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who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 17h

The US government's statements about the Iran War starting with saying they had defeated Iran a dozen of times to then saying hey if they nuke American cities that is actually okay is the kind of shit that only speaks to a base that has willingly locked themselves in a room with a charcoal grill.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 06/10/2026

We’ve had so many “Any Other Presidency Would Be Ended By This” statements that it feels banal to point out, but suggesting the deaths of millions of people by a foreign power would be a fine cost because they’re politically inconvenient should end a presidency in any functioning democracy.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Get off Twitter (and spend less time here, too) y'all

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

only a good guy with a thought experiment can stop a bad guy with a thought experiment

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

the birthright citizenship question is, to me, the clearest evidence that originalism as practiced is just living constitutionalism for right-wing jurists. the originalist answer is the conventional one is the textual one, but that was basically unacceptable to much of the right.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

for reference: Stockwell Day was basically the Canadian equivalent of Ted Cruz/Ron DeSantis in the 2000s (ran a splinter right-wing populist party that split the vote with the PCs)

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

what the fuck do you mean STOCKWELL FUCKING DAY was the voice of reason here

At lower political levels, too, Republicans have taken notice. In mid-May, Stockwell Day travelled to Oklahoma to meet with state lawmakers who invited him to speak with them. Among the topics they wanted to hear about was Alberta separatism and the possibility of American annexation. Mr. Day, who once led the Canadian Alliance and held cabinet positions in both Alberta and Ottawa, told them he saw no chance of success for either outcome.

The meeting nonetheless persuaded him that American continental expansion has become a subject of genuine consideration in Republican circles.

“There’s serious interest in the U.S.,” Mr. Day told The Globe. That may not mean a Machiavellian plot to take over Canadian territory, but “there will always be those who look to capitalize on disruption.”

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

who is ready for the Red Deer People's Republic post-referendum

A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.

The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province’s resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence.

Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta’s pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

feeling this hard -- i am so glad that there is an actual conversation that's taking place around cornell, and that survivors coming forward isn't being dismissed as 'woke 1' or whatever the fuck. and it's also hard to ignore that we've been here before, in the recent past, and nothing changed.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reminder to any lefties out there tempted to hand it to tuck tuck - this guy is not our ally

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Quelaag @quelaag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For the first time ever since I’ve ‘retired’ I’ve been sitting on my ass binge watching Elden Ring lore videos while I draw and this is very nice

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve seen reports estimating that the Iran War is costing us $1 billion a day. Over ten years that’s $3.6 trillion. So how about we trade free college for a stupid war?

U.S. Department of Education • 1h • O
Everything comes at a cost... that falls on the American taxpayer.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/socialism/
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The Real Cost of
"Free College"
$3.6 TRILLION
over ten years
THE PROMISE
All student debt cancelled and free undergraduate tuition
THE COST
$3.6 trillion with tuition covered at all institutions.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fun facts: Chris Rufo’s grandmother was an Italian immigrant who, I’ve heard from a reliable source, never learned to speak English fluently. Rufo’s wife meanwhile is an immigrant from Thailand. And the director of the Manhattan Institute who employs him? The son of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think this is especially important because 'sovereignty!' has become a cynical flag of convenience for expansionist or revanchist powers seeking to revise the status quo - Russia, China, Iran, even Trump's administration - and we just don't need to be credulous fools about it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

doing some more scanning tonight, here are a few more photos that i thought were pretty neat

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The most important way to fight data centers is to take everyone you meet protesting one and organize with them to scare the shit out of "your" politicians so they don't *dare* compromise on *anything*.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"By theoretical degeneration...I mean the erosion of coherent emancipatory frameworks that incorporate the contradictions of the present. In their stead has grown up a reactive and accomodationist theory that...accepts some of the right’s own viewpoints." salvage.zone/on-theoretic...

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On Theoretical Degeneration - Salvage

By 1900 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the strongest socialist party in the world and its Erfurt Program the model for almost all others. In 1912, the SPD was able to win 4.25 million vo...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, it's basically Schmitt's conception of Grossraum

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

it's actually quite striking to me how much the illiberals are starting to argue, quite directly, "we want a fragmented chaos on our frontier, so we can dominate it more easily" feels like decadent roman empire frontier management tbh here's one about canada:

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The Centrifugal Strategy

Fragmentatation as strategy in the northern Monroe Doctrine.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?

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Sad Old Man Crying

ALT: Sad Old Man Crying

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone started putting up "Remigration" stickers outside of my apartment building. Eat my shit and hair you're not getting rid of me.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So that critique is really an unfair jab at 'pulpy' genres, but pulp genres regularly produce surprising great art precisely because they're open to experimentation. That said, I think there is a real divide here between what we might call 'expressive art' and 'functional art.'

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

once you begin to notice this pattern, you see it everywhere

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This also happens in every MMA and BJJ gym in the world. Testosterone-fueled new guy comes in thinking he can fight or grapple because he's an "I just see red" guy. Gets immediately put to sleep by someone half his size. Never comes back.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

fundamentally, the question comes down "is war about spirit or is it about logistics?" (if you think it's entirely about the former, you're going to get your shit rocked)

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/10/2026

“we’re being assholes to virtually everyone, it’s mind boggling they don’t want to visit our country anymore”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I sometimes think about the time when someone I love very much and who loves me very much was so discomfited by the fact that I had taken out and put my emergency meds in their orange pill box next to me at a party. "Don't do that," she said. "It calls attention to it (my epilepsy."

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bring back shame, combat vice signaling

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t think it’s possible to see this without the wider context of the recent parliamentary committee reporting attacking EDI in research funding and the overall lack of support for higher ed in general

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What inspired Rufo's podcast about "the Indian Question" was Bo French's outrageously racist tweet about Indian-American students celebrating at a UT football game. French is also the sort of racist who feels nostalgic for the white nationalist state of Rhodesia. bsky.app/profile/robe...

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