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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 23/09/2026
A Naperville police officer used Flock Safety license plate reader technology to track a girlfriend and her ex-fiance, according to documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Naperville Sun.
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Naperville police officer used Flock technology to stalk people, records show
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New from Lauren Supplee at Can We Still Govern? The US government had gradually become better at producing and using evidence. This evidence-based infrastructure is largely invisible, important, and one more thing gutted by Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-system...
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The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted
Here’s How We Fix It
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/09/2026
RFK Jr., a psuedoscience conspiracy theorist, is in charge of American public health. He denies germ theory, vaccination effectiveness & safety, and so much more anti-science rhetoric. Help embolden a Congress that will remove RFK Jr: zurl.co/0vv7S 🧵
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's an ethnic cleansing campaign, and was never about crime. If anything, pulls resources from fighting crime, and increased crime due to crimes by ICE officers. Also, this is NY Times at its best: highlighting an important issue up top, drawing attention to it, and including a useful data visual.
New York Times top of the website screenshot, August 27, 2026. Shows a graph of ICE arrests by criminality, demonstrating that most ICE arrests, especially most of the recent increase, are non-criminals.

Article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/27/us/ice-immigrant-arrests-trump-deportation-dhs.html
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
wat
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JAMA Network Open @jamanetworkopen.com · 03/08/2026
Among Scottish children followed from ages 5 to 15 years, #ScreenUse was minimally associated with developmental difficulties after adjusting for family functioning, with early high screen-use predicted difficulties at age 10 but not at age 15. ja.ma/4blJeGg
Three Sankey diagrams (A, B, C) illustrate screen time trends from age 5 to 15. Ages 5 & 10 show total screen use (<1, 1-2, 3-4, ≥5 h/d). Age 15 in A shows TV/video use; in B, gaming use; in C, social media/messaging use. Colored bands show transitions between screen time categories.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
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Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan
The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 03/08/2026
MAHA isn’t a wellness movement. It’s a suicide pact, run by people who are either sociopathically indifferent to the death toll or willfully blind to it. Subscribe to read the latest from @sjdemas.bsky.social for Lincoln Square! www.lincolnsquare.media/p/we-learne…
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We Learned All the Wrong Lessons from COVID. This Week's Fauci Hearing Proves It.
MAHA isn't a wellness movement. It's a suicide pact, run by people who are either sociopathically indifferent to the death toll or willfully blind to it.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
an ideologically driven effort to destroy an independent institution and replace its serious and broad-minded approach to american history with MAGA slop
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Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is insane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
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The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is actual antisemitism. Voting to suspend arms sales to Israel is not.
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Brandon. @swizzlenuts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'd love this, but I think it's another standards problem. I'd love for a standardized units/timezone, but I think it's doomed to be: xkcd.com/927/
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Had an important conversation @donmoyn.bsky.social. We went through his "authoritarian checklist" and analyzed where Trump has been successful (many areas, sadly) and where he has not. newrepublic.com/article/2130...
newrepublic.com
Transcript: Trump’s Authoritarianism Has Failed in One Critical Way
Political scientist Donald Moynihan argues that Trump has consolidated power on many fronts, but has largely failed in his efforts to take control of the U.S. election process.
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This will set back American math and science advancement for decades. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 13/07/2026
Today, ICE murdered yet another person — a horrific reminder that police violence is systemic, and not the result of just a "few bad apples." As more Americans question the role and practices of law enforcement, what exactly does the state of policing look like in the U.S.? 🧵
Chart showing that U.S. police kill civilians at a rate (33.5 per 10 million) higher than other wealthy countries, including Canada (9.8), Australia (8.5), the Netherlands (2.3), New Zealand (2.0), Germany (1.3), England and Wales (0.5), Japan (0.2), Iceland (0.0), and Norway (0.0)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.
I met with, first of all, a woman named Angelina David, who is the clinical manager in Panyijiar for the International Rescue Committee clinics. She was overseeing the clinics that were shut down and could tell me exactly what happened. It was a complete shutdown, and a scramble, because there were medicines and other things on the shelves they didn’t want looted, so they had to get out to these places—and they’re very far away. You have to travel, in some cases, seven or eight hours in order to get to the extent of what’s there.

I then went and visited some of those facilities, and I connected, with her help, to the subcounty chiefs—they’re called the payam administrators—who keep their own records of deaths. So one of the things I found was that their own records showed that they are measuring an over-all tenfold increase in child and adult deaths.

Wait. A tenfold increase?

Yes.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/07/2026
Breaking News: Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman. nyti.ms/4pfTwgK
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Mexican Man Fatally Shot by ICE Wasn’t the Intended Target
Officials say agents believed the driver resembled one suspect, but the encounter quickly escalated into a fatal shooting.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Trump says he can tell if immigrants are bad based on how they “look”: "You could look at some of them and you could say 'this is trouble.'"
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026
An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Fourteenth Amendment has not changed since 1898. What have changed are the Republican Party and the modern conservative movement. Trump believes that “if you import the Third World, you become the Third World.” His rise to power began with his willingness to be a standard-bearer for a movement that cast the first Black president as an illegitimate invader and demanded to see his birth certificate. Trump’s second-term campaign promised “mass deportation” of those very same “Third World” immigrants, and since taking office, he has established an effectively whites-only refugee policy, specifically for white South Africans, illustrating that his objection is less to immigration itself, or to immigrants from the “Third World,” than to immigrants who are not white.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.
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What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect
How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
On Damnatio Memoriae and de-Trumpification. (Gift link) Been waiting for this one to go up. Please read and share.
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Perry: How should the U.S. remember its would-be autocrat once he leaves the White House?
"When some emperors died," David M. Perry writes, "successors condemned their memory, ordering statues smashed, their faces scrubbed from portraits, their names erased from inscriptions and their lega...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/06/2026
11. Addendum: here are the words characteristic of LLMs. Notice anything? It reads like an email from our upper administration.
Table S1. List of 228 Focal Words disproportionately associated with LLM outputs.3
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achieves contextualize exacerbates integrates oversight showcasing
achieving contextually exacerbating integrating oversimplify signifying
acknowledges cornerstone exceeding intensifies paving situates
adaptable crucial excelled intensifying pinpointing situating
addressing culminating excelling interpretability pivotal sourced
adept delineates excels interpretable poised strategically
adeptly delve exemplifies intricacies posits streamline
adjustments delved exhibits intricacy practicality streamlined
adjusts delves facilitating intricate preserving streamlining
advancements delving featuring intricately primarily strengthens
advancing dependencies formidable introduces prioritise struggle
advocating diminishes fortifying juncture prioritize stylistic
aiding discernible fostering leverage prioritizes surpasses
align downturns fosters leverages prioritizing surpassing
aligning dynamically foundational leveraging promise symbolizing
aligns elucidates frameworks meticulous prowess synthesizes
alongside elucidating garnered meticulously reaffirming thereby
amidst emphasising garnering mitigate realm thoroughness
amplifies emphasizes grappling mitigates redefines thoughtfully
avenues emphasizing groundbreaking mitigating refine thrives
boasting employs harnessing multifaceted refines timelines
boasts enabling heighten navigates refining transcends
bolster encapsulates heightened navigating reflecting transitioning
bolstering encompass heightening necessitate reinforces underexplored
bolsters encompassed heightens necessitates reliance undermines
broader encompasses highlighting necessitating renowned underperform
capitalizes encompassing highlights notable reshapes underperformed
captivating endeavors hinges notably reshaping underpins
captures enhance imperatives nuanced revolutionize underscore
capturing enhancements inadequately nuances revolutionizing underscored
categorizes enhance…
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026
🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The result has been something like an inverse caricature of Republican complaints about diversity, equity, and inclusion, a system in which the incompetent rise not because of their abilities but because of their sycophancy. Authoritarian regimes behave as the Trump administration is behaving—optimizing for political loyalty rather than competence. Merit, in short, has little to do with it.

Hegseth is a prime example. Deeply unqualified for the job and convinced that brutality provides an easy path to victory, he has led the United States to the verge of a strategic defeat with a weaker adversary in Iran. The current cease-fire leaves Iran with a more hard-line government than before, one in total control of a shipping lane crucial to the world economy. The Islamic Republic is arguably in a stronger position today than it was when the war started, and probably in a stronger position than it was before Trump, in his first term, scrapped the Obama-era nuclear deal.

On Sunday, Trump posted on his social network a refrain that he and his toadies seem to think is insightful: “If you import The Third World, you become The Third World!” This archaic social Darwinism is the ideological mortar of the Trump project. It fuses Hegseth’s disdain for diversity in the military’s senior leadership and valorization of brutality with the administration’s attack on birthright citizenship and its deployment of federal agents to occupy American cities. It is a worldview that would assume an easy victory against a country like Iran, especially with America’s new, “unwoke” military. Bigotry isn’t just inefficient, as the U.S. military discovered in the 1940s. It also makes you stupid.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Last night I gave a talk at the Princeton Adult School on the legacies of the civil rights movement and the links to our world today. Just posted it on CAMPAIGN TRAILS:
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Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement
Last night I gave this talk to the Princeton Adult School about the connections between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and similar struggles in our own time, pulling together a few things I've...
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
My new piece about glyphosate and why it's probably fine for your health unless you're spraying the stuff in which case the data is mixed. Also, RFK Jr. got attacked by all of his friends and it was very funny to me. slate.com/technology/2...
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Our Food System Depends On It. RFK Jr.’s Followers Hate It—and It Has Been Linked to Cancer.
I’m an epidemiologist. Here’s what the research says.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Here's the floor plan for the new ICE concentration camp in Georgia. Look familiar? Let's take a look at some similar blueprints throughout history.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
On the heels of this post last night, I wrote about using the term "concentration camp" and why it matters.
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What counts as a "concentration camp"?
Links to the podcast, along with some thoughts on and for Jake Tapper.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/02/2026
The default assumption should be that they’re lying
DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shootingAgents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A Brief History of Children Today Are Growing Up Too Fast 🧵
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Brandon. @swizzlenuts.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I have a PhD in molecular engineering. I've worked at two national labs and Intel. I just failed an AI interview. Man this is great. What a great time to be a scientist 🧪
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Brandon. @swizzlenuts.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
So have you changed your mind on impeachment yet? You talk like this, but don't impeach. Seems like wasted breath
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Brandon. @swizzlenuts.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Inlaws watched coco for a week. So now coco is staring me down while I eat chicken. I wonder if they fed her table scraps... #dogsky
Coco staring at me while I eat.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.” A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words: “The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
Curtis Yarvin 
@curtis_yarvin
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I get a lot of questions about this tweet.
Hitler was right that Anglo-American elites in the 1st half of the 20C were irrevocably hostile to German sovereignty, and defeat, diplomatic, political, military or economic, would lead to Weimar at best, Moscow at worst

Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin • 5d
Germany got Hitler because there were too many subjects about which only
Hitler spoke the truth.
This made a lot of Germans regard Hit!...
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Hitler genuinely believed he was fighting a race war against an international Jewish conspiracy.
Not a trace of evidence of any insincerity.
When he bombed London his plan was to wake up Kipling's Saxons from their Jewish hypnosis. Of course he had never been to London

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The live players whose actions match the models of "realist" statesmen are Hitler's enemies.
If FDR or Stalin ever did anything that did not point in the direction of total world domination, I am unaware of it. Sure, their plans did not always work out. The first timeCurtis Yarvin
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When we look at the Jews in FDR's circle, they are perfectly assimilated as WASPs and mostly of German aristocratic descent.
The only way to tell is the name and the nose.
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The Jews around Stalin are 100% Bolshevik and 100% terrified of him. They might as well be Latvians

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While there is never 0 ethnic solidarity, elite Western Jews consider ethnocentrism (for themselves) shameful and barbaric, and/or make elaborate excuses for it / jokes about it.
Not that they're not excited about black ethnocentrism or terrified of white ethnocentrism. They areCurtis Yarvin 
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It's not even untrue that on average, Jews are a little less American than WASPs, and maybe even neurologically divergent from the Albion's Seed populations, not just in IQ but also in personality traits. Genes are real.
But my brother in Christ, these are very subtle effects

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It wasn't Jews who first decided that there was some magic way to make all Somalis, Samoans, Sikhs and Senegalese into Americans.
Oh no. This is a 19th-century mainline Protestant missionary trope. Core Boston mindset.
"Imagine"
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Brandon. @swizzlenuts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
After a week in Disney I needed a cleanse. #MetalSky
Pissgrave - posthumous humiliation record after a week of Disney
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Brandon. @swizzlenuts.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Independence day for me! Very fitting, lol
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a man wearing sunglasses is screaming in the desert and saying `` i coulda been at a barbecue '' .
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses is screaming in the desert and saying `` i coulda been at a barbecue '' .
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Brandon. @swizzlenuts.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
For this holiday season I'm begging you to rember this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FXN... #metalsky
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Leave No Cross Unturned
YouTube video by Darkthrone - Topic
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Brandon. @swizzlenuts.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My whole professional career has been learning new techniques/models every position I've been in. From PhD to postdoc to tech jobs. Now that I'm looking for a job every job eseential rejects PhDs who don't have expertise in their specific job. How does one show this on a Resume/CV? 🧪
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Brandon. @swizzlenuts.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Falling asleep all the time? Cognitive exams? regular infusions? Fuck. He's got myasthenia gravis. My father in law has it, and he's going to love him even more.
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