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not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

for whatever it's worth: as a political philosopher I fully cosign this message

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unless it’s in some kind of insulated cup, iced drinks are messy! I’m not a big etiquette stickler or anything, but if you are making a little puddle on condensation all over someone else’s furniture, you are being rude. What if there aren’t coasters? It’s not a risk I would take in an interview.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If someone came into your house and announced that they were gonna give you and your kids brain damage, that’s some run-hide-fight shit.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

even conceding the distorting effects of colorblind discourse post Cold War / apartheid, it's wild how committed people will be to applying this skepticism to periods of history where the commitment to white supremacy was completely explicit

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m sorry, troop Brad Pitt and his troop dog fighting through the wilderness to learn lessons about loyalty, grit, and what it means to be a man (and/or dog and/or troop) feels like a parody of something. It’s like a movie somehow written by this t-shirt

An army green t-shirt with black print on it that says “ME WHEN SOMEONE TALKS SHIT ABOUT MY DOG…” above a line drawing of a cowboy holding a gun. A bullet appears to be flying from the gun, and black text around it says “BANG!!” and “BANG!!!”

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s really something that he doesn’t see the obligation as one to report truthfully, or accurately. Just “fairly” which is twisted into “if not entirely, at least in part, positive about the President”

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There are some thinkers who, when I first encountered them, I thought “these are interesting ideas, but aren’t they a little silly? irrelevant to day-to-day life? Are these folks kinda up their own butts, maybe?” And those same thinkers now seem vital to understanding absolutely everything.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Having a blast at the Baltimore Book Fest. I really love this dang city and its wonderful weird diverse stylish people. Very glad to be here!

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Come meet these little guys at the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend in Waverly!

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Come meet these little guys at the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend in Waverly!

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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People from all over the world end up at Baton Rouge or Shreveport or whatever to clean its waters and cure its cancers and these jetski dealers want to watch them squirm because it makes them feel big. Stalker state.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My husband crocheted some Cthulhus to help promote his new book Kevin the Werewolf. (Available where fine books are sold a.co/d/0fHoLJVH) This is our only plan to defeat AI, so boy i hope it works!

A row of three crochet stuffie Cthulhus—a winged tentacle-faced monster). They are spookycute.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have a substantial stash of yarn. It’s nice to have yarn on hand, but it’s a pain to store. I can’t reduce the stash though, because often I’ll start a stash project but find out that I don’t have enough to finish it. Then I have to buy more! And I use some and then stash the rest 🤦‍♀️

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 13/09/2026

Fwiw it's straightforward right now why this is happening; and it's the same reason why the global far right supremacist eliminationist movement is happening, the christian extremist apocalyptic immenantization is happening, etc. People are bug fuck out of their minds in denial of the climate crisis

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I couldn’t put my finger on it in the moment, but it felt wrong to see so much veneration yesterday for first responders who bravely ran towards danger to help in an America that fully endorses the ‘double tap’ attack designed to kill exactly those people who bravely run towards danger to help.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it's hard to escape the conclusion that the people currently governing the United States are too stupid to realize just how disastrous and world-changing the defeat they have led their country into really is

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A reflection, 25 years later.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-siege

Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If your answer to “why are people MAHA?” doesn’t include the giant amounts of advertising money spent on exacerbating anxieties about health in order to sell products and services with dubious claims, then it is, at best, incomplete.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One time I called the customer service number for a company and got the AI bot. The AI bot couldn’t do what I needed but wouldn’t transfer me to a person because the product I was inquiring about did not include live support. So I decided to waste their tokens and kept asking the chat bot abstract…

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When I feel overwhelmed by all the terrible things that are happening, I take some kind of action that I know will make something good happen. Giving some cash to this org is one way to make good things happen. Join me if you can spare it.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just saw a Bears jersey with “Percolator” on the nameplate on the back and I’m not sure if there is a more Chicago item in existance.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Assuming the best case scenario: that we have free and fair elections that dump the GOP from power in ‘26 and ‘28, the Dems are going to be handed a GIANT bag of shit. Trump’s gonna leave a huge crisis in Iran, trade wars, Social Security, and the debt—plus a decimated civil servant corps.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When I was a kid, Dolly Parton was kind of a joke in pop culture—so many reductive references to her body, her blonde hair, and perceptions of her sexuality. It’s really touching me to see people paying tribute to her creative genius, business savvy, and philanthropy, without any jokes.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 25/08/2026

“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’” The painting:

A Kehinde Wiley portrait of four Dominicans — two men relaxed on the ground, two women standing, one subject of each gender having white skin while the other has darker skin. The four appear immersed in a backdrop of flowers — an aesthetic signature of Wiley’s work.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What’s the worst imaginable consequence of too zealously rejecting “race science”? Knowledge production is slowed because people are overly careful to avoid topics that have to do with race? The consequences of being too accepting of “race science” is literally genocide. Seems clear where to err!

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don’t support academic freedom for its own sake as a moral good. I support academic freedom because I think it advances the search for truth to let smart people follow their own questions rigorously and fearlessly. It doesn’t advance the search for the truth to have smart people engaging with…

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gotta appreciate the sheer chutzpah of claiming that Nathan Cofnas, a man whose only intellectual project is the rehabilitation of racist pseudoscience, is a *defender* of academic standards.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The “race science” resurgence and the anti-vax stuff demonstrate how we still don’t have a solid way to dismantle the gish gallop. And I don’t know what the solution is!

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18/08/2026

anyway, the reason this is a story is because harp’s closeness to trump (and her access to his social media accounts, and probably all other communications) is a five alarm national security fire, whether or not they have a sexual relationship is a sideshow

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m sorry, did we not JUST go through an election where many Republicans, including the current President said Kamala Harris slept her way to success in CA politics? Which is actually way worse than what Ossoff said!

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you’re an academic pushing race science, you’re a bad researcher. Objectively, you’re a bad researcher and more than likely regurgitating (plagiarizing) long used arguments. Yet, they don’t seem to get much scrutiny. Hmmm…

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Remembering how during the Claudine Gay scandal, one of its biggest promoters of the story was Bill Ackman. Then someone uncovered that Ackman's own wife was a professor alleged to have committed much more serious academic misconduct than Gay and then nothing happened to her.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Andrew Wakefield is still alive, and the theories based on his fraudulent studies currently have more influence and the ability to hurt more people than they ever have before.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can you die of cringe? Like can you be so embarrassed for someone that you pass away?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

No way am I doing “Let’s all just admit Woke I went too far” discourse while shit like this is happening.

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Partial Robot @partialrobot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just got my email telling me I have 90 days to pick a new, more expensive Income Driven Repayment plan for my student loans, reminding me about that little bomb about to go off on the already unsteady economy this fall.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A world where AI doesn't replace novelists but does replace technical writers, entry-level journalists, advert copywriters, speechwriters and so on is one where those novelists end up coming from a much smaller pool with a much narrower, more incestuous set of influences and experiences.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I've not engaged much in this debate but yeah, compare this with what is happening now, where you have government officials arresting people, legislatures passing laws banning specific teachings, and huge amounts of actual concrete government action, versus the below, which is basically all culture.

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