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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So the issue is “allow people to…“ which supposes an authority without naming one. Name it and then explain why Anthropic or any of the rest of them should have that authority.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And I don’t even have kids, if one should ever appear, there will be a Star in the East and possibly a Seal breaking, but it’s not all about kids. It’s also about who has a claim on your stuff, who has a claim to force you to pay for their stuff (Filial responsibility) & who makes your decisions.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

lol the vibe shift in AI hype feels like a ploy by U.S. tech bros to permanently keep out competitors. They are cosplaying concern so they can "regulate" their competitors out of existence. It's not about safety. It's about money.

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Alex Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We treat every position that should be a leadership position, like it’s a reward. Sure, it can mean recognition and compensation for additional responsibility, but like… it’s a responsibility, and it’s not JUST a responsibility to produce whatever the goal is of the group/org.

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Gojira1000 @gojira1000.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I just hope everyone can familiarize themselves with his best character, at least UNAVOIDABLE, REALLY

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A handy guide to climate denial nonsense, thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

coming out against taco trucks is the caliber of self-imposed destruction with very few rivals. I'm thinking Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus, General Custer, Division General Leclerc. Sun Tzu wrote a whole book about not giving your opps this much to work with

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One day in and I’m on three new dissertation committees. Happy Back-to-School season, Everyone!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

For a post I'm still working on, I did a list of all the things we know about how Davey Hearn was charged. Almost none of this is making it into coverage of the case.

There are two main witnesses who implicated Davey Hearn: a female Parks Service employee who claims he told her she was “awfully sensitive about the pool,” and Emily Miller, the right wing propagandist who captured his arrest and claimed to talk to Pirro’s people about the case; Miller may be a witness mentioned in the arrest affidavit (she blocked me when I asked if she was on Xitter).
That woman from the Parks Service did not testify to the grand jury and the investigative witness who did (MF) emphasized that her testimony “was not a sworn statement.” She’s the source of the claim that Hearn “violently” ripped at the pool liner.
There are two photographs, one posted publicly by Hearn before he was charged, and another taken by a government employee, both of which show the damage was already done before Hearn reached his hand into the water.
With regards to Hearn’s photo: the government did not present it to the grand jury (which is not a clearcut abuse) but also did not mention it in an affidavit to seize his phone (which is).
With regards to the other photo, the government seems to have claimed that the female Parks Service employee took it and obscured when it was taken; Pirro’s MTD corrects the timing and attributes the photo to another government employee. The government refused to provide Hearn with metadata to prove this before they dismissed the case.
There is CCTV footage that should have been turned over to Hearn that was not — footage that was shared with Jesse Watters so he could do propaganda to support Trump’s claims of sabotage. It almost certainly would debunk the entirety the Parks Service employee testimony.
Even if we buy Pirro’s suspect claims about what Interior turned over when or her claimed ignorance about the problems with the pool before that, we know she had notice of the problems with the pool well before July 16 or 17, when she claims DOJ discovered the problems for the first time. DOJ knew of a damage assessment Interior did — which in…

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

How does that explain why men get painkillers for pain when women don’t?

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

regular reminder to americans to read the wikipedia page of the german media company that bought politico, axel springer SE, which is probably the dominant force of rightwing propaganda in germany after ww2

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Welp, Eddie Lampert, the Vampire Libertarian, has successfully destroyed Sears. May he rest in piss, both now and after. www.thestreet.com/retail/after...

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140-year-old mall retail giant only has 5 locations left

The chain's Chapter 11 bankruptcy was one stop on its long road to closing down for good.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/06/2026

a reminder that watergate was legitimately bad. nixon weaponized presidential power to cover up crimes committed by his subordinates, illegally spying on americans and using agencies like the IRS to harass political opponents.

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Casey Jennings @rcjennings.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I've been watching the videos of visitors to the US for the world cup and their reactions to the US. There seem to be 2 recurring themes: 1) We're surprised, you people are very friendly and fun to party with and: 2) Your fast food is spectacular (especially Popeyes)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2026

conservatives do not have a problem with racial or gender preferences or quotas. they just think they rightfully should go to white men, who are inherently meritorious.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

to be clear, this problem (increased highway capacity leading to increased traffic) was apparent *seventy five years ago*

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

RFK says I’ll never write a poem but check this out There once was an old man named Kennedy Who had the most unsettling energy He worked out in jeans While he ate raccoon spleens And had a brainworm as a frenemy

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/06/2026

And the only person who had the honor to consider that they had made a mistake and apologize — with an understanding that those of us in the post-pogrom Ukrainian Jewish diaspora have a different experience than those still there — was a Ukrainian The North Americans were shit

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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

He actually posted this. Please NASA, fly him yo the Moon and get him to take his helmet off!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Anyway, I’ve got the same drum I’ve always had. No way forward without forgetting the way back. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

There is, however, another path. People are living it every day. It is what got us excited about Minnesota. It’s what has us excited about Zohran Mamdani. There is something that is just as hopeful, that is just as pro-human as conservatism offers you, that does that without building it on other people being excised from the future. The problem we have is that we do not sell it that way because I fundamentally believe we don’t believe in it enough that way.

We have to believe that something is better and possible, and that we are building it. We do have something better than a small “c” conservative politics to offer people. There is a future where the government can work for you as surely as a megachurch works for you. And we can do that, and it’s not necessarily hard, but it isn’t easy, either.

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I do not like this Bari Weiss I do not like her once, or twice You see, her takes are merchandise “Integrity,” at market price! I would not read her here or there I would not read her anywhere I would not read her, no indeed There are much better things things to read!

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This genuinely is an insult to people who were alive at the time. Gaslighting.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026

additionally, you gotta expand the entire federal judiciary and pack this court specifically

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We have to proceed from the premise that no Republican claim to power anywhere at any level is legitimate in any way. Every bill, every law, every proclamation, every ruling, all of it is fouled, none of it should be held binding on either moral sensibilities or legal standing, all must be reversed.

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Alex Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We’re watching, and failing to respond to, a social engineering project meant to make impossible any belief in modernity having any positive aspects. This is a sociopolitical revolution, not a benign “political era.” An excision of alternatives to constrict human imagination and possibility.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

/4 Congrats to the Federalist Society folks -- although I believe they may find they do not know what to do with the car now that they have caught it. May they take their success with them down to Hell.

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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Alt-text

holly
@girlziplocked

Giving poor people some money
makes crime go down better than
giving cops more money.

Says science. We did the science. We
keep doing that science. Nobody in a
suit ever cares tho.

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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

If the restrictions against private benefit and private inurement are eroded, it opens up public charities to private actors looting their assets.

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@OldAndCranky @oldandcranky.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I don’t know how the country is gonna survive this administration. Nothing makes sense. I keep trying to detach and smell flowers and enjoy spring but geeeez.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17/04/2026

Don’t ask me to hug planetary enshittification. /ends

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

THIS SHIT HAS TO STOP. Probabilistic models of verbal expression are cool & useful technologies for some things, BUT LOOK AT THE RIDICULOUSNESS THE PATHETIC FALLACY IS BRINGING US! I am appalled at the irresponsibility & credulousness of the execs, companies, and media.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

/3 It’s also a terrible idea to let the Hamburgler teach law unless maybe at Yale

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

/4. Fourth: Advocacy does have a moral component. Lying about law and history in an effort to make millions of people stateless is not “doing law the right way.” The notion that advocacy is morally neutral or even inherently good if performed according to cultural ritual remains vapid and harmful.

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This one also had me reading way way past my bedtime several nights. According to notes left for me and presumably written by me. I myself have no memory of writing those notes or reading this book

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

shoes and other ballroom problems www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The president stood on the steps of the palace after the ball, watching the staffer depart.
Technically, it was the White House, not a palace yet, and it was very difficult to host balls there, a deep, intractable problem for average Americans that he feared would overshadow his legacy if he failed to solve it.

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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I digress. As a parent, it is your responsibility to look after the well-being and safety of your baby bunnies, not expect the forest wolves to do it. That responsibility is part of parenting. If you aren't willing to expend that energy and effort, don't have kids.

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Not only is this a good metaphor, I've never heard Ryan Coogler talk before and that is not an accent I think I've encountered previously (complimentary)

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"The president tried to put the U.S. in the same group of countries... Russia... Zimbabwe... Argentina... Turkey... and... no successful economy... It's great to see American institutions hold."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/03/2026

Hegseth’s biggest enemy right now? Bad angles of himself.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Sometimes I read business news like this and I think I’ve had a brain injury. I understand all the words. The syntax maps onto what I understand as a sentence structure. But I have no idea what it means. Can you tell what this business sells or does??

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Michael @scottgoblue314.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Most people have been getting this right, but just in case: Alysa Liu is from OAKLAND. Do not let "the Bay Area" claim her. (Muni and BART get a pass because they are for everyone)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/02/2026

the bargain between Trump and Kennedy that basically sealed the election for Trump in exchange for handing American health policy to the most dangerous and irresponsible people on the planet will go down as one of the most costly deals in human history

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