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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4h

the idea that immersing yourself in gruesome violence is a technique to build empathy is something which everyone who has ever studied the subject will tell you is not just false but 180 degrees removed from the truth.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, and this one too, the very next story in the WaPo app

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 4h

Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?

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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 Roger Marshall threatened legal action to suppress an inconvenient truth. Read our response:

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 8h

Hold him in contempt. Everywhere he goes.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13h

This is also completely ahistorical because before gay marriage happened nationwide it became legal in California and then was rolled back by prop 8 and this happened in a number of states. This *hasn’t* happened with trans rights in any blue states, so we’re actually ahead

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/10/2026

if you are a republican vp and you’re pulling the fire alarm about fucking idaho before the first day of october, you are in very, very bad shape

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge has denied DOJ's effort to obtain Georgia's complete, unredacted voter list, the latest in a string of more than two dozen defeats for the Trump administration in efforts to obtain state voter rolls. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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ORDER. It is ORDERED that Defendant Raffensperger and Intervenor-Defendant's BVMF's Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 16, 23 ) are GRANTED IN PART as set forth in this Order. Intervenor-Defendants' Common Cau...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30/09/2026

sometimes fairly, sometimes not, the dems get criticized for being too cautious, sober, and boring compared to their republican counterparts, but the best time to run a FUCK THESE GUYS campaign was 2024 and the next best time is now, and rolling into october, it looks like that’s where we are headed

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Ott Heinapuu @ohpuu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"polycrisis is coming, therefore I won't have to pay the rent or go to work soon" vs. people paying rent & going to work in Kyiv under daily drone and missile attacks

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think part of it is that a large cohort on this website are underemployed and another large cohort are seeing substantial destabilization of their professions due to politics and/or technology, and so the site biases towards doom spirals somewhat

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An American who has lived 35 years is very likely to have witnessed their material living standard improve considerably over the course of their life. Yes, there are problems - there are always problems. But what you hear is this all-consuming pessimism, how things are bad and always will be.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What’s remarkable about this to me is that humans have survived periods in which their societies faced the prospect of imminent annihilation, and even periods in which that sort of collapse actually occurred. But we’re living through a period in which most people’s living standards are rising!

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The way people will just blithely state that the world is collapsing and you're supposed to, like, accept it as this conventional wisdom that all right-thinking people agree with

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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 29/09/2026

it is true we have terrible governance at the moment but this doesn’t mean everything in the world is fake and about to come crashing down. most jobs, fortunately or unfortunately, still need doing

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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 29/09/2026

this feeling is just depression

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this 1/3
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It's good that we invented things like
"government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support

Better Things Are Possible @internet... • 8h
It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point 3/3

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes! What we’re seeing is the spread of a pervasive social norm where constant lurid expressions of misery and pessimism are de rigueur. People can’t see it because they’re part of it. But it’s obvious when you talk to groups who have every reason to be pessimistic, and they don’t have it.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

these guys don't know how to run for a competitive office

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The State Department is not personally targeting the Alt National Park Service with their ad campaign. The State Department does not care about the Alt National Park Service, and neither should anyone else.

Alt National Park Service: The State Department decided to take a shot at our movement and Smokey with a new “Only you can prevent visa fraud” post. They put it on their page about two hours ago.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A political social network has latched on to a handful of politically active academics whose views are the vast minority in their field, who keep making wrong predictions and denying verifiable facts, but retain a large following. Bluesky recognizes this pattern with climate denial, but not with AI

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the problems with "breaking the AI safety cartel" is that virtually everyone who wants to do that was saying that AI didn't work six months ago, and that for all their bad policy ideas most of the world's technical knowledge about reinforcement learning is at least in its membership's social circle

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dame @dame.is · 28/09/2026

i really really REALLY don’t think you should respond to someone getting death threats by saying “this sucks, but it makes sense because the person telling you to KYS has material and mental conditions that are making them lash out” STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR DEATH THREAT ENJOYERS

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump using an Oval Office address to announce a vaporware steel plant for Iowa should demonstrate to everyone how absolutely real Republican panic about Iowa is

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I will always make the Famous Potato Dish.

A plate of home fries topped with a fried egg, sour cream, salsa, and Mexican hot sauces

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026

this is why I ride for bluesky and the AT Protocol

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

I kept walking to my seat a few rows behind him. His staff or security are not happy with me. But Oz holds a position of public trust and is using it to make life unlivable for human beings in America. I should be the least of his problems. If you see Oz, let him have it. Let them eat crudités.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

I said: “Sir, you need to stop kicking hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance just because they are vulnerable. ‘Not using you insurance’ is not a reason to evict someone from their insurance.”

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would vote to recriminalize gambling.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Among 2024 Trump voters, 11% now regret their choice — and among non-MAGA Republicans (roughly one-third of the GOP), 11% plan to vote Democrat for Congress this fall.”

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel like there’s this hopefully on the way out view of professionalism that includes presenting yourself as someone who is lacking in human needs and foibles. I would expect someone I hire to drink (nonalcoholic beverages) while working so why would I expect them to abstain during the interview?

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Harris, Klobuchar, and Clinton all drew "shes a b****" stories in the New York Times citing anonymous former junior staffers. Nothing ever really came of them. It's a genre staple against every prominent woman senate and presidential candidate.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 24/09/2026

Trump promised his war would last “4-5 weeks.” We’re now on MONTH 7 Senate Democrats are forcing another vote to end Trump’s war in Iran—one of the biggest foreign policy catastrophes in our history

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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 24/09/2026

God I’m just so sick of this! Look at this escalation in response to things nobody said

Eh, I think the immunocompromised should be allowed to leave their homes to go to a place most people don't go. You've already closed them off from society. Let them have one night at a bar you'd never attend.

Larry Juana @dylpickles626.bsky.... • 52m
But they still had 6 nights a week at that specific bar. The bar was going to "mask recommended but optional" on Saturdays to try and bring in some extra revenue.

I don't object to the article as much as I object to the people who think
immunocompromised people should be confined to their homes.

Lathan Devers @newsaggregrator.... • 45m
This is also an example of bluesky scolding

True, but why is telling people they shouldn't mask also not scolding?

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 24/09/2026

i find it enjoyable that the admin keeps doing things which can be defined as “and US farmers and ranchers? fuck you, specifically”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 24/09/2026

“Please stop spotlighting the way our marginalized community is mulching some of its members for its own entertainment, you’re ruining our ability to ruin lives for fun. Those are OUR scapegoats and sacrificial lambs!”

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 24/09/2026

“There is no reason for a national publication to be covering this teeny tiny local scuffle among marginalized people, in which one marginalized person who is 50K in debt from trying to do charity is being told to shut up about her suffering bc she hasn’t been sufficiently deferential to bullies”

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, it targets people who think that a bar going from having a mask mandate seven nights a week to having a mask mandate six nights a week is *literally genocidal*, and I don't have so much contempt for the disabled, chronically ill, or COVID-conscious to believe that they all think that.

A Bluesky post: "Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing."

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 24/09/2026

People are not sharing the lesbian bar masking story because we think that’s what all lesbians or people with pronouns are like We’re sharing it because we all know these kind of bullies, they’ve terrorized us personally, and we’re tired of it in a time when real oppression is happening

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dan Savage warned people about this many years ago but he was too cringe for some of you.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like it is true that fewer than 100% of elected Democrats are committed to advancing trans rights but it is true in the sense that it’s actually 95% of elected Democrats, which is extremely good in relative, absolute, historical, and contemporary terms

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