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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Telling everyone to quiet down and be civil”

Nazi shushing Pvt Melish while stabbing him to death; SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

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This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If our times have told us nothing else, it’s that the inability to understand a text is diagnostic of something

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this is why Veep had to go off the air. it couldn’t compete with real life anymore.

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You say the title is deceptive, but then you also say “Joan Crawford”

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Polarization, still not the problem

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The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer

"political radicalization has broken out of the fringes and fully migrated into the mainstream electorate. Our primary worry should be the tens of millions of ordinary Americans who now passively accept or actively endorse violence to achieve their political goals."

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Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.

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I am vigorously resisting naming any presidential biographers rn

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Nixon has of course already been pardoned. Even if the prosecutor committed misconduct it won’t change the facts about what Nixon did. I can see no purpose to this exercise.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You’d think at some point it would be fraud, though ofc I’m no lawyer

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I see it's "new frontiers in racism" day

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

an edited collection of "I didn't really read the book but I know I don't like it because it's not the book I would have written"

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Utterly insane. "Not acknowledge"?? "the executive branch shall use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting." www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Jim Carey: LALALALAL I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Meme

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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘The Gulf of Intelligence’ was right there. I give up.

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weird to remember 2019 as optimistic but I think it's the last major forward-looking moment before everything was seen as at best crisis and decline management. Not unrelated, here's a video in which then-new Rep AOC looks back on the Green New Deal as a Senator theintercept.com/2019/04/17/g...

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A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Harold Ickes considered making Robert Moses director of NPS, but FDR talked him out of it. (from The Secret Diary of Harold Ickes vol. 3). 🗃️

make, and then I asked him what he thought making Robert Moses, of New York, Director the National of Park Service. He didn't react as violently as I had expected. He thought it over for a minute and then he said: "Well, Bob Moses would make a great park system. He would get things done. And in getting things done he would run over anybody or any law. He pays absolutely no attention to the law. You would get awake in the middle of every night and wonder what Bob Moses was doing and how he was doing it." All of which is probably true, and yet if Moses agrees with me on park policy, I think that I would be willing to run the risk, even though I realize that it would be turning a man loose who couldn't be headed after I had turned him loose. I am thoroughly persuaded that I cannot go along much longer with Cammerer. In discussing the campaign next

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A newspaper editor with a glimmer of joie de vivre would call it a trumped-up accusation

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The number 1 tv theme of all time

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Russ Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding Congress

"the White House is steamrolling Congress’…constitutional power to decide how taxpayer money is spent — zeroing out programs that legislators wrote into law while pouring money into airing Trump campaign ads on television. Congress could reassert its power in myriad ways, but does not."

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Programming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say...

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hope that people are able to separate the art from the artist because my art sucks.

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