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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy Hobbit Day everyone! September 22 is the shared birthday of both Bilbo and his nephew Frodo Baggins. Be sure to celebrate with a second breakfast or more.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s the first day of fall, y’all.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My wife and I voted early yesterday. I encourage others to do the same. You never know what the administration will try to do the closer we get to Election Day itself. There are three Virginia constitutional questions pertaining to rights which I encourage everyone to vote yes on.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why is Pete Hegseth so interested in other men’s erections?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026

What I took from that era is that there is nothing the Republican Party can do that's awful enough, disastrous enough, to bring it any real accountability, because the whole system is wired to defend & excuse it. The Trump Era has only made that more nakedly obvious.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026

Even when the public turned against the war & elected Obama (who actually killed bin Laden), the GOP was never held responsible in any enduring way. It was back to full strength within few years of Obama's election. It brushed the whole thing off, flushed it down the memory hole, & the press helped.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have always thought that Bin Laden was wildly successful — much more than he had hoped.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A question about Musk and his children. How many kids does he have? How many are boys? Girls? Do the children live together or are they divided up by birth mother?

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Same person funds both the new-Nazi party in Germany and Republican party in US, but Corporate Media refuses to cover fact that Musk’s political agenda is white supremacy AND subsidies & no-regulation for rich & powerful to steamroll over “the volk” (as one would say in the original German)

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every time, I see or hear Vance, I can’t help but think “Thiel’s boy.”

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've read the book and listened to a couple interviews and this crystallized why I think "The Nerd Reich" is breaking through. Gil Durán is willing to just say the truth plainly, e.g., J.D. Vance is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary of Peter Thiel. It's refreshing!

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/09/2026

I joined @chrislhayes.bsky.social on "Why Is This Happening?" for a conversation about the strange roots of tech fascism. My book, "The Nerd Reich," tells the bizarre but true story of how these ideas migrated from the internet fringe to the Trump White House. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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’The Nerd Reich’ with Gil Durán

Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · September 1 · 53m

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think it was always the plan for Republicans to run up the national debt to unimaginable levels so that Democrats would be forced in perpetuity to adopt drastic spending cuts so that they can no longer support budgetary policies that help the average American.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The US President calls on the FCC to do something about polls he finds uncomfortable.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Voters got Orban out. Voters got Bolsonaro out. Voters got Trump out in 2020 (though other voters put him back in). Further back, voters got Pinochet out. You have to willfully shove your head in the sand to say voting can't do anything about this. In fact, it's probably the best way.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/08/2026

Fuck 'em up, Ninth Circuit panel!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Things have gotten so bad with American food safety that now they're recalling the food they imported to replace the food that was previously recalled.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well then, he needs to close his store in Virginia. Not welcome here.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I shrugged at Jeffries meeting Kushner, for basically the same reason Iran talks to him: meeting adversaries is normal. But the choice to make it secret, followed by surprise that Kushner leaked it, is another sign Dem leaders think they're in normal politics with good faith opponents, not a crisis.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Currently reading The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com and can’t put it down. I have read about some of the people and ideology reported on here, but this book brings all the threads together. It scares the crap out of me. Highly recommend.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Supreme Court is captured and beyond corrupt — it is no longer legitimate.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's easier to direct energy at an immobile camera than at an immovable Congress. The kinetic energy of polycrisis anxiety has to go somewhere 🤷‍♀️

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Stories about people vandalizing Flock cameras are fun, but they resonate for much bigger reasons. People are outraged at tech oligarchs undermining democracy. The cameras have become a symbol. It also means it's a chance to build a bigger movement. www.salon.com/2026/08/14/t...

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The Flock uprising is just the beginning - Salon.com

People are sick of tech billionaires trying to control our lives

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m sick and tired of former GOP Never Trumpers trying to tell the Democratic Party what to do. Why should we listen to them about political strategy when they themselves lost their own party to Trump.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think this gets to the heart of liberal-left complaints about the press. Political reporters think we're criticizing them for not being on "our" side. We're not. We're criticizing them for not being on journalism's side. Unplug from the DC celebrity access system and do honest independent work.

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bookriot.bsky.social @bookriot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"What reading offers is in some ways the opposite of cool. It is the solace of knowing that there are other weirdos out there who care about things that are expressly uncool: complexity, ugliness, indeterminacy, and the range of human messiness that cool is always trying to distance itself from."

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Reading isn’t cool. That’s what makes it great.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Currently reading. It’s very good.

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I saw Spider-Man Brand New Day with my wife yesterday. It was wonderful. I think that it may be the best Spider-Man movie yet.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happiest of birthdays to former President Barack Obama who turns 65 today.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Susan Collins is financed by a man who wants to make it easier to create nude pictures of children

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Stockpiles are rapidly depleting." "This pace of draws cannot persist ad infinitum.” Stored oil is at a “precariously low” level... "far lower than expected." "... eroding America’s ability to be the supplier of last resort." www.ft.com/content/86f3...

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US oil inventories fall to ‘precariously low’ level as Iran war disrupts supply

Decline could erode ability to supply Asian and European markets dependent on supplies from the Middle East

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LC @lc1summit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I got Covid before there were vaccines. I wouldn’t wish that illness on anyone. It was a brutal illness. Many of those who were in the hospital often died. The covid vaccines worked. Everyone should be grateful for them I stand with Dr. Fauci.

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"It’s been 10 years since the publication of “Hillbilly Elegy,” by Vice President JD Vance, and we finally have an Appalachian memoir worthy of its origins, by a Gen Z writer — an eighth-generation Appalachian — who is too smart, and too authentically of her place, to reinscribe stereotypes."

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Book Review: ‘All That’s Unseen,’ by Emilee Hackney (Gift Article)

“All That’s Unseen,” by Emilee Hackney, an eighth-generation Appalachian, offers a portrait both loving and cleareyed of the region that formed her.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I don’t care if they are made by Apple — they’re still pervert glasses used to undermine privacy.

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Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just no to ALL smart or AI glasses. Nothing is truly private with them — they all are surveillance plain and simple.

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