouting into the void about this sometimes, I want to share some further thoughts on the “Zionism is Racism” motion which the Green Party is due to debate in the next 16 hours. Just to address various points which I think people in general should know. A thread:

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...

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U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union

(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogging.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 03/10/2026

Russian authorities still haven't confirmed reports that a 28-yr-old woman in Shelekhov died of pneumonic plague. But the local hospital is quarantined, a nearby city briefly warned residents not to travel there, & local pharmacies are running short of key antibiotics. t.me/Baikal_Peopl...

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Не ездить в Шелехов из-за чумы попросили власти Байкальска — и через два часа удалили пост. РЕН ТВ стер пять публикаций об инфекции 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛ...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works

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