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Joshua Lenon @joshualenon.bsky.social · 10h

The political pandering to small industries, while ignoring broader swaths of the economy baffles me. Miners, fishing, etc.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h

We simply cannot keep doing. We've been doing it since Iran-Contra, & really since 1865. It's the signal feature of American politics. It has to end, or democracy will. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

protect our own and destroy the enemy. simple. a lot of Dems lack that ruthlessness imo

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Trump voters horrified to learn that their actions do in fact have consequences" really does sum up this whole dumb era, doesnt it

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Phizle @phizle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We need to play hardball & make the unions realize they can't just ratfuck for free

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

$36 billion to the teamster’s pension in particular wasn’t enough to get regular Democrat support out of them.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 02/10/2026

A not insignificant amount of it was "Rhode Island shouldn't be allowed to do that" which is why no one from RI is involved.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine if we simply left murders by students on college campuses to be punished by colleges, using only the internal punishments they are able to inflict. We would find it insane and intolerable. Rape isn't that far off in terms of severity. Why are we putting utterly unsuited orgs in charge?

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't think a modified liberalism in which only people who believe in liberalism are afforded full political rights is incoherent or indefensible. I agree that it's outside the traditional liberal pedigree, but I don't really care about that.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If every contact with a political organization is an ask for time and money, it will burn supporters out. Find time to create community. Not every event will be for everyone and that's totally fine. But these ideas are good ones even if they don't work for this particular poster

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Being really enthusiastic about new technology and our scientific and technology industries was the USA’s brand for what, the entire 20th century? And seems like over the course of about 20 years, big tech and our abject failure to meaningfully regulate it has pretty successfully lit that on fire.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You had one guy clutching the original Star Wars like a security blanket and fighting back tears that anyone ever tried to make it different, which he viewed as tantamount to punching his 10 year old self in the face.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(My actual view is that an important theme of the Sequel Trilogy is: “Turns out it’s genuinely hard to be as awful as the prequels and even showing criminal negligence in the most basic levels of preparation *still* produced two better films before the wheels fell off entirely”)

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The more I get into the details of the recent AI "escapes" and the calls from the big AI companies for a regulatory framework, the more it really feels like they're actively trying to create a legal cartel for the normal selfish reasons you would expect them to do that.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyways, this is genuinely the funniest chart in the world because it shows Jill Stein's twitter use spikes every four years and only during years where there's a federal election so if she's breaking her silence now *someone* is panicking

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

tbh I feel like you could do a really interesting sociological project by looking at the content of rap albums made by suburban white boys and tracking when the "dead homie song" goes from "made up dead homie" to "homie who died of an OD"

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please don't be fooled. They've had (very conservatively) almost two years to stand up for the constitution and they refused. They're only doing it now out of solidarity for members of their little incestuous tribe of access journalists.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Family money is one of those constant realities of U.S. life that, weirdly, newspapers very rarely write about *directly*.

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Gluten-free Seitan @davidjohansen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

extreme ignorance is normal. Most people have safe and comfortable lives because of systems they take for granted, and because of other people's civic concern

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Prosecute ICE. Top to bottom, indict every single one of them. Abolishing ICE will cut tens of billions in federal spending. Put a chunk of that money into consequences.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Masterful gambit, Mr. President!

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If 2026 were a bike:

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lest this be read as entirely left punching, it’s not by any means confined to leftist or liberal flattering research, large amounts of the pro charter school literature are basically ‘what if we selected on the dependent variable’

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Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Basically every single pedagogical debate is like this: “Let’s move away from phonics, multiplication tables and testing because they leave kids behind” “Aren’t those the only things that work” “Yes” “And won’t it be less equitable in the end because rich parents can pay for tutors” “Also yes”

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

*safe* D AK-GOV? woah

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Phizle @phizle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Switch from websites asking for passwords to just going straight to 2 factor authentication is interesting but also annoying as shit, I don't care if someone steals random account I was forced to make #137

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Phizle @phizle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This brewery appears to be showing a slasher film staring a ventriloquist The puppet is talking to him by itself, this dude is cooked

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It gives a farcical but remarkably on-point portrayal of the totalitarian response to modernity--total surveillance, centralized control over all culture and expression, and the liquidation of anyone who doesn't fit in. And it shows the correct response to this threat: crushing the totalitarians.

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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

oh right, its the local town council/neighborhood watch bsky.app/profile/surc...

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Autumn Warhammer Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Omfg The Army As the Army, you play a cabal of deranged lower and middle officers who joined the army as a fallback when their promising careers as serial killers failed to get off the ground. .

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's honestly incredibly funny how a 3 page long word document that outlines the rules for a HOI4 RP session is better at conveying Hirohito's culpability than multi-hundred page long scholarly monographs about Hirohito's life

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

South Korea has proven (twice) how to make impeachment a viable mechanism, and it’s one we could adopt by simple rules change, no constitutional amendment needed: make the vote on it by secret ballot.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cat on the Roof — Fernando Botero, 1978

Painting of a cat standing astride the peak of a red-tiled roof. the background behind it is full of similar red-tiled roofs

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

v funny you think he's talking about ideology but then you learn he just means space fuel cocaine

forest whittaker i am the only one with clarity of purpose

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

massacre literature was strictly prohibited by Qing rulers but circulated in samizdat form for centuries afterwards, due to the scale of the trauma. But we should not think of this as unique or confined to the conquest era: the routine brutality of empire was also very great even under Ming.

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Phizle @phizle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why do all my smoke detectors take different battery types Was the contractor who finished my condo doing whippets

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Phizle @phizle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just realized my stove has an upper case "H" or a lower case "h" to indicate how hot it is after the burners have been turned off

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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