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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19h

but either way, you ideally want your future voting coalition to include more people than it did in an election *which you lost* so y'know. gonna have to get some people who went the wrong way onside.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19h

and, like, that's fine? i don't think he's a bad person, i think he's a good person who tactically made a mistake that was not in the grand scheme of things all that consequential but which, if you also think was a mistake, should probably affect how you view his future voting advice

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19h

i don't think Tom Morello should have tried to get people to vote third party in 2024. i think that was a mistake. i don't know if he thinks that was a mistake or what. this is one of the many ways in which, while there are lots of ways I can make common cause with Morello, our politics differ

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h

shes saying this on the same network that just interviewed a guy who said he spent 18 days in heaven chilling with jesus christ

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weaselproof @weaselproof.bsky.social · 18h

Web devs learned 15 years ago that there is no such thing as anonymized data. Now the AI bros gonna relearn that about training data. Or more properly, go to absurd lengths to avoid learning it

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Normal Liquid @frozenpbr.bsky.social · 18h

"Put that fucker in the stocks and let me hurl tomatoes at him" polling at +50

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18h

If you go up to the box office and say "one adult for the movie where the whale eats a guy, please" they have to give it to you. There's no law that says you have to say Whalefall or whatever it's called.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

good review and also, there is still something to be written about Sarah Palin as a key figure in creating the political space that trump seized just a few years later.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

I stand by what I wrote early this year: Trump and Co. will definitely try to steal the midterms. And they will fail, because it's too big. Trying to buy votes wasn't part of their scheme then. But you should see it as a sign of desperation — that they know their other malfeasance won't be enough.

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Trump Can’t Steal the Midterms

The case for being vigilant without panicking.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 19h

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19h

With social media, with the gig economy, with crypto… each successive generation of exploitation, they’ve gotten better and better at it.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

Aside from the obvious unfairness of people getting rich off of uncompensated stealing of creative works, we should think really hard about what it means that the people who keep winning economic jackboxes to become oligarch-rich are the ones who are willing to cheat and break the law

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 21h

Ds are going to win because: 1. the dog that bit them in 24 is now biting GOP (inflation rage) 2. a key faction of the modern GOP is mad at the president because they think he's beholden to (((them))) 3. pandemic & phones make everyone mad all the time none of these things will change in 27

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 22h

This is absolutely going to happen because voters know nothing but "throw the bums out"

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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 22h

The answer of course is that the President isn't supposed to do either of these things, he is supposed to implement and enforce the laws passed by Congress, which is expected to have some institutional longevity

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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 22h

A major problem with American presidentialism is that 4 years is plenty of time to wreck things but not a lot of time to build back

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TheSuitBurnsBetter @thesuitburnsbetter.bsky.social · 23h

"Vague discontent with the status quo" combined with people not actually liking significant changes to their personal lives is a tough nut to crack!

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 23h

it really feels like the dominant thing in politics in the age of social media is general discontenment. i don't know how to fix the fact that "i wish things were different" is such a driving force for so many voters.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 23h

Bit worried that this is just what politics is in the age of social media and with the degradation of most of the mediating civil institutions/networks.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sincerely hoping that the US, being the trendsetter country it is, starting this bullshit earlier than everyone else also means that we're closer to being done first too.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I really hate living in the interstitial.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Imagine if the 2030s is still just careening back and forth between a normal Democratic party and MAGA every 4 years. With every attempt to rebuild or repair scuttled every 4 years.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

extremely funny that a guy who built his (fradulent) political reputation as a fighter - seriously, his nickname was "rahmbo" - is now advocating that we avoid the "politics of fighting" in 2026

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

if this technology *isn’t* the world-changing, ground-breaking, omnipowerful juggernaut they claim it to be, it makes the eye watering investments harder to sell. no one’s dropping nine figures on the machine that makes contact management software obsolete

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

because he’s not talking to us, he’s talking to a small group of very wealthy investors and cohorts who want to hear this

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22h

1) this is true of almost every enterprise: doing a thing has both costs and benefits. if we only did costless things we wouldn't do very many things 2) why the fuck would you say it like this tho

the world should accept some bad things happening

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

If you add Republican Party officials, I bet it's easily more than that

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 19h

Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19h

I guess what I’m saying is I hope trucker man repents, becomes a force for good, and ultimately finds peace. But I also think the dead Haitian has the right to be the main character of his own death.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19h

I‘ve been wrong about a lot of stuff. I treated the 2016 election like one big joke. I still struggle with internalized transmisogyny even after I gave up on denial and transitioned. I get it. Sometimes you’re wrong and it sucks and hurts like hell. But like… the people who were impacted count too.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19h

I’m willing to forgive people who do stupid shit because I have done stupid shit and will no doubt do more stupid shit in the future. However, that does not mean I am owed an apology by the people impacted by the stupid shit I did.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19h

I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

I think this is part of the reason I get so heated over this. Not only are you betting on Elon Musk and look like the biggest sucker in history, you're also saying that you consider a chatbot app to be AI which makes you look even dumber. It's an app. It's not alive. And you're using it to be lazy

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

This is all downstream from the idiot media who labeled hucksters as geniuses because Musk is very smart when it comes to running scams and playing the press. What Musk Zuck & Altman call AI is far from what it truly is. They made a digital friend who can do basic tasks. That's an app. Not AI.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

The original Google search algorithm that was wizard magic was machine learning. Same with videogame enemies learning flocking techniques and figuring out how to beat you based on your tendencies. LLM stans fucked this up just let the scam artists define what AI is now because they are dumb.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20h

The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

This always happens when we find out the details a few days later on Trump and Nutlick’s Big Announcements. Art of the Deal.

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