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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4h

Getting ratioed on Musk’s site as a hard-right senator takes some real skill

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4h

Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery

Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7h

One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 9h

Perhaps a more important news story than a guy drinking boba tea.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h

the media would have a collective orgasm over a Democrat Not Knowing Sports

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 9h

The average voter thinks members of Congress are trading stocks all day from the pool on Epstein Island, and you're going to make them angry about this? Godspeed

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

Hahahahaha come on! If you ever wanted a better example of MAGA media presenting an alternate universe to its base, you'd be hard pressed to find one.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

They live in a false, constructed reality. Cult shit. Just saying things that are literally the opposite of being true.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h

The author of this ill-timed, two-graph beat-sweetener is none other than Axios's co-founder, Jim VandeHei

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 11h

Is it too conspiratorial to wonder if there was some kind of link between this story appearing just before Schmitt pulled what he thought was going to be a big splashy gotcha moment that would elevate him to a national profile?

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11h

Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11h

The angry response is what comes out so clearly to me - normal people, if they're caught out mistaking the Hawks for the Hawkeyes are going to be embarrassed and apologetic, but Schmitt's response is volcanic 'how dare you' anger. Just manifest low character, frankly.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if i were a foreign government looking for an edge, id probably try to convince america that climate change is woke bull shit and combustion engines are for real men with penises, all while also convincing them to invest every dollar in bull shit tech while we take the lead on green energy

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

remember when doja cat told elon he looks like he was "drawn from memory" 😭

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hourglass ankles

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@elonmusk put the audio post festure back on this app. thanks you no neck having chimpanzee face look like it was drawn from memory. when u swim on ur back at the beach shit look like a man o war. hourglass ankles. not tryna be mean though sorry.

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Top notch, but this will always be her finest work to me. So compact & lethal.

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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Didn't think this one could be topped but the one you posted might well do it

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Trouble “Chosen One” Man @problemfellow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I remember this one actually got to Elon super hard, he crashed out and then started larping about all the movies and books he pretended to have seen

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are people who don’t listen to modern pop country better than people who do listen to modern pop country? Yes, obviously.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If the AI era has taught us anything, it’s this: it’s fine to judge people based on their aesthetic preferences

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While actual "type of music that has deep roots in American folk music and harkens back to classic country music exists and audience for it is educated urban hipsters. The volk hate that shit and instead like mainstream country music, a hideous behind-the-times pastiche of other top 40 pop genres"

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just from a quality-of-industry-feedstock perspective this can't possibly be worth it. you are losing more smart women than you're gaining smart sex pests

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*probably not just smart women you're losing come to think but I bet the smart not-women who are assaulted talk about it even less

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

disproportionately annoyed by theoretically meritocratic absolutist movements that obviously fail on their own terms

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

I mean, hell, it seems like they’re filtering out a lot of the guys at this point based on “are you willing to come be rapey with us” and that’s pretty fucking bad too

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

some pretty prominent dudes lost their jobs (with massive payouts, of course) and it made the executive class absolutely furious and determined that there never be consequences for them again

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Facebook detected when teen girls deleted selfies so it could serve them beauty ads" Instagram/Facebook/Meta employees of suicides, mental illness caused by their radicalizing algorithms: "This is the business, Sarah. We’re proud of this" Consistent Zuckerberg and Joel Kaplan advertising ethics:

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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"inconvenient truths: easier for well-paid strategists and pundits to advise stop saying Latinx (a non-issue)" "that every single leftist online is responsible for message discipline and not being annoying, while no Republican is ever responsible for their words or deeds" bsky.app/profile/mbkp...

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The key to getting low-information voters to vote for Democrats or just to sit out elections is to do everything possible to brand Republicans and especially Trump as stupid losers that are embarrassing to associate with. Make them the NY Jets fans of politics.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Weird" was OK, but I really wish someone would call Republican voters what they are: Suckers. These are dumb rubes who fall for the wallet inspector routine over and over again. They spend their last pennies on magic beans because are in the constant thrall of some grifter. Be meaner to them.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 17/09/2026

feels kind of wild that the default great future achievement of LLMs is "someday if could cure cancer" when mRNA vaccines are in fact making progress on potentially curing or preventing certain cancers, very "we have curing cancer at home"

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 17/09/2026

has machine learning been involved in some of that new vaccine research? probably! but if LLMs were part of it I feel like we'd be hearing about it nonstop idk

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And they still have their thumbs on the scales. Questions like "should prayer be allowed in public schools?" and "should the government promote traditional gender roles?" do not accurately reflect the actual policies in dispute, they're both sanewashing to make GOP policies look less malicious.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

notice how these people who were formerly all-in on the mythical power of ideological moderation have changed their tack and entire organizational orientation after discovering the wisdom of the ancients that most voters are not ideological at all. now it’s all about “heterodoxy.”

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Fetterman staffers adding “Institute” to name to be taken more seriously than deserve Searchlight essentially a blog of Yglesias quality that takes in money from donors and produces news stories about why left is wrong and Democrats must embrace moderation entire industry in Washington What a job

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the degree of both autonomy and corruption inside tiny police departments in the U.S. is ridiculous.

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