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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kindly fuck off with the xenophobia, new york is for anyone who wants to make a life in NY work.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 01/09/2026

the thing about every major figure in this administration is that every single one of them is an irredeemable piece of shit and the thing about the next democratic congress and next democratic presidency is that they absolutely must treat these pieces of shit with all of the respect they have earned

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

arday was being used by these institutions as a symbol of their own goodness, and then he was used in turn by right-wing opportunists who wanted to smear them. he wasn't entirely a victim, of course, but he also wasn't the only one being dishonest.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It is amazing how much of the dramatic politics of the past 2 years, in many countries, have been caused by populations and leaders mistaking the temporary anomalies of the post-pandemic restarting of the world economy -- a burst of inflation, an immigration-reopening spike -- for permanent features

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Well, well, well [deletes takes] looks like all of my takes have been vindicated

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Headless Engineer - Spooky Light Dept. @cppilgram.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's like a corrupt cop put someone in jail and a corrupt judge got him out. People are advocating for an innocent man to walk back into prison to prove a point about corrupt judges, I'm just happy that two corrupt assholes counteracted each other to keep an innocent man free.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

we're gonna have to start Ricardo Pepi and I'm already conditioning myself by repeating "he is doing the best he can" to myself

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/06/2026

something I think about a lot is that pandemic relief and Bidenomics left the most of the working class better off in terms of money and savings than at any point in several decades, and a huge fraction of them threw the money into crypto magic beans and various meme stocks

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Genel Jumalon 🍉 @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.

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Dredgen Dale @xn--eck9c3e.zone · 22/05/2026

Fucking prophetic line

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

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Paula Blart, LADY Mall Cop, Ultra Ph.D., IQ: 212 @memevvitch.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I've actually also used this analogy multiple times in 2024 and 2025

Screenshot of Reddit exchange:

Title: When did the r/mycology sub become full of idiots?

kind of weird, I have had hundreds of posts in 2024 and 2025 with a good exchange of information, and providing real world experience with around 100 species that grow in my forest, and then today after correcting somebody handing out incorrect advice to a novice, I get downvoted to oblivion.

Word of warning, be very careful of advice from that sub.

Reply to OP:

dude you got downvoted because you were talking about Shaquille O’Neal’s young and tender 8th-grade feet. how you could omit this piece of information and then come here to complain is WILD

“Think of Shaquille O’neal, his feet were size 16 in the 8th grade but were still young and tender.”

why is it that EVERY time someone goes to another mushroom subreddit to complain about a different one where they were downvoted/banned/whatever that they just happen to omit a piece of crucial info that makes them look bad

if y’all think this person is in the right and deserves upvotes, then go ahead and keep upvoting their post!

OP response:
it was an analogy comparing how Shaquille’s feet were not “old and leathery” in the 8th grade. (like they are now) to how Dryad’s saddle size cannot be used to judge its age and whether it is old and leathery or young and tender enough to eat.

It was actually both an ingenious analogy as well as a funny one. But hard for some to understand apparently.

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joke or not, that was essentially the *reason* you got downvoted and your post omits it completely!

OP:
no need to put it in the post, the analogy was both ingenious and hilarious, the fact that it got downvoted exactly proved my point of this post, no?

Commenter response:
no, because I think the vast majority of people, regardless of subreddit, would downvote a comment like that

OP:
interesting, because I’ve used the exact same analogy multiple times in 2024 and 2025 because every time Dryads Saddle comes up, some ignorant yo-yo tries to spew out mis-information about it, and guess what? not a single downvote, ever.

So I stand by my question…”when” did they become idiots?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The claim "the fact that the incumbent party was successfully defeated in an election shows that there was never anything to worry about and democracy was fine all along" in the Hungarian case— with explicit or implicit analogy to the US— is maddening to begin with, bc it's a well-known fact 1/

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Jinkies Cowabunga @qaxxar.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Current status:

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Thicc Stauskas @thiccstauskas.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

God I love being burdened by glorious purpose

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"J-pilled" means "skeptical of Israeli influence" the same way that "arbeit macht frei" means "a preference for including work requirements in certain types of housing programs."

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 04/03/2026

[solmenly] this is why they put the atlanta airport where it is.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

ordinarily i'd be appalled by this procedure but i am having a lot of trouble getting upset in this specific circumstance

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Also, the entire vocational case for <not> majoring in the humanities/liberal arts rests on approximately no data at all:

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...

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Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report

Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

centrists like to use terminology disputes as a proxy battle for actual policy fights, and engaging is often fruitless. if you don’t like the slogan use something else. but the agency needs to be hollowed out, every existing agent needs to be put on no-hire lists, and there need to be prosecutions.

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AXEL LYCAN »» FC2027 @axellycan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is why calling them weird creeps was so effective, not just to damage the leadership psychologically, but to make it extremely socially embarrassing to be a known supporter of them in the general public. The point is to make society at large view them as they are, not the force they wish to be.

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Jacob Peterson @jacobpeterson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The consistent pattern of Republicans feeling no obligation to tell the truth and Democrats feeling even less obligation to call out that the former is lying has truly doomed us in ways that are hard to quantify.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/01/2026

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

When heavy military equipment is taken from its original context and placed in the hands of a domestic law-enforcement agency with little training in wartime scenarios, it becomes nothing more than an instrument of intimidation. It simply has no other purpose. Wearing jungle camouflage in an urban setting, pointing guns at civilians, driving around pointlessly in an armored personnel carrier — all of these egregiously violate military best practices. This is playing soldier dress-up to scare the pants off the locals — except the guns are real.

Notice also how many of these riot cops have their faces completely covered by gas masks and insect goggles. That is almost never seen in recent wars, because covering the face makes a soldier look less human, which is directly at odds with modern counterinsurgency thinking.

But covering the face to dehumanize the enemy is a common feature in first-person shooter games (like Half Life 2 and the Killzone series), where the player often has to slaughter them by the score. Doing it to oneself is, I think, a deliberate effort to broaden the emotional distance between law enforcement and the people who are being forced into submission.

It turns out that when you put normal cops into soldier gear, you don't get soldiers. You get paramilitary goons.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by HRC for six trans service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban. “I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.” Full remarks:

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026

you don’t hold these people in enough contempt, imo

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026

love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

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