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Shawn Tiemann

@shawnt.bsky.social
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Nobody should give my words much weight but I’m still gonna say them.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
I'm sure X is remarkably friendly if you aren't the target of racial slurs and harassment campaigns. Anyway, I wonder how many "niggers" I'll have to sift through if I start posting there again?
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Dave Conrad @dconrad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1999 me: So, what's the future like? 2026 me: Donald Trump is president and in an appearance with Mike Tyson he just confirmed that he absolutely approved of a public execution by firing squad 1999 me: Fine, don't tell me, but you don't have to take that sarcastic tone
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Game of thrones. Ruined it as a rewatch. For a long time it was the BSG remake but it has grown on me since.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s wild.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
john carpenter writing the soundtracks to assault on precinct 13 and halloween
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is up there with the Washington post “let’s just humor him, what’s the worst that could happen” quote from November 2020 for “most revealing anonymous quotes of the Trump era”
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
say, this reminds me: After Susan Collins voted to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh wrote the decision that gutted a key federal bribery statute
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surprised it took this long tbh
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
it's JD's first day at standing school (Kent Nishimura/Pool via Getty)
pic of JD standing while talking to reporters on an airport tarmac looking off balance and a bit like 3 kids in a suit
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We need to get the scientists to look at the ‘thoughtful sensitive introvert tech guy’ to ‘raging bigot’ pipeline. There’s a clear pattern there. Maciej Cegłowski Paul Graham Palmer Luckey Etc
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 21/09/2026
Ross Douthat looks like if The Brain was also Pinky
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 19/09/2026
lately
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Speak at Your Own Risk
Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
oh...this is bad
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me: I don’t like her sitting and watching me eat My kid: “that’s the point of a cuck chair Dad”
A picture of a fat tuxedo cat sitting on a chair. She’s purrrrfect.
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A crude meme of Picard, a haggard old bald man in a red shirt. Text says ‘there are four’ and then a scribble covering up the original and a crude ‘E’s’ drawn over it. 

There are four E’s!
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
KC is a rushing team now
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A305
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL. U.
CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 14, 2026]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is denied. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court's preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U. S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026
you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Riley Grunch, I apologize, I was not familiar with your grasp of geopolitical vibes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
[creating women] give em 2 boobs [creating cats] no boobs but like 8 nipples [creating cows] do just 1 boob but with a fuckton of nips on it lol
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
he got him. he finally fucking got him
real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is absolutely true. My old boss was pushing immortality pills talking about how great it would be to live to be 150. I was like have you ever fucking met a ninety-year-old? By a certain age it hurts to sleep, hurts to wake up, hurts to eat, hurts to take a shit...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026
Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and
The results chart from Massachusetts showing Markey winning nearly every city by over 40 points
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just cancelled @1password.bsky.social “There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked.” Racism is non-negotiable. Yes, you should feel afraid of speaking up in support of abhorrent views.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My "of course we hire white supremacists, duh," comment is not playing well with the customers
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/09/2026
Matt from NTBTSTM
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/08/2026
This is a great podcast in that it shows how analysis of politics that is grounded in data and empiricism (Bouie) has an uphill battle in DC/NY against ideology and pure uncut reactionary ignorance (Cottle) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
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Opinion | The Right Is Rethinking MAGA. The Left Is Rethinking ‘Woke.’
As primary results trickle in, both parties are wrestling with what they stand for — and where they’re headed.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the funniest thing is jeffries being surprised jared leaked the meeting lol
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You can't make this stuff up.
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
OK I actually do want to know where the beef is coming from now
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Where is the beef coming from
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Shawn Tiemann @shawnt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Awesome country we have here where we fuck over our allies and neighbors and suck up to despots and dictators.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/08/2026
Hey quick question, what the FUCK does this mean
The author noted that while no one in the Trump camp suspects a sexual relationship, there is nonetheless a conviction that Harp is hopelessly in love with Trump and determined to be his “higher purpose bride.”
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
a lot of people posting “too bad for even hefner” but the thing is that he was a bad person who also could do the right thing out of self-interest, which is more than we can say for most after 2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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Never stop poasting @persistentpoasting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: We’ve spent a year tracking ICE’s massive expansion of detention for people with years-long ties to the U.S. It has strained courts, wrecked lives and been widely deemed illegal. Our report, based on interviews with judges, detainees and attorneys: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Brady Klopfer @bradyklopfer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The legend Robin Lopez
Tweet from Robin Lopez that reads: Biggest issue: if you’re being drafted, people are saying “we want you around for 4 years” & I can’t imagine anybody wants Enes Kanter or Royce White around them for even 4 minutes. We’ve seen this illustrated whenever Enes is near Turkey or Royce comes close to logic/reality
Robin Lopez responding to Royce white. White says: lol join the club ROBIN … I’ll slap your big goofy ass, bitch slap you like pootie tang! I will fight over these trans rights.

Lopez responds: yes we get it you love slapping people with women’s names
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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
'trump calls canada nasty' is such a funny trending topic lmao, no notes
Trending
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Collins and Murkowski vote no on Blanche
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Trump calls Canada nasty
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US economy loses 23,000 jobs
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The hot dog man sketch on I Think You Should Leave is the defining political document of our time
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