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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The administration’s resort to increasingly horrific forms of state violence as Trump loses his grip on power doesn’t make me feel super great, I have to say

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"People are saying" "Questions are being raised" "Some are wondering" Shut up, you fucking weasels. That's not journalism, you're just making that shit up.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We won't forget it for a very long time.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying

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Christoph Schiller @schiller061.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We'll really get governor Vivek and we'll deserve it. Ffs

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Etienne Bacher @etiennebacher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#rstats I'm glad to announce Jarl 0.6.0! Jarl is a very fast R linter, written in Rust. This release brings many improvements and fixes. See the blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2026-0... And the full changelog: jarl.etiennebacher.com/changelog 🧵 to highlight some features below (1/5)

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Jarl 0.6.0 | Etienne Bacher

Personal website of Etienne Bacher: blog posts about R, research, and software.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/08/2026

Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Institution Grinnell College
Enrollment data 15.8 percentage point decline in international student yield from fall 2023 to fall 2026
Institution University of Illinois Chicago
Enrollment data 50 percent decline in admitted international students over historic levels
Institution University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Enrollment data 25.1 percent decline in international graduate applicants from 2025 to 2026 cycle
Institution University of Maryland, Baltimore
Enrollment data 37.9 percent decline in new international student enrollment from fall 2024 to fall 2025. Thirty-two students admitted for fall 2026 have withdrawn applications, and 14 have requested to defer their admission.
Institution University of Maryland, College Park
Enrollment data anticipated 30 percent decline in new international graduate students year over year
Institution University of Wisconsin–Madison
Enrollment data 10.9 percent year-over-year decline in undergraduate applications, and 27 percent year-over-year decline in graduate applications. Five undergraduate students who put down deposits have since withdrawn.
Institution University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Enrollment data 42 percent decrease in applications, 29 percent decrease in admissions and 38.7 percent decrease in enrollments year over year

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.

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Christoph Schiller @schiller061.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ahahaha hahahahaha ... Hahahhahaha www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

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Lucas Seehafer @seehafer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So many: - Most back pain resolves within 7-10 days. Don't panic! - Walking 10 additional minutes per day can have dramatic positive effects on your health - AAU and others don't increase your child's odds of getting a scholly; building evidence that specialization increases burnout

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Nothing calms markets like invoking the Asian Financial Crisis of the late 1990s when explaining your attempt to prop up the yen. asia.nikkei.com/editor-s-pic...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. joined in a coordinated currency intervention with Japan to prevent yen weakness from spreading instability across Asian currencies, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Nikkei on Tuesday in an exclusive interview where he cited the lessons from the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s.
Explaining the reasons for the yen-buying intervention -- the first of its kind in roughly 28 years -- Bessent cited the crisis and the impact of significant yen depreciation. In 1998, the Japanese currency depreciated by 30 yen against the dollar over the course of a year, exacerbating the crisis.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’ve seen tighter defense in NBA all-star games.

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Christoph Schiller @schiller061.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What a joke of a game. Nobody needed this.

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Christoph Schiller @schiller061.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Time to go back to playing golf with Tr*mp, Harry Kane.

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Christoph Schiller @schiller061.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It's *literally* rigged for Argentina

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Christoph Schiller @schiller061.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Another great win for my team, the European Union 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 08/06/2026

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 28/05/2026

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

ARGENTINA | Tech billionaire Peter Thiel relocates to Argentina, citing
concerns about the U.S. future and shared ideology with leadership.
(NYT)

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New paper (w @elizabethacox.bsky.social ): Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 ICE activity reduced employment for undocumented immigrants in US, did NOT increase employment for U.S.-born workers & generated negative spillovers in immigrant-intensive sectors bit.ly/3QZWbxW

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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 05/05/2026

I heard some of you are looking for European tech alternatives, let’s not gatekeep: Chrome, Edge, Safari -> Vivaldi iCloud, Google Drive -> @proton.me, @infomaniak.bsky.social, @jottacloud.bsky.social Google Search -> @startpage.com, @qwant.bsky.social, @ecosiasearch.bsky.social, @mojeek.com (1/2)

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Andrew Haglington @andrewhaglington.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

View of Planet Earth from Artemis II...

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 19/03/2026

Important Miami facts: Miami (Ohio) was founded in 1809. The city of Miami, Fla. was settled in 1858. The Miami Valley in Ohio was named after the Miami people. The city of Miami, Fla. and Miami river were named after the Mayaimi people, no relation to the Miami people.

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NBER @nber.org · 17/03/2026

Open call for papers, Climate Finance Conference. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on October 22–23, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on April 30, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers...

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

* GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER PISTORIUS: WHAT DOES TRUMP EXPECT FROM A HANDFUL OF EUROPEAN FRIGATES THAT THE POWERFUL US NAVY CANNOT DO? THIS IS NOT OUR WAR, WE HAVE NOT STARTED IT @reuters.com

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Here’s the thing with Target: A lot of us started the boycott before it became “official.” Then, we learned we could ABSOLUTELY live without it. Then, we learned how much money we’d saved. So, no. It’s unlikely coming to an end.

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Christoph Schiller @schiller061.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

On a flight from Melbourne to Frankfurt (with a layover in Qatar) right now and our plane just turned around. I guess that seminar in Mannheim on Monday is getting a little tight now. Any advice on what the airline is required to provide would be much appreciated 🙏🏼

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