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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

This is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 4h

so shady 😎 "If you want to understand how Donald Trump has been able to hawk cologne, watches, smartphones, crypto coins and even bibles to a gullible fan base, look no further than to Jim Bakker, the televangelist and religious huckster who died Monday at 86"

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 11h

For as much as the people in this picture have been seen recently, they should be getting paid royalties for each download.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This thing where reporters simply do not check trump supporters' public social media posts at all, and editors don't give a shit either, has to stop

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Daily Rothko @dailyrothko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 Green on Blue (Earth-Green and White), 1956 oil on canvas, 91 ¼ × 64 ⅜ in. (228.6 × 161.3 cm), The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson © 1998 Kate Rothko & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rghts Society (ARS), New York 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pave over them as thoroughly as people have done with Cesar Chavez.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Friend told me recently some students are intentionally writing poorly so it doesn’t look like AI, and it broke my heart.

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are 1000 reasons to hate generative AI, but the one that goes undetected is the complete and total destruction of humanity's core epistemological understanding of the world. Everything else is downstream of that, and the consequences are only going to get more horrifying if this isn't stopped.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

someone should ask donald trump, john thune and mike johnson how come they havent said anything about the recently deceased republican who served as speaker of the house for almost a decade.

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sometimes I wonder if there's a final destination-like quality to the conservative project. No matter how much they want things to be a certain way, it inevitably collapses.

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hendi35.bsky.social @hendi35.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Has anyone thought about the fact that cocaine is extremely fun and also that spending all day and night hanging around a nightclub high as hell has not proven detrimental to my career as a coke dealer at that nightclub?"

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He would at least have been honest if he had said "... accept some bad things happening for my benefit." I've started to switch out words like that it's usually very telling.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would vote to confirm, like, a semi-normal conservative doctor if he's replacing RFK Jr. Ditto if Trump fired Hagueseth and appointed a Mattis type in his place.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t stop laughing

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Agree with all of the below, with this distinction: -Alito is the most *predictably* partisan-R member of the court. -Roberts is the most *consequentially* partisan-R member.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I watched this ad and it’s amazing. Doesn’t even use his name. The very clear almost explicit subtext is: my dudes, if I can suck it up and vote for this lying sack of shit, you can too, okay?

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The percentage of voters who approved of Nixon in August 1974 and those who approve of Trump is almost identical. It's the same people just with (mostly) different names.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

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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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This works for many other things. Reddit has it figured out; surely they don't corner the market for doing so (nor have they have either the intention or means of doing so).

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Call this bitch Kyrsten Cinema the way she’s causing all this drama

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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yinz @yinzboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the answer. It cost an infinitesimal percentage of the amount that rich "liberals" waste on donations to milquetoasts like Schumer and Jeffries, not to mention horsesshit the Atlantic. And it would be wildly successful. Sports, gossip, entertainment and roasting the shit out of our rulers.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

normal americans, even conservative-leaning ones, do not hate canada like the weirdo in the white house. they sound like deranged fucking cultists raging about... CANADA. come the fuck on.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

its part of the reason younger dems like aoc and maxwell frost and others are so much more hard edged vs the gop than establishment dems. when aoc was 14, bush invaded iraq. for her entire life she's seen gop going buck wild and then try to tear down a dem president. they know its war

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The fundamentals of our economy are strong," also in September.

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I bet there are versions of this for different big name candidates who went nowhere for every presidential election cycle. Scoop Jackson, John Glenn, Wesley Clark, and so on.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if we had a liberal tabloid we could have endless stories about young republican rape frenzy and not have to make a single thing up.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So many people think they're different, special, or the exception to a ruthless norm. They are not.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a book about how completely unprincipled attention hounds will always make their way to the right because they know the right will have them. The NYMag piece? I guess that’s a story about how unprincipled attention hounds deserve attention as long as they’re shitting on democrats.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Several years lost due to careless medical personnel." This contributes to women giving up & getting worse. And then some providers have the audacity to shame women for not addressing something sooner.

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anytime a person is tempted to wonder about the NYT's priorities, they can just look at this. The people in the social/political circles the writers + editors interact with think Emanuel is a figure of importance. Maybe 2% of current voters think the same and that's pushing it.

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Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hook this to my veins. The WW is a non-trivial part of the reason why things are the way they are today. It's obviously not the biggest reason, but it's in the top 20. I could be argued all too easily into it being a top 15 reason.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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