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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll be taking a break from work this week to get to the bottom of something. A case that's been bugging me for years. God help me.

gate A11 at Minneapolis airport. A flight to Grand Rapids.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was detained by ICE last year in DC when I was walking to the gym.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fascism Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I try not to curse online, but the rationalist folks are just absolute batshit about real risk of tech. It’s gonna melt the icecaps before it learns to nuke us all. Fuck Rokos basilisk

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

An administration of divas, by divas, for divas

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Les LeMieux @leslemieux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm thinking there's a Pulitzer Prize waiting for the reporter dicovering the identity of the FBI applicant who engaged in beastiality and what their relationship is to Kash Patel causing him to change the standard and allow that person into the agency.

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This feels like one of those games Ryan Day coaches not to lose then loses

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Ramzy Nasrallah @ramzy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Great job by McClain being beaten so badly he was in position to make a roadrunner-ass INT

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saiyan just barely threw that inside. A foot left and down and smith catches that 100%

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 11/09/2026

Watching sports on Netflix is undignified

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Blood and Wine for Witcher 3 probably best I’ve played, even beyond ME3 which was also great

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s 11 PM and my brain is having flashbacks to like 2014 Twitter.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

All of us who worked in COVID wards saw the horror of COVID. All sorts of people died- those with comorbidities. Those previously healthy. They died fast and often alone, except for their nurse (heroes). This guy can go fuck himself with his revisionist history 🤬🤬🤬

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It doesn't really sink in how insane the Roman Empire was until you write a sentence like "We have the skeleton of a man in York who was bitten by a lion."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Most headlines refer to this as "misspent" or "misappropriated". Whether by a legal definition it's "stole" those other words GREATLY understate what happened. They took $10M of public money for childrens health care and laundered it thru a string of orgs to get it into a political campaign account.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think something a fair number of people refuse to engage with is that American Jews have good reason to fear for their physical safety. Zionism is a morally and practically disastrous response to that, but the underlying concern is legitimate.

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When you travel enough, you can become peripheral to where things happen and they become tangible. I drove past Tree of Life regularly in the years immediately after the shooting. Jewish friends had security during temple hours. Churches I went to growing up almost never locked their door

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh come on it can't be that big of a reveal-- holy shit.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is basically right-wing Lysenkoism. There’s no “conservative science” or “socialist science.” There’s just science, and people who want to hijack the prestige of science on behalf of ideology.

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Phenomenal news to get this guy in a regular outfit.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Don’t worry things will get stupider

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“If it’s that or Rhodesia, shoot the pig” is an all timer @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You’re going to screw up the shakedown if you follow legal Mob tactics up and down

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Don’t worry, folks. We’re not boning. She’s just my ethereal wife from heaven. Just your regular sky priestess 50 years my junior who grants me a love so eternal. You guys know what I’m talking about. Anyways no idea where my hag wife is, might be dead.”

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Honestly it would be better if they were having a fling. Gross, but consistent with Trump being kinda of a sex pest his entire life. But from those letters…. They are both deeply psychologically unhealthy people…

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Man, I wish Trump were just having an affair with someone forty-five years his junior. That kind of relationship would make sense. It would be gross, but intelligible. The reality of the Trump–Harp . . . thing . . . is so bonkers that I don’t have words for it.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Trump’s Human Printer Is Cray-Cray

It would be much better if they *were* sleeping together.

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Ted R @schleyman4.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I just watched a clip of her speaking and this is really weird.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The basic reality is starting in 2016 I think a lot of people were put in the impossible position of figuring out how to deal with somebody they loved failing a very simple moral test, and then embracing the results of that failure, failing the test again, sometimes failing it a THIRD time.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s an internal monologue for people who lost theirs after their 13th concussion.

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