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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You can see the surge in civilian casualties when Trump starts ‘negotiating’ with Russia

Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It was that or split the org (like what happened with CPUSA), man. About a third of the base lives on planet Kremlin. The anti-war left went nuts after Iraq.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

He was a social democrat, but yeah. I think the rock bottom for 'socialism' is policy designed to move large parts of the workforce out of private for-profit enterprises and into co-ops or state-owned enterprises. Most 'dem socs' are collecting taxes and distributing services, not socialism.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Boy, do I hope you are not a farmer.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

... for not being George W. Bush, essentially.

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canopyguy.bsky.social @canopyguy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Blue states if you do not suppress these federal SS goons, they will seize your voting machines

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/01/2026

I'm not the first person to note this, but authoritarian crackdowns are much more difficult in cities, where's there's public space & people can gather & find solidarity. That's partly why reactionary governments everywhere prefer suburbanization -- it disperses, dilutes, & atomizes the public.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It's a product of voter ignorance and apathy. When name recognition is that powerful, it's bad news for voter engagement.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Commerce's business isn't business. It's data. A meterologist, climatologist, data scientist, or experienced science administrator would be in the correct lane.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

That's OK. That's how I regard the right. Reaction is a scam. It makes promises it knows it will never have to deliver, because its prescriptions are impossible.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is not only absolutely true, but it's reasonable to ask why they used such a contrived plot device without earning it in a script that was otherwise pretty smart. They asked for the criticism.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🔥 SLIWA: “You think you’re the toughest guy alive — you lost your own primary. You have difficulty understanding what the term “NO” is… you’re not gonna stand up to Trump.” 👀 ZOHRAN: “I agree with Curtis.” 🙃

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

A standard frigate and modern diesel sub for the whole bloc would go a long way, reducing unit costs and build times, perhaps a modular approach for different navies, missions. Also a good chance to start from bare metal without any US tech.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/10/2025

Enough with the beating girlfriends stuff, let's talk about something serious.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

These people have been scheming to get here for generations, and when they finally have power, the main thing they've accomplished is to get the deeply ignorant public to pay attention. That's never been great news for them, historically.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

How many "I told you so" coffee mugs do you think that woman has gotten as gifts this year? I remember thinking, during the debate, that in the old days, he'd be done. We've let billionaires buy the media and agitprop us into this mess. Big Tech business model is radicalization. Needs to change.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued. It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

1) ... back in 1991, while in college and on the libertarian right, I was volunteering and hanging out at local GOP HQ, talking with this retired classics professor. One afternoon, he said that "segregation was for the benefit of black people." The GOP is a safe space for bigots.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

My letter to the mainstream media: We will get through this, eventually. But you will not. We will remember each and every sellout.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2025

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

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Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs: 1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt? 2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies? 3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

What happens when 'free' information dries up because its producers aren't getting paid?

youtube.com

The AI business model might destroy itself

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session, Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge. Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings. Gallego: This is an excuse

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Netanyahu made the opposite choice and here we are.

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I mean it helped - they were murdering and torturing Kenyans for close to a decade and Malaysians for over a decade after that. It also helped that there was an active violent resistance to go along with the nonviolent resistance. So the British chose to work with the peaceful guy

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I get what you're saying, but I think UK left India in 1947 because they were broke after World War II, not because of any moral clarity created by protests. After all, they were murdering Arabs from the air only a decade earlier to try to hold on to colonies and mandates.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Using the number of employees to describe a business as small is often used to mislead. A 'small' hedge fund can handle tens of billions of dollars in investment capital. Only staff AND sales can make a good measure, plus yes we need more BIPOC wealth, the sooner the better.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Tara KD @tarakd.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

On a *completely* unrelated note, I have used Instacart almost exclusively since 2017. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🤪

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

About 125,000 transgender people are assaulted in the restroom every year. No transgender woman has ever been convicted of assaulting a woman in a public restroom.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Thank God the feds have finally shown up to protect us Oregonians from the octogenarian veterans and their wives! Those people have been running roughshod over the community for long enough!!!

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Public opinion research, like all social science, is built on assumptions. I've thought about writing a piece on how "popularism" is built on very flawed assumptions, making its recommendations misguided, but @anatosaurus.bsky.social does such a good job with that I'll just link to this article.

weekendreading.net

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Repugnicans have long been a far-right outlier among establishment "center-right" parties in West, and all their ideas have been discredited for at least twenty years, but this crew is the dumbest pack of grifters I've ever seen in any industry. Of course, the populace is even dumber, so ...

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Chicago's 40th Ward in effect. Line down the block for community defense training with Alderman Vazquez.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Fuck the supreme court All of it is illegitimate General strike

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

... or he just uses the private army he funded in the big barrel of barbarism. Wehrmacht, met SA. See, up to E-5 or so, he has the hearts of the troops. Well, the white male ones anyway. Authoritarian politics is heavily represented in the ranks.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2025

Chris Murphy: "In a different era, maybe just asking for a minor adjustment in health care tax credit policy would be enough. But it’s not a normal time. If you don’t mount a stand right now on behalf of democracy, there won’t be another opportunity."

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Chris Murphy’s Extraordinary New Takedown of Trump Should Wake Up Dems

The Democratic senator has taken the lead in drawing attention to Trump’s authoritarianism. In an interview, he offers a stark new warning that should galvanize his fellow Democrats before it’s too la...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the FL treasury.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

'Yes' is probably the most honest answer. The longer answer is that the two pressure each other to make everything continually worse. Profit-seeking video overfeeds the limbic brain and starves the language and learning centers. I call the result: unscrewtheworld.substack.com/p/the-great-...

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The Great Filter Bubble

How Big Tech's Business Model is Destroying the World.

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Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Reporting facts, especially important facts, is expensive and boring, so media pursues 'balance' instead as though public life were some sort of debating club incumbent for incumbent interest blocks instead of an empirically-detectable system of space-time interactions.

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