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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
what this fails to mention is that hasan piker spent $290 million to elect democrats in 2024 and then embedded himself in the executive branc--[flips back and forth through notes] wait
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
there's no shortage of media if you're into that kind of shit. instead of a series of tired tropes written by a terf asshole, pick up some Tolkien and learn about the corrupting nature of power with a stoned wizard
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
flanked here by two guys who own ferrari car beds and a KAWS table lamp
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
El-Sayed has yet to denounce Galliano
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
what happens when your party is full of christian nationalists and groyper dweebs www.axios.com/2026/08/28/g...
axios.com
GOP convention will have to compete with NFL openers for attention
Some operatives fear the party will struggle to persuade voters to choose politics over football.
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
i can't be racist, some of my best fathers are colombian
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
well good moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo [voice crack, cough] ning [deep inhale] captain
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
After Mamdani, I thought Democrats would wake up to the fact that treating people like they're stupid and willfully misreading criticism of Israel would not play well with voters. Very foolish of me.
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/08/2026
Fultz denied was using Flock to stalk his ex. He claimed to investigators that he may have been showing her how it works, and denied spying on her. The report also states that he said “he had her location on Snapchat, so it wouldn’t have benefitted him to track her on Flock.” But that's not all.
404media.co
Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
would go so hard on a social studies text book in the 90's
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The groyper kids posting this stuff are the up and coming generation of Republican staffers and candidates
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dems too busy being Islamaphobic about a liftbro on Twitch in the name of "fighting antisemitism" to notice that ICE has been going hog wild on the down low since Homan took over for Bovino and told the Gestapo to be a bit more subtle
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i remain astounded ken paxton looks like that (jim nantz left near a radiator overnight)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
local12.com
Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TikTok is obsessed with the idea that the CERN shutdown caused a global disruption in women's menstruation patterns.
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Rupar provides a helluva service but man, as someone who also used to watch a lot of speeches, you're watching too much video if you're editorializing over minor facial expressions
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
many examples of this, but the most baffling to me was El*n taking away blue checks and having people pay for them. he saw a basic internet safety thing and thought it was about status and now we have accts with 1200 followers tweeting racist schlock authoritatively
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113642 @justdanthistime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
zohran [waving power broker in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh [audience going berserk]
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
buzzy billion-dollar school shooting tech
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The "school security industry" is a way to bankrupt school districts by redirecting funding away from teachers and giving it to various kinds of cop-adjacent chuds instead. The Plot To Enslave America
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
[all my apes gone voice] all my sullivans dan. is this anything
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026
Funny how this sort of thing never comes up in all the “free speech”, “cancel culture”, and “wokeism” hand-wringing
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the way I talk about BMW drivers is the way most people talk about pitbulls
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
hey siri exonerate a multibillion dollar company
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
any non-doctors in the bill cassidy diaspora who heard "you know bill's a doctor now" from their parents: wishing you a very happy copy/paste send text
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Insane that AOC is being quoted as saying "Woke 1 was crazy" when this is what she actually said. youtu.be/SFwAnMLBSOw?...
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh, let's make fun of the girl who took a risk and put herself out there creatively
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
oh no did he start a meme coin? host official events at his own resort and golf courses? advertise sheldon cologne and hats on the senate floor? push the military to buy drones from his family?
Trump truth social post: 

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse backed laws to benefit wife’s company and their ‘financial interests’: ethics complaint: nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Serial spawned a slew of sober examinations of cases that gave a neolib twee segment of society permission to engage with the true crime genre, which was previously seen as tabloid schlock (Dateline, Nancy Grace, etc). but all of it dramatizes and otherizes while avoiding systemic issues.
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
wild to see how eager the media and establishment are to make a broad narrative switch when AOC, Bernie, Warren didn't endorse Hong, who had an abysmal couple weeks. The candidate still matters, especially when Dem primary voters are tuned-in and can sniff out when someone isn't ready for primetime

CNN: David Crowley boosts Democratic establishment with Wisconsin primary win over democratic socialist Francesca Hong
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley will win the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor, CNN projects, defeating democratic...
Axios
Socialist fever breaks: Takeaways from Crowley's win
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated socialist Francesca Hong by about 3,000 votes, dealing a blow to the progressive...

The New York Times
Hong’s Defeat in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Progressive Movement
Francesca Hong's defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot...
WSJ: Left-Wing Surge Stalls in Wisconsin as Francesca Hong Narrowly Loses
Democratic socialist led in recent polls, but Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley beat back a progressive groundswell.
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i think we're being led around by a handful of people who if given the choice, would take a nutrition pill instead of eating a five course meal
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
The world’s richest person ended medical and food support for the world’s poorest people to muted response, with explanations for the muted response including “no one cares about starving kids in Africa” and we’re in a heated debate at the most recent movement centering racial justice being “wacky”
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the attacks on fauci are considered sober hindsight when they are and have always been the ravings of unhinged wellness influencers
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the child:
Van Jones recreating Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech painting.
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I also like how they put in this dopey photo of the qatar plane looking stupid above the graf outlining its shortcomings
Photo of the new VC-25B "Bridge" aircraft that has been adopted for use as Air Force One is seen here delivering Trump to Turkey on July 7. (Abdullah Güçlü/Pool/Anadolu/AP). The photo shows the 747-style jet with an American flag sticking out of the top.

Text of the story: "The operation, and the Iranian threat, came days after the president began using the newer Boeing 747-8 gifted by Qatar for use as Air Force One. Trump flew to Turkey on that aircraft after the red, white and blue jet underwent upgrades costing hundreds of millions of dollars. It was fielded by the Air Force in July but lacks some of the defensive countermeasures included in the legacy Air Force One."
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11/08/2026
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

AXIOS

Al has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.
• Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books - a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane - makes it easy to lose the thread. Al can help you pick it back up without starting over.
Ш I really got into using Al while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:
• "T'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
• The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
@realDonaldTrump Mar 27, 2005 There are MANY great and wonderful things happening, but most of all the boffo ratings for The Adam Carolla Project! @realDonaldTrump Mar 21, 2005 Basketball used to be exciting but there are no more springs in shoes anymore. Too bad. @reebok
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
(mending fences between my twitter friend and my bluesky friend who are feuding) hey cmon. hey. you guys are both just completely obnoxious
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.
mamdanimonitor.com
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We expect the Mamdani administration to uphold a simple, non-negotiable standard: no one with a history of antisemitism or hostility toward Jews, Zionists, Israelis or Jewish institutions should be ap...
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
microbrew insult in 2026? what's next, skinny jeans and a glee reference?
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
it's a publication with an engagement strategy built around Sayre's Law: academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
the movie itself kinda deserves it -- it's a nice piece of surveillance and facial recognition propoganda
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"I think Bill Maher said something very insightful"
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
triscuits are cool because you can see what a wicker basket tastes like with hummus
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
somebody microwaved fish in the office
tommy lee jones on the radio in the movie U.S. Marshals
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If some rando put a similar poster up at a university, the DOJ would threaten to cut funding
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
in the olden days a staffer would have to pitch this insanity, hire a firm, an artist and get a graphic through multiple levels of appprovals and someone in that chain would say "wait what the f***." now with the power of AI, it can be shared to a large audience with virtually no oversight or buy-in
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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
if I'm such a huge asshole, tell me why United upgraded me to Economy Plus, riddle me that hot shot
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