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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On behalf of America's warfighters, I'm filing articles of impeachment against JD Vance for being a beardo and nine counts of weirdo.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Joshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of Phosphor updates over the weekend, including: - Automatic colorblind-safe checks - Parabolic curve adjustments for corrected gradients - Preview your palette on a map, plot, or image - Larger library of preset palettes - A new Legend Lab - Support for #RStats www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He's thinking too small. The triumphal arch should be topped with 50 foot tall statues of Nike, who can shoot lasers out of her eyes, and in whose arms nestle functional machine guns. In an emergency, her breasts slide to the side, revealing grenade launchers.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Corinne Bara @corinnebara.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Valerie and I jokingly called this “our Nature article” when we first had the idea. And then it actually became one. With an absolute A-team of co-authors, we show what we gain when we integrate satellite-derived data with news-based data for conflict research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Advancing conflict research and response through satellite-derived data - Nature

Integrating satellite-derived war-damage data with text-based fatality records through improvement, enrichment and fusion mitigates limitations inherent in each source, revealing complex vio...

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 03/09/2026

The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia

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Dotan Haim @dotanhaim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thanks @egap.bsky.social for putting together this brief on our recent APSR paper (w/ Nico Ravanilla and Matthew Nanes)! How did police officers' attitudes change after community policing in areas w/ conflict? Open access paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact - Volume 119 Issue 4

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📣 NEW Policy Brief 📣 EGAP's @dotanhaim.bsky.social & @nicoravanilla.bsky.social w/ @matthewjnanes.bsky.social ask how community policing affects the attitudes of the officers who implement it through a randomized field experiment in the Philippines. ✍️ Drafted by Danielle Bohonos. 🔗 buff.ly/HYTG4sW

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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

en esta economía??????

nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026

Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets theonion.com/crying-newborn-has-no-…

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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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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/08/2026

“A sweep by intelligence officials has revealed that Mrs. Trump is in fact an espionage tool deployed by Russia to record President Trump while blending in seamlessly among his inner circle,” said NSA director Joshua Rudd

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Melania Trump Discovered To Be Russian Listening Device

WASHINGTON—In what is being described as a major breach of White House security protocol, the National Security Agency reportedly uncovered evidence Friday that first lady Melania Trump was a Russian ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026

El-Sayed on Trump posting image of him & his wife in a restaurant w/ caption "2 DIFFERENT Americas": "He's right. One in which your overlords are 2 people who don't like each other joined in the interest in making billions off of you, or 2 people who genuinely love each other enjoying pancakes ... "

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026

I think the causal arrow points in the other direction: I think that Zuck founded Facebook *because* he doesn't really believe that other people are truly *real*, at least not as real as he is. 4/

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/06/2026

Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion theonion.com/palantir-acquires-pent…

Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion
Military Now Under Command Of Software Developer

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Graphic design is my passion.

A sign that has two concentric rings of text but it's laid out in a confusing way so it looks like the first sentence is "it's against the law to keep alcohol out of the hands of youth" and the second sentence is "supply alcohol to minors."

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

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It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests

"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Amid all the hand-wringing about progressives not having a compelling vision of masculinity, it strikes me that being a good dad has never been more liberal/left-coded in the US than it is today.

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea

A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Most of the Freedom 250 concert performers dropped out over partisan concerns. But what IS Freedom 250? And how is it different from America250?

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/05/2026

“The problem of excusing abhorrent ideologies for the sake of electoral gains is growing more pervasive and universal,” Mike Nelson argues. “It’s shameful that our leaders are willing to accept this over such small stakes.”

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The Hypocrisy of the Democrats Who Defend Graham Platner

They wouldn’t be so accepting of his Nazi tattoo if he were a Republican.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

On the other hand, there’s this generalised Dunning-Kruger projection that OP hints at: the less you know about a given task, the more likely you are to highly grade AI capabilities at it. The less you know about what you don’t know, the more AI competence seems like magic.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

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1985 MOVE bombing - Wikipedia

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13/05/2026

The anniversary of the MOVE bombing. America attacking Black people in a city with brutal imperial force.

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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) @swp-berlin.org · 13/05/2026

The UAE are among the most aggressive external actors in Africa’s conflicts. Its role exacerbates crises, obstructs solutions, and destabilises entire regions, write @gerritkurtz.bsky.social, @wlacher.bsky.social & Stephan Roll @swp-mea.bsky.social. www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati...

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The Destabilising Role of the United Arab Emirates in African Conflicts

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has become one of the most aggressive external actors in African conflicts, from Ethiopia, Libya and Somalia to...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A generation ship is the only form of interstellar travel viable without FTL. One of the main challenges in this would be making sure that successive generations maintain the mission they did not opt into, making political scientists the most important scientists for space exploration.

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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Murder rate in NYC, Philly, Baltimore, and DC January to April 2026 has never been lower on record (using data from the essential @jeffasher.bsky.social).

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Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net · 11/05/2026

I made a chart of where you can find the top open-source LLMs right now in the European inference provider landscape. Let me know if I have missed any providers

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Sean @solive.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

seems smart

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

By popular (?) demand, I've updated (and cleaned up) my suffrage and citizenship timeline with recent events and some additional clarifications. Feedback welcome! I will make the file available on my website (christinawolbrecht.com) by COB.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Trump repeatedly bragging about being asked to take the dementia screener is like a work colleague bragging about having to take daily court-ordered drug tests.

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy International Workers' Day. Solidarity. Poster by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social, and also on my office wall.

Poster showing a drawing of a modest working class home in the foreground, with a 'foreclosed' sign on the door, contrasted with a mansion in the background. Text: 'I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars while millions of men and women who work all their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. Eugene V. Debs, Labor & Socialist Leader, Presidential Candidate, June 16, 1918'

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

J.D. Vance explaining before the throne of Peter that he thought "Just War!" was an imperative.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Unbelievable. Just WOW.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Starting a separate thread on questions from members of the D.C. Council, which hints at what they may be concerned with and fight.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

NEWS: Today @mayorbowser.dc.gov unveils her proposed 2027 budget. It's $12.7 billion, a 3.3% decrease from last year. As expected, there are cuts to a key child care fund, as well as a paid leave program, and affordable housing. Healthcare for low-income residents is spared, though.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/04/2026

Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"After No Kings, Indivisible, one of the lead organizers of the "No Kings" protest, is pivoting to building support for...May Day Strong. The May Day Strong coalition is calling for "No Work, No School, No Shopping" on May 1st." reporting by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/no-kings-org...

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“No Kings” Organizers & Indivisible Pivot to May Day General Strike

Dozens of unions and Indivisible have backed the May Day Strong walkout

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