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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

feels spiritually linked to the rise of the prosperity gospel too

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

everyone has their own personal senate race this fall that will be more satisfying than any other if the republican goes down for some it’s texas, for some it’s kansas, etc maine is mine

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Rabid hatred of all transgender people—including veterans!—is the point. And the Respectable Republicans™️ and Thoughtful Conservatives™️ are all on board with it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

this one's low even for bari

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

truly a man ahead of his time, the modern epstein-loving republican party would never memory hole him for being an abusive monster

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Indeed, there are at least three other instances over the past decade in which defendants accused of sexual assault or trafficking were offered plea deals by Paxton’s office that allowed them to avoid both jail time and placement on the state’s sex offender registry."

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Ken Paxton's office struck plea deals in three other sex abuse cases beyond one facing scrutiny

The revelation comes as the Texas Attorney General struggles to gain ground with voters in his U.S. Senate race.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026

if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...

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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028

Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

just caught one of the Trump government-funded ads on TV, and man, these fucking morons haven't a clue what they're doing, do they?

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

they so desperately *want* to do an Orban and be terrifying authoritarians but they're shit at their jobs and the dear leader has a 35% approval rating and they can't understand why none of it is working

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He does a terrific job of depicting how single-minded idealism and deep cynicism can coexist in the mind of a fanatic. It's that seeming contradiction that really gives the movie its heft, and it's odd how few critics seem to have picked up on that.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am once again left wondering whether I saw the same movie the critics wrote about. Every review plays up the cynicism/sleaziness in Pattinson's performance, but what makes him genuinely chilling is that his Hansen is also a true believer on a crusade.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PRIMETIME is really very good, falls just short of being genuinely great. I think there are individual scenes that could have benefitted from a little more visual restraint, but the overall effect was gripping and sticks to your brain for a while afterward. Incredible cast.

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Sysfin @sysfin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta ban the whole damn industry.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am an old fogey because I think "having the self-control to deny yourself things you shouldn't have" is maybe the actual omnicrisis

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026

if you are a Dem who for whatever reason does not feel comfortable actively defending trans rights (which you should) you have two good response options: 1. ignore it! just keep running ads about the economy 2. “I am focused on your pocketbook, my opponent is focused on children’s genitals”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026

I think this is going to cause severe problems for Dems starting in 2030, because “but they’re worse” will be objectively true but won’t work on an electorate with the memory of a goldfish, but it is nice that “but communism” isn’t doing shit for Rs right now

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Sheri @sdmap.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator during the Great Depression, inspired Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel, All the King’s Men, later adapted into a 1949 film that won Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. There’s a recent biography on Long. #Booksky

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

yeah the initial marketing was both wildly overhyped and aimed directly at their fellow oligarchs and the combination has left them in a PR hole I'm not sure they're going to be able to dig out of regardless of the actual merits of the technology

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026

the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable what a huge waste

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The city referenced in quote has less than a thousand people. It’s absurd. *That* place is going to have a professional police department? With rigorous oversight and proper training? No. Of course it won’t.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/09/2026

I am not personally a fan of Piker but the president is setting the world on fire and robbing us blind and one of these things is important to our day to day lives and one of them is not and I am pretty sure most people know which one is which

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

do you know who really preys on the working class? reckless drivers who often kill working class pedestrians with impunity because they’re too selfish and narcissistic to follow the speed limit

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?

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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

USPS is still going forward with the ballot stopping measure despite the court order.

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 30/08/2026

I think the punditariat's audience, which is older people, just cannot even remotely fathom that white nationalists run the country—that they do not believe it when they are told, nor recognize it when they see it. The pundits fall back on threats from the left, which are legible to their audience.

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Jack Hanford, JD, LLM @simplyjack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

FDR wouldn’t have done half of it if Huey p long wasn’t out there calling him a punk bitch

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fascism has a lot of innately appealing aspects and the romantic emotional notion of a world governed by action and imbued with heroism is something that cuts across ideologies. A lot of people are being childlike about this.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You guys ever listen to Geese? This shit is like Neutral Milk Hotel for people with no standards for themselves

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Me fail English @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You can thank the American tech CEOs who decided to lie about this shit, shove it down people’s throats, and threaten them with inevitable destitution. They salted their own fields on this one.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/08/2026

if responding to racists with “fuck you, you should be excluded from polite society” means I do not support academic freedom then I guess I don’t support academic freedom

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I feel like BlueSky is totally whiffing on having a dialogue about Huey Long, who JD Vance favorably quoted in his speech yesterday, prompting some debate about Long in MAGA world today. Shouldn’t misuse of Long be in BlueSky’s wheelhouse?

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Sherman Van Buren @shermanvanburen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The JD Vance comment on Huey Long is kind of revealing of how the "populist" right understands and abuses Long. Long's slogan was "Every Man a King", yet in order to make it actually work for his agenda, Vance has to tack on random migrant/crimebaiting shit that was never part of Long's program.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

people who work for closely for Donald Trump in 2026 have opened every imaginable door with regards to how you can talk about them. go fucking nuts. there's basically no way you can treat them that isn't how they have implicitly said it is ok to treat others.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If trans Spider-(Wo)man fan comics are going to be a thing, I propose Iron Man gives Spidey some Stark Industries Pride Socks.

The infamous Lockheed Martin pride socks

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The unpleasant reality that we need to admit to ourselves is that the discourses on social media do matter in real life. They’re the modern-day salons shaping the ideas of our leaders and intellectuals. Twitter isn’t the least bit representative of society but it’s very much real life.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you exceed the speed limit you deserve to pay a fine like a criminal

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Sherman Van Buren @shermanvanburen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Very cool how I get my first job interview offer after three months of searching, then they cancel an hour before because they're "moving forward with a different candidate."

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Lynette Dumalag @lynettedumalag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

With yesterday’s primary election, our community has experienced a setback – it’s a continuation of the status quo. But my feeling is that this is only the beginning. We have great progressive candidates up and down the ballot who need our support in November – so let’s get to work! /end

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Lynette Dumalag @lynettedumalag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am also so proud of the first-time delegates, first-time voters, and first-time volunteers that we supported and introduced into the political process. If nothing else, our campaign will have a legacy of inclusion, and for that I am grateful. 3/

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Lynette Dumalag @lynettedumalag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Senate District 46, thank you. The momentum, energy, and passion on this campaign have given me hope that things are changing for the better. I am so incredibly proud of the race we ran – we chose joy and positivity, we put people first, and we stayed organized and hardworking. 1/ #SD46 #mnleg

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