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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026
man this is a rough read and - though as a white couple we are obviously in a different position - speaks strongly to something we are going through right now with our kids and it is heartbreaking
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Fuck it. Just announce it. We own the Government and news media plus the NFL just started so no one's paying attention. Now let's hit the links."
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good writing in my view - while some commentary on here has framed Sheeran's justification as a demonstration of the hollowness of "neutrality", as a professional moral philosopher it is also what we in the business refer to as a "lie" and it may be helpful to refer to it as such
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I like how much of the “low information” working or middle class voter discussion implicitly goes hard at the idea that they’re poorer and more susceptible to bad, dumb (mis)info, and I’m not saying people aren’t, but have u seen how rich highly educated people vote?
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supervikarya.bsky.social @supervikarya.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
*winces in Houstonion*
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 13/09/2026
People like to point at the xkcd comic with the block tower held up by a tiny project maintained by one guy but I actually think this one explains far more about the state of digital infrastructure
Xkcd “Voting Software”

ASKING AIRCRAFT DESIGNERS ABOUT AIRPLANE SAFETY: “NOTHING IS EVER FOOLPROOF, BUT MODERN AIRLINERS ARE INCREDIBLY RESILIENT. FLYING IS THE SAFEST WAY TO TRAVEL.”

ASKING BUILDING ENGINEERS
ABOUT ELEVATOR SAFETY: “ELEVATORS ARE PROTECTED BY MULTIPLE TRIED-AND-TESTED FAILSAFE MECHANISMS. THEY'RE NEARLY INCAPABLE OF FALLING.”

ASKING SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ABOUT COMPUTERIZED VOTING: “THAT'S TERRIFYING.”

“WAIT, REALLY?”
“DON'T TRUST VOTING SOFTWARE AND DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU IT'S SAFE.”
“WHY?”
“I DON'T QUITE KNOW HOW TO PUT THIS, BUT OUR ENTRE FIELD IS BAD AT WHAT WE DO, AND IF YOU RELY ON US, EVERYONE WILL DIE.”

“THEY SAY THEY'VE FIXED IT WITH SOMETHING CALLED ‘BLOCKCHAIN.’”
“AAAAA!!!”
“WHATEVER THEY SOLD YOU, DON'T TOUCH IT.”
“BURY IT IN THE DESERT.”
“WEAR GLOVES.”
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i was just using this explainer to remind myself of something i'm biased, but really one of the best explainers out there on what we mean when we talk about local cooperation with ICE... and what state (and cities) could be doing to stop it. icymi earlier this year: boltsmag.org/how-state-an...
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How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to... Read More
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/09/2026
Sorry to bring gender in it but when you're a man and you fail to defend vulnerable people whom it is within your power to defend guess what you just failed at being
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I like AOC, but this is an incredibly bad analysis of the MAHA movement.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Joins Us In Studio! | MR Live
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026
Everyone's seen how the most powerful tycoons in Silicon Valley have manipulated politics (and society) to their will. But we're stuck thinking of them as "VCs". They're not. They evolved years ago into something far worse, which we could consider Cancer Capitalists: www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/c...
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VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
7. Trump and his men said they would make America great again, yet America is worse in every way. Why? Because this is the best that whiteness can do.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
this is correct: the USPS rule is about mailing *to* voters (not *from*) we have an explainer on this! boltsmag.org/mail-voting-...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.
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Tanroop Sandhu @tanroopsandhu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After the recent elections in Kerala, for the first time since 1977, not a single state in India is governed by a Communist Party coalition. I took the opportunity to write a retrospective on the movement, and where it might go next, for Prometheus Magazine here: prometheus-mag.com/2026/08/27/c...
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Communism and People’s Democracy in India - Prometheus Magazine
A century of revolution, land reform, insurgency, and electoral compromise in India faces a reckoning. Tanroop Sandhu asks what comes next?
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Northeast India appreciation post:
Tripura unakotiKhasis in meghalayaFolk dancers in Manipur  women in Sikkim traditional dress
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Update your priors, when you see "Johns Hopkins" you shouldn't think "good school" or "medical research," you should think "hedge fund that lives off taxpayer money and drops its claimed standards to collaborate with fascists" because that's what the school decided to make itself.
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Conservative Scholars Are Rare. Johns Hopkins Wants More of Them.
Ronald J. Daniels says the ideological imbalance is bad for the academy and for the country.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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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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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
That's objectively true and is the softer, polite version of what they really are.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I am beginning to book Public Scholar workshops for spring. I am bad at self-promotion but good at teaching people to bring their ideas to new and larger audiences. It's mid-August. Surely you will soon be planning your faculty workshops in January through May. www.davidmperry.com/go-public/
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The Public Scholar Workshop
There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher educat...
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Dark Archangel @d4rk-arch4ngel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
📍 Clacton - It's not actually an 'invasion', is it? #UK #immigration #Farage #racism #taxes Via www.instagram.com/p/Dbxfs8oD1p...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Everything Ursula K LeGuin has ever written Everything Octavia Butler has ever written Everything Tanith Lee has ever written Everything Mary Beard has ever written Everything Mary Roach has ever written And The Lamb, by Lucy Rose (what if the witch in the woods who ate people had a kid)
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They were too stupid to understand the source of American hegemony and memed each other into thinking they lived in a failed state because there wasn't enough bravado in our imperialism. Took less than a year to wreck the whole edifice. Incredible
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
An achievement of western capitalism, folks.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“Overwhelmingly, these sources said that what was most unsettling to them was that for many months, they’ve been wargaming & meticulously planning how to defend their upcoming elections from Trump in ways that mirror how they’d plan to protect elections from a foreign adversary, not the president…”
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
fascism sees civilisation as contingent on (white) racial purity hilter (left) & musk (right)
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The closest I've ever come to a genuine "WTF?! Since when did YOU like this?? You MADE FUN OF ME for liking this in college!!" moment was watching anime take off in the US. I've told this story before, but when I was at Spelman, I had to go to a Princess Mononoke screening totally alone. (cont)
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
if one does not understand this, one does not understand class politics in america
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 19/07/2026
Please read this story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The fact that ‘settlers’ can detain foreign dignitaries would be the sign of a failed state except if the settlers are the state
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