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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19h

Because Trump is a mobster: he's willing to unleash his stochastic goon army to have them killed. Same thing that keeps most members of Congress from speaking up.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026

Remember, at its base, the AI boom is about companies telling you they'd rather burn trillions of dollars in a furnace than pay you decent wages in exchange for the ability pursue their sci-fi and slavery fantasies.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18h

Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18h

Good evening to Juan Linz, who was right about presidentialism & wrong that 🇺🇸 was immune to its faults. A system that can’t remove an executive who declared himself a Mad King in the Oval today, & now is reiterating his OK with 🇺🇸 cities being destroyed has completely failed at its most basic task.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 16h

I so appreciate your work on this and wish the media would follow your guidance!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?

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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind

The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 19h

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of the most heinous examples is Matt Walsh suggesting that, actually, Jane Doe raped the frat boys because they were also under the influence. I thought it bore a certain resemblance to some of Andrew Johnson’s comments on slavery. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...

But Walsh isn't satisfied with victim blaming. He goes so far as to assert that, given the consumption of drugs and alcohol, the fraternity boys couldn't possibly be held responsible themselves:

I'm not kidding when I say that the Cornell frat guys should file a counter suit accusing the woman of raping them. According to her own testimony, some of the men were drunker than she was. By her logic, and the logic of her supporters, they were even less capable of consent. She was the rapist in that case. There's no way out of our current madness except by holding feminists to their own standards.

When I read Walsh's comments I see a level of male supremacism that leaves my jaw on the floor. It also reminds me of a quote from President Andrew Johnson delivered to Frederick Douglass when pressed about protecting freed slaves:

If I know myself, and the feelings of my own heart, they have been for the colored man. I have owned slaves and bought slaves, but / never sold one. I might say, however, that practically, so far as my connection with slaves has gone, I have been their slave instead of their being mine.

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s why we need you!

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lula (president of Brazil) “asked the court to investigate possible support from the Rockbridge Network, a [Peter Thiel-backed] conservative U.S. donor network co-founded by…JD Vance. It said a political organizer tied to the group works at Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign headquarters...” 10/4/26 …1/

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Lula seeks probe into possible US election interference

Lula’s coalition asked Brazil’s top electoral court to investigate actions benefiting Flávio Bolsonaro, while the Workers’ Party sought a Federal Police inquiry from the Supreme Court.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I remember in 2015 and 2016 when we talked fascism everyone said we were extreme. And now? Still so many with blinders on.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No could possibly have predicted that Trump calling Democrats “sons of bitches” would not be on today’s front page of the NYT, & Jake Tapper would be platforming Kevin Hassett to lie with impunity on the Sunday shows. 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is not frightening at all

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Grateful to live in California where I’ve been getting my voter confirmation postcards and voter info packets.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I checked this week, my registration was gone. Durham County, NC voter in good standing for many years, and I was no longer a registered voter.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're a decade into this and still getting fed "raises new questions" about very obvious and blatant corruption, self-dealing, and authoritarian capture. This isn't journalism. It's an institutional denial superstructure.

Headline: U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies - President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump's envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Since someone asked—the way to fix this is by big structural reforms. Proportional representation in Congress, add seats, add states, quadruple Congressional investigatory and policy staff, reform/disempower the Article III branch, rewrite admin law etc. All of it requires re-empowering Congress.

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A 🧵 Announcement: Our 2026 Pro-democracy Election Coverage guidelines. Americans need to understand the stakes of the upcoming elections. Here's how to cover the mid-terms like democracy depends on it. 👉Please read and endorse the guidelines. 1/n www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2026-electio...

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Sign our open letter to American journalists, editors, and media executives. Join us in demanding pro-democracy election coverage of the 2026 midterms!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026

just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bill Kristol gets this just right. Sexual assault is a prime tenet of MAGA thought... namely it's a "natural thing," and a MAGA government will work hard to ensure impunity. And this seems to explain the entire career of Ken Paxton, including his rise from obscurity within the Texas GOP.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@lilymasonphd.bsky.social is one of our leading scholars of polarization in U.S. politics, and she is very clear-eyed about how the widespread adoption of that frame has led lots of analysts to misdiagnose the problem with contemporary U.S. democracy

From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I rescued a black dog—Moostache. He’s the best although walking him at night is dangerous because he disappears.

Picture is of a small black terrier curled on the couch looking directly at the camera.

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I give these students so much credit. They are the reason everyone is now talking about the Cornell 7.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

like I hope it's obvious by now that all the "MeToo went too far!" bleating is because it got rapists in trouble and they don't think rapists should get in trouble.

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Annie loves Mpls @anniekp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An important thing we’ve been practicing for YEARS already with our 3 year old twin boys. “Can I give you a kiss?” And if they say “no” we don’t give them a damn kiss. They now ask us, too, and we practice that it’s okay to be disappointed and also FINE if we ever say no. This is about Cornell.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump is doing his best to weaken and undermine higher education, an area in which the United States has been a global leader since World War II, with economic and other benefits that extend far beyond the students, staff, and faculty at universities.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meanwhile, the exact same oligarchs who are controlling MAGA are controlling the whole post-MAGA Tucker thing. Anyone being duped by this is at least unwittingly wanting to be duped by it. It's utterly transparent and anyone who has even glanced at fascist political cycles knows what this is.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026

Our offense was sharing the 1998 “Mediaopoly” Smigel short. Would anyone else like a steaming pile of irony today?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Once again, they don’t follow laws or court orders, so the solution cannot be more laws or court orders, & we need to stop kidding ourselves about that, especially if we’re United States Senators. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 24/09/2026

This is a thread of paraphrased excerpts from the @gaslitnationpod.com episode "How Russia Won in the US and the Decade of Denial That Let Putin In" with David Corn, author of How Russia Won. Listen to the full episode here or wherever you find podcasts: www.patreon.com/gaslit/posts...

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David Corn on How Russia Won in the US and the Decade of Denial That Let Putin In | Gaslit Nation

Congratulations Russiagate skeptics! The US is now on its way to becoming a Russian-style oligarchy, with the help of traitors and useful id

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So true. My Dad (god bless him) had a secretary to handle things at the office and my mom to handle things at home. He died in 2008 without ever having had to use a computer or send an email himself.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the cult of the superior machines is inherently a patriarchal cult (like nearly all cults in recorded history) its theology classifies “AI” systems as either wives (systems that exist to serve and empower Great Men) or Gods (theoretical future systems, male-coded, that become the Great Men)

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really miss the old days of random fun posts and people finding each other. That’s how I found you Dan!

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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sarah I’m indebted to you for my sanity. Thanks for all you do.

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