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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is gross. They’re going to let children get Hepatitis instead of giving them a cheap, safe, and effective vaccine. What happened to local authorities being wise to how unethical this is?

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apparently, 280 times, counting both reported and unreported cases in Kentucky?!?

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I listened to YIMBY Action’s debate on Prop 45 last night. I was struck by how the Yes side advanced absurd, frivolous and obviously wrong interpretation of 45 but also AB 130 with respect to infill, transportation and data centers.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I tried that too. Nor “play Fortnite.”

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wild. But more sabotage than self-own. For this administration, starving the government of revenue is a small price to pay for causing harm to immigrants. And at worst, reducing both revenue and IRS capacity may even be secondary goals here.

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Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This rollback on power plant emission limits won't affect California directly, but if upheld by the courts would set back our efforts to decarbonize highly polluting plants around the country.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It should be obvious, but talks about adapting to climate change or colonizing another planet often ignore that humans (and animals/plants that we love and love to eat) evolved to live on Earth in the climate we have today, and we built our infrastructure for today's climate. Everything else sucks.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wrote this in Jan 2025; I think it holds up www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...

With this in mind, the unwillingness or inability of America’s governing institutions to make use of the available constitutional tools takes on an additional significance. It is asking too much to hope that everyday citizens will be able to, on their own, closely track the decay of democratic norms and protections and formulate well-thought-through opinions on which presidential candidate is best positioned to protect them. It may be asking too much to expect that voters will choose rationally at all. (Readers may be familiar with a paper by Bartels and his co-author Christopher Achen arguing that Woodrow Wilson lost his home state of New Jersey in his 1916 reelection campaign not because of disagreement with Wilson’s policies among the state’s residents, but because of a spate of shark attacks along the Jersey Shore.)

Rather, it is the responsibility of politicians and other powerful actors—like attorneys general and Supreme Court justices—to use their knowledge and influence to maintain the integrity of the constitutional structure. That responsibility will weigh heavier during Trump’s second term. Whether these institutions can measure up to it this time around is a different question.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 06/09/2026

Unlike so many others, the @financialtimes.com nails the "OMG, 1.5℃ is gone" message: "Temperature overshoot requires urgent action" Yep. And every 0.01℃ matters. Reminds me of my NYT oped with @costasamaras.com: "The widely recited '12-year deadline' is wrong — and right." gwagner.com/12years

UN report: temperature overshoot requires urgent action to keep warming in line with Paris accord

With children, days might last forever, but years fly by. Something similar applies to climate policy. The current days of delay and debates can seem to drag on forever, but the next presidential election is right around the corner, and so is 2030. Concrete, realistic deadlines focus the mind and jump-start action. And jump-start we must.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We have one of those already in our neighborhood too!

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reply-bot lacks the means to detect irony/sarcasm

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Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: The #HomeEnergyChoiceAct just passed in California! The bill will give Californians the freedom and funds to purchase nonpolluting appliances like heat pumps and induction stoves. It now heads to @governor.ca.gov's desk. Thank you @asmmarcberman.bsky.social!

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A key CA bill my organization is sponsoring will protect Californians from a dirty coal project promoted by the Trump administration. We’re working to pass #AB40 to require common sense environmental review for coal projects. Tell #CaLeg to take action: earthjustice.org/action/tell-...

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Tell California legislators: We need an environmental review for coal in West Oakland

Developers are joining forces with the Trump administration to build a coal terminal in West Oakland.

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Assemblymember Mia Bonta @asmmiabonta.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

When Trump pours money into coal, California must fight back. My new bill, AB 40, ensures that no large-scale coal terminal is approved in our state without a full environmental review based on the actual project and the most current science.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur (The Kinks)

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ah! Well, you were certainly correct that it’s painful to watch 😁

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don’t think the original post here was really mistaken. The justices made very pointed and harsh comments to him, so “dressing down“ isn’t an unreasonable interpretation. It’s just incomplete. And yes, he made things worse for himself—seemingly not comprehending what the Court was asking of him.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The justices also had several issues they wanted him to speak to, including responsibility for the mistake, remedy, & client communication. When he revealed that he had not informed the client or the clients relatives of the reason, there was a “problem” with his brief, that led to more frustration

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

They repeatedly pointed out this isn’t an “AI issue”: if he had submitted a brief with false information because a rogue associate drafted it & he failed to review, he would’ve been in exactly the same position. And he kept just repeating his view that better AI policy is what’s needed.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

To be fair, not only was it an OSC on this specific issue, but also, it was all colloquy, not just dressing-down. Instead of answering their questions he kept suggesting the court develop rules to stop other lawyers from making the same mistake. They tried to redirect him but he wouldn’t engage.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I just deleted it in favor of posting it as a reply—but yes, one of the all-time best.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Imagine what the national news outlets would’ve said if Joe Biden had, seemingly through free association, suggested “military intervention” as a way to address turmoil in the bond market

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Premise of this take amounts to “if you ignore the fact that almost every city to adopt autonomous taxis is run by Democrats, and also ignore California, it becomes clear that Democratic Party politics is thwarting autonomous vehicle adoption”

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

OP posted this in the replies bsky.app/profile/cama...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This thread in response to David Perry's post of the (horrific) NYer piece on a Nobel laureate/serial child molester brings me back to something I run into all the time: a lack of awareness of how much society has changed over the past several decades.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Obviously not the point, but I don’t think SUVs have trunks, so I think she must have jumped into the way back

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That piece uses that phrase multiple times, without explaining what it means, or the relationship between whatever it is and expertise. Also, that essay itself was largely written with generative AI, and is remarkably repetitive and superficial.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

adding this to the 'but why should Black people today get reparations for something that happened so long ago?' file

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Here’s the original article, for anyone who prefers original reporting to whatever it is the NY Post is doing here—or just wants to avoid giving clicks to the Post www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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‘I Don’t Know That I’ll Ever Be OK With Myself’

Nancy Mace opens up about her trauma, why she does what she does and Donald Trump as a “father figure.”

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is why I’m not seeing Coyote vs. Acme (2026)—very principled stance

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

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Fascists Really Believe It

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And both of them are among the best political essayists out there, and I am not only untroubled, but happy, that they have the broad reach they have because of the NYT platform. Most of their other op-ed content deserves the criticism it gets, and more, of course.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Oh definitely. I’m just weary of people’s reactions to actual good NYT content being so negative. It just seems really like a tired cliché at this point to take any piece Bouie or Gessen publishes that’s good as an opportunity to trash NYT for their bad stuff instead of elevating the good stuff.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

No argument with the premise that NYT has been terrible on this for years— but the more constructive reaction to this op-ed would be more like “ everyone should read this!”— because it’s excellent, and it would be very valuable for everyone, especially median NYT readers, to read it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Also, it’s an excellent piece and I hope NYT readers who don’t understand the issuer the stakes read it and learn. I’m glad they published it.

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yes, but I don’t think M Gessen, who wrote this op-ed, participated in any of that, nor were they silent along the way?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wow they must have made a really persuasive case!

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Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m an Angeleno who raised kids here and it doesn’t make any sense to me either tbh

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