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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

CNN pulled a clip of Michele Tafoya recently saying "I've never said I was embarrassed to be from Minnesota" and then displays an unearthed and deleted tweet of her saying "I am embarrassed to be from Minnesota" 🥴

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 22/09/2026

You know what, he has a point. It *isn't* even believable. I don't in fact believe it.

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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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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mean "enjoy the camps" also tells you this person's limits of political engagement. They will vote against Put You In A Camp because they're a good person, but when the workers show up to build the camp they won't stop it, when the guards show up to take their neighbours away they won't stop it.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 16/09/2026

And because they think they're too smart for religion, they don't study actually existing religions that have litigated the same bullshit but in less stupid ways. So they're out there fighting religious fights the rest of us got over centuries ago, using the entire tech industry to do it.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 15/09/2026

across the street from the taco truck my wife and i were at, there were some democrats holding signs and having a chill moment of political expression. this dude in a minivan started circling the block with a giant trump flag hanging out the window. imagine wasting $4 gas to tell everyone you suck.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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theotheories.bsky.social @theotheories.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A pattern here is anti trans changes made under a labour government are assumed to be "reasonable and moderate" by people who would oppose them if a right wing government was doing them. This is worse for trans people because cis people just don't believe us when we talk about what is happening.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 13/09/2026

the biggest source of influence voters have over candidates for office is the promise of their support or lack thereof. votes, donations, volunteer hours. why on earth should voters give that support unconditionally? why should we not condition our support for a candidate on their support for us?

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 11/09/2026

Trump attempts to bribe voters, and the reaction from most folks on here is "You're an idiot if you think he'll actually pay." Sure, that's not in question. But beyond that, beyond even the blatant criminality of it all... it's a profound insult to the people he's trying to bribe.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 03/09/2026

Seeing the discourse about the new Harry Potter making the rounds again and it's just depressing. Cis people aren't going to care, they're going to watch the show, Rowling will continue to be richer than God, she'll continue to bankroll the UK's utter cruelty to its trans citizens. So it goes.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 27/08/2026

My (perhaps stupid) prediction: Google, Apple, etc. will not rename Lake Ontario in their maps applications, but they'll keep "Gulf of America." Because the people making those decisions have more respect for Canada than for Mexico - for reasons that I'm sure are completely inexplicable.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 23/07/2026

Call me crazy, but I miss *treaties.* You know, formalized agreements between nations that (at least in the US) have some democratic checks built into the process? These "deals" seem like a really crap replacement for the old treaties.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/07/2026

No fucking homophobia (About Lindsay Graham)

Screenshot from the no fucking fighting scene in peaky blinders

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch

Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 03/07/2026

pretty much all of these big non-denominational megachurches will list their culture war positions on the website but not their theological positions. this is because their theology is the culture war. they will have a campus the size of a shopping mall, 10000 weekly attendance, and believe nothing.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you think this isn’t true, find a mega church area and go to their website and find the “what we believe” section. It’s always like “we believe in the Bible as the inerrant word of god” and like…it *has to* be more than that.

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 14/06/2026

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

The top-left corner of Microsoft Word 2007, showing the ribbon.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

you gave up 4 runs in 4 innings to take the loss, maybe you should be less focused on quoting Genesis and more focused on Job and Numbers

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Nolan's best film IMO. Also features David Bowie's finest performance (as Nikola Tesla, no less), a very nice black cat(s), and the mother of all sucker-punchlines, which forces you to reassess everything you've seen.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

imo the primary anxiety behind "boys need positive male role models" is the necessity of ensuring that boys grow up to be men rather than something instinctively felt to be worse, i.e., not a man. you know. like a woman or a queer lol

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Cities and states should be testing the limits of federal power constantly, like the velociraptors testing the fence in Jurassic Park.

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Giraud, basically @giraud.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A spotify playlist of various artists where all songs are either “running up that hill” or “rolling down the hill”

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

There are so many Black self-liberation stories like this - just the coolest shit anyone’s done & I truly believe that if America liked stories of revolutionaries or rebels defeating elites as much as we used to act like we do we would have mined these types of stories more for film & television.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 09/05/2026

Evangelicals, for some reason, can't bring themselves to admit what's painfully obvious to the rest of us: They don't worship God, they don't follow Christ, and they don't particularly want to. The message of Christ isn't convenient for them politically. It doesn't let them revel in others' pain. 🧵

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 06/05/2026

Don't be shocked. In a hundred years, American historians (if there are any) will be teaching about how we won this war, just like the War of 1812!

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 30/04/2026

for the record, the statute she's dogwhistling at says that emergency departments have to save patients' lives even if they can't pay. it doesn't say that those same EDs can't send that indigent patient a massive bill afterwards. and guess what? they do. they do send people those bills.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 29/04/2026

Translation: Ford, GM, and Stellantis are institutionally incapable of innovating, their dealer networks are a bunch of head-in-ass losers, and the only way to keep these falling Goliaths afloat is to make sure no American ever experiences the competition's products.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/04/2026

a happy star meme with irreverent caption

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Tom @nowwearealltom.com · 10/09/2025

Just want to be clear that I don't condone anything. Bear in mind that anything that ever happens, anything whatsoever, happens without my express condonement

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 25/04/2026

i'm seeing the "surveillance car that doesn't work if it thinks you're an impaired driver" discourse today, and BOTH SIDES ARE RIGHT! distracted driving is a massive problem that needs to be addressed, and building yet more surveillance infrastructure is in and of itself harmful!

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 25/04/2026

genuinely this is just "your empire can't collapse now! i'm not ready yet!". i sympathize. if it were possible to have a stable transition to what seems like the inevitable multipolar world, i would want that. if there were a solution to the iran war that worked for all sides, i would want that too.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 23/04/2026

Parker Molloy is telling it like it is: www.readtpa.com/p/the-scolding

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 20/04/2026

It's crazy how the legacy automakers keep "making bets on EVs" and then failing hard, when their "bet" is that they can make an F-150 or a Silverado EV sell as well as the gas powered ones. If Ford, GM, or Stellantis made EV station wagons - real station wagons - they'd sell gangbusters*.

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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

a powerful reminder of the grotesqueness of man's sinful nature, thank u sonic

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 27/03/2026

even something as simple as "the number of unlawful border crossings has sharply dropped" paints a grim picture. people used to risk their lives and suffer to live here. it was that desirable. now, most people don't even want to visit the USA. this is what winning looks like i guess.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 26/03/2026

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

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The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up

I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 26/03/2026

We're about to hit an energy crisis that'll make the '70s look cute, and a huge driver of energy demand is AI data centers. When the petrochemical supply shocks hit and power utilities have to make load-shedding decisions, who's going to lose power? Ordinary people like you and me? Or ChatGPT?

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Samantha "Dismantle DHS" Starbreaker 🏳️‍⚧️ @starbreaker.xyz · 26/03/2026

My response to Mike Masnick's "AI May Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web", on my blog: blog.starbreaker.xyz/2026/03/26/t... TL;DR: "AI" isn't the answer, *you* are. We are. Together.

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The Most Important Tech – Starbroken

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

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