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Shane

@shanecsmith.bsky.social
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I do philosophy (like actual degree holding not “I am deep trust me”) and photography and wonder what went wrong.

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 6h
The LDS Church says it sued podcaster John Dehlin because people might mistake his "Mormon Stories Podcast" for an official Church product. Then its own attorney accidentally undermined that argument. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-mormon...
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The Mormon Church’s own lawyer just undermined its case against John Dehlin
David Jordan’s defense of the Mormon Stories lawsuit clashes spectacularly with the Church’s earlier attack on Heather Gay’s “Bad Mormon” trademark
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 21h
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 22h
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 19h
To be fair, is it really the right time to do the right thing if someone else hasn’t stepped up first so I don’t have to stick my neck out? Really? (/sarcasm)
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 20h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 19h
But what else would explain this mediocre white woman coming in 5th?!?
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 28/09/2026
The Golden Age is going so well, Americans are nostalgic for 2008.
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somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social @somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HEM: "But you'll ruin that young man's life if you report him for sexual assault." ME: Correct. I'd prefer if he didn't get to become a Supreme Court Judge or run for President.
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Karen Gillan Points Up: Yes, That
ALT: Karen Gillan Points Up: Yes, That
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure
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Ironic Star Wars Moment
Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This 👇
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
THIS 👇 IS TRUE.......
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
America used to believe that their government could represent them, which includes responsibility by the represented to insure good ambassadorship. Conservatives are now content to be ignorant and when they do find out what the government does, demand that it be as cruel and unjust as possible.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is how you know they are all exactly as F’ing evil as he is.”
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All these elected officials do is go on cable news to blab about problems we know really well because they dedicated decades of their lives to not solving them.
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have been saying this so often the last few weeks that it is like a chant.
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s amazing to me that we went from “Bill Clinton got a haircut while a plane waited and it wasted money” to dead silence over making tax payers foot every private bill for someone who cheated his way into billions.
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spoiler alert for Mormons: your story about Jewish submarines is still not real. 😂
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And she is a Republican, so 2 in 5 chance we have the story of her multiple abortions before the year is over.
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We continue to have AI do creative work we say we wish we were doing, meanwhile I am still doing the dishes.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/09/2026
No nation can call itself a democracy until its leader has dismissed the entire press corps and replaced them with state-run media. Now, instead of Americans depending on the lying mainstream news, they’ll be able to get their information straight from the ultimate beacon of truth. buff.ly/53Rahyu
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Today’s Programming Lineup on Trump TV
“No nation can truly call itself a democracy until its leader has dismissed the entire press corps and replaced them with state-run media. Now, instead of Am...
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
…nor should they.
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Will Kerslake @wkerslake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I recently heard someone describe NIN as inverse Rick Astley. I will give you up I will let you down I will run around and desert you I will make you cry I will say goodbye I will tell a lie and hurt you
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yf thys skeet doth recevye 10,000 reposts ther wil be a *Ted Lasso* and *Slow Horses* crossovir episode.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Morally vacant and beyond redemption; they continue to defend him.
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 19/09/2026
I'm MrFeast and I just let six libertarians into these woods and me and my friends are going to hunt and eat them. The winner is the last one alive, and he gets some money and all he has to do is watch his friends get devoured. We eat him after he gets to hold the money.
a husky wolf holding a paw up to the camera and it looks like he's taking a selfie
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
“This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government” — me on MSNBC in January 2019. Many are pretending they just learned this information. Some pretenders were on TV with me! In re...
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The dumbest goddamn student I ever had" —William Kelley, ProfessorWharton Business School
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
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RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Damn
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Filed under: “maybe karma is real”
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jesus…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you present a program that has "moral" in its title, try to live up to it. For listeners who would have preferred me to be able to answer the questions in full and not have to answer ridiculous questions about Mao - get this from your library or bookstore: www.penguin.co.uk/books/451473...
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Limitarianism
We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The answer is never. And maybe at some point an interviewer can also point out the absolute disaster that Biden inherited in Jan 2021 from Trump, which everyone seems to have forgotten. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’ve known for months we’ve lost, but how badly is still coming into focus
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Going to really be impressive watching SpaceX go all the way from “first orbit attempt” to “dozens of launches that refueled another launch and now leaving for mars in *checks notes* the next month or so according to Elon the Space Nazis timeline. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
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SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week
Reaching orbit would mark a significant milestone.
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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The New Yorker Jesus Christ. Anyone who had even a word to say about Hunter Biden should be dropping their jaws over this.
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
(the comments about Tocqueville are 100% correct)
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Shane @shanecsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Correct, no notes. Full credit.
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