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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026

it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Literal death cult

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/10/2026

Heavy trigger warnings but holy shit

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Jess Kali 🏳️‍⚧️ @jessicakali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've been saying this for a minute. If your candidate might be harmed by trans people not voting for them, then why aren't you calling your candidate?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/10/2026

Oops the centrist consultants painted themselves into a corner again

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign.

However the anti-trans ads had less to do with Kentucky and more to do with the fact that we were in an election. Terry Schilling, the head of the APP, decided to test the ads in our election to determine whether or not the issue could win votes for the Republican Party. Earlier in the summer of 2019, Scholling had partnered with a behavioral science firm to try to find a wedge issue that resonated with suburban voters. That's right. The anti-trans ads did not come out of some firmly held conviction but was a purely political stance. Their research landed on trans athletes, specifically trans women, competing in women's sports. They tested their theory in the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial general election. Although I won, APP considered their test successful, because their research showed the ads delivered thirteen thousand votes for Trump Lite, which made the race tighter than anticipated.

You might hask how, in this political climate, I was reelected after vetoing the anti-trans bill. Because people respect authentic faith. The day I vetoed it, I explained my why. I said I believe all children are children of God and that I don't want people picking on these kids. I then countered their anti-trans ads with commercials talking about good jobs, healthcare, roads and bridges, public education, and

public safety. The result? The biggest win of my career. So don't tell me the Democratic Party should stop fighting for the rights of all people. Just explain your authentic why, and then get back to focusing on issues that touch all our lives on a daily basis.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Talarico and AOC have both made this error in the past month or so. It is not only a waste of time but a foolish alienation of a very reachable and energized base (trans folks, disabled folks).

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One useful thing this past decade has done is clarify fully for organizers whether someone is politically reachable or not. Folks who still sympathize with this regime have made a very conscious moral choice to embrace a politics of death. We are not obliged to spend time on them.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Comms 101: do not give interviews to the disingenuous opposition propaganda shithose outlet

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

that rhetoric never went away. one of the reasons that trump resonated in 2015/16 was that his muslim ban proposal brought synthesis to the way that the republican establishment and its base talked about muslims.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

in the immediate wake of 9/11, people talked about carpet bombing muslim countries with the same casualness as talking about a nominal tax hike.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Even if you were otherwise unaffected, it was a lesson in how easy it is to demagogue people and how isolating it is to not be unified with the sickness, to whatever extent.

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Q. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is, incidentally, ALWAYS where the anti-trans playbook was going to lead, because they fundamentally conceptualized being trans as having a mental disability, and every last scrap of ableism they were covert with there, they're mask off on now. They must be rejected--in whole. Hobbes is right.

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Scott @smadin.net · 06/09/2026

"over 90 percent of our communication is non-verbal" is a very funny thing to write out as text to be published on a website which people will read on their phones or computers and then argue about on text-based social media

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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reftpt93 @reftpt93.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

THIS. They are not any more *getable* than any MAGA person.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why were there only 3 measles deaths in the last 10 years Robert

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MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The fuck kind of pundit brained insanity is this? "You should vote to have your state represented by someone who represents the values of other more backwards states because branding or something."

Mr. Moulton urged Massachusetts Democrats to think beyond their state lines. He said the state should elect a senator who could appeal to the rest of the country to help the party build a governing majority in Washington.

He argued that it would not advance the progressive cause to have the Democratic Party branded as enthusiastically supportive of trans athletes in sports, when polls suggest that the American public believes differently.

“We need to think more about the entire Democratic team, because we’re in the minority,” Mr. Moulton said. “A lot of politics has become a purity test these days, but I’m not sure that’s good for the party or the country. We’re a democracy. We should be able to have discussions.”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The endless takes demanding "moderation" from Democrats never spell out precisely how this message is supposed to be delivered. "I am pro-trans but not too pro-trans" looks to the left like you are anti-trans and to the right like you are not anti-trans enough.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is precisely the problem, right here: In an information environment dominated by social media and right-wing propaganda, it simply isn't possible for Democrats to carve out a hyper-specific, razor-thin ideological position like this.

What Ever Happened to the Young, Exciting Moderate Democrats?

Mr. Moulton’s bid exposes the dilemma of the center-left in a year when progressives seem to be notching win after win. Moderate Democrats must distinguish themselves from the left without antagonizing the energized Democratic base. They’re struggling to articulate a message of change that isn’t necessarily progressive change. And the 2024 fiasco has made it harder to argue that moderation is the only way to win elections.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

sorry but the reason people don't like speed cameras is because they'll get you every time and most people believe they're the exception to the rule, totally safe, I'm a good driver etc. there isn't a secret second reason. it's bc people want to speed and feel entitled not to be ticketed for it.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

the sense of generational entitlement from conservative parents has been a really strong factor in Trumpism - the rage that their children are not replicas of them and their beliefs, of being told no, of being left behind.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"AI prompts are discoverable" is going to lead to so many funny lawsuit outcomes, my god

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026

Guys like Yglesias keep using the "HR training" and "HR lady" shorthand because it's less obviously odious than honestly saying that they don't think racism or misogyny are important issues worth dealing with and only matter as "luxury beliefs" for prudish upper class people

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

some of us been sayin jeffries sucks and needs to go

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 16/08/2026

Agree with everyone's absolutely correct understanding that the trumping up of the sexist caricature of the HR lady is a way to normalise misogyny, but would venture that it's also a way to flood and absorb legitimate frustrations with the ways that HR functions to protect corporate & screw workers.

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's an odd thing to say of a politician, but Jeffries has no ambition. He's an NYC machine flunky who got tapped by Pelosi to lead the Dems because her no. 1 choice lost a primary. This is as good as it's gonna get for him. He has no vision for the party or America. He's just defending his turf.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 15/08/2026

Trans people have been oppressed for decades. Centuries. Yes, we haven't always been a cultural fixation or had the Eye of Sauron on us. That happened because we demanded dignity and respect and humanity instead of being relegated to a marginal existence of sexual exploitation and poverty.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I will say, now when I see adults doing something disappointing, I tend to think "oh no one ever did a good job teaching you to be better, back when it was likely to take." It helps with patience but it's also somewhat dispiriting to me as an organizer, at times

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13/08/2026

I have reanalyzed polling microdata from two surveys in Wisconsin, generously shared with me by State Navigate, and put the results up Strength In Numbers for all to learn from. As far as I know this is the only public autopsy from Tuesday's miss www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-13...

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I re-analyzed the raw data from Wisconsin's primary polls. Here's what actually went wrong.

What raw data from Wisconsin's Democratic primary reveals about demographic weighting, late movement, and who answers polls

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

*whispers* BLM was popular

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

if you look back on, e.g., the Harper’s letter, it dropped at a time when a majority of the public supported burning down the Minneapolis Police precinct. it’s the reactionary centrists, not the public, who felt alienated.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

this is something I talked about on IBCK when we were discussing Chatterton’s latest book. these guys all frame 2020 like the mainstream left completely alienated the general public, meanwhile there was a big referendum at the end of the year and Dems cleaned up

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/08/2026

Lefty news sites used to pay trans writers to write basic explainers about this and states actually listened and started allowing us to change our ID sex. And then lefty news sites stopped hiring trans writers to write basic explainers about this and now we have this.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Again this points to the Michigan Race being entirely fixable, after only a week after the primary 91% Dems back Sayed after a fractious and close primary

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