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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026

It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026

The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How come he managed to stop 8 wars in like his first 6 months, but not a single one since? Why is this number the only one that is consistent for him, of all the ones he makes up?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shit, I haven't seen them yet but will be watching. Along with all the people who come in to work here, the majority of Bellevue residents are non-white, and a third are immigrants – not many Hispanics, but still fucking scary for everyone.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is terrifying. And he degrades over time; the first questions, his responses are tangentily related, but as they continue, they're increasingly untethered. Also, I'm assuming the repeated "MSDNC" was an accurate quote and not a typo? And then what was this??

have done something about that. Give back hundreds of billions of dollars. I have other forms of tariffs I can have. I just got a tariff from Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham, first time in 50 years. But, I think, I think it's a shame. I think what the Supreme Court did is an absolute crying shame.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What I keep asking myself is, has it always been this bad? Or is there an unusual number of venal boobs in charge right now?

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No but for real, listening to Jack Smith is like peeking through the looking glass at some unthinkable alternate, not-the-dumbest timeline, where serious people actually are respected and in charge

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is it too early to start pushing for Jack Smith as the next president's AG? Release the hounds!!!

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone spent so much more time putting together this poster of the texts + "damning" photos than they did checking if the texts actually showed anything.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What the everloving fuck even is this? Who wanted this? Also, is AGI now SGI? Is ASI SSI? How does this even work?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a freelancer, I'm always baffled and astonished that most Americans get our healthcare from our jobs. It makes zero sense that two of the more important things we need to live are knotted together, so it's not just the gut-punch of losing your job, but the terror of losing healthcare too.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Listening to this whole clip...Trump doesn't like it being called "artificial" because it's the first thing he's ever met that he believes is actually more intelligent than he is. Because it's entirely under his control, so not a threat to his ego. & if it's smarter than him, it MUST be Super!

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is behind a lot of the fear and panic about controlling the border – the conviction that of course everyone in the world wants to be Americans, and the border is all that is stopping them.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That some of the online political left vs liberal discourse is churn from streamer fan wars makes too much sense. (The extent to which all online debate comes into focus most clearly when viewed through the lens of mid-aughts BtVS shipper flamewars...)

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THERE IS A HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How different the world might look now if the 24-hour-news-cycle had never become a thing

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you're a citizen, you have no reason to fear...unless you're some sort of coward who's afraid of getting punched in the face, arrested, detained, or shot dead. What a wimp.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is too true and says more about these times we live in than Trump himself

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What really sucks about the anti-DEI is, because so many of those programs were toothless, underfunded, or unevenly implemented, it feeds into the white male superiority complex as well as the persecution complex. "Even with everything stacked against them, white men still dominate!"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

See, I don't think Musk actually rigged the election, besides what we all saw him do openly, paying people off. But I think TRUMP believes that Musk rigged it. Because Trump has no idea how democracy works and thinks all elections are just about who can convince the government they got more votes.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So Mamdani is actually just using taxpayer funds to do stuff for & communicate with his constituency. I believe that's legal for the mayor's office. Meanwhile Trump made like $2 billion on the presidency last year. Can we get more investigation into where my federal tax dollars are going, please.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That is remarkably self-aware! ...oh wait

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This only "becomes a political and moral crisis" if reactionary centrists relentlessly frame it as one. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Abdul El-Sayed’s Hasan Piker Problem
In Michigan, the Democratic Senate candidate’s alliance with a hard-left streamer has become a political and moral crisis.

By Jonathan Chait

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/08/2026

Gary, Indiana is without power for the 11th straight day after storms. This is climate injustice.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ok but two things: 1. the bar isn't "helpful", its "truthful"; offering a bunch of lies with a smile isn't actually the goal here 2. people are pissed because the WH press insists on defending an ally of American fascism, not because they think you were lying about her being helpful

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You've almost got to admire the ability to say with a straight face that anti-white, anti-male discrimination is the real problem. Do they practice before a mirror?

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I submit this is the most important story of the day. In 2017, a sailor told the President that the old steam carrier catapults were better than the new electric ones, probably in the same way your elderly neighbor says carburetors were better than these new fangled fuel injectors.

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

youtube.com

The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Incredible how many Republicans just write and produce their own attack ads against them.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It is sort of insane that we are talking about trying to save the desecration of knowledge by the US federal government like its the Taliban

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fascinating how this worldview hinges on the assumption that everyone knows far right beliefs are terrible and unwanted and people are 'forced' into them. While no one forces people to have far-left beliefs. Instead, it's the leftists' own fault for believing in something too good to be true.

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mle @sleepless-in-pnw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Framing this as a generational issue is wild. No, SSRIs don't work for everyone; some people do need an off ramp. That's not because these drugs don't work; that's because people have different brain chemistry and mental health conditions have many different causes.

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